Short Story
Number of words : 6300
Percent of complex words : 8.9
Average syllables per word : 1.5
Average words per sentence : 13.2
READABILITY INDICES
Fog : 8.9
Flesch : 67.2
Flesch-Kincaid : 7.2
PEOPLE
Alex
A disturbed user of a new patch.
Tran
A tech guy and a fence.
Mira
Alex's girlfriend.
Nietzsche, Sartre and Camus
Philosophers.
TECHNOLOGY
Patch
A wearable or implantable technology that can provider a variety of functions, particularly biofeedback.
Recursive Visions Introscape 3000
A type of Patch, expensive.
Implant
Personal safety alarm body augmentation.
Blue Monday
Ane executive stress monitor.
PLACES
The Cross
Sydney's Red Light district.
Redfern
Suburb of Sydney.
ORGANISATIONS
Pandemonium
Maker of Recursive Visions Introscape 3000.
CONCEPTS
Ubermensch
German for a superman.
PLOT
A story of the philosophy of the mind. The protagonists mugs someone for their patch, a biofeedback monitor. It turns out to be a pretty new variety. It gives information to you directly via your senses. Alex stresses about his freedom. The patch breaks down his mental processes for him, showing that his mentality is just a system at work, and that he has no choice. So he sets out to see if he can kill someone, or has any free will left.
4 out of 5
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