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As at July 28 A Wave Blue World – Adrenaline 1 A Wave Blue World – American Terrorist 1 AAM-Markosia – Midnight Kiss 1 AAM-Markosia – Kong King of Skull Island 0 (of 5) AAM-Markosia – Dark Mists 1 (of 4) AAM-Markosia – Reya 0 AAM-Markosia – From the Pages of Bram Stoker’s Dracula Harker [...]
To follow on, here’s a list of what this publisher is generous enough to provide :- As at July 28 Abe Sapien-Abe Sapien The Drowning 1 B.P.R.D.-1-B.P.R.D. Plague of Frogs 1 B.P.R.D.-B.P.R.D. Plague of Frogs 1 Beasts of Burden-Beasts of Burden 1 Conan-1-Conan 0 Conan the Legend Conan-Conan 0 Conan the Legend Criminal Macabre-Criminal Macabre [...]
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As at July 26 12-Gauge Comics-25 To Life-1 12-Gauge Comics-Magus-1 12-Gauge Comics-R.P.M.-1 1821 Comics-Zedura Magazine-q2-2010 1821 Comics-Zedura Magazine-q3-2010 215ink-Breakneck-1 215ink-Catalepsy-1 215ink-GCD: The Demo-1 215ink-Kuzimu-1-yowa 215ink-Laluelle-envisioned 215ink-Massive Awesome-1 215ink-The Stumptown Files: Vic Boone-1 215ink-Warped V1-1 215ink-Warped V1-2 215ink-Warped V1-3 215ink-Warped V1-4 215ink-Warped V1-5 Across The Pond-Iron Ghost-1 Andy Moore Designs-Don’t Panic!-1 Andy Moore Designs-Don’t Panic!-2 Andy [...]
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Note changes : Free SF Reader List updated :- http://freesf.strandedinoz.com/freesflist.html Not Free SF Reader List updated : – http://freesf.strandedinoz.com/notfreesflist.html Blogger continues to go downhill, deleting people’s blogs at random. Blogger has done their bizarre autopagination thing so that you can’t reliably download archives anymore. You also can’t export a blog bigger than 5000 posts. So [...]
Note changes : Free SF Reader List updated :- http://freesf.strandedinoz.com/freesflist.html Not Free SF Reader List updated : – http://freesf.strandedinoz.com/notfreesflist.html Blogger continues to go downhill, deleting people’s blogs at random. Blogger has done their bizarre autopagination thing so that you can’t reliably download archives anymore. You also can’t export a blog bigger than 5000 posts. So [...]
BEYOND 32000 – The 2010 Fiction Season Short Game by Score In the Short Game, you only need 5 works to qualify. In the fiction game, the short form only includes short stories, no excerpts, serials, poetry or non-fiction to be found here. Asimov might still get to 250 sometime, and Rusch will make 150. [...]
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Novella Number of words : 31000 Percent of complex words : 11.3 Average syllables per word : 1.5 Average words per sentence : 22.7 READABILITY INDICES Fog : 13.6 Flesch : 54.4 Flesch-Kincaid : 11.3 PEOPLE Ana Alvardo An ex-zookeeper and now software trainer and tester working with digients at Blue Gamma until they fold. [...]
Continue reading about The Lifecycle of Software Objects – Ted Chiang
Number of words : 26000 Percent of complex words : 9.7 Average syllables per word : 1.5 Average words per sentence : 11.5 READABILITY INDICES Fog : 8.5 Flesch : 70.4 Flesch-Kincaid : 6.3 PEOPLE Dimitri Ivanov A cosmonaut from the Tereshkova that met the Matryoshka. Institutionalised escapee. Galenka Makarova A fellow cosmonaut of Ivanov’s. [...]
If an actual director and film company with a clue had the rights to the movie when a certain actress was in her prime, we might have had tie-in editions like this :-
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If an actual director and film company with a clue had the rights to the movie when a certain actress was in her prime, we might have had tie-in editions like this :-
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Novella Number of words : 17700 Percent of complex words : 16.0 Average syllables per word : 1.7 Average words per sentence : 14.4 READABILITY INDICES Fog : 12.2 Flesch : 52.7 Flesch-Kincaid : 9.5 PEOPLE Robert Stratton A maker of automata through new methods. Victoria The queen. Master Trevalyn Robert’s teacher. Langdale, Thorburn, Halliwell [...]
