Short Fiction · Character
Professor Thomas
A scientist.
minor
First appearance: the variable man
Professor Thomas shows up with force in Mr. Spaceship. The page is where that presence becomes real.
Aged professor and former teacher of Kramer; agrees to the brain transfer and reveals his plan to start a colony without war.
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Character groups
- Soldiers and alien encounters
- Small town and alien conflict
- Small town and security
- Cloned or artificial humans
- Small town and sentient spaceship
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