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| x Esther Greenwood | The Bell Jar |
Esther Greenwood is the main character of Sylvia Plath's semi-autobiographical novel, The Bell Jar.
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| x Peter Pan |
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Peter Pan |
Peter Pan is a character created by Scottish novelist and playwright J. M. Barrie (1860–1937). A mischievous boy who can fly and magically refuses to grow up, Peter Pan spends his never-ending childhood adventuring on the small island of Neverland...
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| x David Gerrold | The Equally Strange Reappearance of David Gerrold | |||
| x Detective Inspector John Rebus | Let it Bleed |
Detective Inspector John Rebus is the protagonist in the Inspector Rebus series of detective novels by the Scottish writer Ian Rankin, ten of which have so far been televised as Rebus. The novels are mostly set in and around Edinburgh.
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| x Lowbacca | Jedi Bounty | |||
| x Donald Shimoda | Illusions | |||
| x Case | Neuromancer | |||
| x Molly | Neuromancer | |||
| x Paul Atreides |
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Children of Dune |
Paul Atreides (a.k.a. Paul Muad'Dib) is a fictional character in the Dune universe created by Frank Herbert; he later takes the Fremen name Paul Muad'Dib and the sietch name Usul. Paul is a prominent character in the first two novels in the series,...
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| x Leto Atreides I |
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Dune |
Duke Leto Atreides I (10,140-10,191 A.G.) is a fictional character in the Dune universe created by Frank Herbert. He features in the novel Dune by Frank Herbert and in the Prelude to Dune prequel trilogy by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson.
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| x Vladimir Harkonnen |
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Dune |
The Baron Vladimir Harkonnen is a fictional character from the Dune universe created by Frank Herbert. He is primarily featured in the 1965 novel Dune, but is also a major character in the Prelude to Dune prequel trilogy (1999-2001) by Brian Herbert...
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| x Feyd-Rautha |
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Dune |
The na-Baron Feyd-Rautha Harkonnen is a fictional character in the science fiction novel Dune by Frank Herbert.
The younger nephew of the cruel, powerful and cunning Baron Vladimir Harkonnen, the dark-haired, 16-year old Feyd is as lean and...
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| x Chani |
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Dune Messiah |
Chani is a fictional character featured in Frank Herbert's novels Dune (1965) and Dune Messiah (1969). Known mainly as the Fremen wife and legal concubine of protagonist Paul Atreides (Muad'Dib), Chani is the daughter of Imperial Planetologist Liet...
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| x Liet-Kynes | Dune |
Liet-Kynes is a fictional character in the Dune universe created by Frank Herbert. He is primarily featured in the 1965 novel Dune, but also appears in the Prelude to Dune prequel trilogy (1999-2001) by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson. The...
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| x Irulan Corrino |
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Children of Dune |
Princess Irulan is a fictional character and member of House Corrino in the Dune universe created by Frank Herbert. She first appears in 1965's Dune, and is later featured in Dune Messiah (1969) and Children of Dune (1976). The character's birth and...
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| x Jubal Harshaw | Stranger in a Strange Land |
Jubal Harshaw is a fictional character featured in Stranger in a Strange Land, a novel by Robert A. Heinlein. He is described as: "Jubal E. Harshaw, LL.B., M.D., Sc.D., bon vivant, gourmet, sybarite, popular author extraordinary, neo-pessimist...
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| The Cat Who Walks Through Walls | ||||
| x Eleonora | Eleonora | |||
| x Ermengarde | Eleonora | |||
| x Hasimir Fenring |
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Dune |
Count Hasimir Fenring is a fictional character in the Dune universe created by Frank Herbert. He is featured in the science fiction novel Dune by Frank Herbert, and is also a key character in the Prelude to Dune trilogy by Brian Herbert and Kevin J....
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| x Glossu Rabban |
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Dune |
Glossu Rabban is a fictional character in the science fiction novel Dune by Frank Herbert.
The Appendix IV: The Almanak of en-Ashraf (Selected Excepts of the Noble Houses in Dune states:
COUNT GLOSSU RABBAN (10,132--10,193) Glossu Rabban, Count of...
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| x Hiro Protagonist | Snow Crash | |||
| x Y.T. | Snow Crash | |||
| x Nell | The Diamond Age |
Nell is arguably the main character of The Diamond Age, she is one of the original three to be exposed to Primers and it is her story we follow throughout the book. Her father is probably Bud, her mother is Tequila. She has one older brother, Harv.
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| x John Percival Hackworth | The Diamond Age |
the second major character. He is an upper-level engineer at Bespoke and develops the code for the Primer. He makes an illicit copy of the primer for his daughter, who is Nell's age. When his crime is detected, he is forced to become a double agent...