Short Story Number of words : 1900 Percent of complex words : 13.3 Average syllables per word : 1.6 Average words per sentence : 14.3 READABILITY INDICES Fog : 11.0 Flesch : 58.4 Flesch-Kincaid : 8.7 PEOPLE Nico A new recruit. Instructor A veteran sergeant. RACES Lizards Reptile servant antagonists. Puppet Masters AI overlords. TECHNOLOGY [...]
Short Story Number of words : 4800 Percent of complex words : 10.2 Average syllables per word : 1.5 Average words per sentence : 14.5 READABILITY INDICES Fog : 9.9 Flesch : 65.3 Flesch-Kincaid : 7.8 PEOPLE Raoul The next in line ship-fixer. Branco Formantera crewman who died in very unlikely circumstanes. Captain Luarca Of [...]
Novelette Number of words : 12800 Percent of complex words : 12.7 Average syllables per word : 1.6 Average words per sentence : 17.3 READABILITY INDICES Fog : 12.9 Flesch : 57.3 Flesch-Kincaid : 9.6 PEOPLE Tamera Lyons A first year student at Pembleton and a user of calliagnosia. Maria deSouza Third-year student, President of [...]
Continue reading about Liking What You See: A Documentary – Ted Chiang
Novelette Number of words : 11000 Percent of complex words : 13.3 Average syllables per word : 1.6 Number of sentences : 490 Average words per sentence : 22.4 READABILITY INDICES Fog : 14.3 Flesch : 52.9 Flesch-Kincaid : 11.4 PEOPLE Neil Fisk Born with a congenital abnormality not caused by God. Sarah Fish Neil’s [...]
Continue reading about Hell Is the Absence of God – Ted Chiang
Short Story Number of words : 5600 Percent of complex words : 12.9 Average syllables per word : 1.6 Average words per sentence : 11.9 READABILITY INDICES Fog : 9.9 Flesch : 60.6 Flesch-Kincaid : 7.7 PEOPLE Stockard A correctional officer running VIPER. Paula Wills Warden of MIF-17. Grodin Heinous serial killer recidivist. Avery Culhane [...]
Novelette Number of words : 10000 Percent of complex words : 10.3 Average syllables per word : 1.5 Average words per sentence : 12.4 READABILITY INDICES Fog : 9.1 Flesch : 66.7 Flesch-Kincaid : 7.0 PEOPLE Rawlinson Head of the Road Train repair operation. Paco Muller A new road train mechanic and saboteur from Chile. [...]
Continue reading about On the Oodnadatta – Alastair Reynolds
Short Story Number of words : 6600 Percent of complex words : 15.5 Average syllables per word : 1.6 Average words per sentence : 25.7 READABILITY INDICES Fog : 16.5 Flesch : 44.6 Flesch-Kincaid : 13.4 PEOPLE Unnamed Scientist Fearless self-experimenter for truth. TECHNOLOGY Lungs Refillable with air and necessary for life. Air dispenser Used [...]
Short Story Number of words : 5500 Percent of complex words : 13.1 Average syllables per word : 1.5 Average words per sentence : 12.5 READABILITY INDICES Fog : 10.3 Flesch : 63.4 Flesch-Kincaid : 7.5 PEOPLE Renee Norwood A mathematics prodigy and professor, and attempter of suicide. Carl Norwood A fellow patient of experience [...]
Vignette Number of words : 770 Percent of complex words : 25.2 Average syllables per word : 1.9 Average words per sentence : 28.6 READABILITY INDICES Fog : 21.5 Flesch : 14.8 Flesch-Kincaid : 18.3 PEOPLE Humphries Histocompatibility genetics expert. Sugimoto A gene therapist. TECHNOLOGY Digital neural transfer Information access method. ExaCollider Physics research machine. [...]
Continue reading about Catching Crumbs From the Table – Ted Chiang
Novelette Number of words : 16300 Percent of complex words : 11.9 Average syllables per word : 1.5 Average words per sentence : 22.9 READABILITY INDICES Fog : 13.9 Flesch : 53.6 Flesch-Kincaid : 11.5 PEOPLE Bruno Costanzo Mathematical defect mapper and watcher. Sam Bruno’s counterpart on the far side. Alison Tierney Bruno’s friend and [...]
