Child Of the Green Light - Leigh Brackett
Short Story
Number of words : 7000
Percent of complex words : 6.1
Average syllables per word : 1.4
Average words per sentence : 9.5
READABILITY INDICES
Fog : 6.2569
Flesch : 81.9419
Flesch-Kincaid : 4.1898
: Child Of the Green Light - Leigh Brackett
CHARACTERS
Son
A man able to live unsupported in space, changed by intersection of universes.
Aona
Woman from another universe.
Ransome
Leader of humans trying to save them.
Dickson
Physicist, killed in space.
Arun
Man from Tethys.
Greenough
Childlike gunnery officer.
Teck
A Martian.
CONCEPTS
The Light
""So it's part of another universe. Diluted by distance, its radiation speeds human metabolism, causing swift age. Concentrated, it changes the human organism into an alien metabolism, alien flesh.
"Slim almost made it through, but his peculiar chemical balance destroyed him. You must be in the same transition stage, but much slower, being passed by the changing of your basic vibratory rate into another space-time continuum."
"
The Veil
Darkness continuum, hiding the Beyond.
The Cloud
Effect that is stopping the human race.
PLACES
Martian Drylands
"men sometimes get what we call esht-desert-fear"
TECHNOLOGY
Elker drive
Starship propulsion.
PLOT
A group of desperate men want to stop the phenomenon destroying the human race. They encounter son, a man changed by contact between universes and see him as a possible miracle last hope. The contact between them is deadly, however.
4 out of 5
Number of words : 7000
Percent of complex words : 6.1
Average syllables per word : 1.4
Average words per sentence : 9.5
READABILITY INDICES
Fog : 6.2569
Flesch : 81.9419
Flesch-Kincaid : 4.1898
: Child Of the Green Light - Leigh Brackett
CHARACTERS
Son
A man able to live unsupported in space, changed by intersection of universes.
Aona
Woman from another universe.
Ransome
Leader of humans trying to save them.
Dickson
Physicist, killed in space.
Arun
Man from Tethys.
Greenough
Childlike gunnery officer.
Teck
A Martian.
CONCEPTS
The Light
""So it's part of another universe. Diluted by distance, its radiation speeds human metabolism, causing swift age. Concentrated, it changes the human organism into an alien metabolism, alien flesh.
"Slim almost made it through, but his peculiar chemical balance destroyed him. You must be in the same transition stage, but much slower, being passed by the changing of your basic vibratory rate into another space-time continuum."
"
The Veil
Darkness continuum, hiding the Beyond.
The Cloud
Effect that is stopping the human race.
PLACES
Martian Drylands
"men sometimes get what we call esht-desert-fear"
TECHNOLOGY
Elker drive
Starship propulsion.
PLOT
A group of desperate men want to stop the phenomenon destroying the human race. They encounter son, a man changed by contact between universes and see him as a possible miracle last hope. The contact between them is deadly, however.
4 out of 5