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Authors: Thomas T. Thomas

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Characters Other Than Family

Part 4 – 2030: Life and Death

Penelope Winston, PE&C’s new information technology manager

Rover, a primitive intelligence monitoring computer systems

Blount, detective, Los Angeles Police Department

Brown, assistant district attorney, County of Los Angeles

Virginia Mills, John’s current internist and expert on protocols for aging

Catherine Bellows, Antigone’s plastic surgeon

Alfredo Giusto, doctor at the Turin general hospital

Gillian Barnes, PhD, senior geologist with the F.R. Geological Survey

Part 5 – 2058: Digging In and Digging Out

Sandra Gutierrez, California senator at John’s birthday party

Don T’ang, mayor of San Francisco, also at John’s party

David Appley, fiance of Angela Wells

Moley, artificial intelligence running a tunneling machine

Vernier, artificial intelligence paired with Jacquie Wildmon

Syl Clarke, student in Susannah’s class at Stanford University

Socrates Melanogaster, PE&C intelligence specializing in automation

Bill Schwartz, Jeffrey’s assistant in Praxis Forest Development

Sonny Rolf, another assistant in Praxis Forest Development

Mother Simms, chief cook and factotum on the Stanislaus trip

Joseph Ferrante, building inspector for the City of Arvada

William Ballard, structural engineer for the University of Colorado

Officer Krupke, security intelligence with Watch and Ward
®

Amanda Wakefield, Antigone’s current doctor

Kimberly Biggs, the judge in Rafaella’s divorce hearing

Sam Averill, Tim Jaspersen’s attorney in the divorce

Gustavo Reiter, Callie’s and Francesco’s godson from Italy

Deirdre Falconer, Gustavo’s contact in international trade

Belle Stockhausen, agent, F.R. Department of Homeland Security

Officer 23891AI, intelligence in F.R. Customs & Border Protection

Jim Smith, Peter Gillette, Alan Bosley, and Bob Williams, geologists with the Yellowstone Volcano Observatory

Godgy, geodetic mapping intelligence with the F.R. Geological Survey

Maggie Epperson, genetic reproduction counselor at Rengstrom Fertility Services

Father Barthalomaios, priest at Holy Trinity in San Francisco

Part 6 - 2088: Love Amid the Ruins

Hockley, John’s oral surgeon who is budding a new set of teeth

Supreme Leader of the Greater Jamestown City Council, and guards

“Shrink,” beta version of a psychiatric intelligence from Tallyman Systems, Inc.

Blaine, professor of Opinion Polling, City College of San Francisco

Machiavelli, artificial intelligence paired with Anastasia Praxis

Max Factor, artificial intelligence paired with Susannah Praxis

Benjamin Auchincloss, a physicist with the Praxis Family Association

Quandam, artificial intelligence paired with Benjamin Auchincloss

Quan Hui Yan, the All Seeing, intelligence at the Chinese consulate

Ming Meirong, Antigone’s physician who diagnoses her liver cysts

Bolin Hsu, assassin hired by the Xin Dalu Tong in Seattle

Master Builder, construction intelligence of the Praxis Family Association

Mr. Fu, John and Callie’s translator and advocate with the Xin Dalu Tong

Zhang Fuhua, Dong Geming, and Li Guiren, deputies of the Xin Dalu Tong

Stratego, artificial intelligence paired with John Praxis II

Father Cephalos, priest at the Greek Orthodox chapel at Fort Apache

Deng Honghui, colonel, People’s Liberation Army

Wu Donghai, Chinese consul in San Francisco

Brian Hanson, warehouse manager at Fort Apache

Epilogue – 2114: That Great Gettin’ Up Morning

Pankajan Rao, Antigone’s internist in San Francisco

Vishnu the Preserver, medical intelligence paired with Pankajan Rao

Dingus, intelligence paired with John Praxis

Sarah Perrin, scrub nurse at the San Francisco medical center

About the Author

Thomas T. Thomas is a writer with a career spanning forty years in book editing, technical writing, public relations, and popular fiction writing. Among his various careers, he has worked at a university press, a tradebook publisher, an engineering and construction company, a public utility, an oil refinery, a pharmaceutical company, and a supplier of biotechnology instruments and reagents. He published eight novels and collaborations in science fiction with Baen Books and is now working on more general and speculative fiction. When he’s not working and writing, he may be out riding his motorcycle, practicing karate, or wargaming with friends. Catch up with him at www.thomastthomas.com.

Photo by Robert L. Thomas

Books by Thomas T. Thomas

eBooks:

The Professor’s Mistress

The Children of Possibility

The Judge’s Daughter

Sunflowers

Trojan Horse

Baen Books and eBooks:

The Doomsday Effect (as by “Thomas Wren”)

First Citizen

ME: A Novel of Self-Discovery

Crygender

Baen Books in Collaboration:

An Honorable Defense (with David Drake)

The Mask of Loki (with Roger Zelazny)

Flare (with Roger Zelazny)

Mars Plus (with Frederik Pohl)

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