Short Fiction · Character
Scanner Smith
A Scanner with a common surname.
minor
Also known as Smith
First appearance: scanners live in vain
Scanner Smith shows up with force in II. The page is where that presence becomes real.
An older Scanner who steps forward to declare Adam Stone a liar and invokes the secret duty to call for Stone's death.
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- Other
Character groups
- Minor and older references
- Key Scanner figures
- Protagonist
- Scanner society members
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- Escalation
- Breaking point
- Aftermath
- Closing
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