# Dr. Robert Bruno — Short Fiction character guide

> Dr. Robert Bruno in Short Fiction by Henry Kuttner.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Bruno, Dr. Bruno

**First appearance:** 0000-the-secret-of-kralitz

## Snapshot

A psychiatrist who volunteers his own mind as the template for an experimental cure, risking his sanity to imprint order onto a broken brain.

## Who they are

Dr. Robert Bruno runs a sanitarium and shares a warm, intuitive marriage with a wife who reads his mind. He has partnered with atomic physicist Andrew Parsons to fuse psychiatry and technology into a specific for insanity, and tonight he will undergo the procedure himself. As electrodes are affixed and anesthesia takes hold, Bruno's confidence that nothing can go wrong becomes the story's quietest, most dangerous gamble.

## Relationships

### [Dr. Kenneth Morrissey](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_27_se/characters/dr_kenneth_morrissey)

_professional_

Drs. Morrissey and Bruno are colleagues in scientific research, often collaborating but also competing for recognition.

### [Dr. Kenneth Morrissey](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_27_se/characters/dr_kenneth_morrissey)

_professional_

Drs. Morrissey and Bruno are colleagues in scientific research, often collaborating but also competing for recognition.

### [Dr. Kenneth Morrissey](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_27_se/characters/dr_kenneth_morrissey)

_professional_

Drs. Morrissey and Bruno are colleagues in scientific research, often collaborating but also competing for recognition.

## In the story

### [War-Gods of the Void](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_27_se/chapters/war-gods-of-the-void)

Provides scientific insight into the phenomena, struggling to maintain rationality.

### [Dream's End](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_27_se/chapters/dream-s-end)

Chief of Staff who performs the experimental empathy surrogate procedure on Gregson, risking his own sanity.

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