Novelette
Number of words : 15000
Percent of complex words : 9.0
Average syllables per word : 1.5
Average words per sentence : 10.5
READABILITY INDICES
Fog : 7.8
Flesch : 72.7
Flesch-Kincaid : 5.7
SETTING
Los Angeles
Anthony Reid lives here with his family and unhappily works as an accountant.
Venus
Reid chucks it all in and heads for another planet.
CHARACTERS
Anthony Reid-Joseph Rucker
Accountant that decides to bail out and go to Venus.
Tony Reid
His son.
Phyllis Reid
His daughter.
Fern Reid
His wife.
Mr Jennings
Boss of Jennings Accounting Services.
George Grosset
Friend of Reid's in Los Angeles.
Bill Stocker
Fellow employee.
Dr Eckworth
His psychiatrist.
Crider
Runs a criminal labor operation on Venus.
Holfern
Worker on Venus.
Linson
Worker on Venus.
Everett
Worker on Venus.
Dr Hinojosa
State shrink.
Mr Horst
Immigration officer.
Dr. Buerhle
Madhouse resident doctor.
Mr. Haggerty
Fellow inmate.
Perez
Fellow inmate.
ORGANISATIONS
Jennings Accounting Services
Reid's employer.
Anglo-Martian Enterprises
A company account.
Crider Mining Company
A standover merchant.
TECHNOLOGY
Plastibrik
Building materials.
Solaray
Building materials, glass.
PLOT
Anthony Reid is an accountant with a family in Los Angeles. He has an existential crisis and chucks it all in and heads for Venus. He discovers the current situation there is no better, and in fact with dangerous conditions and a lot of desperate men, no place for someone to be that chose to be there.
He ends up in a mental institution, trying to reorient, along with some in simlar situations.
4 out of 5
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