# Harrison — Short Fiction character guide

> Harrison in Short Fiction by Stanley G. Weinbaum.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** the sardonic Harrison

**First appearance:** 0000-a-martian-odyssey

## Snapshot

The sardonic captain of the Ares, whose gruff wit and weary patience anchor the first Martian expedition while his crew's strange reports test his considerable skepticism.

## Who they are

Harrison commands the Ares and its four-man crew, a man whose dry humor and blunt manner keep the expedition grounded even as Jarvis and Leroy radio back reports he dismisses as screwy. He listens to Jarvis's account of the ostrich-like Tweel with the skepticism of a man who has spent too many weary days on a half-dead world, needling his chemist even as he absorbs the implications. His grounded, sardonic presence frames the story's central tension between sober scientific caution and the bewildering strangeness of Mars.

## In the story

### [A Martian Odyssey](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_51_se/chapters/a-martian-odyssey)

Captain of the Ares expedition; skeptical and impatient listener to Jarvis's story.

### [Valley of Dreams](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_51_se/chapters/valley-of-dreams)

Captain of the Ares expedition; sends Jarvis and Leroy on the salvage mission.

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