FLAHERTY: Producer of Nanook of the North, 1922. KAREEM FEKESH: Industrialist, suspected supporter of UMAF YARNALL alias THE NATIONAL GUARDSMAN: Dream Park actor JOHNNY WELSH: Gamer professional comedian. KEVIN TITUS: Computer programmer and computer gamer Talisman: a crumpled skin crusted with black soot, for strength. MAX SANDS: Gamer Professional wrestler under the name Mr.
GWEN RYDER alias CANDICE alias KANGUQ alias SNOW GOOSE: Professional actress. MARTIN QATERLIARAQ alias MARTIN THE ARCTIC FOX: Sorcerer or angakok among the Inuit. OLLIE NORLISS alias FRANKISH OLIVER: Professional Gamer and MD.
Talisman: semi-automatic rifle.įRANCIS HEBERT: Marine, Major in the reserves. Talisman: a swatch of white fur, arctic seal, for invisibility.ĮVIANE alias MICHELLE RIVERS alias MICHELLE STURGEON: Veteran of the first Fimbulwinter Game. Talisman: caribou’s ear, for hearing.ĬHARLENE DULA: Gamer from the zero-grav habitat Falling Angel, and friend to Michelle Sturgeon. Now an executive in the Department of Financial Affairs.ĭWIGHT WELLES: Senior computer tech for Dream Park Game Master for the altered Fimbulwinter Game. MILLICENT SUMMERS: Formerly Griffin’s secretary. SANDY KHRESLA: Head of Dream Park Maintenance Division.ĬARY McGIWON: Alex Griffin’s new assistant. THADEUS HARMONY: Dream Park Director of Operations. Plays as Hippogryph.ĪLEX GRIFFIN: Security Chief of Dream Park. In sum, Barnes not only captures the textures of street life without falling into stereotypes but lays down a marker for the next generation of Black sf writers by injecting Black cultural politics into a cyberpunk future that is (and has always been) racialized.RICHARD ARBENZ: Ambassador from Falling Angel Charlene Dula’s maternal uncle. For example, while Black people have always been reduced to their bodies by the white gaze, Barnes concentrates on the unification of the mind and body thus, Barnes offers a racially informed vision of cyberpunk that moves beyond the amalgamation of human bodies with prosthetic technoscience. Specifically, while there are features of Barnes’s work that are reminiscent of more mainstream and well-known cyberpunk, Barnes modifies the tropes in unique and racially-inflected ways. Steven Barnes’s career has spanned forty years, but his contribution to cyberpunk culture has gone largely overlooked, in part because of the mode’s monochromatism and at-the-time startling lack of diversity yet novels such as Streetlethal (1983), Gorgon Child (1989), Firedance (1994), and Blood Brothers (1996) position Barnes as an unqualifiedly unique voice that expands our understanding of cyberpunk culture.
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