Sphere | Characters
A typical Crichton novel. Sphere is filled with a number of minor characters who are portrayed with a few deft touches that make them identifiable. However, these characters appear only briefly and remain undeveloped. Others, such as Hal Barnes, Alice Fletcher, Tina Chan, Jane Edmunds, and Rose Levy, become personalities, although they primarily function as character types.
Five characters are represented with enough depth to take on the semblance of real people: Ted Fielding, Harry Adams, Beth Halpern, Norman Johnson, and Jerry. Fielding, a forty-year-old astrophysicist at...
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