The Big Hello - Alastair Reynolds
Vignette
Number of words : 950
Percent of complex words : 12.0
Average syllables per word : 1.5
Average words per sentence : 18.0
READABILITY INDICES
Fog : 12.0
Flesch : 59.5
Flesch-Kincaid : 9.4
ORGANISATIONS
Galactic Information Network
Has lots of spam etc.
Galactic Community
Everybody out there.
TECHNOLOGY
Four billion billion Megawatts
One percent of the energy output of the G-type star your planet orbits!
Primer Package
Intergalactic malware.
Orion Arm Router
Sometimes down.
PLACES
M13 globular cluster in Hercules
Too dodgy to talk to.
CONCEPTS
Dyson conversions
Making your Solar System a big sphere around the sun. Not a good idea for humans.
PLOT
A big old space spam and malware trap, maybe with tips. In Hitchhiker's Guide To the Galaxy style.
4 out of 5
http://web.archive.org/web/20071229180848/http://www.alastairreynolds.com/bighello.html
Number of words : 950
Percent of complex words : 12.0
Average syllables per word : 1.5
Average words per sentence : 18.0
READABILITY INDICES
Fog : 12.0
Flesch : 59.5
Flesch-Kincaid : 9.4
ORGANISATIONS
Galactic Information Network
Has lots of spam etc.
Galactic Community
Everybody out there.
TECHNOLOGY
Four billion billion Megawatts
One percent of the energy output of the G-type star your planet orbits!
Primer Package
Intergalactic malware.
Orion Arm Router
Sometimes down.
PLACES
M13 globular cluster in Hercules
Too dodgy to talk to.
CONCEPTS
Dyson conversions
Making your Solar System a big sphere around the sun. Not a good idea for humans.
PLOT
A big old space spam and malware trap, maybe with tips. In Hitchhiker's Guide To the Galaxy style.
4 out of 5
http://web.archive.org/web/20071229180848/http://www.alastairreynolds.com/bighello.html