The Calorie Man - Paolo Bacigalupi
Novelette
Number of words : 11700
Percent of complex words : 9.0
Average syllables per word : 1.5
Average words per sentence : 10.0
READABILITY INDICES
Fog : 7.6
Flesch : 71.6
Flesch-Kincaid : 5.8
PEOPLE
Lalji
Small time calorie river pirate, looking to make a deal.
Shriram
Runs an energy business and plays chess with Lalji.
Creo
Lalji's business partner.
Charles Bowman
The calorie man. Going to be the next Johnny Appleseed.
Gita
Lalji's girlfriend.
Tazi
A young ward of Bowman's, she helps him.
TECHNOLOGY
WeatherAll
A building material.
Kink-springs
Wound by animals to supply energy.
Salwar Kameez
Indian Clothing.
PLANTS
SoyPRO
Proprietary crop.
HiGro
Proprietary crop.
TotalNutrient
Proprietary wheat crop.
SuperFlavour
Feed for Megadonts.
Fast-Gen
A type of hardwood.
ORGANISATIONS
PurCAL
A calorie company.
AgriGEN
An energy company.
Ganesha Kinetic
An energy business.
U-Tex
A calorie company.
Midwest Growers Group
A calorie company.
ANIMALS
Mulies
Bred to help produce power.
Megadont
Large animals like elephants that a bred to work to produce power.
Priti and Bidi
Megadonts.
Nippon genehack weevil
A crop killer.
Cheshire
A shimmering catlike pest that needs a lot of shooting.
Curl.111.b
A crop killer.
Cibiscosis bacterium
A crop killer.
Leafcurl rust
A crop killer.
FOOD
Betel
A nut used as a drug.
Basmati
A type of rice.
CONCEPT
Generipper
A scientist specialising in genetic modifications.
Lakshmi
An Indian deity.
Arjuna
Mythological Indian hero.
Ganesha
Indian Elephant god.
Diwali
Indian holiday.
Bollywood
Indian film industry.
Krishna
Indian deity.
Ram
Indian deity.
Hanuman
Indian deity.
Sadhu
An Indian mystic.
Kali
Indian deity.
Rani Sati
Indian deity.
PLACES
Mississippi, Missouri, Ohio, Illinois
American rivers.
Ganges
An Indian river.
St Louis
USA City.
New Orleans
USA City.
Chennai
Indian city.
WEAPONS
Spring gun
Kinetic weapon that shoots disks.
VEHICLES
Needleboat
Lalji's river craft.
PLOT
Lalji and Creo work the rivers in the USA, looking to get buy in this world of biologically supplied calories as energy and proprietary crops that don't breed.
A generipper wants to hire Lalji to transport him to where he can seed the current mass crops with additional seeds that will make them fecund again - and given these companies and crops supply the world, it will spread rapidly. He also has a young charge.
Lalji reluctantly agrees to take both of them, but they run into trouble, in an armed IP police boat, and they realise who Bowman the generipper is. A shootout happens, leaving only Lalji and the girl Tazi alive. Disposing of the bodies, they decide to move on, and the girl reveals that the food supply they brought is actually this new seed variety. So even with Bowman dead they can still carry out his task.
5 out of 5
Number of words : 11700
Percent of complex words : 9.0
Average syllables per word : 1.5
Average words per sentence : 10.0
READABILITY INDICES
Fog : 7.6
Flesch : 71.6
Flesch-Kincaid : 5.8
PEOPLE
Lalji
Small time calorie river pirate, looking to make a deal.
Shriram
Runs an energy business and plays chess with Lalji.
Creo
Lalji's business partner.
Charles Bowman
The calorie man. Going to be the next Johnny Appleseed.
Gita
Lalji's girlfriend.
Tazi
A young ward of Bowman's, she helps him.
TECHNOLOGY
WeatherAll
A building material.
Kink-springs
Wound by animals to supply energy.
Salwar Kameez
Indian Clothing.
PLANTS
SoyPRO
Proprietary crop.
HiGro
Proprietary crop.
TotalNutrient
Proprietary wheat crop.
SuperFlavour
Feed for Megadonts.
Fast-Gen
A type of hardwood.
ORGANISATIONS
PurCAL
A calorie company.
AgriGEN
An energy company.
Ganesha Kinetic
An energy business.
U-Tex
A calorie company.
Midwest Growers Group
A calorie company.
ANIMALS
Mulies
Bred to help produce power.
Megadont
Large animals like elephants that a bred to work to produce power.
Priti and Bidi
Megadonts.
Nippon genehack weevil
A crop killer.
Cheshire
A shimmering catlike pest that needs a lot of shooting.
Curl.111.b
A crop killer.
Cibiscosis bacterium
A crop killer.
Leafcurl rust
A crop killer.
FOOD
Betel
A nut used as a drug.
Basmati
A type of rice.
CONCEPT
Generipper
A scientist specialising in genetic modifications.
Lakshmi
An Indian deity.
Arjuna
Mythological Indian hero.
Ganesha
Indian Elephant god.
Diwali
Indian holiday.
Bollywood
Indian film industry.
Krishna
Indian deity.
Ram
Indian deity.
Hanuman
Indian deity.
Sadhu
An Indian mystic.
Kali
Indian deity.
Rani Sati
Indian deity.
PLACES
Mississippi, Missouri, Ohio, Illinois
American rivers.
Ganges
An Indian river.
St Louis
USA City.
New Orleans
USA City.
Chennai
Indian city.
WEAPONS
Spring gun
Kinetic weapon that shoots disks.
VEHICLES
Needleboat
Lalji's river craft.
PLOT
Lalji and Creo work the rivers in the USA, looking to get buy in this world of biologically supplied calories as energy and proprietary crops that don't breed.
A generipper wants to hire Lalji to transport him to where he can seed the current mass crops with additional seeds that will make them fecund again - and given these companies and crops supply the world, it will spread rapidly. He also has a young charge.
Lalji reluctantly agrees to take both of them, but they run into trouble, in an armed IP police boat, and they realise who Bowman the generipper is. A shootout happens, leaving only Lalji and the girl Tazi alive. Disposing of the bodies, they decide to move on, and the girl reveals that the food supply they brought is actually this new seed variety. So even with Bowman dead they can still carry out his task.
5 out of 5