item: #1 of 19
          id: 13944
      author: Jefferies, Richard
       title: After London; Or, Wild England
        date: None
       words: 84817
      flesch: 77
     summary: Oliver was delighted with the appearance of the boat, so much so that now and then he announced his intention of accompanying Felix on his voyage. Without doubt, the Bushman, hearing Felix approach, had hidden in the maple bush, and, as he passed, struck with his nail-like dagger; but, miscalculating the speed at which the horse was going, instead of piercing the thigh of the rider, the blow fell on the horse, and the sharp point was dragged along the side.
    keywords: ancients; aurora; baron; black; bow; camp; canoe; castle; chapter; city; course; day; felix; foot; forest; great; ground; half; hand; hills; horses; house; king; lake; land; left; man; men; miles; mind; moment; morning; night; oliver; open; place; prince; river; rose; sail; shore; south; thought; time; trees; wall; war; water; way; white; wild; wind; wood; work
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        item: #2 of 19
          id: 29662
      author: Leiber, Fritz
       title: The Moon is Green
        date: None
       words: 6218
      flesch: 90
     summary: It came unstuck from the frame with a tiny explosion of dust and a _zing_ And the privacy magnified Hank._
    keywords: dust; effie; face; hank; man; patrick; voice; window
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        item: #3 of 19
          id: 32592
      author: Fyfe, H. B. (Horace Bowne)
       title: Let There Be Light
        date: None
       words: 2420
      flesch: 92
     summary: In his right hand, Blackie twirled the part of the rope hanging between him and Mike. Mike and Blackie tugged again, and the machine wound up facing them in its efforts to maintain balance.
    keywords: blackie; mike; robot; sid
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        item: #4 of 19
          id: 50844
      author: Sheckley, Robert
       title: Proof of the Pudding
        date: None
       words: 2988
      flesch: 93
     summary: * * He had expected others to recognize the futility of it, load ships and flock to the dark side of the Moon also. Things he knew best, he could create best.
    keywords: cave; man; mind; thought
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        item: #5 of 19
          id: 51115
      author: Boucher, Anthony
       title: Transfer Point
        date: None
       words: 8086
      flesch: 84
     summary: It was a nasty plot Vyrko was involved in. And here Vyrko sat, methodically recording the destruction of mankind, once in a straight factual record, for the instruction of future readers (if any, he added wryly to himself), and again as a canto in that epic poem of Man which he never expected to complete, but for which he lived.
    keywords: agnoton; holt; kirth; labbery; lavra; manning; norbert; read; story; time; vyrko
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        item: #6 of 19
          id: 51241
      author: Dryfoos, Dave
       title: Bridge Crossing
        date: None
       words: 5040
      flesch: 91
     summary: Roddie clung just below her and looked dazedly around. * * * Roddie awoke as Ida finished struggling free of his unconscious grip.
    keywords: city; fog; hammer; ida; molly; roddie; soldiers
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        item: #7 of 19
          id: 51379
      author: Pangborn, Edgar
       title: The Music Master of Babylon
        date: None
       words: 10808
      flesch: 85
     summary: But I knew him_, Brian thought, stunned. Sunlight sifted through in narrow beams, like the bars of dusty gold Brian could remember in a hayloft at his uncle's farm in Vermont.
    keywords: abraham; brian; carr; hall; jonas; light; man; museum; music; new; ones; thought; time; years; young
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        item: #8 of 19
          id: 51396
      author: Evans, Dean
       title: Not a Creature Was Stirring
        date: None
       words: 5332
      flesch: 93
     summary: Gannett planted his big feet wide apart and frowned sourly around and sniffed the air like a dog at a gopher hole. Gannett didn't know why the sun looked sick, and he didn't know why the world smelled sick.
    keywords: bottle; croupier; gannett; god; hand; jeep; man; night; time
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        item: #9 of 19
          id: 51662
      author: Kastle, Herbert D.
       title: Breakdown
        date: None
       words: 5090
      flesch: 99
     summary: Harry nodded and said uh-huh and used his mouth for chewing. If you'd only go see Dr. Hamming, Harry.
    keywords: edna; farm; harry; house; plum; regulations; way
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        item: #10 of 19
          id: 51687
      author: Westlake, Donald E.
