Jack
Names: JackTi-JeanJon RemillardJack the BodilessSaint Jean le DésincarnéJonSaint Jack the BodilessBabyyoung Jackthe fetusJon Paul Kendall RemillardLittle Jackbaby brotherpeeweebaby Jackthe infantJackoshrimpothe Great EnemyMental ManJack RemillardMister BozoBodiless BozoDirector RemillardDirector Jon RemillardDiamond's husbandZan DegolaSanto Giovanni Decollato
First appears in Book 1: Intervention, chapter 1 (Prologue)
Appearances
What you know
Book 1: Intervention
- Ch 1Jack, whom Rogi calls Ti-Jean, is regarded as a saint by the exotics and is dead.
- Ch 2Jack, Marc's baby brother, was dying of cancers that destroyed his body but left his great brain untouched.
- Ch 2Jack was born after the Intervention and was the first Mental Man, showing humanity what it will eventually become.
- Ch 2Rogatien called him Ti-Jean; the Milieu named him Jack the Bodiless; the memoir is chiefly his story.
- Ch 54Jon, a grandson of Denis and Lucille, was called a saint by both exotic and human minds; he had a metapsychic union with Dorothea Macdonald.
Book 2: Jack the Bodiless
- Ch 3Saint Jack the Bodiless was conceived on Denali before the first Earth settlers arrived, making him its most famous honorary native son.
- Ch 4Jack was born with a normal-seeming body and a powerful mind, but at about three years old his body disintegrated, leaving only a 1.7-kilogram brain.
- Ch 4Jack's brain survived, sustaining itself psychoredactively on atmosphere and photons, and kept learning; the Lylmik forbade euthanizing him.
- Ch 4Jack is Rogatien's great-grandnephew, and the younger brother of Marc.
- Ch 4In the dream Jack warns Marc that being human is better, but Marc is unconvinced.
- Ch 9Jack, the unborn baby, is counted by Marc as an ace coercer along with himself and Teresa.
- Ch 12Teresa's unborn child, possibly able to communicate; something seemed to answer Yes to Rogi, though Rogi may have imagined it.
- Ch 17Jack is Teresa's unborn child. He communicates with her mind and appreciates the atmosphere of Ape Lake.
- Ch 20Jack is seven months along in the womb, an operant fetus learning through ultrasenses and his mother's faculties; the cabin is his birthplace.
- Ch 22The unborn Jack is confident and egotistical, fears non-maternal minds as dangerous, and is too shy to greet Rogatien.
- Ch 24When Denis lightly probed the unborn Jack, the fetus traced him, greeted him as 'Grandpère' and raised the strongest mental screen Denis had ever met.
- Ch 24An unborn child still in the womb, Jack can communicate telepathically and coerced Rogi into walking to the cabin when asked.
- Ch 24After being told what Rogi did for them, Jack agrees to stop hiding from him and shares a mind-to-mind meeting.
- Ch 24Jack greets Rogi by name and lets Rogi know him; Rogi sees him as a perfectly formed unborn baby boy with open, aware eyes.
- Ch 27Jack is an unborn child who communicates mentally with his mother; he finds the Christian ideas of Creation and Incarnation puzzling and unnecessary.
- Ch 27Jack can project illusions from his mother's memories, creating the sets and characters for her Christmas performance of the opera.
- Ch 27Jack has shut his grandfather Denis out of his mind after seeing darkness in it; he fears socializing with other minds.
- Ch 27Jack finds that rum alters his consciousness and resolves to study the effect.
- Ch 29Jack was a rational, metapsychically operant fetus; he became frightened when the baby 'lightened' on 5 January, signaling birth was near.
- Ch 29Jack was later canonized as a saint by acclamation of the Galactic Concilium, not by the Catholic Church.
- Ch 29Jack called his intellectual and metapsychic functioning his High Self and his animal mentality his Low Self; he feared birth trauma might disconnect them.
- Ch 29Jack was born on Epiphany, the Twelfth Day of Christmas, in the Arctic cabin during extreme cold.
- Ch 29In agony during labor, Jack appealed telepathically to Rogi for help; Rogi steadied his mind against a lurking monster, and Jack recovered control.
- Ch 29Jack is born at the cabin shortly before midnight; he is initially bluish and not breathing but revives after being smacked.
- Ch 29After birth Jack's superintellect throttles back into infancy, leaving his mind inaccessible to others except at an animal level.
- Ch 29Just after birth Jack telepathically thanks his mother and 'Uncle Rogi' before his mind shuts down.
- Ch 30Jack is a newborn with a superior mind; he thinks like a precocious nine-year-old and communicates telepathically, but cries easily when startled.
