# Inspector Norris — Short Fiction character guide

> Inspector Norris in Short Fiction by Walter M. Miller Jr..

**Role:** major

**Also known as:** Norris, Inspector, Mister Norris, Mrs. Norris

**First appearance:** 0000-conditionally-human

## Snapshot

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.

## Who they are

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 and may have passed more. He has eleven empty cages and forty-nine occupied by the previous inspector's unclaimed inventory awaiting destruction. A class-C man allowed no children of his own, he knows exactly what it means to be measured against a normalcy test — and the deadline is seven days.

## In the story

### [Conditionally Human](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_57_se/chapters/conditionally-human)

Struggles with his wife's disapproval of his job and begins investigating the Delmont case involving deviant K-99 neutroids.

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