Wednesday, December 1, 2010

Nancy - Cordwainer Smith

Short Story

Number of words : 4700
Percent of complex words : 8.5
Average syllables per word : 1.4
Average words per sentence : 10.5


READABILITY INDICES

Fog : 7.6
Flesch : 77.0
Flesch-Kincaid : 5.1

PEOPLE

Gordon Greene

Originally Giordano Verdi. A Space Service officer.

Wallenstein

An old man.

Karl Vonderleyen

An old lieutenant of the service.



ORGANISATIONS

Space Service

Goes into the Up-and-Out.


TECHNOLOGY

Nancy

An imaginary virus created friend.

Sokta virus

Designed to be implanted in a person and released in the case of needing companionship in space.


PLANTS

Geraniums

A type of flower.


FOOD

Dago Red

A wine.


PLOT

Man cannot cope in space alone, so missions always have more than one person. However, if one dies then there is a problem. The sotka virus enables a person to experience an imaginary companion after it is triggered. In a military interview, such a story is recounted.


3.5 out of 5

No comments:

Post a Comment