Gratillonius, Roman centurion and King of Ys.
Nicholas van Rijn, interstellar merchant.
David Falkayn, interstellar merchant, van Rijn's successor, Founder of the Avalon colony.
Dominic Flandry, Terran Imperial intelligence agent.
Manson Everard, Time Patrolman.
Jack Havig, mutant time traveller.
Hanno, mutant immortal.
Hugh Valland, "antithanatic" immortal.
Prince Rupert of the Rhine.
Valeria Matuchek, daughter of a werewolf and a witch, first human being on the Moon in her timeline.
There are many others but these ten are prominent.
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They're all interesting characters. They're also interesting because they're "of their time", not people from the 20th or 21st centuries in exotic costumes. (That's a bugbear of mine.)
Kaor, Paul!
I agree with what Stirling said, characters who were of their times. The four I like best would be Gratillonius, Old Nick, Dominic Flandry, and either Manse Everard or Prince Rupert.
Ad astra! Sean
Sean: pretty much. My top two would be Old Nick and Flandry.
From Sean M. Brooks:
Kaor, Mr. Stirling!
Amen!
Been binge reading your IN THE COURTS OF THE CRIMSON KINGS. Love it, altho I can see why some readers like THE SKY PEOPLE better. Many readers would find the hominins of Venus easier to relate to than the Martians.
Ad astra! Sean
Sean: I had fun with both, but perhaps a little more fun with the Martians. Constructing a culture from instinctual logical positivists was entertaining.
Kaor, Mr. Stirling!
Exactly! That's a big reason why I so enjoyed IN THE COURTS..., hominins closely related to us, but not quite the same.
I do think you were too hard on the Neanderthals we see in THE SKY PEOPLE. Everything I've read about them makes me think they were not as "limited" as we see them in that book.
Ad astra! Sean
Sean: perhaps. There is recent genetic indications that while the Neanderthals had some capability for speech, they and the Denisovans didn't have nearly as much as h. sap. sap. does -- there was a crucial mutation of a gene which controls the amplitude of vocalizations that occurred -after- we split off from those two stocks.
Kaor, Mr. Stirling!
Understood, but I still think the Neanderthals were smarter than the ones in your book. They might still have been able to enlarge that limited capability for speech.
Ad astra! Sean
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