        item: #1 of 44
          id: 19027
      author: Rockwell, Carey
       title: The Revolt on Venus
        date: None
       words: 54871
      flesch: 87
     summary: Roger saw Tom heading for the tunnel and made a sudden dash for Sinclair. After Tom introduced Connel to the couple, the major questioned them closely about their absence during the attack by the shock troops.
    keywords: astro; base; big; boys; building; cadet; connel; corbett; door; feet; ground; guard; gun; hand; head; jet; jungle; major; man; men; polaris; ray; right; roger; ship; sinclair; sir; solar; space; strong; time; tom; tyrannosaurus; unit; venus; venusian; voice; walters; way
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        item: #2 of 44
          id: 22590
      author: Fontenay, Charles L.
       title: Wind
        date: None
       words: 5922
      flesch: 89
     summary: Jan needed all his Dutch stubbornness, and a good deal of pure physical strength besides, to maneuver the roach-flat groundcar across the tumbled terrain of Den Hoorn into the teeth of the howling gale that swept from the west. The huge wheels twisted and jolted against the rocks outside, and Jan bounced against his seat belt, wrestled the steering wheel and puffed at his _pijp_.
    keywords: boy; groundcar; heemskerk; jan; men; oostpoort; platform; sanchez; wind
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        item: #3 of 44
          id: 29181
      author: De Courcy, Dorothy
       title: Foundling on Venus
        date: None
       words: 3307
      flesch: 96
     summary: This is colonized Venus, where one may walk without the threat of sudden death--except from other men--the most bitterly fought for, the dearest, bloodiest, most worthless land in the solar system. Poor little thing!
    keywords: boy; jane; pete; venus
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        item: #4 of 44
          id: 31307
      author: Hasse, Henry
       title: One Purple Hope!
        date: None
       words: 6866
      flesch: 95
     summary: Joel Latham, wasn't it? Latham swayed and clutched at the bar. They watched Latham hurrying, stumbling, not looking back.
    keywords: eyes; joel; josmian; kueelo; latham; man; penger; tsith
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        item: #5 of 44
          id: 31326
      author: Loomis, Noel M.
       title: The Wealth of Echindul
        date: None
       words: 7392
      flesch: 90
     summary: And if Grant had had any forlorn hope that he might be able to slip through The Pass, he gave it up, for he knew now that his movements were reported hourly and that his possession of the fabulous stones was undoubtedly known to Relegar, the Uranian. * * * Grant had thought about that a good many times on his long trip across the swamp, but he had worried more about how to dispose of his own stones before Relegar got hold of him.
    keywords: grant; netse; pass; relegar; stones; swamp; venus; water
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        item: #6 of 44
          id: 31686
      author: Smith, Evelyn E.
       title: Collector's Item
        date: None
       words: 14040
      flesch: 86
     summary: [Sidenote: _Being trapped in the steaming h--l of Venus is no excuse for forgetting one's manners--but anyone abducted, marooned, tricked, kept from tea might well crack under the strain!_] What I should like to know, Professor Bernardi said, gazing pensively after the lizard-man as he bore the shrieking form of Miss Anspacher off in his scaly arms, is whether he is planning to eat her or make love to her. Don't tell me you have a--a fondness for Miss Anspacher, Captain, Professor Bernardi exclaimed, genuinely surprised.
    keywords: anspacher; bernardi; captain; jrann; miss; mortland; mrs; mud; professor; pttt; right; ship; vine
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        item: #7 of 44
          id: 32161
      author: Wallace, F. L. (Floyd L.)
       title: Tangle Hold
        date: None
       words: 20237
      flesch: 90
     summary: [Sidenote: Jadiver objected to being the greatest influence for good on Venus ... because what was good for Venus was bad for Jadiver!] Mmmm, said Jadiver.
    keywords: autobath; body; burlingame; circuit; face; good; gun; jadiver; man; police; robot; skin; tangle; time; voice; way; work
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        item: #8 of 44
          id: 32544
      author: Reynolds, John Murray
       title: The Golden Amazons of Venus
        date: None
       words: 35946
      flesch: 90
     summary: * * * Gerry knelt down on the damp floor and put his head close to the base of the wall. [Sidenote: Dakta death, horrible beyond the weirdest fever-dreams of Earth-men, faced Space Ship Commander Gerry Norton.