       title: The Spy in the Elevator
        date: None
       words: 6660
      flesch: 90
     summary: The ever-present threat of other projects had never been more for me--or for most other people either, I suspected--than occasional ore-sleds that didn't return, occasional spies shot down as they tried to sneak into the building, occasional spies of our own leaving the Project in tiny radiation-proof cars, hoping to get safely within another project and bring back news of any immediate threats and dangers that project might be planning for us. Usually, I mean, when they didn't contain spies.
    keywords: door; elevator; linda; project; spy; time; way
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        item: #11 of 19
          id: 53611
      author: Beresford, J. D. (John Davys)
       title: Goslings
        date: None
       words: 77431
      flesch: 80
     summary: Millie Gosling, returning to Marlow in mid-October, gave the religionists splendid opportunity for a first demonstration. She desired the blood of Millie Gosling and Jasper Thrale with the same intensity that women had once desired a useless vote.
    keywords: air; aunt; ave; blanche; case; coming; community; country; day; days; eileen; england; evening; eyes; fear; food; girls; good; gosling; gurney; half; head; home; hours; house; isaacson; jasper; left; life; london; look; man; marlow; millie; mind; moment; money; mother; mrs; mrs gosling; new; past; people; place; plague; right; road; room; things; thought; thrale; time; water; way; women; work; world
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        item: #12 of 19
          id: 58670
      author: Walton, Bryce
       title: Dreamer's World
        date: None
       words: 6609
      flesch: 90
     summary: A spot of nausea bounced into Greg's stomach at Drakeson's reference to what the big Chain blow-up had done to almost all high cellular life forms, including crows. Greg stared at the two deadly coiled weapons Drakeson dragged from beneath the seat.
    keywords: codes; cowls; drakeson; dream; eyes; greg; pat; reality
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        item: #13 of 19
          id: 58743
      author: Bixby, Jerome
       title: Little Boy
        date: None
       words: 5721
      flesch: 96
     summary: Everything at the camp, which was over on Long Island, near Flushing Bay, was neat and trim and olive-drab, and it was almost evening now, and as the jeep rolled up the avenue between the rows of tents Steven and the girl stopped struggling to blink at the first artificial lights they'd seen in a very long time. At last Steven spotted a good tree, a thick-foliaged one about forty feet up the path, where the sun would be in the man's eyes.
    keywords: food; knife; man; men; squirrel; steven
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        item: #14 of 19
          id: 59259
      author: Kastle, Herbert D.
       title: The Outer Quiet
        date: None
       words: 4245
      flesch: 84
     summary: This was so slight a touch of the vocal cords that no detector bulb or other trainee could hear it. George Lowery, he said, thirty-two, top salesman at Brady's Men's Shop, resident of Babylon, Long Island, owner of 12 North Rector Drive, husband of Adele Lowery, and today you may see her.
    keywords: adele; building; conquerors; george; men; time; trainees
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        item: #15 of 19
          id: 59415
      author: Blish, James
       title: To Pay the Piper
        date: None
       words: 5862
      flesch: 82
     summary: I'm grateful to you, Dr. Carson, Hamelin said. At last Carson said mildly: Why aren't _we_ immune to everything by now? Eh?
    keywords: body; carson; course; hamelin; machine; man; mudgett; surface; time
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        item: #16 of 19
          id: 59514
      author: Reynolds, Mack
       title: After Some Tomorrow
        date: None
       words: 5378
      flesch: 91
     summary: By time things cleared we were divided as we are now, in clans. The point is that we've got to change the basis of clan society.
    keywords: alan; clan; husband; sally; vivian; women
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        item: #17 of 19
          id: 59602
      author: Walton, Bryce
       title: The Chasm
        date: None
       words: 2695
      flesch: 95
     summary: Sal walked to where Cartley stood leaning against the partly closed door of the rotting warehouse. After a while, Sal said softly, Well, what could we try to do, Doc? Cartley turned quickly.
    keywords: cartley; children; murphy; sal
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        item: #18 of 19
          id: 60515
      author: Hidalgo, Miguel
       title: Homecoming
        date: None
       words: 3057
      flesch: 93
     summary: They were nearing a river; the water would be welcome on tired bodies and dry throats. Few men had dared cross the Rio Grande into El Mundo gris de Noviembre--the November world.
    keywords: body; cities; home; horse; light
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        item: #19 of 19
          id: 63631
      author: McConnell, James V.
       title: "Phone Me in Central Park"
        date: None
       words: 4344
      flesch: 89
     summary: Charles was by himself, the last person alive in all of New York City. Charles turned over on his side to look at her.
    keywords: body; charles; man; mind; new; thought; time; york
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