Blindsight
Characters in Blindsight
6 characters, main characters first.Main characters
Siri Keeton
The narrator: a "synthesist" whose childhood hemispherectomy left him able to model any mind without sharing its experience, sent along to observe the mission and report it back to Earth.
Supporting characters
Jukka Sarasti
Commander of the Theseus mission and a vampire — a predatory hominid subspecies resurrected from the human genome for its superior cognition.
Susan James
The mission's linguist, whose brain has been surgically partitioned into four distinct sentient personalities collectively known as the Gang.
Isaac Szpindel
The ship's biologist and physician, interfaced so extensively with his instruments that he perceives x-rays and ultrasound directly.
Amanda Bates
Major Amanda Bates, the mission's combat specialist, who commands autonomous military drones rather than troops.
Robert Cunningham
The mission's backup biologist, carried aboard the Theseus in reserve against the loss of a crew specialist.