Colette Roy
Names: Colette RoyColetteDr. RoyNana Colette
First appears in Book 1: Intervention, chapter 26 (4)
Appearances
What you know
Book 1: Intervention
- Ch 52Dartmouth metapsychologist, wife of Glenn Dalembert, studied abnormal psychology of operants; she wrongly diagnosed Sunny's anxiety as depression.
Book 2: Jack the Bodiless
- Ch 21Dartmouth emeritus professor of human genetics and Paul's godmother; she suggested educating Paul in the womb.
- Ch 31Colette took tissue samples from Jack for a full genetic assay at the Gilman Human Genetics Center; therapy would be done at Dartmouth.
- Ch 32Aged ninety-two when she agreed to supervise Jack's treatment, she was rejuvenated in a regeneration tank in 2035 and has a thirty-year-old's body.
- Ch 32An original Dartmouth Coterie member, a psychiatrist and later a genetics researcher on higher mindpowers, she is Paul Remillard's godmother and Denis and Lucille's close friend.
- Ch 32She supervises Jack's genetic therapy, which runs from 2052 to 2054, and implants replacement genes against all his defects.
- Ch 39Colette Roy led Jack's medical team and feared the cancers were triggered by his redundant genes, which might hold the blueprints for his own destruction.
- Ch 39She told Teresa the cancer cause was unknown: possibly viral vectors, built-in genetic triggers, or Jack's autoredactive faculty going awry.
- Ch 41Colette has nearly lost hope of conquering Jack's cancer through genetic engineering, though she consulted Krondaku, Poltroyan and Simbiari specialists.
Connections
- family ofGlenn Dalembertmarried
- ally ofDenislab colleague
- family ofPaulgodmother
- member ofDartmouth Coterie
- partner ofGlenn Dalembertmarried 1985; he died 2031
- family ofMartin Dalembertson
- related toPaulgodmother
- related toJackhis lead physician
Key moments
- Book 2 · Ch 21Dinner party at the President's House
Socorro Ortega hosts a Mesoamerican dinner for the Poltroyans, MacGregors and Remillards; talk covers Poltroyan fetal education, proctor races and coadunation, and Margaret's pregnancy is toasted.
- 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 2 · Ch 39Jack's cancers begin
From spring 2053 Jack develops toe carcinoma, testicular melanomas (removed surgically), then Ewing's sarcoma requiring limb amputations, and finally pancreatic cancer that metastasizes to vital organs, putting him on life support.
- Book 2 · Ch 39Teresa's collapse
Teresa breaks down, demands Jack be allowed to die, is sedated and bedded at home; Paul leaves again, and before Christmas she begins speaking of Jack in the past tense.
- Book 2 · Ch 41Jack's case leaked
A nurse sold details and videos of Jack's condition to the Tri-D, causing a scandal; the Lylmik blocked Paul's resignation and any end to Jack's treatment.