Shift
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Characters in Shift
13 characters, main characters first.Main characters
Donald Keene
A congressman turned architect of the underground silo project, whose growing complicity and doubt drive the book's present-day timeline.
Also in Dust
Antagonists
Senator Thurman
The senator who recruits Donald to design the silos and oversees the project that leads to humanity's collapse.
Supporting characters
Anna Thurman
Senator Thurman's daughter and Donald's former girlfriend, who draws him back into the silo project decades later.
Mission Jones
A teenage porter in Silo 18 caught up in the Great Uprising, generations after Donald's story begins.
Solo
The lone survivor of Silo 17's collapse, living in isolation for decades before Juliette finds him.
Cam
Thurman (Silo 1)
Also in Dust
Jimmy Parker
The Crow