Short Story
Number of words : 7000
Percent of complex words : 5.1
Average syllables per word : 1.4
Average words per sentence : 10.4
READABILITY INDICES
Fog : 6.2
Flesch : 81.8
Flesch-Kincaid : 4.44
CHARACTERS
Matt Winslow
Husband and father, brother of Fred.
Lucille Winslow
His wife.
Josh Winslow
His son.
Barbie Winslow
His daughter.
Uncle Fred
Army man who has been on Mars.
RACES
Tweener-John Carter
Uncle Fred brings one back to the Winslows: "On a mat of red sand and dry lichens a thing was crouching, a neat furry thing about the size of a big rabbit and not unlike one in outline, except that its ears were cup-shaped, and except that its coat was mottled in the exact rust red and greenish gray of the native sand and lichens."
PLOT
Uncle Fred brings the Winslows back a Martian creature that is more than an animal. Otherwise defenseless it has mental powers that can badly affect the human mind. The kids think of it as a pet, and are sad when it has escaped, and the adults let them think that a dog actually got it.
3.5 out of 5
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Saturday, December 19, 2009
All the Colors Of the Rainbow - Leigh Brackett
Novelette
Number of words : 9000
Percent of complex words : 7.0
Average syllables per word : 1.4
Average words per sentence : 12.9
READABILITY INDICES
Fog : 8.0
Flesch : 75.0
Flesch-Kincaid : 6.0
SETTING
Grand Falls
Racist, redneck USA town.
CHARACTERS
Flin
Mintakan weather control expert, working on Earth leading a team.
Ruvi
Part of Flin's team, and his mate.
Judge Shaw
Grand Falls authority.
Jed
Grand Falls resident who leads the attacks on Flin and Ruvi.
Reverend Tibbs
Grand Falls preacher.
Mr Nellis
Grand Falls resident.
Sam
Grand Falls resident.
Mike
One of Jed's band of attackers.
Sherbondy
Federation diplomat.
ORGANISATIONS
Peripheral Survey
Group whose job it is to make contact with fringe worlds like Earth.
Federation
Group of allied worlds.
Galactic Center
Political seat of the Federation.
TECHNOLOGY
Miniseeders
Weather control devices.
PLOT
Flin and Ruvi are a pair, two of Flin's team of weather control experts from the Federation, sent to backwater world Earth.
While working they are travelling, and stop at Grand Falls for the night looking for accomodation. The town is completely racist, and the two aliens are green, so they are refused any hospitality. In fact, they are attacked, in more minor fashion, and run off the road when they leave town. Jed leads a group of thugs who attack them, and rape Ruvi.
That is where it stops, and the Governor and President are forced to apologise, but the town closes ranks to cover it up, led by Judge Shaw.
Before returning home, an angry Flin pays one last visit to Grand Forks, taking two miniseeders with him.
4 out of 5
Number of words : 9000
Percent of complex words : 7.0
Average syllables per word : 1.4
Average words per sentence : 12.9
READABILITY INDICES
Fog : 8.0
Flesch : 75.0
Flesch-Kincaid : 6.0
SETTING
Grand Falls
Racist, redneck USA town.
CHARACTERS
Flin
Mintakan weather control expert, working on Earth leading a team.
Ruvi
Part of Flin's team, and his mate.
Judge Shaw
Grand Falls authority.
Jed
Grand Falls resident who leads the attacks on Flin and Ruvi.
Reverend Tibbs
Grand Falls preacher.
Mr Nellis
Grand Falls resident.
Sam
Grand Falls resident.
Mike
One of Jed's band of attackers.
Sherbondy
Federation diplomat.
ORGANISATIONS
Peripheral Survey
Group whose job it is to make contact with fringe worlds like Earth.
Federation
Group of allied worlds.
Galactic Center
Political seat of the Federation.
TECHNOLOGY
Miniseeders
Weather control devices.
PLOT
Flin and Ruvi are a pair, two of Flin's team of weather control experts from the Federation, sent to backwater world Earth.
While working they are travelling, and stop at Grand Falls for the night looking for accomodation. The town is completely racist, and the two aliens are green, so they are refused any hospitality. In fact, they are attacked, in more minor fashion, and run off the road when they leave town. Jed leads a group of thugs who attack them, and rape Ruvi.
That is where it stops, and the Governor and President are forced to apologise, but the town closes ranks to cover it up, led by Judge Shaw.
Before returning home, an angry Flin pays one last visit to Grand Forks, taking two miniseeders with him.
4 out of 5
Mommies and Daddies - Leigh Brackett
Short Story
Number of words : 4000
Percent of complex words : 5.9
Average syllables per word : 1.4
Average words per sentence : 12.4
Fog : 7.3
Flesch : 78.3
Flesch-Kincaid : 5.4
SETTING
The Institute for Congenital Addiction
Home for children - the Junkys. Known as Junkyville by the hunters. Is not stated as to where it is, somewhere on future dystopic Earth is the implication, and Western and likely USA given Brackett's inclinations.
Foundling Home
A different home for children.
CHARACTERS
Deke
A boy that escapes from the institute, and wants to join the Wild Ones and be in the upper echelon.
Stella
A hunter that meets Deke.
Chad
The Wild Ones chief that takes Deke on.
Tell
An institute escapee.
John
An institute escapee.
Sara
An institute escapee.
Matron
Official at the Institute.
Mr Timmins
Teacher at the Institute.
ORGANISATIONS
Free Peoples
Those living outside authority, desperate and victims.
The Wild Ones
Top of the gang pecking order.
Foundlings
Lower tier gangs of the abandoned.
Junkies
The lowest of the low. Children of addicts.
PLOT
A boy escapes from a strictly controlled home for abandoned children of drug abusers, and sets out to join a gang and strike back. The leaders of these organisations take recruits and train them to hunt and kill adults as revenge.
4 out of 5
Number of words : 4000
Percent of complex words : 5.9
Average syllables per word : 1.4
Average words per sentence : 12.4
Fog : 7.3
Flesch : 78.3
Flesch-Kincaid : 5.4
SETTING
The Institute for Congenital Addiction
Home for children - the Junkys. Known as Junkyville by the hunters. Is not stated as to where it is, somewhere on future dystopic Earth is the implication, and Western and likely USA given Brackett's inclinations.
Foundling Home
A different home for children.
CHARACTERS
Deke
A boy that escapes from the institute, and wants to join the Wild Ones and be in the upper echelon.
Stella
A hunter that meets Deke.
Chad
The Wild Ones chief that takes Deke on.
Tell
An institute escapee.
John
An institute escapee.
Sara
An institute escapee.
Matron
Official at the Institute.
Mr Timmins
Teacher at the Institute.
ORGANISATIONS
Free Peoples
Those living outside authority, desperate and victims.
The Wild Ones
Top of the gang pecking order.
Foundlings
Lower tier gangs of the abandoned.
Junkies
The lowest of the low. Children of addicts.
PLOT
A boy escapes from a strictly controlled home for abandoned children of drug abusers, and sets out to join a gang and strike back. The leaders of these organisations take recruits and train them to hunt and kill adults as revenge.
4 out of 5
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