# High-Pockets Jones — Short Science Fiction character guide

> High-Pockets Jones in Short Science Fiction by Noel Loomis.

**Role:** major

**Also known as:** Jones, Pockets Jones

**First appearance:** 0000-electron-eat-electron

## Snapshot

A mysterious spacer who turns up wherever working men need straightening out, gifted with an uncanny feel for machinery and a reputation that makes management nervous.

## Who they are

High-Pockets Jones moves through the labor conflicts of the printing plants like a rumor made flesh, his talent with linecasting machines matched only by his inconvenient habit of appearing exactly where trouble is brewing. Management watches him with suspicion, ready to jail him on a phony charge at the first sign of interference, because his presence among the men threatens the careful machinery of control. Whether he is savior or saboteur, his arrival forces everyone to reckon with what loyalty and skill are actually worth.

## In the story

### [The Mischievous Typesetter](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_science_fiction_2_se/chapters/the-mischievous-typesetter)

A barnstorming linotype operator with a theory of 'personal electricity,' sentenced to work on the troublesome No. 7.

### [Nine Men in Time](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_science_fiction_2_se/chapters/nine-men-in-time)

Legendary printer who uses his unique abilities to multiply himself and save the plant.

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