item: #1 of 14 id: 30901 author: Fyfe, H. B. (Horace Bowne) title: Fee of the Frontier date: None words: 5674 flesch: 93 summary: Glad to meet you and Mr. Howlet, said the one called McNaughton. The last I saw before leaving was Van Etten shushing Jorgensen while McNaughton grabbed Howlet by the tunic zipper for a sales talk. keywords: airlock; alley; bar; belt; better; coffee; couple; course; dark; desert; dome; door; drink; earth; face; friends; good; howlet; inside; jorgensen; konnel; lewis; lilac; little; look; lot; man; mars; martian; meadows; men; mind; money; number; outside; place; planets; real; right; room; sandeaters; ship; sky; space; table; time; tony; tractor; voice; way cache: 30901.txt plain text: 30901.txt item: #2 of 14 id: 49525 author: Smith, E. E. (Edward Elmer) title: First Lensman date: None words: 101678 flesch: 83 summary: Eminently possible, Lensman Samms, since my time is of completely negligible value. Lensman Virgil Samms of Sol Three calling Tallick and Kragzex of Palain Seven. keywords: ability; able; action; actual; admiral; afraid; air; america; answer; arisia; arisians; armed; armor; arms; assured; atmosphere; atomic; attack; attention; authority; ball; barber; bare; basic; battle; beam; beautiful; beginning; bennett; bergenholm; best; better; big; biggest; bit; black; blast; blocks; blow; blue; boat; body; book; boskone; boss; box; boys; brain; break; building; burley; business; busy; calm; capable; captain; car; care; cargo; case; cavenda; certain; chance; chapter; chart; check; chicago; chief; cities; city; civilization; class; clayton; clear; cleveland; close; cold; come; coming; commander; commissioner; common; communication; complete; concerned; cone; connection; contact; continent; control; conway; costigan; council; couple; course; cover; credits; crew; crowd; cruisers; cut; cylinder; dad; dalnalten; damn; damned; dark; data; daughter; day; days; dead; death; deep; degrees; department; desk; detail; development; die; different; direction; distance; dock; doctor; door; double; doubt; drive; driving; dronvire; earth; easy; eddore; eddorians; effort; election; enemy; energy; entire; entities; entity; eridan; ether; evidence; exact; existence; experience; eyes; face; fact; fast; faster; father; feel; fellows; field; figure; finding; fine; fingers; fit; flashing; flat; fleet; floor; foot; force; form; formation; forward; fourth; free; friend; funny; galactic; game; general; george; gharlane; girl; glad; god; going; good; government; grand; gray; great; greater; ground; group; guess; hair; half; hand; hard; hazel; head; headed; headquarters; heavy; hell; help; herkimer; high; higher; hill; history; hold; home; hope; hot; hours; huge; huh; human; hundreds; idea; important; inch; inches; individual; inert; informed; inside; instant; intelligent; inter; interested; iron; isaacson; jack; jack kinnison; jill; job; jones; kind; kinnison; knobos; know; knowledge; lake; land; landing; language; large; late; law; lead; leave; left; length; lensed; lensman; lensman samms; let; level; lie; lieutenant; life; lifeboat; like; line; little; live; load; lock; long; longer; look; lot; low; lunch; machine; main; martian; mase; mason; mass; material; matter; mean; meeting; men; mental; mentor; miles; millions; mind; minutes; miss; moment; months; morgan; murgatroyd; muscles; native; near; necessary; need; new; nice; noise; non; normal; northrop; number; office; officers; old; olmstead; open; operation; orders; ordinary; organization; ossmen; outside; palainian; particular; party; pass; past; patrol; paused; people; percent; perfect; personal; personnel; physical; pick; picture; pirate; place; planet; plates; play; plenty; pluto; point; political; port; position; possibility; possible; power; powerful; present; president; pressure; pretty; prime; private; problem; proof; pure; question; quick; race; rally; range; rapport; ray; reach; reading; ready; real; reason; red; report; rest; rigellian; right; rock; rod; rodebush; roderick; room; rotary; rough; run; safe; said; samms; science; screen; second; secretary; seeing; self; senator; sense; service; set; shaft; shape; sheer; ship; short; shut; signal; silence; silent; simple; single; sir; situation; size; slight; slow; small; smooth; solarian; solid; sound; space; spaceport; spaceways; special; speed; spite; spud; spy; square; stand; start; station; steel; step; stop; straight; strength; strong; stuff; sub; sufficient; sun; super; sure; surface; surprised; suspect; suspicion; system; talk; tallick; task; teeth; tell; tellurian; tellus; terrific; thanks; thing; thinking; thionite; thought; thousands; time; tiny; today; touch; towne; traffic; tremendous; trenco; triplanetary; trouble; true; truth; try; turn; twice; ultra; units; universe; unknown; upward; uranium; use; usual; velocity; venerian; vessel; view; virge; virgil; virgil