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id: 28892
author: Smith, George H. (George Henry)
title: Benefactor
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words: 936
sentence: 77
flesch: 87
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summary:
  That mob outside is made up of madmen, Jacob Clark told his young assistant, Bill Towney. _We can anticipate that robots will be fiercely resented, at first, in a society that will see them as the latest--and an indestructible--widespread threat to the workers whom they will replace.


id: 30371
author: Fontenay, Charles L.
title: Service with a Smile
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words: 1216
sentence: 95
flesch: 86
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summary:
  BY CHARLES L. FONTENAY Herbert bowed with a muted clank--indicating he probably needed oiling somewhere--and presented Alice with a perfect martini on a silver tray. It's a good martini, Herbert, said Alice.


id: 22466
author: DeKy, Thornton
title: The Ultimate Experiment
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words: 1463
sentence: 77
flesch: 78
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summary:
  No one lived here now, but Kiron and his kind. And, so thought Kiron to himself, he might as well be a great unthinking robot able to do only one thing instead of the mental giant he was, so obsessed had he become with the task he had set himself to do.


id: 29446
author: Sheckley, Robert
title: Beside Still Waters
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words: 1447
sentence: 149
flesch: 94
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summary:
  Mark began to tape new responses into Charles. In time, Mark built more complicated conversations into Charles.


id: 60939
author: Grenville, Scott F.
title: Superjoemulloy
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words: 2200
sentence: 157
flesch: 77
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summary:
  Finally, when Joe Mulloy was fifteen years old, the local Board of Education wisely decided to end Joe's formal education, rather than make screaming meemies an occupational disease at the local high school. Joe asked the super-robot.


id: 29976
author: Burton, Russell
title: Weak on Square Roots
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words: 2798
sentence: 238
flesch: 87
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summary:
  After the crate had been placed lengthwise in the rear of the station wagon, Corinne watched Ronald tuck a blanket around it. Long after Corinne had retired that night she heard Ronald pounding with a brass hammer down in his den.


id: 50819
author: Leiber, Fritz
title: A Bad Day for Sales
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words: 2360
sentence: 221
flesch: 91
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summary:
  It was amusing to see the TV and newspaper coverage of Robie selling, but not a fraction as much fun as being approached personally by him. At this age-level, Robie's reference silhouettes permitted him to distinguish sex, though with occasional amusing and embarrassing miscalls.


id: 29317
author: Thiessen, V. E.
title: There Will Be School Tomorrow
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words: 3252
sentence: 370
flesch: 92
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summary:
  All the kids were fed and sent to school by robots. The other robots had begun to walk out into the town, and as they walked the robots walked from other schools, in other towns.


id: 59558
author: Boren, Sol
title: Your Servant, Sir
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words: 4053
sentence: 350
flesch: 82
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summary:
  The words pierced Raymond's skull, exploded and splattered within. The dreaded ultimatum had at last been carried out, and Raymond felt helpless, numbed.


id: 32079
author: Clinton, Ed M.
title: The Small World of M-75
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words: 5024
sentence: 314
flesch: 78
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summary:
  Abruptly, then, the voice came again, and he struggled to file for future reference sound patterns which, although meaningless to him, his selector circuits no longer disregarded. * * * Bert Sokolski signed the morning report and dropped it into the transmitter.


id: 51321
author: Nourse, Alan Edward
title: Prime Difference
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words: 5202
sentence: 469
flesch: 92
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summary:
  I must say I felt a little guilty, leaving poor old George Prime to cope with Marge all the time--he looked and acted so human, it was easy to forget that he literally couldn't care less. Marge Prime makes Jeree and Sybil and Dorothy and Dawn and Jane and Ruby all look pretty sad by comparison.


id: 32327
author: Sohl, Jerry
title: The Seventh Order
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words: 6334
sentence: 499
flesch: 85
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summary:
  They were going to talk appeasement, George knew, but he could also see that the general didn't know what line the conversation would take or what concessions he could make on behalf of his people. How-- Professor Tomlin, my name--and I see I must have a name--is, let us say, George.