    keywords: air; angus; city; closana; door; earth; eyes; face; feet; gerry; gerry norton; golden; green; hand; lansa; light; man; mctavish; men; metal; ones; place; ray; room; scaly; ship; space; steve; time; venus; walls; water
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        item: #9 of 44
          id: 32901
      author: Phelps, A. H.
       title: The Merchants of Venus
        date: None
       words: 5446
      flesch: 87
     summary: Rod clung to his job throughout. Reluctantly, Rod Workham picked it up.
    keywords: jaimie; man; men; people; project; rod; venus
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        item: #10 of 44
          id: 40993
      author: Jones, Neil R.
       title: Spacewrecked on Venus
        date: None
       words: 8559
      flesch: 87
     summary: Hantel! Captain Cragley steadied himself on the threshold of my room. Captain Cragley turned the matter over in his mind.
    keywords: brady; c-49; captain; cragley; jasper; man; men; passengers; quentin; ship; space
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        item: #11 of 44
          id: 49779
      author: Williams, Robert Moore
       title: Publicity Stunt
        date: None
       words: 5663
      flesch: 89
     summary: Go out and bluff Shad Brisbee now! Molock also took a deep breath and rose to his feet. Lifting hands as big as hams, he looked Shad Brisbee square in all of the Venusian's eyes that happened to be turned toward him at the moment.
    keywords: brisbee; dance; dancing; molock; shad; ship; wilkerson
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        item: #12 of 44
          id: 50702
      author: Sutton, Lee
       title: Venus Boy
        date: None
       words: 40821
      flesch: 98
     summary: More marva than any other person had ever seen surrounded Johnny. Most of the time Baba clicked it, but when he got tired Johnny took over for a while.
    keywords: arrow; baba; bear; claws; colony; door; eyes; friend; head; johnny; man; marva; men; rhinosaur; rick; right; rock; tank; time; tree; venus; voice; way
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        item: #13 of 44
          id: 51203
      author: Ludwig, Edward W.
       title: A Coffin for Jacob
        date: None
       words: 10991
      flesch: 93
     summary: I--I guess I didn't think, Ben. Venusians can't really read your mind, but they see your feelings, your emotions. Here and there, Ben saw moving figures.
    keywords: ben; city; dust; earth; eyes; face; hands; jacob; maggie; man; simon; space; thought; venusian; wind
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        item: #14 of 44
          id: 51681
      author: Smith, George O. (George Oliver)
       title: Amateur in Chancery
        date: None
       words: 5094
      flesch: 88
     summary: Does Harla know zinc? He may, said Teresa very haltingly. Tell Harla that Doctor Carter's awkward position is a direct result of our ability to reduce the tunnel effect to operate on gross matter.
    keywords: harla; holly; right; teresa; tunnel; venus; wallach
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        item: #15 of 44
          id: 51768
      author: Sheckley, Robert
       title: Prospector's Special
        date: None
       words: 8547
      flesch: 90
     summary: Fourteen hundred dollars, Mr. Morrison. Here we are, Mr. Morrison, Williams 4 said.
    keywords: goldenstone; krandall; morrison; robot; sandcar; telephone; venus; water; williams
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        item: #16 of 44
          id: 5703
      author: Flint, Homer Eon
       title: The Lord of Death and the Queen of Life
        date: None
       words: 48002
      flesch: 83
     summary: Know you, Strokor, that the survival of the fittest is a rule which governs man as well as men. Said Van Emmon: It just occurred to me that the cube might look pretty good to these people.
    keywords: air; billie; doctor; door; earth; emmon; estra; eyes; face; feet; geologist; good; head; klow; life; look; maka; man; men; people; place; planet; right; saw; smith; strokor; thing; thought; time; van; venusian; voice; way
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        item: #17 of 44
          id: 58735
      author: Henig, Stanley
       title: Peace
        date: None
       words: 3620
      flesch: 72
     summary: (THE FOLLOWING CONVERSATION IS REPRODUCED FROM THE AUTO-TAPE RECORDING OF THE MEETING) Earth Spokesman: _ This metal was essential for the construction of Earth's space ships, the alumiryten alloy being used in the manufacture of the tough outer shell of these ships.
