Meet the Main Character(s)

Here’s a quick glimpse of the principle characters as I see them in their first few days of life in my head (note that they are more likely to change than not as November approaches):

Lucy Kendall (our main character) is a genetics graduate student at a major university where she investigates new ways to produce transgenic organisms. She has a wonderful relationship with her father who is the CEO of a small company that develops cybernetic prosthetic devices (thin: realistic versions of the Six Million Dollar Man’s limbs) but a strained relationship with her mother who is suffering from the early stages of Alzheimer’s disease.

Henry Kendall is Lucy’s Father and the CEO of Cambridge Dynamics (though not necessarily in that order of importance). Though he would like to spend more time with his ailing wide, Henry is anxious to complete his own work in bionics as he knows that his own time is severely limited by the fatal illness that he has kept secret from his family.

Jack Taylor (main character of the novel Famine which will be a sequel to The Moravec Threshold) is a biology graduate student and one of Lucy’s labmates. He studies animal communication (like whale songs and frog calls) to understand social behavior in animal populations. Jack loves the outdoors and wants to do something meaningful with his life (if only he could figure out what that is).

I'll reveal more characters as they invent themselves.