Interplanetary Reporter - Leigh Brackett

Short Story

Number of words : 7000
Percent of complex words : 7.7
Average syllables per word : 1.5
Average words per sentence : 9.9


READABILITY INDICES

Fog : 7.1
Flesch : 74.1
Flesch-Kincaid : 5.4





SETTING

Vhia

Trade City of Venus.

CHARACTERS

Chris Barton

Ex I.P. Reporter on Venus.

John Sanger

Head of I.P. on Venus.

Bobby Lancer

Another reporter.

Kei Volhan

Socialite adventuress of Vhia.


ORGANISATIONS

I.P.

Interplanetary Press.

Venusian Space Committee

Regulate spaceflight.


VEHICLES

Stellar Queen

Liner coming to Venus.

Fitts-Sothern

Type of small ship.


CONCEPTS

Martian World War

Conflict in 2504.

Jovian Mandate

Allocates territory to Jupiter, including water-rich asteroids.

Dark Invasion

Conflict on Earth.


TECHNOLOGY

Atomic heat ray

Ship weapon.


PLOT

Chris Barton is a disillusioned journalist, sick of the media and war, especially when he finds out that a dodgy deal between Mars and Jupiter over water in an interplanetary war. This will see Vhia annihilated in a sneak bombing attack designed to lay blame elsewhere.

Coming across a glamorous adventuress and teaming up with a still employed IP reporter they fly out in opposition to try and stop it and get the story out.


3.5 out of 5