# Ray Baker — Short Fiction character guide

> Ray Baker in Short Fiction by Fritz Leiber.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** Rachel, Baker, Ray, Good old Ray

**First appearance:** 0034-i

## Who they are

A character appearing in various stories.

## In the story

### [III](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_19_se/chapters/iii)

Narrator; struggles with a useless right arm and the aftermath of murder; excited by the plane's antigravity.

### [IV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_19_se/chapters/iv)

Ray is the narrator, skeptical of Pop's tales but intrigued, and he grapples with the decision to go to Atla-Hi or return.

### [V](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_19_se/chapters/v)

The narrator thinks of Ray Baker ('Good old Ray') as the plane crashes.

### [VI](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_19_se/chapters/vi)

Narrator who reflects on the trust among the three murderers and later confesses to being the button-pusher for the Moscow hydrogen missile.

### [VII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_19_se/chapters/vii)

The narrator, who struggles with guilt and accidentally activates a steel cube.

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