Study Guide

Timescape Characters

By Gregory Benford

Gordon Bernstein is a professor at the University of California at La Jolla, and along with...

Renfrew is the character that gets this whole temporal party started. He comes up with the...

Ian Peterson is working for the Council. He ultimately helps Renfrew secure the funding needed to...

Markham is an American plasma physicist who comes to Cambridge to help Renfrew sell Peterson on...

Marjorie is Renfrew's wife and the only woman amongst the boy's club that is Timescape's...

Penny is Gordon's live-in girlfriend and a born-and-raised California girl. She is not Jewish,...

Nicky and Johnny are the children of John and Marjorie. John feels himself growing distant from...