Monday, December 21, 2009

Child Of the Green Light - Leigh Brackett

Short Story

Number of words : 7000
Percent of complex words : 6.1
Average syllables per word : 1.4
Average words per sentence : 9.5


READABILITY INDICES

Fog : 6.2569
Flesch : 81.9419
Flesch-Kincaid : 4.1898


CHARACTERS

Son

A man able to live unsupported in space, changed by intersection of universes.

Aona

Woman from another universe.

Ransome

Leader of humans trying to save them.

Dickson

Physicist, killed in space.

Arun

Man from Tethys.

Greenough

Childlike gunnery officer.

Teck

A Martian.



CONCEPTS

The Light

""So it's part of another universe. Diluted by distance, its radiation speeds human metabolism, causing swift age. Concentrated, it changes the human organism into an alien metabolism, alien flesh.

"Slim almost made it through, but his peculiar chemical balance destroyed him. You must be in the same transition stage, but much slower, being passed by the changing of your basic vibratory rate into another space-time continuum."
"

The Veil

Darkness continuum, hiding the Beyond.

The Cloud

Effect that is stopping the human race.


PLACES

Martian Drylands

"men sometimes get what we call esht—desert-fear"


TECHNOLOGY

Elker drive

Starship propulsion.


PLOT

A group of desperate men want to stop the phenomenon destroying the human race. They encounter son, a man changed by contact between universes and see him as a possible miracle last hope. The contact between them is deadly, however.


4 out of 5

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