Catspaw (1988) (edit title/settings)

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Characters/People edit see section history

• Cat: Half-breed defective Psion blackmailed by Centauri Transport to guard Lady Elnear
• Lady Elnear taMing: Centauri pawn and Jule's aunt
• Braedee: Chief of Security for Centauri Transport
• Gentleman Charon taMing: Head of taMing family and Jule's father
• Lazuli taMing: Charon's wife
• Jiro taMing: Lazuli's son and Charon's stepson
• Talitha taMing: Lazuli's daughter and Charon's stepdaughter
• Mez Philipia Jardan: Lady Elnear's Executive Assistant
• Daric taMing: Charon's son and Cat's nemesis
• Argentyne: Daric's ladyfriend and a famous symb-player (entertainer)
• Sojourner Stryger: religious hyper
• Mikah: Cat's blood brother and contact to the Lack Market
• Kissindre Perrymeade: teaching intern, student on the Darwin
• Ezra: Kissindre's boyfriend, student on the Darwin
• Shander Mandragora: the Indy's most popular fax hyper
• Natan Isplanasky: head of Contact Labor
• The Governor: mediator for Lack Market
• Dr. DeAth: runs a black lab off the Deep End
• Ichiba: head of Mikah's Family
• Midnight: member of Argentyne's symb
• Kiroku: member of Argentyne's symb
• Aspen: member of Argentyne's symb
• Raya: member of Argentyne's symb

Quotes edit see section history

• “"A catspaw is someone used by someone else to do a job that is unpleasant or dangerous"”

  Lady Elnear taMing

• “The only problem with not being invisible any more was too many people got to see you naked.”

  Cat

• “The combines are the lions and tigers of a new age, ruthless and totally amoral.”

  Lady Elnear taMing

• “You have to live in a place to really know it's ugliness.”

  Cat

• “You know somehow when you address me as 'Lady', it sounds entirely different.......rather like you were yelling at me from a street corner.”

  Lady Elnear taMing

• “Some dweeb once said to me, "Cheer up. Things could aways be worse." He was right about that much.”

  Cat

Setting & Locations edit see section history

• The Darwin: floating University with over 500 students
• The Monument: artificial world constructed millennia ago and dropped into an orbit around a bleary orange star in the middle of nowhere; planet considered a Federation Preserve

Organizations edit see section history

• Centauri Transit: powerful shipping company run by the taMings; homebase on Earth
• ChemEnGen: biochemical company started by Lady Elnear's parents
• Triple Gee: rival company of Centauri

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Table of Contents edit see section history

Glossary edit see section history

• bliss: streetname of pentryptine a powerful euphoric inducing drug
• fax hyper: newscaster

Series & Lists edit see section history

Preceded by Psion, and followed by Dreamfall.

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

1. Joan D. Vinge (Author)

First Edition edit see section history

Classification edit see section history

• Library of Congress: PS3572.I53 C3 1988 FT MEADE
• Dewey: 813.54

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Subjects edit see section history

• Books › Science Fiction & Fantasy › Authors, A-Z › ( V ) › Vinge, Joan
• Books › Science Fiction & Fantasy › Science Fiction › Adventure