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Chicago

This Midwestern city is the setting of part of the story. A major trading hub, it is one of the principal cities in the United States, known for violence across decades.

Clearly It Is Ocean

This book, existing within the milieu of the novel, is a thread that brings together disparate characters and incites one character’s overall course of action.

Go

This strategy game serves as a benchmark for measurement of other games in the text. Its mastery is an overriding goal in the work.

Lewy Body Dementia

A diagnosis received by a character in the novel, this disease progressively destroys the brain.

Makatea

This Pacific island is the setting of much of the story. Formerly an industrial supply site, it is poised to become another industrial center.

Manta Ray

This oceangoing fish is the subject of much study in the novel, and its possible sentience...

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