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Rob de'Mars | Where the Pen is Mightier than the Sword Ross and Maggie Willford Ross is an engineering professor at the University of Southern California. He is fifty-something at the beginning of the story and is married to Maggie for over 30 years, happily I might add. She raised their 3 children and volunteers at the church food bank. He becomes the head engineer for the Atlantis project, responsible for recycling the plastic and designing the entire city of New Atlantis. Clark Gibson Clark is the person who came up with the idea of building Atlantis, and indeed it was his idea to recycle plastic and to use spheres. He is the one who convinced people to join and become a part of Atlantis. He is a widower with three children. Atlantis would never had happened if it weren't for Clark. Amy Gilmore Amy is a doctor of medicine who has never had time for a life. Her work is her life and she is obsessed, without any doubt. She cannot help people enough and is drawn to the Atlantis project where she can do more! Amy has secrets that she cannot tell anyone. Not even her family knows her secret! The day finally comes when she leaves Atlantis to go help the world. Little does she know what is in store for her on the 2 year voyage that she has chosen to take. For the first time in her life she lets someone in! Then she has to tell them her secret ... Bonnie Marston Bonnie is a school teacher who joined Atlantis early on and learned how to build the sphere homes. She eagerly awaits for the school to be built as teaching the second grade of school was her love of life. Bonnie is a lover of the theater and has been in many plays over the years, from junior high on. She ritually goes to the dock when ever a new group of people come to Atlantis. Bonnie is a single girl with a mission. | Paul and Selina Selina Twisdale is the most beautiful woman in New Atlantis. So beautiful that the boys are afraid to ask her out. She has never had a boyfriend at the age of 25, much to her dismay. Paul Pasko is just a young man himself, and like all the young men, scared to ask her out. After a month of working with Selina, he finally works up enough courage to tell her how he feels. Jason and Abby Jason and Abby have been a couple since they were ten years old. They are both orphans and grew up together in a foster home. They were best friends from the beginning and neither can imagine living without the other. The thing about Jason and Abby is they want grandparents for their children. They are all alone in the world with no known relatives. To them Atlantis is the greatest adventure ever and they love it! The Patriots George and Walt Walt is the leader of the Michigan Patriot Militia, a war hero from Vietnam. He continues to serve America as a protector of freedom, along with his group and all the other militia in America. George is his first in command and they are old buddies, from high school, who joined together. They have spent their entire lives together and there is no bond like that of war buddies. Walt, like all the militia, realized they must have comparable weapons with the enemy to be an effective militia, as the Constitution provides for. He served time in a Federal prison for being a patriotic American! That is about as wrong as it gets! | Dave the Mountain Man Dave is an old man who has given up on society because of the crimes that were committed against him by this society. He hates the government passionately and is a patriot in his own right. Dave used to live in Ferris Peak for over 35 years before his demise. After college he eventually became a computer programmer, till his divorce. Before Dave got married he lived alone in his mountain home. He spent years pursuing his spirituality, studying all religions, including the old pagen rituals that once existed on the planet. After 3 years of study he entered into a pilgrimage, similar to that of the great pilgrimage of 3000 BC. Shelly McMerrick Shelly, the last investigative reporter, is in her forties with a fairly impressive reporting history. She covered the Desert Storm, exposed the illegal Japanese corporate takeover of American businesses, along with many others. She lives to expose corporate criminals and government crimes. As a result of her passion for her work, Shelly has been engaged to Peter Talcottski for ten years! He loves her so much that he will not take her career away from her. He is a very patient man, something Shelly needs as a rule. Doctor Adam Marcus Adam is the youngest doctor on the planet to run a hospital. He is efficient and has a twisted sense of humor, that everyone likes! Oh, did I say he is good looking and single? Adam is a lover of the stage and has always been involved in theater. It is his second love, next to being a doctor. |