Novella
Number of words : 20000
Percent of complex words : 6.0
Average syllables per word : 1.4
Average words per sentence : 11.3
READABILITY INDICES
Fog : 6.9
Flesch : 80.2
Flesch-Kincaid : 4.9
SETTING
The Citadel
Future Earth, postapocalytpic, with aliens. Place of power in New York, near the Palisades. ""Sunk a half mile deep in solid rock—area larger than the Empire State Building—lined and reinforced with steel—earthquake-proof, floodproof—heat and air supplied by sea!ed atomic generators with an efficiency period of five thousand years .. .""
Temple of Eternal Night
Numi religious structure.
The Desert Gate
Through which you must go to reach The Citadel.
CHARACTERS
Fenway-Fenn
Sleeper and prisoner that awakens with a dodgy memory and important technological knowledge.
Arika
Girl that Fenway knows. Half-blood Numi.
Malech
Arika's brother, but takes after his Numi side.
RhamSin
Jailor of Fenn and Numi religious leader.
Lannar
Outlaw leader.
RACES
Numi
Race of aliens, their names means New Men.
CONCEPTS
The Great Dark
Term for static diurnal planet.
The Destruction
Term for the damage caused by the Dark Star passing earth.
PLOT
Fenway awakes in the future dominated by the New Men. (They may be aliens, may be a mutation caused by an Earth changed by astronomoical calamity) and meets Arika, a half-breed, again. Also her brother. Fenn knows if he can remember how to get to The Citadel. A place in New York where humans stored examplars of technology and techniques for future survival, post Destruction.
The Numi leader RhamSin is also interested in this, but Fenn finds aid in an outlaw band-but the divided loyalties of the half-breed siblings cause problems. Once at The Citadel Fenn has the advantage because of his knowledge of the tech, if he can remember the deadly uses.
4 out of 5
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