This page contains a list of characters from my books. If you follow the links deeper, you will enter into the realm of my notes and my visions of these beings. You may prefer to keep them as you imagined them. However, if you dare, you are welcome to see them as they sprang from my mind.
... The Strange Reincarnation Of Lucinda Tarne
Primary Characters
Gerry Wong
A brilliant but isolated first-year student searching for connection through code.
Lucinda Tarne (Lucy)
A frontier girl whose fate echoes far beyond her own century.
Madame Flora
An antique fortune-telling automaton rebuilt for a new kind of intelligence.
18th-Century Characters
- Karonghyonte - A Mohawk man whose bond with Lucy defies boundaries.
- Father Pelletier - A stern priest convinced he knows the truth.
- Major Boucher - A British officer whose authority shapes Lucy’s fate.
- Lucy’s Grandfather - A frontier settler trying to protect what little he has.
Family & Home
- Gerry’s Mother - A hardworking parent whose love anchors Gerry’s world.
- Auntie Lu - Warm, outspoken, and spiritually attuned.
- Chewie - The family dog who believes he’s the center of the universe.
The Gamers (The Shakespeareans)
- Amun Singh - A calm, observant gamer with a disciplined mind.
- Fred - A friendly, enthusiastic player who brings people together.
- Wayne - A townie with hidden talents and unwavering loyalty.
- Maria - The organizer who unknowingly launches a life-changing game.
- Gracie - A goth gamer with sharp instincts and a guarded heart.
- Madison - A prickly presence who softens only for a select few.
- Devonn - A confident gamer with strong opinions and quick reflexes.
- Margaret - A worldly player with a keen sense for strategy.
- Pamela - A quiet observer who sees more than she says.
- Ricardo - A bold competitor with revolutionary energy.
VIA Inc. Characters
- Louis Highman - A tech prodigy whose ambition shapes the future of AI.
- Dr. Tschanna Adebayo - A brilliant researcher exploring the boundaries of mind and machine.
- Dr. Laurie- A practical engineer who keeps the hardware grounded.
- Dr. Sugihara - A master of algorithms with a quiet intensity.
- Dr. Cortez (Carlos) - A gamer-scientist who bridges two worlds.
- Mai Li - A sharp, driven researcher with secrets of her own.
- Alphonse & Daryl - The indispensable tech duo who know every corner of the building.
External Forces
- FBI Agents - Investigators drawn into a mystery they barely understand.
- Bang Shen / Mob Operatives - Unseen forces moving in the shadows of the Game.
University Characters
Professors
- Professor Wulshnik - An AI pioneer eager to push his students into the future.
- Professor Pinter - A sharp-minded mathematician with an eye for promising students.
- Dr. Mayer - A literature professor who sees deeper truths in every story.
- Professor Kollner - A thoughtful guide through the moral questions of classic fiction.
Other Students & Classmates
Gerry’s academic world includes a wide cast of fellow students who shape his early college experience:
- Miss Michaels — A devout student whose faith shapes every discussion.
- Debby, Logan, Miriam — “The Three Graces,” confident voices in seminar.
- Bill Crom — A good-natured athlete navigating a world of ideas.
- Phillipe — A poetic soul with dramatic flair.
- Miss Reese — A gentle future teacher with a gift for empathy.
- Stuart — A drifting classmate who never quite keeps up.
- Stella — The girl Gerry hopes to meet on his first night out.
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... Wonderball Apocalypse
Primary Characters
Gerry Wong - the reincarnated young computer scientist
Lucinda Tarne - the young frontier girl
Characters Gerry meets on his journey
- The Lueders - German family first to own the Wonderball
- Mother Iolanda - a Romanian psychic
- Mustafa Kamal - a jihadi wannabee
- Bayanchur Khan - a warlord
- Chodak - a young Budhist Boddhisatva
- Bruce - an American trekker
- Lao Zhou - a Daoist truck driver
- Manager Zhang - a Confucian Chinese factory manager for Bang Shen
- Diego Robitz - a robotics entrepreneur
- Kat Kookaburra - the handle of the developer of Wonderball World website
- Crusher, Jorge, and Julio - the cartel toughs operating the growfarm for Wonderballs
- Sherriff - the Sherriff of Tonganoxie
- Granny Lebeuf - the voodou Mambo
- Philip Lebeuf - the voodou Oungan
Some of those reincarnated as Wonderballs
- Stepan Mikhailovich - a Russian peasant
- Llewellyn Bobit - an English convict
- Priscilla Gibson - a frontier grandmother
- Siobhan Corker - an Irish boy
- Saralynn - a frontier Mormon wife
- Willie Carpenter - WWI ace who returns to become a spaceman
- Timothy Leary - returns as himself, working in a garage
- He Who Hunts - a stoneage hunter
- Ishikawa Taiga - the Samurai warrior, now a tutor of a weakling kid
Characters reacting to the apocalypse
- Louis Highman - the tech entrepreneur who made the mistake
- Scully & Muldar - FBI agents looking for Gerry
- Bobby Baklava & Fredo Corleone - not FBI agents, looking for Gerry
- Dr. Adabayo - the spy working for Bang Shen
- Rajendra Banarjee - a tech support agent for VIA
- Agent Thomas - the special agent in charge of finding Gerry, dead or alive
- Rev. Lothbrook - along with his Wonderball, Mary Ellen, the founder of the Church of Crystal Spirits
- Dr. Janowski - a scientist trying to prove the Wonderballs are a hoax perpetrated by Gerry Wong
- Freddie - a young boy who wants to build his own Wonderball
- Athabasca Reynolds - the newscaster for ...
The Shakespeareans
- Wayne - runs an electronics repair shop and has the farm in Lburg
- Pamela - has the sloop Rescue
- Margaret - was hiking the Appalachina trail
- Amun Singh - a Sikh, has a traveling video game truck
- Devonn - works for Google, picks up Pamela, Amun, and Gerry in Memphis
- Fred - working on his MBA at NYU
- Ricardo - joined the Marines
- Gracie and Madison - now married
- Maria - teaching elementary ed in Brooklyn, now the head of the "family" that controls the gambling on the Game