Number of words : 12600 Percent of complex words : 13.1 Average syllables per word : 1.6 Average words per sentence : 15.3 READABILITY INDICES Fog : 11.4 Flesch : 54.0 Flesch-Kincaid : 9.5 PEOPLE Bruno Alison’s ex-lover and co-operator. Mapper of mathematical defects. Alison Bruno’s ex-lover and co-operator. Has idea that mathematics might be [...]
Short Story Number of words : 7000 Percent of complex words : 14.6 Average syllables per word : 1.6 Average words per sentence : 11.4 READABILITY INDICES Fog : 10.4 Flesch : 59.5 Flesch-Kincaid : 7.8 PEOPLE Naluvara An Innupiat healer in Nunivak. Dr Tania Tollefson Naluvura’s soon to be ex-girlfriend and time travel message [...]
Continue reading about Nunivak Snowflakes – Alastair Reynolds
Short Story Number of words : 6600 Percent of complex words : 11.4 Average syllables per word : 1.5 Average words per sentence : 9.6 READABILITY INDICES Fog : 8.4 Flesch : 67.8 Flesch-Kincaid : 6.2 PEOPLE Dr Everard Researcher at BL6. Villiers In command at Byrd Land Six. Vaughan Williams A composer. Weber Colleague [...]
Short Story Number of words : 4800 Percent of complex words : 13.2 Average syllables per word : 1.5 Average words per sentence : 13.4 READABILITY INDICES Fog : 10.6 Flesch : 63.4 Flesch-Kincaid : 7.7 PEOPLE Alice Hodgkin A human personality. Gil Peterson A human personality and Alice’s colleague. Captain Prescott Fisher Of the [...]
For Analysis, copies of Leigh Brackett’s The Ark of Mars The Teleportress of Alpha C
For Analysis, copies of Leigh Brackett’s The Ark of Mars The Teleportress of Alpha C
Short Story Number of words : 4400 Percent of complex words : 10.4 Average syllables per word : 1.5 Average words per sentence : 19.3 READABILITY INDICES Fog : 11.9 Flesch : 58.0 Flesch-Kincaid : 10.0 PEOPLE Diane A woman who doesn’t want a kid. Frank A man who does want a kid. Bach A [...]
Novelette Number of words : 9800 Percent of complex words : 11.5 Average syllables per word : 1.6 Average words per sentence : 20.7 READABILITY INDICES Fog : 12.9 Flesch : 54.4 Flesch-Kincaid : 10.8 PEOPLE Daniel Cliff A billionaire that wants to do AI research. Julie Denghani The best AI researcher of her generation. [...]
Novelette Number of words : 11800 Percent of complex words : 8.3 Average syllables per word : 1.4 Average words per sentence : 11.4 READABILITY INDICES Fog : 7.9 Flesch : 75.6 Flesch-Kincaid : 5.5 PEOPLE Eric John Stark N’Chaka, Man-Without-a-Tribe. Aarl Lord of the Third Bend. The Lord of the Abyss. Martian wizard. Shorr [...]
Continue reading about Stark and the Star Kings – Leigh Brackett and Edmond Hamilton
Novel Number of words : 60000 Percent of complex words : 6.9 Average syllables per word : 1.4 Average words per sentence : 12.7 READABILITY INDICES Fog : 7.8 Flesch : 75.7 Flesch-Kincaid : 5.9 PEOPLE Eric John Stark N’Chaka, wild man of Mercury. The Dark Man of prophecy. Simon Ashton Stark’s mentor and father [...]
Continue reading about The Reavers of Skaith – Leigh Brackett
Novel Number of words : 60000 Percent of complex words : 6.7 Average syllables per word : 1.4 Average words per sentence : 11.7 READABILITY INDICES Fog : 7.4 Flesch : 77.8 Flesch-Kincaid : 5.3 PEOPLE Eric John Stark N’Chaka, wild man of Mercury. The Dark Man of prophecy. Simon Ashton Stark’s mentor and father [...]
Continue reading about The Hounds of Skaith – Leigh Brackett
Novel Number of words : 55000 Percent of complex words : 6.7 Average syllables per word : 1.4 Average words per sentence : 11.0 READABILITY INDICES Fog : 7.1 Flesch : 77.8 Flesch-Kincaid : 5.1 PEOPLE Eric John Stark N’Chaka, wild man of Mercury. The Dark Man of prophecy. Simon Ashton Stark’s mentor and father [...]
