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Describe the setting of this story.	Write a detailed response to the following question about Captain Midas by Alfred Coppel. Question: Describe the setting of this story. Answer:	[ "This story takes place in the Holcomb Foundation aboard Martian Maid. The Martian Maid is a grand ship that took off from Solis Lacus on its last flight; the ship spanned 200 feet in its length and despite its sleek exterior, was an armed ship as well. The Maid was on an orbit in a region strewn with asteroids bet...	63867
What is the plot of the story?	Write a detailed response to the following question about The Expendables by Jim Harmon. Question: What is the plot of the story? Answer:	[ "A racketeer, Tony Carmen, comes to Professor Venetti, demanding him figure out how to get rid of the corpse in his house without leaving any traces by using the information Professor Venetti has in his job for the U.S. government that is related to the disposal problem of nuclear waste. Tony threatens Professor Ve...	61171
What effect does Farquar have on the story?	Write a detailed response to the following question about Appointment In Tomorrow by Fritz Leiber. Question: What effect does Farquar have on the story? Answer:	[ "Farquar sparks the driving conflict of the story; the question he submits threatens the authority and legitimacy of the Thinkers, implying that the machine that guides society's decisions is a fake. This question disturbs the officials present at Maizie's event. Farquar also attempts to convince Opperly, a major S...	51152
What is the setting of the story?	Write a detailed response to the following question about The Girls from Fieu Dayol by Robert F. Young. Question: What is the setting of the story? Answer:	[ "The first scene is in the library. Hippolyte Adolphe Taine’s History of English Literature is in the literature section. The books are categorized in alphabetical order. Taine’s book is in the T-section. The secret letters are always hidden in Taine’s book in the T section, where the girls from Fieu Dayol always s...	61048
How is the theme of capitalism explored throughout the story?	Write a detailed response to the following question about The Expendables by Jim Harmon. Question: How is the theme of capitalism explored throughout the story? Answer:	[ "The theme of capitalism is explored throughout the story by the greed of the racketeer, Tony Carmen, and how he prefers profits over the environment. In the story, Professor Venetti creates a machine that can easily decompose anything without knowing how it works and where the decomposed particles go. His process ...	61171
Who is Gravgak and what is his importance to the story?	Write a detailed response to the following question about The Serpent River by Don Wilcox. Question: Who is Gravgak and what is his importance to the story? Answer:	[ "Gravgak is a guard who serves under Tomboldo, the leader of the Benzendella people, and escorts the humans after they meet. He is tall and muscular, with piercing eyes, and his limbs are painted with diamonds in green and black. He is knocked down during the second attack, and when Linden tries to tend to him, Gra...	50923
Who is Tony Carmen and what happens to him in the story?	Write a detailed response to the following question about The Expendables by Jim Harmon. Question: Who is Tony Carmen and what happens to him in the story? Answer:	[ "Tony Carmen is a racketeer who threatens Professor Venetti to invent the machine to decompose corpses without leaving any traces. He is also a criminal who does not care about killing people, so he orders Professor Venetti to conduct the machine to wipe off the warehouse and the people inside. It is also implied t...	61171
What is the relationship between Eric and the citizens?	Write a detailed response to the following question about The Beast-Jewel of Mars by V. E. Thiessen. Question: What is the relationship between Eric and the citizens? Answer:	[ "Eric sees the citizens in the most beautiful way and is willing to join them. They, on the contrary, meet him with hatred as they hear his name. The citizens surround and try to attack Eric, they are superstitious and believe him to be the destroyer of the city from the legends. The Elders from the Council send on...	63605
Describe the Grannies, or Granitebacks.	Write a detailed response to the following question about Trouble on Tycho by Nelson S. Bond. Question: Describe the Grannies, or Granitebacks. Answer:	[ "Granitebacks are huge creatures that live on Luna III. Their immense size, hulking form, and impenetrable body make them practically indestructible. As of the beginning of this story, no Grannie had ever been killed. It was also believed that they were unable to hear, lacking ear canals, and potentially intelligen...	62260
Describe what the robots are.	Write a detailed response to the following question about Orphans of the Void by Michael Shaara. Question: Describe what the robots are. Answer:	[ "The robots are the first evidence of an advanced alien race that man has discovered in 300 years of interstellar travel. They are at least a foot shorter than the humans, with an eye-band circling their entire head, bunches of hanging arms, and a gliding type of locomotion. Steffens remarks that they are some of t...	50827
