Seveneves
SevenevesNeal Stephenson
Characters in Seveneves
8 characters, main characters first.Main characters
Ivy Xiao
A naval officer and physicist who commands the International Space Station when the Moon breaks apart.
Dinah MacQuarie
A roboticist working for an asteroid-mining company whose robotics skills become vital to survival in orbit.
Supporting characters
Moira Crewe
A geneticist brought aboard to protect humanity's genetic diversity.
Tekla Alekseyevna Ilushina
A Russian cosmonaut and former Olympic heptathlete who handles security on the station.
Julia Bliss Flaherty
The U.S. President who helps organize the international response to the catastrophe.
Doc Dubois Harris
An astronomer and science popularizer who predicts what the breakup of the Moon will do to Earth.
Aïda Ferrari
An Italian member of the Cloud Ark who becomes a central figure in its later conflicts.
Hu Noah
A geneticist who leads an expedition to Earth's surface in the final part of the novel.