Characters
Full character bios. The main characters are
- Benjamin Prester (American, from what is now Canada), one of the Vorstellen Police's best agents.
- Caprice Quevillion (Martian), a captain and criminal psychologist with the Martian police. Mars requested that she be assigned to Prester's current case.
- Dr. Virgil Haas (unknown), the mad scientist Benjamin and Caprice are currently investigating. He names his robots after poets.
- Mars, the collective consciousness of the Martian people.
Supporting characters:
- Chaucer, a small spherical robot of Haas' and his second-in-command
- Mukhali (Mannie) Delger (Mongolian), "the best computer programmer born in the 22nd century," according to Agent Prester, and a former mad scientist
- Rocco Dinh Diem (Venusian), a figure in the Venusian mafia
- Dryden, a large robot of Haas', who manages Haas' network of unicycle camera drones, called "Marlowes"
- Dr. Beatriz Juruna, industrial chemist, a near-mad-scientist friend of Haas, living on the Moon.
- Fabula, a robotic member of the Martian constabulary, partner of Syuzhet.
- Gustave Nyerere (Republic of Southern Africa, from what is now Tanzania), Benjamin's superior.
- Pindar One and Two, two very large robots of Haas'
- Serafina Quevillion, Caprice's aunt
- Thaddeus Quevillion, Caprice's father
- Wei Quevillion, Caprice's 7-year-old sister
- Xia Quevillion, Caprice's mother, a sculptor
- Qin Shiuhuangdi, Caprice's artificially intelligent police cruiser (first appearance, reconstructed appearance); it can travel six times faster than non-Martian ships.
- Djaya Sumatera, a former mad scientist and expert on artificial intelligence
- Syuzhet, a robotic member of the Martian constabulary, partner of Fabula.
- Greta Vedrine (Venusian), an associate of - and semi-bodyguard for - Rocco
- Taro Watanuki, an information broker .
- Mrs. Waters, President of Mars
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