Short Fiction · Character
Big Hogey Parker
A tumbler who can no longer stand under gravity, staggering toward his father-in-law's farm a week late with a gin bottle and a son he keeps mentioning.
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Also known as Hogey, Big Hogey, li'l Hogey, little Hogey
First appearance: conditionally human
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The protagonist, a spacer returning to Earth after nine months.
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Big Hogey Parker is dropped off on a barren stretch of Great Plains highway, drunk, legs failing him, duffle bag lost twice, insisting he's okay to a bus driver who has two daughters and a job he should quit. He used to…
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- Central narrative figures
- Protagonist
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- Closing
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