# Leonard Sale — Short Fiction character guide

> Leonard Sale in Short Fiction by Ray Bradbury.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Sale, Leonard

**First appearance:** 0003-the-piper

## Snapshot

A spaceman who crashes on a planetoid, finds his radio intact, and calls for rescue with two months of food and six days to wait.

## Who they are

Sale wakes in the folded wreckage of his ship, breathes the air by sheer luck, and dances a little dance when Marsport answers and promises the rescue ship Logarithm in six days. The voices that greeted him in the dark — asking his name, his occupation, welcoming him — linger behind the relief. He has food, air, and a working radio, and the story's tension lies in what those six days will hold.

## In the story

### [Asleep in Armageddon](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_46_se/chapters/asleep-in-armageddon)

Protagonist stranded on a dead planet, fighting sleep to prevent possession by ancient mentalities Iorr and Tylle.

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