Permutation City
Permutation CityGreg Egan
Characters in Permutation City
6 characters, main characters first.Main characters
Paul Durham
Wealthy Sydney obsessive who runs Copies of himself and drives the plan to build Permutation City.
Maria Deluca
Programmer and Autoverse enthusiast hired to design the seed of the simulated universe.
Supporting characters
Peer (Permutation City)
A Copy living a slowed-down, cheap virtual life who keeps reshaping his own identity.
Kate (Permutation City)
A Copy who shares Peer's constrained virtual existence.
Malcolm Carter
Famed virtual-reality architect who builds a hidden virtual city of his own.
Thomas Riemann
A Copy troubled by the violent past of his physical original.