id: 29204
author: Harrison, Harry
title: Arm of the Law
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words: 6952
sentence: 541
flesch: 94
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summary:
  I know a robot can't be happy or sad--but Ned _seems_ to be happy. We watched Ned sweep and polish until the station began to take on a positively antiseptic look.


id: 51185
author: Galouye, Daniel F.
title: All Jackson's Children
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words: 5302
sentence: 567
flesch: 88
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summary:
  Drummond, following hesitantly, shook his head. Oh, Drummond said comprehendingly, stumbling to keep pace.


id: 27921
author: Knight, David C.
title: The Love of Frank Nineteen
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words: 7266
sentence: 516
flesch: 87
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summary:
  The movie producers had talked about hiring her as Frank's leading lady until they found out about a new line of female robots that had just gone on the market. Calls himself Frank Nineteen, said Min, pointing to the smooth Palmer Method signature.


id: 61540
author: Boucher, Anthony
title: Robinc
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words: 6988
sentence: 543
flesch: 88
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summary:
  Once people understand what usuform robots can do for them-- I'm afraid, Mr. Quinby, it's you who don't quite understand. The blood stream, to carry on your own metaphor, is tainted; we want fresh blood, and Mr. Quinby provides it.


id: 31611
author: Wolf, Mari
title: Robots of the World! Arise!
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words: 6894
sentence: 686
flesch: 94
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summary:
  The sergeant climbed out, walked down the street toward a large group of waiting robots--about twenty of them, this time. If they want to discuss wages and contracts and working conditions, like other men have, we'll consider it.


id: 51194
author: Gault, William Campbell
title: Made to Measure
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words: 7223
sentence: 783
flesch: 92
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summary:
  I was thinking of you as my boyhood chum, good old Joe. Joe discovered that Sam Tullgren, Director of the Domestic Center, had thought of everything to make reconciliations complete.


id: 51362
author: Haggert, W. T.
title: Lex
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words: 7891
sentence: 547
flesch: 84
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summary:
  Or are you one of these birds that had the shot paid for him? I worked my way through, said Peter stiffly. Clay, at the Association of Professional Engineers, who had set up the appointment, hadn't eased Peter's nervousness by admitting, I don't know what in hell he's looking for.


id: 29471
author: Harrison, Harry
title: The Velvet Glove
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words: 8037
sentence: 532
flesch: 88
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summary:
  In fact, all over the country it was bad for robots.... Jon Venex fitted the key into the hotel room door. Jon Venex!


id: 22512
author: Merliss, Reuben (Reuben Robert)
title: The Stutterer
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words: 10356
sentence: 860
flesch: 90
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summary:
  He had accomplished his mission; its results now lay in the opinions of men. But they had not, and he could not find a way to tell this cold old man of what he had learned about the robots and their unity with men.


id: 60024
author: Giunta, Aldo
title: Jingle in the Jungle
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words: 12360
sentence: 1098
flesch: 92
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summary:
  Famous.... Nobody had called Charlie Jingle mister for ten years. Is that true, Charlie-mo? Charlie Jingle shrugged.


id: 48513
author: Garrett, Randall
title: His Master's Voice
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words: 16763
sentence: 1212
flesch: 88
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summary:
  In a sense, then, the meteor is capable of giving McGuire orders, and you aren't. Problems like that are the sort of thing that any simple-minded computer can solve in a fraction of a second if they're reduced to binary notation first, but poor McGuire had to do his own mathematical interpretations from English, and the things got more complicated as they went along.


id: 7506
author: Ellis, Edward Sylvester
title: The Huge Hunter; Or, The Steam Man of the Prairies
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words: 30108
sentence: 1518
flesch: 80
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summary:
  Can yer steam man walk over that?' 'Certainly not; but we can remove them.' Had the bull come in collision with the horse or man while in that mood he would have made short work of him.


