The Sorcerer of Rhiannon - Leigh Brackett

Novelette

Number of words : 10000
Percent of complex words : 7.5
Average syllables per word : 1.4
Average words per sentence : 11.4


READABILITY INDICES

Fog : 7.6
Flesch : 74.1
Flesch-Kincaid : 5.8





CHARACTERS

Max Brandon

A grave-robber. Or adventurous explorer, depending on who you ask.

Jarthur

Head of the Society for the Preservation of Martian Relics.

Sylvia Eustace

Wants to marry Brandon. A bit of an adventurer herself.

Dhu Kar

Venusian. Brandon's rival.

Tobul

Lord of the Seven Kingdoms. Dead.

Kymra

Tobul's rival.


ORGANISATIONS

Society for the Preservation of Martian Relics

Respecters of Martian culture.


RACES

Prira Cen

The Blue Hairs, the oldest race of Mars.

Sorcerers of the Lost Islands

Rulers of Mars 40,000 years ago.


PLACES

Rhiannon

Place where the Lost Sorcerers ruled.

Lost Islands

Sorcerer hangout.

Phobos

Moon of Mars.


TECHNOLOGY

Circlet

Allows one of the dead minds to control a body.


WEAPONS

Needle gun

Handgun.

Projector

Can finish off one of these dead minds.

Prism

A negative energy device of destruction.


PLOT

Max Brandon is a charismatic archaeologic of questionable ethics, that ends up in trouble in the desert. He is looking for the Lost Islands of Rhiannon, where the ancient Sorcerer race dwells.

He gets more than he bargained for when he is possessed by a dead sorcerer, thanks to good old-fashioned super science crown. Even worse, the woman who wants to make an honest man of him is also taken by Tobul's arch enemy of another race.

Super science destruction looms, until a rival archaeologist arrives and they decide to make a deal - two ancient Martian figures with a body sharing arrangement could make a differenc for Mars.


3.5 out of 5