Cloud Cuckoo Land
Characters in Cloud Cuckoo Land
7 characters, main characters first.Main characters
Omeir
A boy born with a cleft lip, conscripted into the Ottoman army besieging Constantinople in 1453, who ends the siege a deserter.
Anna (Cloud Cuckoo Land)
An orphaned girl in Constantinople during the 1453 siege, who teaches herself to read Greek and rescues the ancient codex.
Zeno Ninis
An octogenarian in Lakeport, Idaho, who translates the Greek codex and works on it with a group of schoolchildren at the public library.
Seymour Stuhlman
A teenager in Lakeport, Idaho, radicalised by the destruction of the woods behind his house, who carries a bomb into the town library.
Konstance (Cloud Cuckoo Land)
A girl aboard the interstellar ship Argos, decades from now, who encounters the same ancient Greek story.
Supporting characters
Aethon (Cloud Cuckoo Land)
The protagonist of the invented ancient Greek codex at the centre of the novel, who longs to be turned into a bird and carried to a paradise city in the clouds.
Sibyl (Cloud Cuckoo Land)
The artificial intelligence of the interstellar ship Argos.