Novelette
Number of words : 14900
Percent of complex words : 6.0
Average syllables per word : 1.4
Average words per sentence : 12.1
READABILITY INDICES
Fog : 7.2
Flesch : 78.6
Flesch-Kincaid : 5.3
CHARACTERS
Burk Winters
An ex-space officer, looking for his Shanga addicted ex-girlfriend.
Johnny Niles
A young ship officer, shipmater of Winters.
Kor Hal
Head of the Shanga organisation.
Jill Leland
Winters' lost old girlfriend.
Halk
Keshi assistant of Hal's.
Fand
She is a Shanga and Valkis ruler.
VEHICLES
Starflight
The ship Winters and Niles were on.
Flatcars
Ground transport.
PLACES
Kahora
Martian Trade City.
Vhia
Venusian city.
N'York
Earth city.
Sun City
Mercurian city in the Twilight Belt.
Glassite Refuges
Outer Worlds population centres.
Tri-Planet
A Kahoran hotel.
Jekkara
Martian Low Canal city.
Valkis
Martian Low Canal city, also site of the Shanga operation and Kings.
Barrakesh
Martian Low Canal city.
Kesh
Barbarian region of Mars.
Phobos
Martian moon.
Caer Dhu
Ancient Martian city where Shanga was invented.
TECHNOLOGY
Shanga
The going back drug. Reverts people to a primitive state.
Neuro-psychic therapy
Mental adjustment technique on Mars for stress relief.
CONCEPTS
High Martian
Ancient Martian language.
Pithecanthropus Erectus
Early Terran ancestor.
ORGANISATIONS
Kings of Valkis
Ancient Martian rulers.
PLOT
Winters quits the ship he is on to go back to the Shanga organisation on Mars, to try and find Leland, an old lover. The going back drug tempts him with its primitive animalistic reversion and life.
A negotiation and large payment leads him to Valkis and the woman in charge. A fanatic of the Martian old ways - and happy to see Terrans disgrace themselves, especially for sport.
Winters tries to do something about this, and does find Leland. He instigates a conflict between the Shanga beasts and their guards, allowing the pair to escape, but wondering if they can truly get away from the drug, or if it can be stamped out.
4 out of 5
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