Novelette
Number of words : 9000
Percent of complex words : 5.7
Average syllables per word : 1.4
Average words per sentence : 10.1
READABILITY INDICES
Fog : 6.3022
Flesch : 81.4052
Flesch-Kincaid : 4.4050
SETTING
Pennsylvania farmhouse
"For eighty-three years it had stood in the green countryside where the shaggy Pennsylvania hills slope down to the meadows of Ohio."
CHARACTERS
Hugh Sherwin
Farmer.
Lucy Sherwin
His wife.
Jane Sherwin
Their small child daughter. Tells her parents a story of angels.
Sam Allerton
A neighbouring farmer.
Richard Allerton
Sam's son. Off with Jane.
Miss Harker
Schoolteacher.
RACES
They
Alien children.
TECHNOLOGY
Crystal
Allows viewing of scenes from other worlds.
PLOT
Two young Pennsylvania children come across some alien kids who have run away, and decide that emulating this to play with them will be fun. When rounded up, the aliens disappear the schoolhouse they are in, so they can have some more fun with the kids. Parents are freaked out about disappeared kids until they find out what has actually been going on.
3.5 out of 5
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Sunday, December 20, 2009
The Queer Ones - Leigh Brackett
Novelette
Number of words : 15000
Percent of complex words : 5.5
Average syllables per word : 1.4
Average words per sentence : 11.2
READABILITY INDICES
Fog : 6.7
Flesch : 79.2
Flesch-Kincaid : 5.0
SETTING
Newhale
A small Appalachian town, a county seat near Buckhorn Mountain.
CHARACTERS
Hank Temple
Newhale newspaper owner and alien discoverer.
Doc Callendar
County Health Officer.
Jim Bossert
Young resident doctor at Newhale.
Sally Tate
Mother of hybrid boy.
Billy Tate
Sally's son.
Mrs. Tate
Sally's mother.
Arnek-Bill Jones
Boy's father. From Hrylliannu.
Vadi
Alien girl Hank finds. A chemist. Disagrees with the others on violence.
Ed Betts
Newhale county sheriff.
Croft
Newhale fire marshal.
Jud
Newhale electrician.
Marlin
An alien.
PLACES
Hyriallanu
Alien world.
PLOT
Billy Tate is brought in to Doctor Callender by his mother, Sally, after he is beaten up. They discover he is not human, and he and Henry Temple the local newspaper owner set out to investigate.
The aliens have a nice illegal immigration by spaceship setup going, and the hospital and Callender are destroyed to protect it.
Temple goes armed, and wants to find Sally Tate, meets an alien girl who gives him more of the story, and sees a ship leave, but the sheriff and other locals do not. Sally is gone.
3.5 out of 5
Number of words : 15000
Percent of complex words : 5.5
Average syllables per word : 1.4
Average words per sentence : 11.2
READABILITY INDICES
Fog : 6.7
Flesch : 79.2
Flesch-Kincaid : 5.0
SETTING
Newhale
A small Appalachian town, a county seat near Buckhorn Mountain.
CHARACTERS
Hank Temple
Newhale newspaper owner and alien discoverer.
Doc Callendar
County Health Officer.
Jim Bossert
Young resident doctor at Newhale.
Sally Tate
Mother of hybrid boy.
Billy Tate
Sally's son.
Mrs. Tate
Sally's mother.
Arnek-Bill Jones
Boy's father. From Hrylliannu.
Vadi
Alien girl Hank finds. A chemist. Disagrees with the others on violence.
Ed Betts
Newhale county sheriff.
Croft
Newhale fire marshal.
Jud
Newhale electrician.
Marlin
An alien.
PLACES
Hyriallanu
Alien world.
PLOT
Billy Tate is brought in to Doctor Callender by his mother, Sally, after he is beaten up. They discover he is not human, and he and Henry Temple the local newspaper owner set out to investigate.
The aliens have a nice illegal immigration by spaceship setup going, and the hospital and Callender are destroyed to protect it.
Temple goes armed, and wants to find Sally Tate, meets an alien girl who gives him more of the story, and sees a ship leave, but the sheriff and other locals do not. Sally is gone.
3.5 out of 5
Saturday, December 19, 2009
Out Of the Sea - Leigh Brackett
Novelette
Number of words : 10000
Percent of complex words : 7.4
Average syllables per word : 1.4
Average words per sentence : 9.0
READABILITY INDICES
Fog : 6.6
Flesch : 76.7
Flesch-Kincaid : 4.8
SETTING
Los Angeles
Fallon is playing volleyball at Santa Monica Beach and girl chasing at the opening, when the attack of sea monsters begins.
West Coast Pacific Ocean
Now full of a lot of sea monsters.
CHARACTERS
Webb Fallon
Out of work reporter and boozer.
Joan Daniels
Woman Fallon meets at the beach while swimming, before they are attacked. Knows Madge, so thinks he is no good to start with.
Einar Bjarnsson
Deep-sea scientific expert and submarine owner.
Kashimo
Japanese leader and unleasher of mutant sea monsters.
Madge
Fallon's ex-girlfriend.
Chuck Weigal
Acquaintance of Fallon's.
ORGANISATIONS
Los Angeles Observer
Newspaper Fallon used to work for.
California Tech
University working on the monster problem.
PLOT
Fallon is playing volleyball and contemplating women in swimsuits towards finding a new girlfriend after being dumped. Suddenly sea monsters attack, and he ends up fighting some off and fleeing with Daniels.
He remembers a recent interview with Bjarnsson, an expert in the area with a small submarine, and goes with Joan to see if something can be done to stop it, given the military is having no success.
Bjarnsson's agenda is unclear, as is which way he will jump, but he venturs out with Fallon after running foul of Kashimo, to decide what to do by putting an end to the source of mutant sea monsters.
3.5 out of 5
Number of words : 10000
Percent of complex words : 7.4
Average syllables per word : 1.4
Average words per sentence : 9.0
READABILITY INDICES
Fog : 6.6
Flesch : 76.7
Flesch-Kincaid : 4.8
SETTING
Los Angeles
Fallon is playing volleyball at Santa Monica Beach and girl chasing at the opening, when the attack of sea monsters begins.
West Coast Pacific Ocean
Now full of a lot of sea monsters.
CHARACTERS
Webb Fallon
Out of work reporter and boozer.
Joan Daniels
Woman Fallon meets at the beach while swimming, before they are attacked. Knows Madge, so thinks he is no good to start with.
Einar Bjarnsson
Deep-sea scientific expert and submarine owner.
Kashimo
Japanese leader and unleasher of mutant sea monsters.
Madge
Fallon's ex-girlfriend.
Chuck Weigal
Acquaintance of Fallon's.
ORGANISATIONS
Los Angeles Observer
Newspaper Fallon used to work for.
California Tech
University working on the monster problem.
PLOT
Fallon is playing volleyball and contemplating women in swimsuits towards finding a new girlfriend after being dumped. Suddenly sea monsters attack, and he ends up fighting some off and fleeing with Daniels.
He remembers a recent interview with Bjarnsson, an expert in the area with a small submarine, and goes with Joan to see if something can be done to stop it, given the military is having no success.
Bjarnsson's agenda is unclear, as is which way he will jump, but he venturs out with Fallon after running foul of Kashimo, to decide what to do by putting an end to the source of mutant sea monsters.
3.5 out of 5
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