- Ch 30Jack bonded to his mother, then to Rogi after Rogi baptized him; he fears strangers and equates Paul and the other relatives with danger.
- Ch 30Jack can erect a mental barrier, and allows touch by hand but not mental contact; he tells Denis he doesn't think he can love him.
- Ch 30Of his family only Marc is acceptable to Jack as someone to love, because he remembers Marc clearly.
- Ch 31Jack is Marc's baby brother; fetal assay showed many lethals, but his mother proved his mind surpasses anyone's in the family, including Marc's.
- Ch 31Baby Jack's body appears perfectly normal, and he instantly loves Marc on seeing him, but he is demanding and strongly coercive.
- Ch 31Jack craves more complex mental stimulation than Teresa or Rogi can offer and prefers Marc's mind; he distrusts Lucille and Denis.
- Ch 31Jack tried to probe Marc's mind and screamed when refused, then promised to stop his tricks.
- Ch 32Comprehensive tests showed Jack has thirty-four lethal defective genes, not three as Severin's hasty assay claimed; any one would kill him before age five.
- Ch 32Preliminary assessment suggests Jack has the most powerful mind the human race has ever produced.
- Ch 32Jack is Rogi's great-grandnephew, and he communicates mentally even as an infant of about three months.
- Ch 33Jack's gene therapy is going well: three lethals on Chromosome 11 are expunged, though he lacks the immortality complex; his brain may be fully developed by age four or five.
- Ch 33Jack, a baby with four teeth, speaks telepathically in precise adult language and wants to try potatoes with butter.
- Ch 33Jack is an infant with extraordinary mental powers who speaks mind-to-mind and screens his thoughts so well that Marc cannot eavesdrop on him.
- Ch 33Jack secretly observed Marc's kiss with Adrienne and was puzzled by her physiological response, then agreed not to spy again, saying he wants to be civilized.
- Ch 33Jack says Adrienne died about eight minutes earlier, killed by a Hydra, and that her body has been macerated apart from bones and teeth.
- Ch 33Jack cannot classify Hydra or see it clearly. He senses it is a combined mind of five-in-one sustained, controlled and loved by another mind called Fury.
- Ch 34His infant mind is invulnerable; he refuses to open to Paul and lets only Marc view his memories.
- Ch 36Baby Jack, carried in a backpack by Marc, apparently made a telepathic remark that made Paul blush.
- Ch 37Jack is an infant metapsychic prodigy undergoing therapy for about three dozen genetic defects; only his brother Marc can examine his memories.
- Ch 38Jack, a one-year-old prodigy, rides with Marc on a turbocycle pod and audits college classes; the Mu Psi Omega men made him their mascot after he beat Alex at 3D chess.
- Ch 38Jack has secretly practiced the creative metafaculty, altering small molecules and making objects from air, water vapor and his own body wastes; he altered a Ping-Pong ball's polymers to make it super-bouncy.
- Ch 38Jack says he barred Hydra and Fury, who would have separated his three selves and reintegrated them into a new person; Fury also troubled Marc's dreams.
- Ch 38In February 2053, at thirteen months, Jack's body began rejecting the gene therapy; a lesion on his toe resists all self-redaction.
- Ch 39Jack's body was prochronistic: born far ahead of its time, not Homo sapiens, and the normal-looking baby was only the larval stage of a mature entity.
- Ch 39His transformation began in spring 2053, when a series of increasingly severe and treatment-resistant cancers appeared, from a toe carcinoma to melanomas, Ewing's sarcoma and pancreatic adenocarcinoma.
- Ch 39Jack's testicles were surgically removed to prevent metastasis, and later all four limbs were amputated; he was too young for a regen-tank.
- Ch 39Jack refused all painkillers, saying they would dull his mind and inhibit the mysterious 'work' he was engaged in.
- Ch 39Jack remained fully operant in his metafaculties, except apparently self-redaction, and his brain and nervous system were unaffected by the cancers.
- Ch 39Jack insisted Fury and Hydra were real and warned Marc to keep Fury out of his dreams or the monsters would return.
- Ch 39Jack is a baby whose bone cancers have returned and are attacking his spine and skull despite the doctors' efforts.
- Ch 39Unless kept on total brain-isolate life support for over a decade, Jack is certain to die, according to Marc.
- Ch 40Jack is hospitalized in a life-support frame; his body is ravaged, he has no working lungs and his heart is shut down, but his head and mind are intact.
- Ch 40Jack speaks only telepathically, since his voice box is useless without lungs, and he still hears and sees normally.
- Ch 40Jack used his creativity to transform an organic raw material into miniature white roses, which flew from a drawer onto the carolers' coats.
- Ch 41After Teresa's death Jack was comatose for ten hours; new rapidly spreading cancers then appeared and his condition worsened.
