# Martin Holliday — Short Fiction character guide

> Martin Holliday in Short Fiction by Algis Budrys.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Holliday, Martin, VIII Martin Holliday

**First appearance:** 0000-riya-s-foundling

## Who they are

A gray-faced, shaking man who steps off the shuttle into Earth's vastness and sits politely through a briefing he cannot yet connect to himself.

## In the story

### [I](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_2_se/chapters/i)

An aging man with a pathological fear of people, seeking a new planet to live in isolation after a failed colonization attempt.

### [II](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_2_se/chapters/ii)

Subject of a report regarding colonization of Karlshaven IV.

### [III](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_2_se/chapters/iii)

Holliday is the target of Marlowe and Mead's scheme, an old man whose colonial venture they plan to undermine.

### [IV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_2_se/chapters/iv)

A citizen cited by Marlowe as a typical real estate operator who has filed an option on his second planet.

### [VII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_2_se/chapters/vii)

Holliday is the subject of Marlowe's upcoming interview; his shuttle is landing at Idlewild.

### [VIII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_2_se/chapters/viii)

The agoraphobic colonist who reluctantly agrees to the Union's request for a strategic planet.

### [IX](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_2_se/chapters/ix)

Mentioned as a claustrophobic devil harried from planet to planet, civilizing humanity through his fear-driven real estate talent.

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