Major Characters
- Dr. Vannevar Morgan. A structural engineer and Chief Engineer (land) of Terran Construction Corporation. He has seen through many major projects, including the Gibraltar bridge (another fictional engineering triumph).
- Maxine Duval. Famous journalist and sometime Professor of electronic journalism. She is the first person to ride up the tower in a one-person "Spider" to prove that the technology is practical.
- Sheik Abdullah. President, and effectively dictator, of the Autonomous North African Republic, which has backed many of Morgan’s projects.
- Venerable Anandatissa Bodhidharma Mahanayake Thero. Incumbent leader of the Sri Kanda temple.
- Dr Choam Goldberg, aka Venerable Parakarma. Astrophysicist and expert in the mathematics of Micrometeorology.
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