Short Fiction · Character
Chief Franklin
A chief agent who has come home from six hitches in space with forty-eight hundred dollars in the bank and no idea how to tell Marie what happened to it.
supporting
Also known as Franklin, Chief, Chief Agent Franklin
First appearance: Conditionally Human
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Norris's superior who visits to discuss the Bermuda-K-99 deviants and pressures Norris to act.
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Franklin is a man who kept promising his wife one more tour would be the last, and who signed on for every bonus run from station to moon-base to make good on it. Now he stands at a fence post near the Hauptman…
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- Central narrative figures
- Protagonist
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Story tension across the book — this chapter sits in Exposition.
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professional · ambivalent
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professional · ambivalent
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