The Citadel Of Lost Ships - Leigh Brackett
Novelette
Number of words : 12000
Percent of complex words : 6.2
Average syllables per word : 1.4
Average words per sentence : 9.3
READABILITY INDICES
Fog : 6.2
Flesch : 78.8
Flesch-Kincaid : 4.6
: The Citadel Of Lost Ships - Leigh Brackett
SETTING
Kraylen tribe
Dwindling group of Venusian natives.
Romany settlement
Dwelling for a group of outsiders. Live by a code of helping those who ask for it.
CHARACTERS
Roy Campbell-Thomas Black
Well-known wanted criminal, hides out with the Kraylens and the Romany.
Kraylens
Venusian tribe leader.
Tredrick
Romany Terran overchief.
Eran Mak
Chief Councilor.
Marah
Man with a hook.
Zard
A Romany.
Old Ekla
Romany elder.
Stella Moore
Romany leader.
PLANTS
Liha trees
Venusian tree.
ORGANISATIONS
Spaceguard
Coalition law-enforcement. After Roy Campbell.
Terra-Venusian Coalition Government
Settlement government.
CONCEPTS
Latnik
Someone who is not Romany.
PLACES
Tehara Province
Venusian area.
Lhi
Frontier town in Tehara Province.
Polar Cities
Of Mars.
Kesh
Martian city.
Balakar
Martian city.
Tamboian
Martian city.
Wells of Tamboina
Martian water source.
Martian Mak's
Old trade market in Lhi.
Lhi
Venusian city.
TECHNOLOGY
Needle-gun
Hand weapon.
Infra-beam
Detectors on ships.
VEHICLE
Fitts-Sothern
Small flying craft.
Black Star
Campbell's Fitts-Sothern.
Krub
Type of freighter.
RACES
Drylanders
Martian people.
Shenyat
Ganymede people.
Taxil
Mercurian backwater people.
Baraki
Titanian telekinetic cave dwellers.
Callistans
"Beyond her was a thin, small man with four arms. He wore no clothing but his
own white fur and his head was crowned with feathery antennae. Even in the blue night the antennae and the man's eyes burned living scarlet."
PLOT
Roy Campbell is on the run from the coalition spaceguard, but the Kraylen tribe have little in the way of resources left to hide him as in the past. In fact, they need help. Campbell ends up travelling to the Romany to see if he can find some. They have their own conflicts - those who are traditional, and those who want change and to become more mainstream with money and power. Harboring a criminal has repercussion. The Romany, as with their planet-bound namesakes are a persecuted group. Campbell decides he can better use his infamy by going elsewhere to highlight their plight.
4 out of 5
Number of words : 12000
Percent of complex words : 6.2
Average syllables per word : 1.4
Average words per sentence : 9.3
READABILITY INDICES
Fog : 6.2
Flesch : 78.8
Flesch-Kincaid : 4.6
: The Citadel Of Lost Ships - Leigh Brackett
SETTING
Kraylen tribe
Dwindling group of Venusian natives.
Romany settlement
Dwelling for a group of outsiders. Live by a code of helping those who ask for it.
CHARACTERS
Roy Campbell-Thomas Black
Well-known wanted criminal, hides out with the Kraylens and the Romany.
Kraylens
Venusian tribe leader.
Tredrick
Romany Terran overchief.
Eran Mak
Chief Councilor.
Marah
Man with a hook.
Zard
A Romany.
Old Ekla
Romany elder.
Stella Moore
Romany leader.
PLANTS
Liha trees
Venusian tree.
ORGANISATIONS
Spaceguard
Coalition law-enforcement. After Roy Campbell.
Terra-Venusian Coalition Government
Settlement government.
CONCEPTS
Latnik
Someone who is not Romany.
PLACES
Tehara Province
Venusian area.
Lhi
Frontier town in Tehara Province.
Polar Cities
Of Mars.
Kesh
Martian city.
Balakar
Martian city.
Tamboian
Martian city.
Wells of Tamboina
Martian water source.
Martian Mak's
Old trade market in Lhi.
Lhi
Venusian city.
TECHNOLOGY
Needle-gun
Hand weapon.
Infra-beam
Detectors on ships.
VEHICLE
Fitts-Sothern
Small flying craft.
Black Star
Campbell's Fitts-Sothern.
Krub
Type of freighter.
RACES
Drylanders
Martian people.
Shenyat
Ganymede people.
Taxil
Mercurian backwater people.
Baraki
Titanian telekinetic cave dwellers.
Callistans
"Beyond her was a thin, small man with four arms. He wore no clothing but his
own white fur and his head was crowned with feathery antennae. Even in the blue night the antennae and the man's eyes burned living scarlet."
PLOT
Roy Campbell is on the run from the coalition spaceguard, but the Kraylen tribe have little in the way of resources left to hide him as in the past. In fact, they need help. Campbell ends up travelling to the Romany to see if he can find some. They have their own conflicts - those who are traditional, and those who want change and to become more mainstream with money and power. Harboring a criminal has repercussion. The Romany, as with their planet-bound namesakes are a persecuted group. Campbell decides he can better use his infamy by going elsewhere to highlight their plight.
4 out of 5