Coming of Age: Volume 1: Eternal Life

by Thomas T. Thomas

  Ted Bridger, partner in the BB&W law firm

  Prabhjot Bajwa, Antigone’s doctor at UCSF Medical Center, Mission Bay

  Peterson and Jamison, John’s doctors at UCSF Medical Center

  Anderson and Adamson, stem cell researchers at Stanford Medical Center

  Tina Gonzales, clinical technologist at Stanford Medical Center

  Gary and Jocelyn, Antigone’s therapists at UCSF Medical Center

  Elpidia Hartzog, reporter from the San Francisco Chronicle

  Part 2 – 2019: Run for Your Life

  Jeanne Hale, Antigone’s in-home nursing attendant

  Maritsa, Antigone’s housekeeper

  Pamela Sheldon, PE&C receptionist on the thirty-eighth floor

  Ivy Blake, John’s former executive assistant

  Kay Sheffield, John’s new executive assistant

  Madeline Bauer, Antigone’s administrative assistant

  Judy, green belt instructor in Okinawan karate

  Miranda, John’s and Adele’s cook

  Alison Crowder, PE&C head of Human Resources

  Daniel and Eric, black belt instructors in Okinawan karate

  Meyer, staff physician at California Pacific Medical Center

  Harold Cromwell, project liaison at the Denver Arts Commission

  Julia Schottlander, PE&C accounting analyst

  Roxbrough, U.S. Army recruiting sergeant, Menlo Park

  Anthony Ruysdael, major, U.S. Army Ordnance Corps

  Darrell Young, lieutenant colonel, Arizona Army National Guard

  Valone, John’s and Adele’s family physician

  Winston Burke, PE&C vice president and chief counsel

  Herb Longacre, PE&C executive vice president for international marketing

  Kevin Lowe, marketing vice president, Intelligeneering Systems Inc.

  Father Demetrios, priest at Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church in San Francisco

  Ramsay, captain, 1/22nd Combat Infantry Group, California Army National Guard

  Beemis, general, U.S. Army, coordinator of the attack on Kansas City

  Part 3 – 2028: Plumbing Work

  Nora, Tommy, and Joey Graham, John’s neighbors on Balboa Street

  Helen Wells Carter, Antigone’s younger sister in Oklahoma

  Bernie Gutierrez, head of purchasing at PlumbKit

  Peter Greenwood, Antigone’s sensei in Isshinryu karate

  Count Francesco di Rienzi, Callista’s late husband

  Janet Bormann, Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

  Matteo di Rienzi, Francesco’s uncle in Torino, Italy

  Carlo di Rienzi, Matteo’s son in Torino, Italy

  Philip Sawyer, chairman and chief executive of Tallyman Systems, Inc.

  Elise Paterson, Antigone’s urologist in Oklahoma City

  Frieda Hammond, major, G1 Manpower and Personnel, in Brandon’s unit

  Stephen Swarovski, major, G3 Operations, in Brandon’s unit

  Kendal, John’s doctor at Saint Mary’s Regional Medical Center in Reno

  Axel Brod, engineer with the resurrected Praxis Engineering & Construction

  Will Chapple, project manager on rebuilding the War Memorial Opera House

  Sonny Deeths, construction superintendent on rebuilding of the opera house

  Mariene Kunstler, former policewoman from Germany, among other places

  Potiphar Jackson, software designer at Tallyman Systems, Inc.

  Bill Pitt, former master sergeant in Brandon’s unit

  Sally Hungerford, former first lieutenant in Brandon’s unit

  Bernardo Gorgoni, head of Construction Workers International Local 320

  Robert Rudolph, judge, F.R. District Court, Eastern District of California

  Melissa Willbrot, attorney, City of Los Angeles Board of Public Works

  Ashley Benedict, medical technician with Parthenotics, Inc.

  About the Author

  Thomas T. Thomas is a writer with a career spanning forty years in book editing, technical writing, public relations, and popular fiction writing. Among his various careers, he has worked at a university press, a tradebook publisher, an engineering and construction company, a public utility, an oil refinery, a pharmaceutical company, and a supplier of biotechnology instruments and reagents. He published eight novels and collaborations in science fiction with Baen Books and is now working on more general and speculative fiction. When he’s not working and writing, he may be out riding his motorcycle, practicing karate, or wargaming with friends. Catch up with him at www.thomastthomas.com.

  Photo by Robert L. Thomas

  Books by Thomas T. Thomas

  eBooks:

  The Professor’s Mistress

  The Children of Possibility

  The Judge’s Daughter

  Sunflowers

  Trojan Horse

  Baen Books and eBooks:

  The Doomsday Effect (as by “Thomas Wren”)

  First Citizen

  ME: A Novel of Self-Discovery

  Crygender

  Baen Books in Collaboration:

  An Honorable Defense (with David Drake)

  The Mask of Loki (with Roger Zelazny)

  Flare (with Roger Zelazny)

  Mars Plus (with Frederik Pohl)