Read Coming of Age: Volume 2: Endless Conflict Online
Authors: Thomas T. Thomas
Tags: #Literature & Fiction, #Science Fiction & Fantasy, #science fiction, #High Tech, #Hard Science Fiction
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
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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)