samms; virgilia; visible; visualization; voice; waiting; wall; war; waste; watch; water; wave; way; weeks; white; wide; willoughby; wind; winfield; witherspoon; women; wonder; words; work; working; world; worse; worth; wrong; years; york; young; youth; zwilnik cache: 49525.txt plain text: 49525.txt item: #3 of 14 id: 58639 author: Hunter, Evan title: Welcome, Martians! date: None words: 2615 flesch: 95 summary: Dave stepped into the small chamber, and Cal snapped the hatch shut. Dave suddenly stood erect, waved at Cal, and started lumbering back toward the ship. keywords: big; cal; city; course; dale; dave; earth; earthmen; galus; guns; hatch; joke; man; mars; mayor; men; music; new; president; right; sand; ship; space; welcome; years cache: 58639.txt plain text: 58639.txt item: #4 of 14 id: 59172 author: Ellis, Mike title: Willie's Planet date: None words: 6809 flesch: 97 summary: Bart hurried down the ridge, watching only for a glimpse of Willie, but Tom looked at the sunset occasionally, trying to store up the memory of the color for the months ahead. Willie glanced at Tom with his bright blue eyes, then looked quickly away, a bit of a red flush high on his cheeks. keywords: bart; big; blue; cabin; captain; close; dark; earth; edge; face; feet; ferns; food; green; ground; hell; life; little; live; long; look; man; ones; pipe; place; planet; plants; pudge; red; ridge; right; rock; sand; screen; sea; seeds; ship; small; star; sun; sure; time; tom; water; way; willie cache: 59172.txt plain text: 59172.txt item: #5 of 14 id: 59174 author: Holden, Fox B. title: Task Mission date: None words: 9693 flesch: 88 summary: Captain Nicholas Joel stood waiting in his fore-waist bridge; he looked again through its heavy, slotted quartz windows and now he could see them coming. Captain Nicholas Joel watched them, their excitement a visible thing as they pounded up clouds of saffron behind them, and knew without activating his personal communicator what they'd have to tell him. keywords: better; big; black; bond; bottle; bridge; captain; carruthers; command; course; crew; damn; desk; dhennah; dobermann; earth; excitement; eyes; face; feel; feet; flagon; fore; good; guns; half; hand; hate; heavy; hell; help; jeep; joel; k'hall; kaelli; left; life; like; little; long; look; men; metal; mind; minutes; mission; mneurium-4; moment; nicholas; nicholas joel; people; pilot; place; point; rest; right; sam; second; ship; silence; sir; skipper; slender; small; southard; space; surgeon; talking; task; thick; thing; thought; time; voice; waist; way; whale; white; world; years; young cache: 59174.txt plain text: 59174.txt item: #6 of 14 id: 59243 author: Fritch, Charles E. title: The Pacifists date: None words: 3203 flesch: 94 summary: Go back to the ship, Hinckley told Parker. But what about Parker? Yes, Hinckley said in a disturbed tone. keywords: buildings; compton; earthmen; girl; great; hinckley; house; long; man; parker; people; planet; rocket; sand; ship; silver; spaceship; time; vase; village; voice; weapons; woman cache: 59243.txt plain text: 59243.txt item: #7 of 14 id: 59438 author: McConnell, James V. title: Avoidance Situation date: None words: 16886 flesch: 84 summary: Captain Hawkins shook his grayed head in wonder. Very well, Captain Hawkins replied, breaking the brief silence between the two men. keywords: able; alien; answer; attack; attempt; aye; better; black; bridge; broussard; captain; captain hawkins; chair; child; choice; closer; communications; computer; contact; control; course; crew; dakn; decision; destruction; drive; earth; empire; end; enemy; eyes; face; feet; field; find; god; good; great; guess; hall; hand; hawkins; head; home; hope; hours; human; information; lan; lan sur; large; later; left; like; little; long; man; means; medboe; mind; minutes; moment; need; new; normal; observation; officer; panel; people; planet; point; position; problem; psychologist; race; radio; request; right; room; scientists; second; set; ship; situation; small; space; speed; stars; stop; subspace; sunward; sur; sure; system; things; thinking; thought; time; universe; use; voice; want; watch; way; work; years cache: 59438.txt plain text: 59438.txt item: #8 of 14 id: 60743 author: Bone, Jesse F. (Jesse Franklin) title: Cultural Exchange date: None words: 8149 flesch: 89 summary: Return to ship at once! I can't, Skipper, Alex's projection came back to me. Said he wanted to look around. keywords: