Freefall

Capítulo 2

• Sam – an aliensqid , adventurer, pickpocket and slob
• Florence – , flight engineer, REAL “techno goddess”, birthday - March 17
• Maxwell Post – missionary crook, secret agent
• Winston – pacifist veterinarian, friend of Florence
• Niomi – hired locksmith; cooperates with Tangent

Officials:

• Mayor and assistant mayor – managers of town near a spaceport
• Police chief and police officers

Robots:

• Helix – a robot loader with an advanced naivete; constantly hanging around Sam, trying to understand his philosophy
• Sawtooth Rivergrinder – a big robot terraformer; hobbies - sleuthing and ferocious wall-breaking
• Dvorak – an experimental philosopher, a kind, funny, and very dangerous robot
• Qwerty – a robot, is Dvorak's friend; nothing special
• Clippy – is Mr. Ishiguro's personal robot
• Blunt – a superulturist robot, decommissioned from orbital work after a stellar outbreak
• Edge – a superegoist robot, is Blunt's assistant
• Tangent – hired locksmith, weirdo; cooperates with Niomi
• millions of other robots

“Ecosystems Unlimited”Jina's branch staff:

• Mr. Ishiguro – chief finance officer
• Mr. Raibert – chief technical officer
• Mr. Kornada – top management “demon”
• Dr. Bowman – chief AI officer
• Dr. Henry Mehr – looks after Dr. Bowman
• The mustachioed polar explorer and his wife – a couple of complete idiots
• Varroa Jacobsoni – AI psychology expert
• guards, office workers, ferocious children, and other Jina colonists