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Novel Number of words : 145000 Percent of complex words : 9.1 Average syllables per word : 1.5 Average words per sentence : 9.1 READABILITY INDICES Fog : 7.3 Flesch : 74.7 Flesch-Kincaid : 5.1 PEOPLE Anderson Lake A calorie man, working on a project in Thailand. A foreigner, farang. Wants to discover Thai seed [...]
Short Story Number of words : 6300 Percent of complex words : 11.9 Average syllables per word : 1.6 Average words per sentence : 15.7 READABILITY INDICES Fog : 11.0 Flesch : 56.8 Flesch-Kincaid : 9.2 PEOPLE Superhuman narrator Likes to play with humans and aliens alike. For some some space-time continuum twisting evil torturer’s [...]
Novel Number of words : 39500 Percent of complex words : 5.9 Average syllables per word : 1.4 Average words per sentence : 12.5 READABILITY INDICES Fog : 7.3 Flesch : 78.8 Flesch-Kincaid : 5.4 PEOPLE Eric John Stark N’Chaka, the Man-Without-a-Tribe. Earthman, out of Mercury. Camar A dying Martian. Ciaran The warlord of Mekh. [...]
Continue reading about People of the Talisman – Leigh Brackett
Novella Number of words : 23900 Percent of complex words : 5.3 Average syllables per word : 1.4 Average words per sentence : 15.3 READABILITY INDICES Fog : 8.3 Flesch : 76.5 Flesch-Kincaid : 6.4 PEOPLE Eric John Stark N’Chaka, the Man-Without-a-Tribe. Earthman, out of Mercury. Camar A dying Martian. Ciaran The warlord Ciara, Black [...]
Continue reading about Black Amazon of Mars – Leigh Brackett
Novelette Number of words : 14300 Percent of complex words : 10.3 Average syllables per word : 1.5 Average words per sentence : 12.0 READABILITY INDICES Fog : 8.9 Flesch : 65.5 Flesch-Kincaid : 7.11 PEOPLE Pershing Dennard Percy. A resident of the Broadsword Hotel in room 119 on the sixth floor, which is now [...]
Short Story Number of words : 6000 Percent of complex words : 14.1 Average syllables per word : 1.6 Average words per sentence : 15.4 READABILITY INDICES Fog : 11.8 Flesch : 55.0 Flesch-Kincaid : 9.4 PEOPLE Kenshi Suzuki Called Ken. A naturalised US citizen. A jetsetting business type. Swayne Harris His occasional lover. Travels [...]
Novelette Number of words : 14500 Percent of complex words : 7.2 Average syllables per word : 1.4 Average words per sentence : 12.8 READABILITY INDICES Fog : 8.0 Flesch : 74.4 Flesch-Kincaid : 6.1 PEOPLE Tranh The Yellow Card Man. A Chinese businessman forced to flee Malaysia, his family lost. Dung Lord Local unofficial [...]
Short Story Number of words : 5200 Percent of complex words : 7.5 Average syllables per word : 1.4 Average words per sentence : 10.2 READABILITY INDICES Fog : 7.1 Flesch : 75.0 Flesch-Kincaid : 5.3 PEOPLE Lolo The Tamarisk Hunter. Travis A fellow tamarisk seeker. Annie Lolo’s wife. Hale Perkins A Utah National Guardsman. [...]
Continue reading about The Tamarisk Hunter – Paolo Bacigalupi
Novella Number of words : 22600 Percent of complex words : 9.6 Average syllables per word : 1.5 Average words per sentence : 11.3 READABILITY INDICES Fog : 8.4 Flesch : 67.3 Flesch-Kincaid : 6.7 PEOPLE Willem An article writer. Glenn His lover. Junior partner at a software development firm that hadn’t quite been obliterated [...]
Novelette Number of words : 7600 Percent of complex words : 7.3 Average syllables per word : 1.4 Average words per sentence : 15.2 READABILITY INDICES Fog : 9.0 Flesch : 70.7 Flesch-Kincaid : 7.2 PEOPLE Jaak : The People of Sand and Slag – Paolo Bacigalupi One of the tactical defense response team for [...]
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Novelette Number of words : 9700 Percent of complex words : 8.00 Average syllables per word : 1.5 Average words per sentence : 10.1 READABILITY INDICES Fog : 7.2 Flesch : 72.2 Flesch-Kincaid : 5.7 PEOPLE Raphel Ka’ Korum A new Pasho, and a Jai. Martiz A local. Bia’ Giomo Dead. Evia A local. Bia’ [...]