alex; allardyce; bad; barger; better; brain; circlet; copter; course; crew; culture; dan; decontamination; earth; exchange; face; fear; feet; forest; glass; good; ground; half; halsey; hands; head; house; human; inside; job; k'wan; land; life; like; little; long; look; lyrane; lyranian; man; menticom; native; nice; old; people; place; plain; primitive; race; right; room; savages; second; set; ship; sir; skipper; sort; space; sure; table; tall; technology; thought; time; tree; voice; warren; watch; way; world; wrong cache: 60743.txt plain text: 60743.txt item: #9 of 14 id: 60829 author: Harmon, Jim title: The Upside-Down Captain date: None words: 6175 flesch: 87 summary: ] I Excuse me, please, Ben Starbuck said, tapping the junior officer on the epaulet. May I present the new man, Swabber Ben Starbuck, sir. keywords: aye; ben; birdsel; blue; board; brain; bridge; calculator; captain; crew; days; door; earth; exploration; frawley; good; gorgon; hand; hard; head; human; jaw; job; kettleman; lieutenant; little; long; look; machine; man; men; mind; new; officer; old; percy; phasing; rest; right; romero; sam; screen; second; ship; sir; space; spaceship; starbuck; sure; system; talk; time; trouble; unknown cache: 60829.txt plain text: 60829.txt item: #10 of 14 id: 60928 author: Sharkey, Jack title: The Contact Point date: None words: 3484 flesch: 91 summary: Lloyd felt Ulkay grow tense. * * It was strictly a take-your-pick name, Lloyd saw. keywords: air; alien; blet; city; craig; earth; feeling; friendly; groups; hand; harrison; head; heavy; kroner; little; lloyd; machine; mars; martians; men; mind; moment; nozzle; planet; right; set; sir; street; tandy; thin; ulkay; voice; way cache: 60928.txt plain text: 60928.txt item: #11 of 14 id: 61007 author: Lafferty, R. A. title: In the Garden date: None words: 3388 flesch: 90 summary: But when the Locator had refused to read _Positive_ when turned on the inventor himself, bad blood developed between machine and man. Man and woman. keywords: adamah; briton; captain; casper; convinced; craig; earth; extraordinary; father; glaser; human; light; linguist; lion; little; locator; machine; man; paradise; people; perception; positive; preternatural; priest; probe; rest; stark; steiner; thought; time; woman; world cache: 61007.txt plain text: 61007.txt item: #12 of 14 id: 61052 author: Del Rey, Lester title: Spawning Ground date: None words: 3707 flesch: 91 summary: Gwayne swore softly to himself. Gwayne stared at them for a minute, trying to read sense into the things. keywords: answer; barker; blobs; bob; cadets; captain; change; children; creatures; deep; earth; fog; ground; gwayne; head; hennessy; horde; jane; jeep; kids; leader; like; little; man; men; need; planet; ship; sign; spawning; thick; things; time; worlds; years cache: 61052.txt plain text: 61052.txt item: #13 of 14 id: 62321 author: Cummings, Ray title: The Flame Breathers date: None words: 14130 flesch: 90 summary: For a moment, with little Ama clinging to me, I must have stood appalled at the weird sight of the dead fire-mime. The Senzas, primitive obviously, yet with an orderly tribal civilization, were the dominant race here on little Vulcan. keywords: air; allurite; altar; ama; animal; arm; arrow; aware; bent; big; black; blob; blurred; bob; body; bow; broken; chance; cliff; close; creatures; cry; dark; darkness; dead; dim; dimness; earth; eyes; face; feet; figure; fire; flame; flaming; floor; forest; forward; gibbering; girl; good; great; green; ground; gully; gun; hair; hand; head; heat; heavy; huge; hull; human; image; jan; landing; left; legs; light; like; little; long; look; looking; low; lower; metal; mimes; moment; orgs; pallid; passage; past; pressure; priest; red; roberts; rock; savage; scream; second; senza; shape; ship; shot; silence; sky; sound; spaceship; staring; startled; stone; storm; sun; tahg; temple; thing; thought; time; torrence; village; vines; visible; voice; vulcan; wall; way; weird; wind; world; wrecked cache: 62321.txt plain text: 62321.txt item: #14 of 14 id: 63473 author: Hinckley, Lyman D. title: Dust Unto Dust date: None words: 4936 flesch: 89 summary: Martin led Wass, and the gangling, scarecrow-like Rodney, through the stillness overlaying the barren ground. Rodney said, How does water help us get out? Martin glanced at Wass, then started out of the switchboard room, not looking back. keywords: alien; arch; band; black; buildings; city; dust; edge; face; feet; flashlight; going; gun; hatch; head; hours; idea; level; light; like; little; man; martin; metal; past; planet; radio; ramp; rodney; rope; ship; street; switchboard; time; torches; wass; way; wind cache: 63473.txt plain text: 63473.txt