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- 18361
- author: Leinster, Murray
- title: Operation: Outer Space
- date: None
- words: 61539
- flesch: 86
- summary: This is your seat, Mr. Cochrane, she said professionally. A voice said: Mr. Cochrane!
- keywords: able; acceleration; advertising; afraid; air; airlock; alicia; animals; atmosphere; attention; audience; away; babs; bad; balloon; beasts; bell; better; big; bill; black; blue; board; body; boy; bright; broadcast; burning; business; busy; camera; case; cash; chair; chapter; city; close; clouds; cochrane; color; columbus; coming; commercial; communicator; company; cone; continents; control; course; crater; creatures; cut; dabney; dabney field; dark; darkness; day; days; dead; deal; deep; details; different; direction; discovery; distance; distress; doctor; door; dust; earth; edge; effect; emptiness; end; expression; extra; eyes; face; fact; faintly; fallowe; familiar; family; far; farther; faster; feel; feeling; feet; field; film; fire; firm; flame; flat; floor; foam; food; fool; foot; forest; free; fuel; glacier; good; gravity; great; green; ground; gun; half; hand; hard; head; hell; help; high; history; holden; home; hope; hopkins; horizon; hotel; hours; hull; human; humanity; hundreds; idea; important; inc; inertia; inside; jamison; jed; jeep; job; johnny; johnny simms; jones; journey; kasten; kursten; laboratory; landing; large; law; left; life; lift; light; like; line; little; live; living; long; longer; look; lunar; main; making; man; mankind; mass; masses; matter; men; metal; miles; millions; mind; minutes; moment; money; monstrous; moon; morning; mountains; near; nearby; need; neurotic; new; news; nice; noise; normal; notice; observatory; odd; office; open; orders; outer; outside; party; passenger; past; patient; pay; people; person; personality; pictures; pilot; place; planet; plants; plastic; platform; point; port; possible; power; practical; prepared; pretty; production; psychiatrist; public; publicity; radiation; ready; reason; red; relations; rich; rocket; room; rose; run; science; scientific; screen; sea; seas; second; secretary; sensation; sense; set; ship; shots; signal; simms; size; sky; sleep; sling; small; smoke; soil; sort; sound; space; spaceways; speed; splendid; spot; spread; stars; stock; story; straight; strange; stuff; suit; sun; sunset; surface; system; talk; tape; technical; television; test; theory; things; thought; thousands; thrust; time; tiny; tone; tops; tourist; travel; trees; trick; trouble; true; turn; upward; use; valley; vanished; vast; vegetation; vehicle; view; visible; voice; waiting; walk; wall; watch; water; way; weight; west; white; wife; woman; work; working; world; writer; years
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- 18753
- author: Rockwell, Carey
- title: The Space Pioneers
- date: None
- words: 53287
- flesch: 88
- summary: Well, whatever it is, I'm sure Governor Vidac will be able to take care of it. Governor Vidac said we could pick up some of the spools that were ready, said Bush.
- keywords: able; academy; acceleration; administration; alliance; answer; applicants; application; asteroid; astro; attention; barge; best; better; big; billy; blast; blasted; boat; boys; building; bush; cadets; captain; captain strong; car; chair; chance; chapter; check; children; city; clear; cluster; colonists; colony; commander; communications; control; corbett; course; cruiser; day; days; deck; deep; desk; door; earth; easy; emergency; enlisted; expedition; eyes; face; fact; farm; farmer; father; field; fine; finished; fleet; floor; forward; game; giant; good; governor; governor hardy; growled; guard; gun; haired; half; hand; hardy; hatch; head; help; highway; hills; hours; house; hyram; idea; illustration; important; information; inside; instruments; intercom; jane; jeff; jet; jets; job; journal; kind; land; later; leave; left; lieutenant; life; like; little; lock; logan; long; look; lost; lot; main; man; manning; marshall; mates; matter; men; mike; mind; minutes; moment; morning; need; new; nodded; number; officer; old; open; orders; outer; outside; paper; paralo; pass; past; paused; people; place; planet; polaris; position; power; pretty; professor; project; quarters; question; radar; ray; ready; report; rest; right; roald; rocket; roger; room; satellite; scanner; scout; screen; screening; second; set; ship; shot; sign; simple; sir; small; smile; solar; space; space cadets; spaceman; spaceport; special; speed; spools; stand; standing; star; steve; stop; strong; study; sure; surface; sykes; system; talk; talking; teleceiver; thing; thinking; thought; thrust; time; tom; trip; trouble; turn; unit; uranium; venusian; vidac; voice; walters; way; winters; word; work; wrong; years; young
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- 19709
- author: Rockwell, Carey
- title: Danger in Deep Space
- date: None
- words: 51202
- flesch: 88
- summary: Roger had broken that trust, and now the fact was being flashed around the entire solar system; Roger Manning was an escaped criminal! If we do have to blast out of here in a hurry, I want to get where we're supposed to be going! You just worry about the power deck, spaceboy, and let little Roger take care of his own department, replied Roger.
