Short Fiction · Character
MacCauley
A hard-luck gambler on Pallas, MacCauley loses his pocket, his money, and his footing to a pickpocketing Kiddie and a bar-wide brawl in one night.
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First appearance: Asteroid of the Damned
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MacCauley is a man whose luck runs bad and stays bad, drifting through the floating population of Pallas with a sport-silk jacket and not much else. When a metals-mad asterite Kiddie lifts his pocket — slit and all —…
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