Short Story Number of words : 6400 Percent of complex words : 8.3 Average syllables per word : 1.4 Average words per sentence : 10.7 READABILITY INDICES Fog : 7.6 Flesch : 73.5 Flesch-Kincaid : 5.7 PEOPLE Husband Inherited his father’s creepy old house. Wife Not impressed with the new accomodation. Karl His vanished brother. [...]
Novelette Number of words : 11700 Percent of complex words : 12.1 Average syllables per word : 1.5 Average words per sentence : 11.5 READABILITY INDICES Fog : 9.4 Flesch : 64.3 Flesch-Kincaid : 7.1 : Catch Hell – Laird Barron PEOPLE Katherine Reynolds : Catch Hell – Laird Barron Sonny’s wife and visitor to [...]
Short Story Number of words : 5800 Percent of complex words : 13.6 Average syllables per word : 1.6 Average words per sentence : 17.1 READABILITY INDICES Fog : 12.3 Flesch : 55.5 Flesch-Kincaid : 9.8 PEOPLE Sian A communications engineer. Michael A holovision news editor. Craig Bentley A cyberneurologist. Elvis Presley A rock star. [...]
Novelette Number of words : 10200 Percent of complex words : 9.0 Average syllables per word : 1.5 Average words per sentence : 15.8 READABILITY INDICES Fog : 9.9 Flesch : 66.2 Flesch-Kincaid : 8.0 Ong A Laotian working for Milestone Media. Littlexang blog handle. Ong’s father A Laotian revolutionary. Khamsing Lao politician. Mr. Henry [...]
Novelette Number of words : 9300 Percent of complex words : 11.7 Average syllables per word : 1.5 Average words per sentence : 14.1 READABILITY INDICES Fog : 10.3 Flesch : 63.8 Flesch-Kincaid : 7.9 PEOPLE Lidia The Fluted Girl who tries to hide. An altered human. Stephen A servant who attacks Belari. Madame Belari [...]
Novelette Number of words : 14400 Percent of complex words : 8.8 Average syllables per word : 1.5 Average words per sentence : 10.5 READABILITY INDICES Fog : 7.7 Flesch : 72.0 Flesch-Kincaid : 5.8 PEOPLE Male researcher An expert animal tracker. Likely a zoologist field specialist. Female researcher A zoologist, geologist and insect expert. [...]
Vignette Number of words : 690 Percent of complex words : 15.6 Average syllables per word : 1.6 Average words per sentence : 17.7 READABILITY INDICES Fog : 13.3 Flesch : 51.9 Flesch-Kincaid : 10.4 : Fresco – Alastair Reynolds PEOPLE The Caretaker : Fresco – Alastair Reynolds Monitors the information The Eye picks up. [...]
Vignette Number of words : 920 Percent of complex words : 19.8 Average syllables per word : 1.8 Average words per sentence : 27.1 READABILITY INDICES Fog : 18.7 Flesch : 25.3 Flesch-Kincaid : 16.5 : Feeling Rejected – Alastair Reynolds MEDIA Analysis of the gravitational signals from a newly discovered Kardashev II civilization in [...]
Novelette Number of words : 12500 Percent of complex words : 8.1 Average syllables per word : 1.5 Average words per sentence : 9.7 READABILITY INDICES Fog : 7.1 Flesch : 73.9 Flesch-Kincaid : 5.4 PEOPLE Greta Friend of Thom’s. Suzy A syntax runner. Part of Thom’s crew. Captain Thomas Grundlet Thom, the Blue goose [...]
Continue reading about Beyond the Aquila Rift – Alastair Reynolds
Novelette Number of words : 8300 Percent of complex words : 14.0 Average syllables per word : 1.6 Average words per sentence : 16.6 READABILITY INDICES Fog : 12.2 Flesch : 51.9 Flesch-Kincaid : 10.2 PEOPLE Agent Sent in to retrieve Largo. Guillermo Largo A Peruvian-born biochemist. President Golino Of the UN. Che Guevara A [...]