- keywords: academy; acceleration; air; alfie; alpha; annie; answer; asteroid; astro; attention; aye; bangs; best; better; big; black; blast; blasted; blasting; blue; board; boat; boys; bridge; cadet; captain; centauri; chance; chapter; check; city; clear; clock; close; cold; connel; control; control deck; copper; corbett; course; craft; crash; credits; crew; cruiser; day; days; deck; deep; desk; devil; dials; door; earth; emergency; enlisted; eyes; face; far; fast; feet; figure; flight; free; freighter; fuel; fuse; giant; glanced; glass; good; gravity; great; growled; guard; gun; half; hand; hard; hatch; head; higgins; home; hot; hours; huge; hyperdrive; idea; illustration; inside; intercom; investigation; jardine; jet; job; jones; juice; junior; kid; ladder; landing; later; leave; left; life; like; line; little; long; look; loring; loud; luna; main; major; major connel; manning; mason; men; miles; mind; minutes; moment; mouth; near; need; new; o.k; officer; old; open; operation; orbit; orders; outside; panel; papers; paralo; paused; permission; place; planet; polaris; position; power; powerful; pretty; prison; pull; pumps; quarters; quick; radar; range; ray; reactant; reaction; reactor; ready; red; report; right; rings; rocket; roger; room; satellite; saturn; scanner; scott; screen; second; set; shinny; ship; shot; sir; skipper; sleep; small; smile; solar; space; space station; spaceman; spaceport; spaceship; speed; stand; star; station; stefens; stop; strong; sun; sure; surface; switch; system; table; talk; talking; tara; teleceiver; thing; thought; thrust; time; tom; touchdown; tough; traffic; transmitter; trip; unit; venus; venusian; venusport; voice; wagon; want; wanted; way; wide; word; work; working; wrong; years; young
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- 20553
- author: Wilson, Robert H.
- title: Out Around Rigel
- date: None
- words: 8398
- flesch: 91
- summary: And if Garth's indicators were correct, we were moving toward them at a speed now seventy-five times that of light itself. Once more, Garth, I said.
- keywords: acceleration; air; atmosphere; blue; board; body; bridge; bright; comet; danger; dark; dials; distance; door; dunal; eyes; faint; feet; field; floor; garth; glass; gravity; great; half; hand; helmet; hours; kelvar; light; like; little; long; look; mass; minutes; months; moon; nardos; nebula; old; rigel; sand; ship; sky; smaller; space; speed; stars; step; straight; suits; sun; telescope; time; velocity; water; way; weight; white; window; years
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- 50449
- author: Marlowe, Stephen
- title: Recruit for Andromeda
- date: None
- words: 33772
- flesch: 92
- summary: I'm Kit Temple, said Temple, extending his hand. Mrs. Temple was eliminated.
- keywords: air; alaric; american; answer; arkalion; arms; automatic; aware; bed; better; big; body; booth; brother; cave; ceiling; center; certain; chance; chapter; charles; city; cold; coming; comrade; course; dames; days; dead; dear; deep; different; doctor; dollars; door; dozen; draper; dream; earth; end; eyes; face; fact; feeling; feet; figure; final; fine; fingers; floor; foot; free; future; galaxy; georgi; girl; good; goodbye; great; green; gun; half; hall; hand; hard; head; heart; hell; high; hole; home; hours; human; idea; information; jase; jason; jaw; job; jones; journey; jupiter; kind; kit; knees; law; leave; left; legs; life; like; lips; little; live; long; longer; look; looking; lot; love; lucy; man; mars; martians; matter; meaningless; men; microphone; mind; minutes; moment; morning; mrs; need; new; objective; old; outside; people; petrovitch; picture; place; planet; play; point; pull; questions; quick; race; real; reason; red; rest; return; right; room; rotation; russian; second; sense; set; ship; shoulder; sick; situation; sky; sleep; small; smith; soft; sophia; sorry; sort; sound; space; stalintrek; stars; station; steffy; stephanie; story; strange; strength; strong; sun; sure; system; table; talk; tall; temple; thing; thought; time; training; travel; trouble; twice; universe; voice; volunteer; wait; wall; water; way; weeks; weightlessness; white; wife; wind; wish; woman; work; world; wrong; years; young
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- 50863
- author: Evans, E. Everett (Edward Everett)
- title: Alien Minds
- date: None
- words: 69698
- flesch: 84
- summary: At long last Hanlon struck--and was instantly numbed from the force of the blow and chilled by the icy water. Hanlon continued looking into the outside cages containing these tailless roches, the Estrellan equivalent of wild dogs.