    keywords: earth; government; ser; ship; space; venus; war
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        item: #18 of 44
          id: 61283
      author: Banta, Frank
       title: The Dragon Slayers
        date: None
       words: 1750
      flesch: 89
     summary: I just hope the neighborhood dragon doesn't come around while you're in that weakened condition, Bliss, Pole worried as he totaled up the month's production on his reports. A few minutes later, at a distance of a thousand yards, Pole and Bliss, loaded with all their portable possessions, watched their cabin burst into flames as a roaring, forty-foot lizard, with fifty-foot flames gouting from his mouth, ambled through their clearing.
    keywords: bliss; chief; pole
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        item: #19 of 44
          id: 61499
      author: Roberts, Scott
       title: Monopoly
        date: None
       words: 9827
      flesch: 91
     summary: Brian faltered to a stop and Crystal James pushed past him. Brian followed Crystal into the smaller of the two ships and the rest of the rebels manned the other.
    keywords: brian; crystal; door; hanson; mchague; police; rebels; serono; ship; venus; voice; zeburzac
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        item: #20 of 44
          id: 61696
      author: Repp, Ed Earl
       title: Martian Terror
        date: None
       words: 10325
      flesch: 91
     summary: When all were quiet, Prince Lolan stood up. Beside Lolan the wall shuddered slightly and a trickle of rocks slid down it.
    keywords: arzt; atarkus; door; eyes; face; feet; irak; lolan; lugo; man; martian; mora; room; venusian
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        item: #21 of 44
          id: 61798
      author: Selwyn, Carl
       title: Venus Has Green Eyes
        date: None
       words: 6017
      flesch: 97
     summary: Venusian women were the beauties of the Universe and this woman had surpassed them all, but in her dull beauty, thought Flip, there was nothing feminine. Flip had reasons.
    keywords: charlie; eyes; flip; gun; mist; mud; swamp; woman
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        item: #22 of 44
          id: 61826
      author: Bond, Nelson S.
       title: Beyond Light
        date: None
       words: 8033
      flesch: 92
     summary: What have you got against me? What, growled Captain Lane. * * * Captain Lane did not need her warning.
    keywords: captain; dorothy; eyes; gun; heat; lane; mallory; man; space; thing; tim; time
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        item: #23 of 44
          id: 61844
      author: Brackett, Leigh
       title: The Stellar Legion
        date: None
       words: 6087
      flesch: 92
     summary: They were ranged in a solid mass along the edges of the moat, and the fort's guns were silent MacIan wondered why, until he saw that the dam that furnished power for the turbine had been broken down. Bhak the Titan hesitated, his queerly bright, blank eyes darting from Thekla to Lehn, and back to MacIan.
    keywords: bhak; eyes; face; lehn; macian; nahali; swamp; thekla
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        item: #24 of 44
          id: 61863
      author: Jameson, Malcolm
       title: 4-1/2B, Eros
        date: None
       words: 7777
      flesch: 89
     summary: Captain Hank Karns, the Lone Trader, sank back in his seat and watched idly with mild blue eyes as first one grass hut and then another appeared momentarily through rifts of rain. Captain Karns had berthed his own old trading tub not an hour earlier and as he registered the arrival of his _Swapper_ he noted that under the date of three days before there was the entry: _Wanderer_, Captain Wilkerson, en route Mercury to Luna.
    keywords: atkins; captain; day; door; hank; hank karns; karns; man; mercury; place; ship; time; venus
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        item: #25 of 44
          id: 61884
      author: Cummings, Ray
       title: The War-Nymphs of Venus
        date: None
       words: 20120
      flesch: 89
     summary: The things of actuality which happened to me, to Jack Allen, to little Nereid--with those things only am I concerned here. And what they might try to do-- Her words evoked a grim picture of powerful little men, with minds like children suddenly enraged to frenzy; and the half-drunken youths at the festival, ready enough to kill any worker, with the Ruler encouraging them.
    keywords: allen; arron; city; dark; earth; eyes; feet; garga; girls; leh; men; metal; nereid; peters; rhool; sea; tollgamo; venus; water; woman
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        item: #26 of 44
          id: 61907
      author: Winterbotham, R. R. (Russell Robert)
       title: Genesis!