Novelette Number of words : 10100 Percent of complex words : 12.5 Average syllables per word : 1.6 Average words per sentence : 17.7 READABILITY INDICES Fog : 12.0 Flesch : 56.4 Flesch-Kincaid : 9.8 PEOPLE Detective Dan Segel An enhanced police officer. Freda Ann Mecklenburg A dead scientist. Creator of Catherine. Dr Muriel Beatty [...]
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 [...]
Short Story Number of words : 5100 Percent of complex words : 8.1 Average syllables per word : 1.4 Average words per sentence : 12.3 READABILITY INDICES Fog : 8.2 Flesch : 72.5 Flesch-Kincaid : 6.2 PEOPLE Jonathan Lilly Husband and spouse killer. Pia Lilly His now dead wife. Gabrielle Roberts His neighbour. Naaem A [...]
Short Story Number of words : 4400 Percent of complex words : 12.6 Average syllables per word : 1.6 Average words per sentence : 12.9 READABILITY INDICES Fog : 10.2 Flesch : 58.2 Flesch-Kincaid : 8.34 PEOPLE Sweeney A bloke in Seattle. J. W. Booth John Wilkes Booth. Didn’t like Abraham Lincoln. Escher A weird [...]
Continue reading about The Royal Zoo Is Closed – Laird Barron
Novelette Number of words : 11600 Percent of complex words : 10.7 Average syllables per word : 1.5 Average words per sentence : 13.3 READABILITY INDICES Fog : 9.6 Flesch : 62.8 Flesch-Kincaid : 7.8 PEOPLE Virgil Department head at his software development company. Danni’s dead husband. Danni His wife. Keith Their dead son. Merrill [...]
Novella Number of words : 20000 Percent of complex words : 11.6 Average syllables per word : 1.6 Average words per sentence : 10.0 READABILITY INDICES Fog : 8.7 Flesch : 62.5 Flesch-Kincaid : 7.0 PEOPLE Marvin Cortez An ex-con and ex-wrestler. Did a stretch for running over a pimp. Jacob Wilson Party host and [...]
Short Story Number of words : 2900 Percent of complex words : 8.2 Average syllables per word : 1.5 Average words per sentence : 8.7 READABILITY INDICES Fog : 6.7 Flesch : 74.1 Flesch-Kincaid : 5.1 PEOPLE Maya Ong A chemically affected pregnant woman. Benjamin Maya’s husband. Dr Lily Mendoza One of the staff. Dmitri [...]
Novelette Number of words : 13500 Percent of complex words : 5.7 Average syllables per word : 1.4 Average words per sentence : 15.6 READABILITY INDICES Fog : 8.5 Flesch : 72.4 Flesch-Kincaid : 7.1 Maggie Lives with Travis. Travis Alvarez Lives with Maggie. What passes for an engineer. Miku Friend of theirs. Gabe Friend [...]
Novelette Number of words : 8900 Percent of complex words : 14.2 Average syllables per word : 1.6 Average words per sentence : 12.2 READABILITY INDICES Fog : 10.6 Flesch : 60.2 Flesch-Kincaid : 7.9 PEOPLE Adam Fernando : Tiger, Burning – Alastair Reynolds An investigator that travels across branes. Resurrected in a catlike body [...]
Novelette Number of words : 8800 Percent of complex words : 5.2 Average syllables per word : 1.4 Average words per sentence : 11.2 READABILITY INDICES Fog : 6.6 Flesch : 80.2 Flesch-Kincaid : 4.9 PEOPLE Kathryn Lynch The title character, a teenager. Brendan Lynch Her father. Peter Rigby The wheelwright. Mary Rigby Peter’s wife. [...]
Continue reading about The Sledge-Maker’s Daughter – Alastair Reynolds
Novelette Number of words : 8300 Percent of complex words : 10.8 Average syllables per word : 1.5 Average words per sentence : 12.2 READABILITY INDICES Fog : 9.2 Flesch : 64.2 Flesch-Kincaid : 7.3 PEOPLE Carrie Clay A reporter. Zima An artist in an artificial body.. Yves Klein A French artist. Cobargo A cybernetic [...]
Short Story Number of words : 4100 Percent of complex words : 7.7 Average syllables per word : 1.4 Average words per sentence : 9.5 READABILITY INDICES Fog : 6.9 Flesch : 74.9 Flesch-Kincaid : 5.2 PEOPLE Husband A pleasure-seeking motel occupant. Wife A pleasure-seeking motel occupant. Anthony Perkins Actor in Psycho. Uncle Mo His [...]
