Monday, May 3, 2010

Axiomatic - Greg Egan

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 Anderson

The man who killed Amy. Did a deal and turned in his mates for a reduced sentence.

Miller

One of the armed robbers.


PLACES

The Implant Store

A place to buy skills and change your mind.

Chatswood

A suburb of Sydney.


MEDIA

Binary Search

A band.


TECHNOLOGY

Axiomatics

Term for next generation mind-altering implants.


ORGANISATIONS

Clockwork Orchard

Distributors of Implant product.


MEDIA

HAL

A bad robot.


PLOT

Mark Carver goes to buy a new generation Axiomatic Implant that will enable him to kill the murderer of his lover, Amy. He does so, gets a gun and accosts Anderson, now out on parole. He demands to know why he did it. The killer tells the truth, saying he got mad because their robbery was all screwed up, and chose her to shoot.

Mark blows him away, but hasn't received a visit from the police. He choosed to go get another Implant that will change his current state of mind, to something he will believe is true to himself.


4.5 out of 5

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