Novelette
Number of words : 11000
Percent of complex words : 6.4
Average syllables per word : 1.4
Average words per sentence : 10.1
READABILITY INDICES
Fog : 6.6
Flesch : 77.8
Flesch-Kincaid : 4.9
SETTING
The Sea of Morning Opals
An ocean on Venus.
CHARACTERS
Matt Harker
Crusty ship captain.
Rory McLaren
Young man of Matt's crew.
Vila
Rory McLaren's Venusian wife.
Viki
His daughter to be.
Sim Gibbons
Elderly colonist.
Button
Harker's name for a Venusian girl they meet, a telekinetic who is probably part plant.
ANIMALS
Golden Swimmers
Venusian creatures. Possibly part plant. Have claws.
Flower-hounds
Venusian plant-animal hunters.
Leshen
Swamp dragons.
PLOT
Harker leads a crew of newly arrived colonists to Venus by ship, looking for somewhere to settle. Seeing a possibility, he takes McLaren and Gibbons with him to explorer, but encounter some local plant-animal hybrids, both animal and sentient, to lethal but successful consequence.
3.5 out of 5
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