# The Captain — Short Fiction character guide

> The Captain in Short Fiction by Stanley G. Weinbaum.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** captain

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

## Snapshot

The commanding officer of the Ares expedition, whose gruff authority and weary skepticism frame the first human encounter with Mars's strangest inhabitants.

## Who they are

The Captain leads the four-man Academy expedition aboard the Ares, a man whose blunt demands for straight answers cut through his crew's evasions and half-finished radio reports. He assumes a gruffness with the returning Jarvis and Leroy, growling over their tattered state while pressing for the full story behind their cryptic message about escaping Paradise. His insistence on beginning at the beginning structures the narrative, making him the skeptical anchor against which Mars's wonders are measured.

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