Novella Number of words : 23000 Percent of complex words : 11.6 Average syllables per word : 1.5 Average words per sentence : 12.7 READABILITY INDICES Fog : 9.7 Flesch : 63.4 Flesch-Kincaid : 7.6 PEOPLE Royce Hawthorne Counter-espionage in industry expert, given an assignment in Hong Kong. Ted K. A salesman from Cleveland. Mr. [...]
Continue reading about Procession of the Black Sloth – Laird Barron
Novelette Number of words : 9300 Percent of complex words : 10.8 Average syllables per word : 1.5 Average words per sentence : 17.8 READABILITY INDICES Fog : 11.4 Flesch : 62.0 Flesch-Kincaid : 9.0 PEOPLE Jamil A quantum soccer player. Maria Another player. Ezequiel Another player. Margit Osvit An opponent of Jamil’s, a top-class [...]
Number of words : 6900 Percent of complex words : 12.4 Average syllables per word : 1.5 Average words per sentence : 16.6 READABILITY INDICES Fog : 11.6 Flesch : 58.9 Flesch-Kincaid : 9.2 PEOPLE Karen Rees A woman unlucky enough to catch a Monte Carlo disease. Paula Rees Her just as susceptible sister. Dr [...]
Short Story Number of words : 5400 Percent of complex words : 10.9 Average syllables per word : 1.5 Average words per sentence : 17.5 READABILITY INDICES Fog : 11.4 Flesch : 59.0 Flesch-Kincaid : 9.4 PEOPLE Mark Carver In need of a specialist implant. Amy His dead love, died in an armed hold-up. Patrick [...]
Short Story Number of words : 2800 Percent of complex words : 11.2 Average syllables per word : 1.5 Average words per sentence : 14.4 READABILITY INDICES Fog : 10.2 Flesch : 64.7 Flesch-Kincaid : 7.8 PEOPLE The Astronomer Leaving the project to go back to Earth. Euclid An ancient mathematician. Eric Jackson An astronomer. [...]
Short Story Number of words : 6100 Percent of complex words : 11.0 Average syllables per word : 1.5 Average words per sentence : 18.8 READABILITY INDICES Fog : 11.9 Flesch : 58.5 Flesch-Kincaid : 9.8 : Appropriate Love – Greg Egan PEOPLE Chris Perrini A seriously injured husband. Carla Perrini His wife, faced with [...]
Novelette Number of words : 10600 Percent of complex words : 6.8 Average syllables per word : 1.4 Average words per sentence : 10.4 READABILITY INDICES Fog : 6.9 Flesch : 78.1 Flesch-Kincaid : 5.0 : Pop Squad – Paolo Bacigalupi PEOPLE Pop Squad Officer : Pop Squad – Paolo Bacigalupi Man charged with killing [...]
Novelette Number of words : 9500 Percent of complex words : 8.6 Average syllables per word : 1.4 Average words per sentence : 10.2 READABILITY INDICES Fog : 7.5 Flesch : 74.5 Flesch-Kincaid : 5.4 PEOPLE Wang Jun Known as Little Wang. A street urchin and hungry boy Lu Xieyan A Guangdong singer of government [...]
Continue reading about Pocketful of Dharma – Paolo Bacigalupi
Novelette Number of words : 8800 Percent of complex words : 8.9 Average syllables per word : 1.5 Average words per sentence : 21.4 READABILITY INDICES Fog : 11.3 Flesch : 68.5 Flesch-Kincaid : 9.2 PEOPLE Carrie Clay A reporter on Mars. Jim Grossart Captain of the first manned Mars mission. Neil Armstrong First man [...]
Novelette Number of words : 8200 Percent of complex words : 5.9 Average syllables per word : 1.4 Average words per sentence : 22.2 PEOPLE Wally A Royal Army Medical Corpsman. Vaughan Williams A private and ambulance driver. Always called Ralph. Ex-composer. Ravel Ralph’s French teacher. Mr Chamberlain A politician they hear on the radio. [...]
Novelette Number of words : 11900 Percent of complex words : 11.0 Average syllables per word : 1.5 Average words per sentence : 10.4 READABILITY INDICES Fog : 8.5 Flesch : 65.9 Flesch-Kincaid : 6.6 PEOPLE Richard Jefferson Partridge A man involved in the movie business and visitor of New England dwelling scientists. Monet A [...]