- keywords: ability; able; act; activities; admiral; adwal; alien; amir; angry; animal; answers; apparent; attention; audience; auldin; away; bad; bed; beginning; best; better; big; bird; bit; black; blood; body; boy; brain; building; burn; business; care; careful; case; cat; caval; certain; chair; chance; chapter; city; close; comfortable; coming; command; considerable; contact; continent; control; controlling; corner; corps; couple; course; crime; criminal; curt; dad; day; days; dead; deep; different; distance; doctor; dogs; door; dressed; drinking; ears; easy; ebony; effort; egon; elus; endar; entity; esbor; estrellan; eyes; face; fact; far; fast; father; fear; federation; feeling; feet; fellow; figure; find; fine; finished; fish; floor; following; foot; force; forward; friend; general; george hanlon; giving; glad; good; government; great; group; guards; guess; half; hand; hanlon; hard; head; help; high; hold; home; hooper; hope; hour; house; hurt; idea; important; impresario; information; ino; inside; interested; inver; irad; job; k'nyer; keeping; kind; knowledge; large; later; lay; learn; leave; left; legs; life; like; line; little; lona; long; longer; look; lot; machine; man; manner; manning; matter; mean; men; mental; mind; minutes; moment; morning; muscles; native; near; need; new; newton; note; number; office; old; ondo; ones; open; opposition; order; outside; pain; parts; past; peculiar; people; pets; place; planet; plans; point; portion; possible; power; prepared; present; problem; proof; puzzled; questions; quick; reading; ready; real; reason; residence; rest; ride; right; road; roches; room; rose; ruler; run; saying; searching; seat; second; secret; sense; servants; service; set; shape; shoulder; simonides; sire; sleep; small; son; sort; sound; space; spaceship; special; speed; spread; stables; stage; start; stearra; stone; stop; straight; strange; street; strength; study; studying; stupid; sure; surface; surprised; talk; terran; texture; thanks; theatre; things; think; thinking; thought; time; time hanlon; tomorrow; touch; tricycle; trike; trouble; true; trying; turn; type; unusual; voice; wait; watch; way; wide; window; wonder; wonderful; words; work; world; worry; wrong; yandor; young
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- 50998
- author: Wallace, F. L. (Floyd L.)
- title: Delay in Transit
- date: None
- words: 16363
- flesch: 86
- summary: Cassal hurried to her side. Not interested, said Cassal firmly, his subvocalization inaudible to anyone but Dimanche.
- keywords: agency; aid; answer; best; better; body; brain; bureau; business; cards; cassal; center; certain; change; circuit; city; counselor; course; dangerous; dead; dealer; denton; dimanche; door; earth; electronic; engineer; expert; eyes; face; feet; foray; galaxy; glanced; godolphian; good; hand; hard; head; help; hotel; house; human; huntner; idea; identification; information; instrument; interested; kind; life; lighter; like; likely; little; long; longer; machine; manager; matter; mind; money; murra; native; near; necessary; need; nervous; neuronics; new; old; person; place; planet; police; possible; power; process; projector; question; race; real; reason; right; room; ship; sign; silent; small; special; star; stool; stuck; suite; tab; technician; thing; thought; thug; tide; time; transport; travelers; tunney; turn; visual; voice; water; way; woman; work; years
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- 51296
- author: Marlowe, Stephen
- title: The Sense of Wonder
- date: None
- words: 6062
- flesch: 95
- summary: Rikud was guiltily glad when he saw Crifer limp. Under the tube at Rikud's left lay Crifer.
- keywords: astronomy; bright; buzzer; change; chuls; crifer; darkness; door; eyes; garden; head; hurt; long; look; machine; machinery; man; moment; new; old; people; plants; rays; reading; rikud; room; stars; thought; time; variable; viewport; voice; women; world
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- 51414
- author: Marks, Winston K. (Winston Kinney)
- title: ...So They Baked a Cake
- date: None
- words: 4315
- flesch: 83
- summary: We were the pioneers on the first starship, the first to try out the _Larson Drive_ in deep space. Yes, we were all warned that, fast as the _Larson Drive_ was, it would take us over 42 years, earth-measured time, to reach our destination.
