# the Cytha — Short Fiction character guide

> the Cytha in Short Fiction by Clifford D. Simak.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** Cytha, clever Cytha

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

## Who they are

A clever alien or creature entity.

## Relationships

### [Gavin Duncan](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_10_se/characters/gavin_duncan)

_rivalry_

Gavin Duncan has frequent hostile encounters with the Cytha, suggesting a predator-prey or enemy relationship.

### [Gavin Duncan](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_10_se/characters/gavin_duncan)

_rivalry_

Gavin Duncan has frequent hostile encounters with the Cytha, suggesting a predator-prey or enemy relationship.

### [Gavin Duncan](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_10_se/characters/gavin_duncan)

_rivalry_

Gavin Duncan has frequent hostile encounters with the Cytha, suggesting a predator-prey or enemy relationship.

## In the story

### [III](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_10_se/chapters/iii)

The quarry; displays cunning by setting an ambush with an arrow and triggering a rockslide, becoming more formidable as the hunt progresses.

### [V](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_10_se/chapters/v)

Appears with a donovan to free Duncan, negotiates a truce, and offers to escort him home.

### [VI](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_10_se/chapters/vi)

Exhausted from maintaining intelligence, decides to revert to animal state but plans a surprise for Duncan.

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

Referenced indirectly as the Ship's brain, which was once an old man who traded his body for immortality within the machine.

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