        date: None
       words: 6738
      flesch: 83
     summary: Captain Arlen quit trying to classify himself and his passengers. Captain Arlen corked the bottle and put it aside.
    keywords: arlen; captain; gheal; mcferson; protoplasm; renzu; ship; venusian
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        item: #27 of 44
          id: 61943
      author: Peacock, Wilbur S.
       title: The Victory of Klon
        date: None
       words: 2065
      flesch: 83
     summary: Klon stood proudly to one side, drinking in the hissing applause and hisses of surprise and awe that greeted his showing of the globe of light shadow. But it was a deadly triumph for Klon, wriggling, slimy lord of eternally-veiled Venus.
    keywords: klon; light; thing
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        item: #28 of 44
          id: 61952
      author: Walton, Harry
       title: Spawn of the Venus Sea
        date: None
       words: 6158
      flesch: 91
     summary: Kort nodded, and yet it seemed to him that Hodge's appraisal was wrong, in some vague way he couldn't himself put a finger on. Hodge shrugged, then stared in amazement at Kort, who stood by the door with a leveled electro-gun.
    keywords: blaster; deck; hodge; kort; man; mermaid; net; pratt; sea; thing
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        item: #29 of 44
          id: 61978
      author: Kuttner, Henry
       title: War-Gods of the Void
        date: None
       words: 13047
      flesch: 93
     summary: Venus, Mr. Vanning, is _not_ Earth. ] I Earth Consul, Goodenow, tossed a packet of microfilms to Vanning, and said, You're crazy.
    keywords: callahan; face; fever; hobbs; lysla; man; north; sanderson; ship; swamja; vanning; venus; way; zeeth
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        item: #30 of 44
          id: 62076
      author: Peacock, Wilbur S.
       title: The Thing of Venus
        date: None
       words: 9557
      flesch: 85
     summary: he barked, Elise, you stay here; come on, Val! Val Kenton paused only long enough to slip newly charged loads into his guns, then swung through the port after the fleet patrolman. We dropped through the clouds, following, he nodded at Val Kenton, your directions.
    keywords: andrews; body; elise; eyes; hand; kenton; patrolman; ship; tony; val; val kenton; water
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        item: #31 of 44
          id: 62137
      author: Wellman, Manly Wade
       title: Venus Enslaved
        date: None
       words: 17398
      flesch: 91
     summary: Say, ventured Max, Mr. Planter, he's gone. You in trouble, Mr. Planter? He put out a hand to help.
    keywords: crossbow; disbro; earth; face; feet; girl; hand; head; man; mara; max; pistol; planter; right; ship; skygors; thing; time; venus; water; way
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        item: #32 of 44
          id: 62170
      author: Cummings, Ray
       title: The Star-Master
        date: None
       words: 10318
      flesch: 95
     summary: Jim and Venta and little Meeta were here with me, but our little Midges were struggling to keep aloft. But there was the spaceship; and Jim, Venta, and little Meeta.
    keywords: city; curtmann; earth; forest; jim; meeta; men; midges; prytan; venta; venus
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        item: #33 of 44
          id: 62261
      author: Peacock, Wilbur S.
       title: Planet of No-Return
        date: None
       words: 7464
      flesch: 87
     summary: They laughed then, Old Kerry Blane and young Splinter Wood, and the warmth of their friendship was a tangible thing in the small control-room of the cruiser. ] Old Kerry Blane exploded.
    keywords: blane; cruiser; eyes; gun; head; kerry; kerry blane; port; ship; splinter; water
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        item: #34 of 44
          id: 62314
      author: Bok, Hannes
       title: Stranger From Space
        date: None
       words: 4521
      flesch: 94
     summary: One of the voices mourned, in the twittering Venusian speech, How I envy you, Koroby! I wish I were being married tonight, like you! Koroby stared defiantly at the laughing faces of her bridesmaids.
    keywords: koroby; light; litter; man; robert; yasak
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        item: #35 of 44
          id: 62316
      author: Brackett, Leigh
       title: Citadel of Lost Ships
        date: None
       words: 12938
      flesch: 96
     summary: Give me your hand, Mister Campbell. Beyond the open hut door, Campbell could see the _liha_-trees swaying a little in the hot, slow breeze.
