The Stellar Legion - Leigh Brackett

Short Story

Number of words : 6000
Percent of complex words : 8.3
Average syllables per word : 1.5
Average words per sentence : 11.3

READABILITY INDICES

Fog : 7.9
Flesch : 72.1
Flesch-Kincaid : 6.0


SETTING

Interworld Legion fort

An outpost to defend colonists from the local tribes of Venus.


CHARACTERS

Lehn

Venusian Commandant.

Ian MacIan

Earthman, Legionnaire. Scotsman, ex-Terran Guards officer.

Thekla

Martian low-canaler, Legionnaire and traitor.

Bhak

Titanian strangler, Legionnaire.



ORGANISATIONS

The Interworld Legion

A bunch of sweaty misfit soldiers from multiple worlds.


RACES

Nahali

Venusian swamp-dwellers.


PLACES

Jekkara

Martian low-canal city.


TECHNOLOGY

Venusian piano

Has three tiers.

Electro gun

Hand weapon.


ANIMALS

Swamp rats

Ruby eyed Venusian creature with iridescent scales. Electrified.


PLOT

MacIan is an ex-Terran Guardsmen who got a couple of thousand men under his command slaughtered, he thinks, so he quit and went the Legion route. A fellow soldier, Thekla, has a plot to get rid of him and discredit the local commander. The pair of them and another soldier have gone out on a patrol. MacIan has to avoid getting fried by Venusian swamp rats to reveal the scheme.


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