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| x Lord Alexander Chung-Sik Finkle-McGraw | The Diamond Age | |||
| x Judge Fang | The Diamond Age | |||
| x Dr. X. | The Diamond Age | |||
| x Miranda | The Diamond Age | |||
| x Carl Hollywood | The Diamond Age | |||
| x Tintin and Snowy |
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Tintin in the Land of the Soviets |
Tintin and Snowy (original French language names: Tintin et Milou), a journalist and his canine companion, are a pair of adventurers who travel around the world in The Adventures of Tintin, a series of comic books drawn and written by the Belgian...
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| x Louis Wu | Ringworld |
Louis Gridley Wu is the main protagonist in the Ringworld series of books, written by Larry Niven.
Wu, born in the year 2650, celebrated his 200th birthday by working his way from party to party around the world using transfer booths to stay ahead...
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| x Speaker-to-Animals | Ringworld |
Speaker-to-Animals (or later Chmeee) is a fictional character in the Ringworld series of books, written by Larry Niven.
In Ringworld, Speaker-to-Animals is a junior diplomat who is trained to deal with other species without reflexively killing them....
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| x Teela Brown | Ringworld |
Teela Brown is a fictional character created by Larry Niven in the Ringworld novels. Teela was a member of the crew recruited by Puppeteer Nessus for an expedition to the Ringworld. Her sole qualification was that she was the sixth generation of a...
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| x Nessus | Ringworld |
Nessus is a male (of the second type, his species has three sexes) character in Larry Niven's Known Space universe, of the species Pierson's Puppeteer, a herbivorous species noted for two heads whose mouths act as capable hands. Pierson's Puppeteers...
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| x Terl | Battlefield Earth | |||
| x Ker | Battlefield Earth | |||
| x Jonnie Goodboy Tyler | Battlefield Earth | |||
| x Sal Paradise | On the Road |
Salvatore “Sal” Paradise is the narrator and the protagonist in Jack Kerouac's novel On the Road. Sal, an Italian American youth living in New Jersey with his aunt, is an uninspired writer working on a book who follows and accompanies Dean Moriarty,...
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| x Dean Moriarty | On the Road | |||
| x Jack Duluoz | Maggie Cassidy | |||
| Vanity of Duluoz | ||||
| Visions of Cody | ||||
| Tristessa | ||||
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| x Maggie Cassidy | Maggie Cassidy | |||
| x Leo Percepied | The Subterraneans | |||
| x Frank Carmody | The Subterraneans | |||
| x Ti Jean Duluoz | Visions of Gerard | |||
| x Gerard Duluoz | Visions of Gerard | |||
| x Ange Duluoz | Visions of Gerard | |||
| x Panurge |
Panurge is one of the principal characters in the Pantagruel (especially the third and fourth books) of Rabelais, an exceedingly crafty knave, a libertine, and a coward.
At some point, he shows he can speak many languages (German, Italian, Scottish,...
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| x Ender Wiggin | Children of the Mind | Investment Counselor |
Andrew "Ender" Wiggin is a fictional character from Orson Scott Card's science fiction story Ender's Game and its sequels (Speaker for the Dead, Xenocide, Children of the Mind, Ender in Exile), as well as in the first part of the spin-off series,...
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| Speaker for the Dead | ||||
| Ender's Game | ||||
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| x The Buggers | Speaker for the Dead | |||
| x Cida | Speaker for the Dead | |||
| x Gusta | Speaker for the Dead | |||
| x Valentine Wiggin | Speaker for the Dead | Investment Counselor |
Valentine Wiggin is a fictional character in Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game series of novels. She is the older sister of Ender Wiggin.
The second child in the Ender family, the International Fleet requested of the Wiggin parents that a girl be...
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| x Ouanda | Speaker for the Dead | |||
| x Miro | Speaker for the Dead | |||
| x Pipo | Speaker for the Dead | |||
| x Libo | Speaker for the Dead | |||
| x Novinha | Speaker for the Dead |
Novinha is the name of a fictional character from the book series, Ender's Game, by Orson Scott Card. She makes her first apperance in Speaker for the Dead.
In gaming, Novinha is a Maple Story(an MMORPG game) player. At level 200 she is one of the...
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| x Lemuel Gulliver | Gulliver's Travels | |||
| x Winston Smith |
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Nineteen Eighty-Four |
Winston Smith is a fictional character and the protagonist of George Orwell's 1949 novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. The character was employed by Orwell as an everyman in the setting of the novel, a "central eye ... [the reader] can readily identify with...
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| x Jane | Children of the Mind | Investment Counselor |
In Orson Scott Card's Ender series, Jane is an artificial sentience thought to exist within the ansible network by which spaceships and planets communicate instantly across galactic distances. She has appeared in the novels Speaker for the Dead,...
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