Who is Mr. Michaelson and what is his personality like?	Write a detailed response to the following question about A City Near Centaurus by William R. Doede. Question: Who is Mr. Michaelson and what is his personality like? Answer:	[ "Mr. Michaelson is a determined, tall, gaunt archeologist who enjoys finding artifacts and methodically undergoes the process of discovering and unearthing things, like this dead city on Alpha Centaurus II. His wife died many years ago back on Earth, and he has no children and no friends in the Earth settlement. He...	50802
What is the plot of the story?	Write a detailed response to the following question about Orphans of the Void by Michael Shaara. Question: What is the plot of the story? Answer:	[ "Captain Steffens and his crew, including Lieutenant Ball, are exploring the dead (uninhabited) fourth planet of the star called Tybanon in the Coal Sack Nebula. They are on a Mapping Command sent from Earth to explore new planets, assess them for life-forms and evaluate the ability of human colonization.\nThis pla...	50827
Where does the story take place?	Write a detailed response to the following question about Wanderers of the Wolf Moon by NELSON S. BOND. Question: Where does the story take place? Answer:	[ "\tThe story begins in the control room of J. Foster Andrews’s space yacht the Carefree, and then proceeds to the dining room. Outside of the Carefreem is a dynamic, glittering web of bright violet light, in stark contrast to the typical black of space. \n\tAs the members of the Andrews family and their household s...	63048
What happens to Sergeant Andy McCloud throughout the story?	Write a detailed response to the following question about The Plague by Teddy Keller. Question: What happens to Sergeant Andy McCloud throughout the story? Answer:	[ "Ten days prior to the epidemic, Colonel Patterson retired. He was Sergeant Andy McCloud’s superior, and his replacement has yet to show up. Andy theorizes that the replacement for the lieutenant got caught up in all the red tape, but, at the end of the day, the newly-coined Germ War Protection needed a leader. And...	30062
What is the plot of the story?	Write a detailed response to the following question about Contagion by Katherine MacLean. Question: What is the plot of the story? Answer:	[ "The story begins with the Explorer ship landing on an unknown planet. The ships inhabitants are careful of any potential diseases and so do not readily disembark to explore their new surroundings. Instead, they send a crew of four medical doctors to go on a hunt party to understand the types of pathogens on the pl...	50774
What kind of city Eric finds himself in?	Write a detailed response to the following question about The Beast-Jewel of Mars by V. E. Thiessen. Question: What kind of city Eric finds himself in? Answer:	[ "The city is located on Mars. It was created a long time ago when Mars was flourishing. When most Martians left the planet because of the drought, a small colony remained in this place. Back then a machine, which is the whole city, was created to protect this small group. The machine translates thought into reality...	63605
What is the plot of the story?	Write a detailed response to the following question about Signal Red by Henry Guth. Question: What is the plot of the story? Answer:	[ "Shano is a sickly old man in line to board the space liner Stardust to go home. There is a red signal announcement for the liner, and guests are given an option to receive a refund. Many guests leave after hearing the danger signal, but Shano sticks his ticket into the scanner and moves to get on the liner. Shano ...	63860
What is Celeste's attitude towards other members of her family and how does it change?	Write a detailed response to the following question about Dr. Kometevsky's Day by Fritz Leiber. Question: What is Celeste's attitude towards other members of her family and how does it change? Answer:	[ "From the beginning, Celeste seems to struggle with her complex marriage. She finds it hard to find complete security in three men simultaneously. In a crisis, it’s disturbing for her to have her source of security divided into three. She also cannot accept that Dotty is her daughter because the girl was born from ...	51353
What is the plot of the story?	Write a detailed response to the following question about Dream Town by Henry Slesar. Question: What is the plot of the story? Answer:	[ "The plot follows Sol, a veteran of the U.S. army who, after picking up a hitchhiker on the way to a wedding, gets his car robbed near a small town. He ends up staying in the house of a young family who are kind enough to host him. They are very nice with him, and even offer him breakfast the next morning. As Sol l...	29193
What is the setting for this story?	Write a detailed response to the following question about Aide Memoire by Keith Laumer. Question: What is the setting for this story? Answer:	[ "The story is set entirely on the planet Fust. The native inhabitants of Fust are described as something similar to snapping turtles that walk on their hind legs, and much of the imagery used by Fustians when speaking revolves around themes of the sea and mud. Fust is a peaceful enough world that they don’t even re...	61198
