# Kaplan — Short Fiction character guide

> Kaplan in Short Fiction by Philip K. Dick.

**Role:** minor

**First appearance:** 0010-the-variable-man

## Who they are

A security agent.

## In the story

### [I](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_43_se/chapters/i)

Lab organizer who reports the S.R.B. machine failure after feeding data about the man from the past.

### [III](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_43_se/chapters/iii)

Kaplan assists Reinhart in feeding new data into the S.R.B. machines.

### [IV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_43_se/chapters/iv)

S.R.B. technician who alerts Reinhart to a change in the machine odds.

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