All the Colors Of the Rainbow - Leigh Brackett

Novelette

Number of words : 9000
Percent of complex words : 7.0
Average syllables per word : 1.4
Average words per sentence : 12.9


READABILITY INDICES

Fog : 8.0
Flesch : 75.0
Flesch-Kincaid : 6.0



SETTING

Grand Falls

Racist, redneck USA town.


CHARACTERS

Flin

Mintakan weather control expert, working on Earth leading a team.

Ruvi

Part of Flin's team, and his mate.

Judge Shaw

Grand Falls authority.

Jed

Grand Falls resident who leads the attacks on Flin and Ruvi.

Reverend Tibbs

Grand Falls preacher.

Mr Nellis

Grand Falls resident.

Sam

Grand Falls resident.

Mike

One of Jed's band of attackers.

Sherbondy

Federation diplomat.


ORGANISATIONS

Peripheral Survey

Group whose job it is to make contact with fringe worlds like Earth.

Federation

Group of allied worlds.

Galactic Center

Political seat of the Federation.

TECHNOLOGY

Miniseeders

Weather control devices.


PLOT

Flin and Ruvi are a pair, two of Flin's team of weather control experts from the Federation, sent to backwater world Earth.

While working they are travelling, and stop at Grand Falls for the night looking for accomodation. The town is completely racist, and the two aliens are green, so they are refused any hospitality. In fact, they are attacked, in more minor fashion, and run off the road when they leave town. Jed leads a group of thugs who attack them, and rape Ruvi.

That is where it stops, and the Governor and President are forced to apologise, but the town closes ranks to cover it up, led by Judge Shaw.

Before returning home, an angry Flin pays one last visit to Grand Forks, taking two miniseeders with him.


4 out of 5