Short Fiction · Character
Mitch Laskell
An undersea fighter with the killer instinct who jerks open a knife-switch mid-patrol and tells his own command to go to hell.
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Also known as Mitch, Laskell
First appearance: conditionally human
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Protagonist who deserts the Navy, steals a submarine, and reflects on his motives and the nature of war.
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Mitch Laskell has always gotten along in the Navy — the undersea equivalent of a fighter pilot, a man who grinned when he streaked in for a kill — and he has never needed a philosophy to do it. Then a message crackles…
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- Closing
This is the story's dramatic climax because Lieutenant Laskell reaches an emotional and psychological peak of…
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