Short Fiction · Character
Mr. Melroy
An engineer with a jackknife and a shabby leather jacket who lies awake cataloguing the eight ways a breeder reactor can go critical—and fears a ninth.
supporting
Also known as Melroy
First appearance: day of the moron
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Mr. Melroy runs the Melroy Engineering Corporation, hired to install a cybernetic control system at a nuclear plant after a series of hushed near-catastrophes. He is tall, spare, and weary, a man who sharpens pencils…
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