What equipment is employed throughout the story?	Write a detailed response to the following question about Signal Red by Henry Guth. Question: What equipment is employed throughout the story? Answer:	[ "One of the main pieces of equipment used on the Stardust liner is a loudspeaker. The primary role of the speaker is to give out instructions to the crew on the ship and makes any important announcements. The men also use phosphorescent bulbs as a light source to navigate their surroundings when the liner goes into...	63860
What is the setting of the story?	Write a detailed response to the following question about The Hanging Stranger by Philip K. Dick. Question: What is the setting of the story? Answer:	[ "The story happens in Pikeville town and Oak Grove town. The first scene occurs in the town park where the hanged body is. In the park, there is a lamppost, a drinking fountain, and a bench. Under the lamppost, the body is hanged. The second scene is in the car, where Ed has a conversation with the fake police. Whe...	41562
Describe the circumstances that led to Kevin's power not being discovered until he was twenty-six years old.	Write a detailed response to the following question about Jack of No Trades by Evelyn E. Smith. Question: Describe the circumstances that led to Kevin's power not being discovered until he was twenty-six years old. Answer:	[ "n the year 2102, when this story takes place, 95% of the population has psi-powers. Because of the advancement of technology and medicine, physical ailments are easily and quickly remedied. There is even a cure-all that can heal most things, so it is not often that sickness or injury is relevant to life in the soc...	49838
How is the current McGuire version different from the previous versions and why is that important?	Write a detailed response to the following question about His Master's Voice by Randall Garrett. Question: How is the current McGuire version different from the previous versions and why is that important? Answer:	[ "The most recent McGuire is the seventh edition. It is described as being more mobile as it is a spacecraft. It is potentially dangerous because it can move at thousands of miles per second. The most recent version is different from the previous six because it follows Asimov’s famous Three Laws of Robotics more clo...	48513
What is the plot of the story?	Write a detailed response to the following question about The Girls from Fieu Dayol by Robert F. Young. Question: What is the plot of the story? Answer:	[ "Herbert Quidley finds a yellow paper with unintelligible words folded in the book called History of English Literature by Hippolyte Adolphe Taine. After he continues to work, he sees a girl come in, browse randomly, and take Taine’s book. The girl quickly riffles through the book, puts it back on the shelf, and le...	61048
What is the significance of the army in the story?	Write a detailed response to the following question about Soldier Boy by Michael Shaara. Question: What is the significance of the army in the story? Answer:	[ "The army has no respect from the colonists; they don’t want anything to do with it because they associate it with war. The people at this time have been conditioned to despise war and anything to do with it. When they see Captain Dylan standing by his ship and facing the village, they think he is ridiculous or pos...	50848
What is the plot of the story?	Write a detailed response to the following question about THE CREATURES THAT TIME FORGOT by RAY BRADBURY. Question: What is the plot of the story? Answer:	[ "The story begins with Sim being born in a cold cave. He’s wailing with tears while his mom feverishly feeds him. Even though he is a newborn, he interestingly has some self-awareness. Sim looked around the cave and spotted some old people dying in a graphic, grotesque manner. He raged in angst and his mom moved to...	63874
Who are the Thinkers and how are they significant to the story?	Write a detailed response to the following question about Appointment In Tomorrow by Fritz Leiber. Question: Who are the Thinkers and how are they significant to the story? Answer:	[ "The Thinkers are magicians who dominate the current society. When America was in crisis post-World War III, they provided solutions to problems and questions, and acted as a more structured, moral, \"human\" group for leadership than physicists prior. The Thinkers are the creators of Maizie, a brain-like computer ...	51152
Describe Michael and Mary's relationship and their conflicting preferences	Write a detailed response to the following question about The Valley by Richard Stockham. Question: Describe Michael and Mary's relationship and their conflicting preferences Answer:	[ "Michael and Mary are two humans who were sent on an expedition to find a habitable planet elsewhere in the solar system after humans destroyed their own planet during the Atomic Wars, and continued to drive it into the ground through their own greed for resources. Three thousand years after the Wars, the expeditio...	32744
What is the history of POSAT?	Write a detailed response to the following question about What is POSAT? by Phyllis Sterling Smith. Question: What is the history of POSAT? Answer:	[ "The Perpetual Order of Seekers After Truth, POSAT, is an ancient secret society. It was founded by a genius of a man who lived during the Italian Renaissance, roughly 400 years ago. The founder was a mathematician and scientist, and he invented calculus, created the quantum theory of light, and wrote Maxwell’s equ...	51336