- keywords: air; albert; audio; body; columbia; control; dead; deep; destination; drive; earth; error; eyes; face; great; green; hands; hell; hours; hulbert; human; impossible; journey; kind; know; larson; left; light; little; long; mac; man; mind; months; new; note; old; people; planet; rationing; second; sense; ship; skipper; space; star; system; theory; time; velocity; voice; way; welcome; wrong; years
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- 51434
- author: Stecher, L. J., Jr.
- title: An Elephant for the Prinkip
- date: None
- words: 4053
- flesch: 92
- summary: And according to my book on elephants, Beulah should still be only a potential mother when we reached Penguin. Beulah was her name, and she was a husky girl.
- keywords: animal; balance; beulah; cargo; class; compartment; computer; contract; crucis; delta; earth; elephant; food; freighter; gasha; good; hannah; indian; little; load; mighty; orbit; penguin; planet; prinkip; rhial; ship; skipper; space; spin; time; trouble
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- 51482
- author: Stecher, L. J., Jr.
- title: Perfect Answer
- date: None
- words: 4041
- flesch: 89
- summary: They pointed to the box and then back at Farnum and Bates, laughing and talking as they did so. * * * Farnum and Bates took turns talking at the box for half an hour.
- keywords: answer; bates; box; chance; computer; crowd; earth; farnum; function; galaxy; good; long; machine; man; men; oracle; people; planet; questions; race; ship; space; stars; sure; time; truth; voice; way; weapon; years; young
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- 51669
- author: Sabia, Richard
- title: The Lamps of the Angels
- date: None
- words: 4063
- flesch: 92
- summary: Lithe, dark Roberto set down his breakfast coffee and smiled up at her. The hour was late, Roberto said, and I did not wish to disturb you with greetings that would keep until morning.
- keywords: angels; bar; black; children; coffee; eyes; fear; god; golden; great; hard; home; house; jump; leg; little; mama; man; moon; mother; mrs; navigator; planets; present; roberto; sanchez; ship; son; space; stars; sun; thought; time; voice; way; white; wife; woman; words; years
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- 51699
- author: Doede, William R.
- title: The God Next Door
- date: None
- words: 5807
- flesch: 95
- summary: Stinson, the Sand God said. As for the webfoots, the wind devil, or Sand God, said, I will destroy them.
- keywords: angry; blue; body; cavern; clouds; devil; earth; eyes; face; feet; fire; god; great; head; high; left; life; long; men; old; people; physical; place; planet; pool; sand; skirt; small; sphere; stinson; sun; sybtl; thought; time; tube; voice; wall; warm; webfoots; wind; woman; years
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- 51741
- author: Fyfe, H. B. (Horace Bowne)
- title: Round-and-Round Trip
- date: None
- words: 7194
- flesch: 86
- summary: * * * * * Mr. Winstead sighed and returned to his quarters. Meanwhile, how about a cigar, Mr. Winstead? Why--thanks very much.
- keywords: agency; air; aubrey; bag; bedroom; building; button; callahan; captain; carole; city; clerk; compartment; counter; day; desk; destination; door; epseri; fact; feigelson; gelbchen; girl; good; hand; head; hotel; inside; little; local; long; look; man; minutes; open; papers; passengers; pilot; place; planet; queen; rest; right; room; second; ship; small; spaceport; spacer; stellar; street; suit; sure; table; terra; thought; ticket; time; topaz; travel; traveler; ultimate; way; wilfie; winstead; young
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- 53016
- author: Stecher, L. J., Jr.
- title: Cakewalk to Gloryanna
- date: None
- words: 4619
- flesch: 89
- summary: But when I offered them a sizable piece of cash plus a perpetual share of the profits for letting us take a load of marocca plants to Gloryanna III, they relented and, for the first time in history, gave their assent. He nodded his head a couple of more times, in spite of the discomfort it must have given him.
- keywords: beulah; bubbles; captain; carolla; course; crucis; delta; dingleburys; gloryanna; good; gravity; growth; half; hannah; head; hours; iii; light; like; little; marocca; midges; mypore; plants; rhial; ship; stuff; sun; sure; tanks; things; time; trouble; vines; water; way
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- 53035
- author: Stecher, L. J., Jr.
- title: When You Giffle...