Short Story Number of words : 5800 Percent of complex words : 11.0 Average syllables per word : 1.5 Average words per sentence : 16.0 READABILITY INDICES Fog : 10.8 Flesch : 60.7 Flesch-Kincaid : 8.8 PEOPLE Unnamed Non-human A wanderer of the aeons, doing to humans as it wills, until it returns to the [...]
Novelette Number of words : 8400 Percent of complex words : 10.2 Average syllables per word : 1.5 Average words per sentence : 11.1 READABILITY INDICES Fog : 8.5 Flesch : 65.0 Flesch-Kincaid : 7.0 PEOPLE Ray : Proboscis – Laird Barron An ex-actor and occasional bounty hunter. Also called Ray-bo. Sylvia : Proboscis – [...]
Novella Number of words : 28000 Percent of complex words : 5.4 Average syllables per word : 1.4 Average words per sentence : 12.4 READABILITY INDICES Fog : 7.1 Flesch : 78.2 Flesch-Kincaid : 5.4 PEOPLE Eric John Stark N’Chaka, oh Man-without-a-tribe who is on the run. Gets to be an agent. Simon Ashton Stark’s [...]
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Novella Number of words : 22000 Percent of complex words : 5.2 Average syllables per word : 1.4 Average words per sentence : 12.0 READABILITY INDICES Fog : 6.8525 Flesch : 79.2826 Flesch-Kincaid : 5.1779 PEOPLE Eric John Stark N’Chaka, oh Man-without-a-tribe who is on the run. Gets to be an agent. Simon Ashton Stark’s [...]
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Novella Number of words : 25000 Percent of complex words : 5.0 Average syllables per word : 1.4 Average words per sentence : 12.5 READABILITY INDICES Fog : 7.0 Flesch : 79.9 Flesch-Kincaid : 5.2 CHARACTERS Eric John Stark N’Chaka, Man Without a Tribe. Looking for his lost friend. Malthor Captain of the ship Stark [...]
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Novelette Number of words : 9700 Percent of complex words : 10.1 Average syllables per word : 1.5 Average words per sentence : 10.8 READABILITY INDICES Fog : 8.3 Flesch : 68.0 Flesch-Kincaid : 6.4 CHARACTERS Jack Carson An artist. Part of Penny Royal. Married to Miranda. Miranda Carson An artist. Part of Penny Royal. [...]
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Novel Number of words : 40000 Percent of complex words : 5.7 Average syllables per word : 1.4 Average words per sentence : 9.6 READABILITY INDICES Fog : 6.1 Flesch : 80.2 Flesch-Kincaid : 4.5 : Shadow Over Mars – Leigh Brackett CHARACTERS Richard Gunn Urquhart : Shadow Over Mars – Leigh Brackett Rick, man [...]
Novelette Number of words : 10000 Percent of complex words : 7.5 Average syllables per word : 1.4 Average words per sentence : 11.4 READABILITY INDICES Fog : 7.6 Flesch : 74.1 Flesch-Kincaid : 5.8 : The Sorcerer of Rhiannon – Leigh Brackett CHARACTERS Max Brandon : The Sorcerer of Rhiannon – Leigh Brackett A [...]
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Novelette Number of words : 13000 Percent of complex words : 6.7 Average syllables per word : 1.4 Average words per sentence : 12.8 READABILITY INDICES Fog : 7.8 Flesch : 74.1 Flesch-Kincaid : 6.1 : The Road To Sinharat – Leigh Brackett CHARACTERS Dr Matthew Carey : The Road To Sinharat – Leigh Brackett [...]
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Novella Number of words : 25000 Percent of complex words : 10.0 Average syllables per word : 1.5 Average words per sentence : 10.7 READABILITY INDICES Fog : 8.3 Flesch : 68.3 Flesch-Kincaid : 6.4 CHARACTERS Wallace Smith Trust fund no-longer baby, son of a senator. A bit of an adventurer. Runs into serious injury [...]
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Vignette Number of words : 508 Percent of complex words : 6.1 Average syllables per word : 1.4 Average words per sentence : 16.4 READABILITY INDICES Fog : 9.0 Flesch : 73.3 Flesch-Kincaid : 7.1 : Gordian Stone – James Enge CHARACTERS Morlock the Maker : Gordian Stone – James Enge An itinerant swordsman-wizard. Stone [...]
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