What is the relationship between Dark and Sim?	Write a detailed response to the following question about THE CREATURES THAT TIME FORGOT by RAY BRADBURY. Question: What is the relationship between Dark and Sim? Answer:	[ "Dark is the older sister to Sim. When both of their parents die from old age, on the eighth day of their existence, Dark takes over as a carrying role for Sim. She tries her best to impart knowledge to him about friends and enemies. Noticing the interactions Sim is having with other kids his age, she warns him abo...	63874
What is the plot of the story?	Write a detailed response to the following question about The Lost Tribes of Venus by Erik Fennel. Question: What is the plot of the story? Answer:	[ "Engineer Barry Barr is one of the chosen few to ride on Number Three to Venus. His beloved Dorothy Voorhees would have been riding with him, but Barry had a piece of scaffolding drop on his ankle. Unable to make the first flight, Barry hops onto Number Four instead. \nOn the journey to Venus, a small meteor crashe...	63932
What is the significance of Janis's character on the rest of the story?	Write a detailed response to the following question about The Plague by Teddy Keller. Question: What is the significance of Janis's character on the rest of the story? Answer:	[ "In short, without Janis, Sergeant Andrew McCloud would not have discovered the cause of the epidemic as quickly or at all. \n\tNear the end of the story, Janis, an attractive blonde woman, enters Sergeant Andy’s office to deliver another stack of reports before him and Corporal Bettijean. The two of them had been ...	30062
What is the plot of the story?	Write a detailed response to the following question about The Lorelei Death by Nelson S. Bond. Question: What is the plot of the story? Answer:	[ "Chip Warren and his crew of Salvation Smith, a righteous missionary, and Syd Palmer, mechanic, have landed in the Belt on their spaceship Chickadee II after discovering a mountain of ekalastron, a highly sought-after material. Their new fortune is cause for celebration, so Chip picks out a flashy tie, which Syd an...	62039
Describe a flitterboat and when it is used.	Write a detailed response to the following question about His Master's Voice by Randall Garrett. Question: Describe a flitterboat and when it is used. Answer:	[ "A flitterboat is a more economical option than a full spaceship. It is described as having a single gravitoinertial engine. It is meant to have the most basic necessities that are needed for a person to survive their journey, which includes oxygen, water, and the requirement of food necessary. The flitterboat is n...	48513
How does June feel and interact with Patrick Mead?	Write a detailed response to the following question about Contagion by Katherine MacLean. Question: How does June feel and interact with Patrick Mead? Answer:	[ "Upon meeting Patrick, June makes note of his tall frame and how his appearance resembles her own. She seems to admire his looks. She in turn feels guilty as Max, her partner, seems to not compare well to Patrick in her own eyes. She also notes that Max is frailer than Pat. Back on the ship, June admires herself du...	50774
What is the relationship between the Andrews family and those in their employ?	Write a detailed response to the following question about Wanderers of the Wolf Moon by NELSON S. BOND. Question: What is the relationship between the Andrews family and those in their employ? Answer:	[ "Generally, the Andrews family is dismissive of their household staff, which include Gregory Malcolm, ‘Tina Laney, Sparks, and a cabin-boy. J. Foster Andrews, the head of the family, impatiently calls for his secretary, Gregory Malcolm, to complain about the quality of their morning honey. J. Foster learns that Mal...	63048
What is the plot of the story?	Write a detailed response to the following question about Yesterday House by Fritz Leiber. Question: What is the plot of the story? Answer:	[ "Jack Barry is a biology student, who sets sail on his boat \"Annie O\". He has sailed out to the furthest island off the coast of Maine. He gets to the shore and docks his boat. He sets out to explore the island. Once he reaches the summit, he finds that there is another island, connected by a thin line of rocks t...	50905
Why are the newspapers such an important part of the story?	Write a detailed response to the following question about Yesterday House by Fritz Leiber. Question: Why are the newspapers such an important part of the story? Answer:	[ "The newspapers are such an important part of the story because they are an indicator as to the different characters' understanding of the time period. On the island, Mary Alice is surrounded by many items and artefacts to gaslight her into thinking that the year is 1933. These include the old fashioned car and rad...	50905
Describe the setting of the story.	Write a detailed response to the following question about What is POSAT? by Phyllis Sterling Smith. Question: Describe the setting of the story. Answer:	[ "“What is POSAT?” takes place in an unspecified city. Three of the characters, Bill, Elizabeth, and Don, lead ordinary lives and hold typical jobs. Don is a physicist, and the laboratory he works at is located about 100 miles away from the POSAT headquarters. \n\nThe POSAT headquarters is the main setting described...	51336