- date: None
- words: 3854
- flesch: 90
- summary: I was a little bit worried when I saw Captain Hannah again. A few months earlier, Captain Hannah had conned me into taking the elephants off his hands and out of his tramp spaceship.
- keywords: air; aloysius; boy; boys; cake; captain; dad; delta; giffling; good; hannah; head; hole; jim; jump; little; mike; monahan; prinkip; psionic; right; ship; sir; small; sort; space; swimming; time; way; whale
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- 53059
- author: Ludwig, Edward W.
- title: To Save Earth
- date: None
- words: 10808
- flesch: 94
- summary: Captain, Fox stole my harmonica! Captain Torkel scowled. The point is-- Fox broke in: What do _you_ remember, Captain? Captain Torkel swallowed hard.
- keywords: blue; brown; captain; captain torkel; crazy; dark; earth; eyes; face; flowers; food; forest; fox; friend; garcia; gaze; god; golden; good; grass; grave; green; gundy; hands; harmonica; head; heaven; home; kelly; lieutenant; lieutenant washington; like; long; look; mad; man; meadow; men; mind; moment; people; pistol; planet; ports; queen; race; red; right; rocket; screen; sirians; smile; space; star; strange; sun; sure; taaleeb; thought; time; torkel; trembling; van; van gundy; village; washington; way; wine; women; years
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- 59581
- author: Godwin, Tom
- title: Brain Teaser
- date: None
- words: 7295
- flesch: 76
- summary: The return to Earth would be the swift one through the warp and the Slug cruisers, so bold in pursuit of unarmed interplanetary ships, would quickly cease to exist. A clear description could not be made without the use of several special kinds of mathematics, but you might say this field in normal space is like a bubble under water.
- keywords: air; airlock; answer; argosy; ball; certain; communicator; computer; control; course; cruisers; data; different; distance; earth; engle; explanation; forward; garvin; ground; hand; harding; hour; light; like; little; long; minutes; near; normal; normal space; operation; point; position; power; question; room; ship; shuttle; sirius; slug; sound; space; space warp; speaker; speed; stars; sun; thought; thunderbolt; time; ultraviolet; velocity; viewscreen; warp; warp shuttle; wave; years
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- 60309
- author: Godwin, Tom
- title: The Last Victory
- date: None
- words: 6140
- flesch: 87
- summary: The three guards were Curry men and Curry had two with him. Captain Curry has locked up all arms from us--he's already starting the regimentation for a permanent Technograte colony here and making sure we can't object.
- keywords: animals; attack; beam; bellam; blaster; boy; camp; cold; coming; command; curry; dark; dead; dog; earth; end; eyes; face; fire; forest; girl; gorman; grass; ground; guards; guardsmen; head; kennedy; kitten; light; line; little; mad; men; monsters; north; outlander; ship; tail; technograte; technogration; thane; white; woman; world; years
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- 60713
- author: Sohl, Jerry
- title: Counterweight
- date: None
- words: 4654
- flesch: 85
- summary: And you, Mr. Ellason, were along to observe it all, Captain Branson put in. Captain Branson and his fifty crewmen want to return as badly as you do.
- keywords: antheon; assembly; branson; captain; case; colonists; compartment; council; crew; critten; day; dievers; ellason; eyes; interstellar; janssen; keith; man; mask; men; newsletter; observer; palugger; passengers; phipps; police; quadrant; red; return; rexroad; seeds; ship; space; stunners; things; thought; tilbury; time; trip; weblor; years
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- 61380
- author: Pohl, Frederik
- title: The Five Hells of Orion
- date: None
- words: 11956
- flesch: 85
- summary: Their job was to watch McCray, and they would do their job; and even more, not one of them could have looked away to save his life from the spectacle of a creature as odd and, from their point of view, hideously alien as Herrell McCray. Herrell McCray was a navigator, which is to say, a man who has learned to trust the evidence of mathematics and instrument readings beyond the guesses of his common sense.
- keywords: air; assistant; bank; betelgeuse; body; central; close; cloud; command; common; communication; council; councillor; course; creatures; dark; door; earth; eyes; face; fact; floor; forces; galaxy; gas; good; great; hand; hard; hatcher; heat; helmet; help; herrell; herrell mccray; hour; human; jodrell; life; light; like; little; long; masses; matter; mccray; members; message; mind; moment; need; new; old; ones; open; paranormal; people; physical; pinkish; place; planet; probe; race; radio; reason; report; room; second; sense; ship; skin; sol; sort; space; spacesuit; specimen; stars; subject; suit; suns; team; things; thought; time; tiny; voice; way; woman; work; world; years
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