Freefall
Wiki-version of hard science fiction web comic Freefall from Mark Stanley especially for voice-reader programs. You can financially support Mark on his Patreon
Table of Content
Chapter 1
- Off to see the Mayor (continue)
- Florence gets out for a walk (continue)
Chapter 2
- Meatloaf and other reasons to go to jail (continue)
- The future of angry mobs (continue)
- What not to do while terraforming (continue)
Characters
- 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
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