Alexis
Names: AlexisAlexAlex ManionAlexis ManionManion
First appears in Book 2: Jack the Bodiless, chapter 7 (4 HANOVER, NEW HAMPSHIRE, EARTH 24 AUGUST 2051)
Appearances
What you know
Book 2: Jack the Bodiless
- Ch 7Alexis is Perdita's son and Marc's best friend, an ordinary genius swinging between idealism and fascist tendencies.
- Ch 31Alex is Marc's best friend and former prep school roommate, an unmeasurable-IQ computer engineer who intends to study theoretical physics; his creativity is grandmasterclass, other powers mediocre.
- Ch 31Alex tested Marc's helmet chip, found it fine, and suggested the glitch might be in Marc's own mind or interference from another mind.
- Ch 31After hearing Marc's story about his dead twin, Alex searched an abnormal psychology database on sibling rivalry.
- Ch 42Alex had earlier suspected that Marc's helmet had been tampered with.
Book 3: Diamond Mask
- Ch 11Alex was Marc's best friend and Rebellion advisor, later reportedly his implacable enemy; a genius in dynamic-field research at IDFS Cambridge.
- Ch 11Alex denounced Unity and publicly joined the Rebellion in 2080, ending his Nobel prospects; he resents Rogi for the affair with his mother.
- Ch 11Alex studied on the Poltroyan planet Fomiron-su-Piton.
- Ch 12Alex and Boom-Boom declined to join Marc's lab for now, saying they might later.
- Ch 12Alex and friends Pete, Shig and Boom-Boom leave the party for a secret adults-only gathering at Marc's, which Jack knows about from Luc.
Book 4: Magnificat
- Ch 8Alexis is a leading authority on mental lattices and dynamic fields, working at Cambridge University.
- Ch 14Alex has known Marc since their schooldays and says no one really knows him; he flies an old Mitsubishi rhocraft.
- Ch 20Marc's old friend and Council member, who dislikes high-df starflight and is shocked by the Mental Man plan.
- Ch 21Alex Manion's paper claiming Unity was incompatible with mental-lattice field theory shocked the Concilium and cost him the Nobel Prize.
Connections
- friend ofMarcbest friend, former roommate
- family ofPerdita Manionmother
- member ofMu Psi Omega
- member ofRebellion
Key moments
- Book 2 · Ch 31Marc tells Alex the hoax
While Alex tests the helmet, Marc telepathically reveals that his mother and Rogi are alive, hidden to save the baby Jack, and that the family is working to change the law.
- Book 2 · Ch 31Helmet test and twin revelation
Alex finds the chip fine and speculates about interference by another mind; Marc mentions his dead twin Matthieu.
- Book 2 · Ch 38Jack reveals his creativity
In the frat house game room Jack gives Alex and Pete a Ping-Pong ball whose polymers he psychocreatively altered, then admits to Marc he has secretly practiced creativity, taught by the kahuna Malama.
- Book 2 · Ch 38Cancer discovered on Jack's toe
Jack shows a lesion on his toe that resists self-redaction; Marc diagnoses cancer, signalling rejection of the gene therapy, and rushes him to Hitchcock Hospital.
- Book 3 · Ch 11Voyage to Orb aboard the Skykomish River
In 2063 Rogi and Marc's four friends travel to Orb for Marc's accession; Rogi overhears their conversations and learns Marc is a self-imposed virgin.
- Book 3 · Ch 11Arrival at Telonis
The ship drops out of hyperspace near Telonis, hurting an unmedicated Rogi. The travelers see the altered white dwarf and nebula; Alex explains it is a Lylmik artifact.
- Book 3 · Ch 11Arrival at Orb and meeting Lynelle
Rogi and Marc's four friends arrive at Orb; Marc introduces Lynelle Rogers, whose beauty and unreadable mind unsettle Rogi, and explains the lodging mix-up.
- Book 4 · Ch 14Rebel delegation arrives at CEREM
The Rebel Executive Council members fly to CEREM, are challenged by security, and gain entry with Marc's key-fleck. They discuss whether to offer Marc the Rebellion's leadership.
- Book 4 · Ch 14Clamshell test exceeds its schedule
Marc Remillard, in the clamshell for a refrigeration-armor test, energizes his brain to level six hundred against orders, levitates the rig through the sigma shield, and tells the Rebel visitors they may proceed only his way.
- Book 4 · Ch 20Marc reveals the Mental Man plan
Flying to Inisfáil, Marc tells Alex about the Mental Man project and asks his support to delay arming the Russian-built starships, while keeping the project secret.
- Book 4 · Ch 30The Cible exercise
During Diobsud's eclipse of Cible, Marc's metaconcert of ten focus members and many Grand Masters transformed the moon's core, shattering its ice crust and ruining its atmosphere while a mock planetesimal masked the cause.