Timescape Characters

Gordon Bernstein is a professor at the University of California at La Jolla, and along with graduate student Albert Cooper, he stumbles across Renfrew's tachyon transmission. What follows is a perf...

Renfrew is the character that gets this whole temporal party started. He comes up with the experiment to send tachyon transmissions containing a message back in time. The message contains warnings...

Ian Peterson is working for the Council. He ultimately helps Renfrew secure the funding needed to carry out the tachyon experiment and send messages to the past, warning the future of the ecologica...

Markham is an American plasma physicist who comes to Cambridge to help Renfrew sell Peterson on the idea of backing the tachyon experiment. It works and Markham's job after that is basically to han...

Marjorie is Renfrew's wife and the only woman amongst the boy's club that is Timescape's point-of-view characters. To paraphrase the one and only James Brown, this is a man's world, but it would me...

Penny is Gordon's live-in girlfriend and a born-and-raised California girl. She is not Jewish, which may not seem like a big deal at first, but when you hear Gordon's mom's side of things, well, th...

Nicky and Johnny RenfrewNicky and Johnny are the children of John and Marjorie. John feels himself growing distant from Johnny, in part because of his work but also because his son is simply growin...