# Cheviot Sherwood — Short Fiction character guide

> Cheviot Sherwood in Short Fiction by Clifford D. Simak.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Sherwood, Mr. Sherwood

**First appearance:** 0000-hellhounds-of-the-cosmos

## Snapshot

A fugitive with a sack of stolen diamonds and a disabled ship, Sherwood talks his way aboard an unmarked vessel that turns out to be far stranger than any outlaw he has known.

## Who they are

Sherwood is a man on the run, having left his last port without clearance and with a fortune in gems he knows he did not strictly need. Stranded on a hostile planet with a broken radio, he seizes rescue from an unmarked ship, reasoning that any vessel without markings must be as outlaw as himself. His greed and his quick, self-justifying calculations drive him up the ladder, and the voice that answers him from inside the empty hull turns a simple escape into a confrontation with something neither human nor machine.

## In the story

### [The Shipshape Miracle](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_10_se/chapters/the-shipshape-miracle)

A fugitive and diamond prospector stranded on a planet, rescued by a sentient Ship that plans to absorb his brain.

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