    keywords: black; campbell; eyes; face; hands; kraylens; light; man; marah; people; romany; stella; time; tredrick; voice
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        item: #36 of 44
          id: 62325
      author: Gold, H. L. (Horace Leonard)
       title: Menace of the Mists
        date: None
       words: 7067
      flesch: 89
     summary: So long, and good luck! Limpy switched off and glanced inquiringly at Mac, his paralyzed grin a slash of seemingly pure evil. When Mac and his detachment were returning, Limpy opened a sluice from the central control tower.
    keywords: centaurpedes; fence; fishmen; limpy; mac; macaloon; pedes; swede; wall
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        item: #37 of 44
          id: 62348
      author: Jacobi, Carl
       title: Assignment on Venus
        date: None
       words: 5122
      flesch: 85
     summary: Abruptly Simms tensed. Abruptly Simms found his gaze focused on a larger conical building he had not noticed before.
    keywords: deleon; earth; halleck; kamali; mold; post; salts; simms; swamp
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        item: #38 of 44
          id: 62349
      author: Brackett, Leigh
       title: The Blue Behemoth
        date: None
       words: 11242
      flesch: 100
     summary: ] Bucky Shannon leaned forward across the little hexagonal table. Bucky Shannon settled his shoulders and hips like a dancer.
    keywords: beamish; bucky; cansins; eyes; gertrude; gow; green; guy; kapper; melak; mud; shannon
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        item: #39 of 44
          id: 62377
      author: Hasse, Henry
       title: Alcatraz of the Starways
        date: None
       words: 24383
      flesch: 85
     summary: The surprise stopped Mark Denning in his tracks, but fortunately, thanks to his training, he managed to keep his face impassive as they recognized each other simultaneously. You are demoted back to the lower order, Mark Denning, she said with a hint of the same mockery Mark had known in the Swamp.
    keywords: aladdian; aladdo; asteroid; carston; commander; council; cynthia; earth; eyes; face; fleet; luhor; mark; marnik; men; metal; space; swamp; time; venus; venusian; voice; vulcan
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        item: #40 of 44
          id: 63062
      author: Brackett, Leigh
       title: Terror Out of Space
        date: None
       words: 11495
      flesch: 99
     summary: A grim tale of brooding terror whirling out of space to drive men mad, of a menace without name or form, and of the man, Lundy, who fought the horror, his eyes blinded by his will. Lundy was flying the aero-space convertible by himself.
    keywords: black; cold; dark; eyes; farrell; lundy; net; open; smith; things; water
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        item: #41 of 44
          id: 63304
      author: Pohl, Frederik
       title: Double-Cross
        date: None
       words: 3558
      flesch: 94
     summary: The six conspirators in Svan's old ground car moved slowly along the main street of the native town. Svan was the leader making the final plans--plotting them a bit too well.
    keywords: car; earth; road; ship; svan
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        item: #42 of 44
          id: 63309
      author: Peacock, Wilbur S.
       title: Chimera World
        date: None
       words: 9643
      flesch: 89
     summary: Thank you, Captain, Jean Palmer said amusedly from behind Don Denton. Don Denton pressed the last of a series of studs on the control panel, cut in the robot-pilot, then grinned admiringly at Jean Palmer.
    keywords: denton; don; don denton; eyes; girl; jean; jim; men; palmer; ship; trouble
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        item: #43 of 44
          id: 63516
      author: Brackett, Leigh
       title: The Vanishing Venusians
        date: None
       words: 11137
      flesch: 95
     summary: For the first time since childhood Harker was cold. Matt Harker lay alongside the tiller and counted the trickles of sweat crawling over his nakedness, and stared with sullen, opaque eyes into the indigo night.
    keywords: black; button; eyes; face; flower; harker; matt; mclaren; people; sim; time; water
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        item: #44 of 44
          id: 63683
      author: Stearns, Charles A.
       title: Color Blind
        date: None
       words: 5138
      flesch: 92
     summary: Take Sukey, and-- That was the first and only time that Harry ever swung at me. But that was only half the story--just ask olive-skinned Sukey Jones._
    keywords: campbell; harry; jones; marjud; mrs; sukey; time; venus
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