Characters in Children of Memory

Liff

A girl of the struggling Imir colony who claims to remember things from long before her time and calls the founder Holt her grandfather.

Miranda (Children of Time)

A member of the Skipper's crew who goes down to Imir among the colonists and takes work as the town's schoolteacher, where she befriends Liff.

Heorest Holt

Captain of the ark ship Enkidu, carrying humanity's survivors from dying Earth, and remembered on Imir as the colony's founder.

Dr. Avrana Kern

The Old Empire scientist from the first book, now an artificial intelligence that runs the Skipper and its systems on the voyage to Imir.

Also in Children of Time, Children of Ruin

Gothi

One of a bonded pair of uplifted corvids who join the expedition as envoys of their own civilisation and insist they are not truly self-aware.

Gethli

Gothi's corvid partner; the two birds think as a pair and supply much of the book's humour as they guide Liff.

Portia (Children of Time)

A Portiid spider of the Skipper's crew, bearing the generational name, who joins Miranda's team on the ground at Imir.

Also in Children of Time

Fabian (Children of Time)

A Portiid spider of the Skipper's crew who goes down to Imir as part of Miranda's team living among the colonists.

Also in Children of Time

Bianca (Children of Time)

The third Portiid spider aboard the Skipper, part of the team that settles quietly among the Imir colonists.

Also in Children of Time

Paul (Children of Time)

A member of the Skipper's multispecies crew who joins Miranda's team in human guise among the Imir colonists.

Jodry

A human member of the Skipper's multispecies crew on the expedition to Imir.