Nineteen Characters In The Technic History

The mini-bios have taken on a life of their own. The characters covered, in the approximate order of their appearance in the Technic History, are:

League Period

Nicholas van Rijn

James Ching

Adzel

David Falkayn

Chee Lan

Emil Dalmady

Coya Conyon

Empire Period

Manuel Argos

Christopher Holm

Tabitha Falkayn

Hloch

Dominic Flandry

John Ridenour

Miriam Abrams

Hugh McCormac

Chunderban Desai

Diana Crowfeather

Post-Imperial

Roan Tom

Daven Laure

A comprehensive list. Apparently insignificant characters play their roles. James Ching's narrative role is primarily to introduce Adzel but he makes his own contribution, nevertheless. Manuel Argos' role is to get the Terran Empire founded although it was not known, when Argos's story was written, that that Empire would become such a major feature of a future history series. Emil Dalmady has a daughter who makes later contributions to the History.

A Stone In Heaven makes several major contributions:

the later careers of Flandry and Chives;

Miriam Abrams as an adult;

Flandry's addition to Desai's theory of history;

a late mention of the biracial culture on Avalon;

the later history of the Grand Duchy of Hermes;

an heir of Hans Molitor;

a new inhabited planet, Ramnu.

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