Short Fiction · Character
Inspector Norris
A class-C inspector with defective heredity and a wife who wants a pet, handed a seven-day sweep for a deviant neutroid across two hundred square miles.
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Also known as Norris, Inspector, Mister Norris, Mrs. Norris
First appearance: Conditionally Human
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Struggles with his wife's disapproval of his job and begins investigating the Delmont case involving deviant K-99 neutroids.
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Inspector Norris drives his district with a radiophone that never brings Anne's voice, chasing a memo from Chief Franklin: find and test every Bermuda-K-99 born in July 2234, because Delmont passed one nonstandard unit…
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