Pascha: Mistress and administrative assistant of the Russian Union Premier, sister to Trixie
Ping: Peacekeeper for the BrainTrust, Security Chief for the Prometheus fleet, Empress of Benin
Putu Arnawa: Peacekeeper for the Prometheus fleet
Qi Ru: Hukou peasant, escaped to attend Oxford, venture financing broker for the Fuxing, co-founder of Oceanic Mining
Quraish: villager who takes care of a solar panel field in the Sahel desert who assists Ping and Dash in the search for Khalid
Rhett Woodson: Nuclear engineer and designer for the primary isle ship reactors
Samuels: Captain of the BrainTrust submarine Alcyone, delivered the vaccine for the Red Rubola to Captain Levinsky of Israel
Sheldon Collins: CEO of VBC, the world’s leading supplier of Voter Behavior Correction, a company founded by Ryan Morgan who died during Dash’s first attempt at rejuvenation therapy
Shu Shi: Baotong villager, wife of Kuo Lim, mother of missing daughter Liling
Shura: Brilliant young girl from the Dahomey region of Benin, whose hands were amputated by the Benin Beloved Chief Advisor for Life, developer of a genetically engineered version of the cocoa tree that could grow in Benin, and developer of a breed of hornets that inject a date rape drug, the nests of which can be dropped on gangs of thugs and soldiers to pacify them
Song: Brilliant older hukou peasant from the Loess Plateau, father of Tai
Sonia Manning: Exotic dancer and organ replacement researcher
Suen: Colonel in the Chinese Army, charged with pacifying western Nigeria and capturing the Kainji Dam
Suparman Herianto: aka Soup, peacekeeper for the Prometheus fleet
Ted Simpson: Teenage developer of advanced homebrew copters, developer of the BrainTrust stealth copters, developer of the Black Titan stealth rocketship
Toni Shatzki: Israeli Air Force Captain, engineering student at BTU, daughter of the Israeli Prime Minister, close friend of Dash, leader of the squadron that bombed Khalid’s hideout
Trey: Drug dealer in Compton, an early adopter in the illegal sale of opioids, a lead adopter in the illegal sale of the vaccine for Black Rubola, innovator who first used drone copters to deliver illegal drugs right to the customer’s doorstep, lender of last resort against future social security paychecks, illegal currency dealer
Trixie: Known as Tascha as a child, broken and trained by the Premier as a “sparrow”, mistress and administrative assistant for the Chief Advisor, sister to Pascha
Vasily: ex-bodyguard for Dmitri, ex Spetsnaz commando, once took orders directly from the Russian Union Premier, attempted kidnapper of Dash, now works as a peacekeeper for the Fuxing fleet for Security Chief Hart
Wolf Griffin: Marine Major, BrainTrust peacekeeper, friend of Ping and Dash and Chance and Drew Moreno, partner of Aar
Wu Bolin: Chinese Railroad Group mid-level manager, inventor of the plan to rebuild the Lagos harbor and once more begin drilling for the oil in the Nigerian Delta swamp
Xiu Bao: Hukou peasant girl, student on the Taixue
Yahontov: Admiral commanding the Russian Black Sea Fleet
Yefim: Bodyguard for Dmitri
Zhang: Chinese Army Major commanding troops near the Loess Plateau, now a general, who failed in an attempt to capture Jam and prevent her from rescuing the villagers of Baotong
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Books by Marc Stiegler
The Braintrust Universe
The Braintrust - A Harmony of Enemies (1)
The Braintrust: A Crescendo Of Fire (2)
The Braintrust: Rhapsody for the Tempest (3)
Ode To Defiance (4)
Braintrust: Requiem (5)
Ode To Defiance
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Valentina
(Hugo Award Finalist)
David's Sling
(Prometheus Award Finalist)
EarthWeb
The Gentle Seduction (anthology)
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