Nov 15, 2009

Blood Music | Characters

Blood Music's cast of important characters is small. Vergil Ulam launches the plot with his quest. He is thirty-two-years-old and at the beginning of the novel overweight, bespectacled, troubled with health problems. He is a misfit at the Genetron lab and in society. He had been frustrated all his life, very gifted but never "good at gauging the consequences of his actions." Moreover, he is a flawed character ethically, having falsified university credentials to obtain his job. Yet he feels no guilt, believing that "the world was his personal puzzle," and "any riddlings and...