Short Story
Number of words : 6900
Percent of complex words : 11.9
Average syllables per word : 1.5
Average words per sentence : 15.2
READABILITY INDICES
Fog : 10.8
Flesch : 60.9
Flesch-Kincaid : 8.5
PEOPLE
Doctor Dreyfus
The medico on the Cyclops.
Andrew Callaghan
An engineer that has gone crazy due to the condition.
Jenny
Another crew member and cyberneticist.
Captain Salih al-Qasbi
Ship's leader.
Thomas Bwalya
Life-support engineer.
Greta Nordstrom
Communications engineer.
Kayathiri Sangaralingam
Drive specialist.
VEHICLES
Cyclops
A spaceship attempting to travel a record distance.
TECHNOLOGY
DDC-XV
A mixture of anti-viral agents.
CONCEPTS
Legionnella Six
A disease.
Cyclops Syndrome
Condition affecting Andrew Callaghan and the crew.
Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen experiment
Famous quantum mechanics work.
TECHNOLOGY
NMR spectra
Nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy - a technique that exploits the magnetic properties of certain nuclei.
PET scans
Position emission tomography. A technique which produces a three-dimensional image or picture of functional processes in the body.
Nanomachines
Tiny robots that can be weapons or medical repair devices.
ORGANISATIONS
ISUSAT
A spaceflight centre.
MEDIA
The Plague
Work by Camus that inspired David to become a doctor.
PLOT
Dreyfus in the doctor on a ship that is attemping a voyage further out than anyone has gone before. The crew are beginning to come down with what seems like a disease that makes them crazy and dangerous, and in need of restraint.
It looks like it will affect all of them, so he has to make provision for everyone to be safe and to be fed by robot until they return.
However the condition seems to dissipate. He theorises that it may be because they have gone too far away from the rest of humanity, that there is some sort of quantum effect of life. If you go too far from Earth, your body will not be able to take it.
4 out of 5
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