- Ch 41By February 2054 Jack was little more than an artificially sustained brain, blind, deaf and feeling only pain, yet communicating telepathically and refusing to die.
- Ch 41Jack refuses painkillers because they would interfere with special 'work' he is doing, and talks of integrating his three selves.
- Ch 41His brain remains untouched by cancer, apparently rejecting metastases through mentally induced (redactive) activity.
- Ch 42Jack's head, kept in a liquid container with tubes and lesions, has no features left; his body is following its mutation programming, and he is struggling to survive.
- Ch 42Jack says he withdraws into an impervious psychocreative shell when unconscious, but cannot yet transmit this protective program to Marc.
- Ch 42Jack asks Marc to have his room's security increased, claiming crank threats, with the Remillard family paying for equipment and an operant guard.
- Ch 43Jack, in a hospital, farsensed the crash and warned Marc to brake in time; he identified the dead rider as Gordon McAllister.
- Ch 43Jack is the witness who recognized Gordo as Hydra and could deduce the other four heads.
- Ch 44Jack is in unchanged condition in a hospital guarded by an operant guard, sigma-field and alarms; Marc fears he is in danger.
- Ch 44Jack is a child who sleeps locked in an impregnable mental refuge, so he does not answer farspoken calls while asleep.
- Ch 45Jack survived the fire as a bodiless brain sustained only by air, light and his own psychocreative power, wrapped in a quasi-solid molecular envelope of optional form.
- Ch 45Jack appeared first as a handsome naked young man, then as a naked brain, then settled on the form of a three- or four-year-old boy.
- Ch 45Jack had been the greatest human mind, previously kept alive by life-support in a hospital wing for experimental care.
- Ch 45Jack asked to go to Uncle Rogi's place and said he missed Marcel.
- Ch 47Jack insisted on leaving the hospital after the fire, citing the Lylmik's grant of his right to end his own life support; officially he survived in a psychocreative bubble.
- Ch 47Jack is a naked, self-sufficient brain whose genes programmed him so; he wears psychocreated bodies and can never be restored to flesh by regeneration tank.
- Ch 47Until nominated to the Concilium at sixteen, only a few family members knew his true physical condition; his grandmasterly coercivity shielded him from media harassment.
Book 3: Diamond Mask
- Ch 1Jack later made his home on Kauai with his bride, and was close friends with Malama.
- Ch 3Jack is a ten-year-old prochronistic mutant, a child prodigy whose intellect is arguably the most powerful besides the Lylmik; he is a Dartmouth freshman and Marc's younger brother.
- Ch 3Jack became Mental Man by age three: a bodiless brain that uses telepathy, psychokinesis and metacreativity, is invulnerable to most injury and immune to probing.
- Ch 3Jack normally wears a human-form simulacrum to spare others' feelings; only family such as Marc and Rogi see his true form often.
- Ch 3Jack disincarnated and redesigned the faulty ECI in under twenty minutes, producing a modified SIE that tested as a working design in simulation.
- Ch 3Jack, a ten-year-old child with a towering intellect, secretly helped his elder brother Marc with the E15 experiments despite moral misgivings.
- Ch 5A profound human anomaly who named Dorothea Diamond, first ironically and later out of love.
- Ch 7Jack, a prodigious newborn in 2052, was targeted by Fury at his birth and later reincarnated after the hospital fire.
- Ch 8Young Jack entered Dartmouth as a ten-year-old prodigy and seeded the forest around Paul's home with luna moth cocoons.
- Ch 8Jack is Marc's young brother, collaborating with him; Paul insists he cannot be Fury because he was born long after the earlier crimes.
- Ch 8Jack's mental assay approaches paramount level, but he is years from maturity, psychologically fragile, and adores Marc, so Catherine wants him kept out of this.
- Ch 12Jack is Luc's little brother, a brilliant, mischievous boy who explored Orb and pestered magnates to learn how the Concilium works.
- Ch 12Jack used calculation to pick the 30-to-1 long shot Tipperary Tensor and won, though Luc chided him for smugness.
- Ch 12Jack is a young boy with an extraordinary mind; the Lylmik feel a warm Fa-Time resonance with him and find his mentality fundamentally like their own.
- Ch 12Jack detected the disguised Lylmik, recognized them as those who probed him on arrival, and overrode their memory block.
- Ch 12Jack refused to use his metafaculties to win the pot of gold at the party, considering it vainglorious, and will not lie.
- Ch 13The Great Enemy is Marc's younger brother, who had recently visited Marc's hut; Lynelle shudders at the thought.
- Ch 14Jack mastered Dartmouth's disciplines in three years and worked with Catherine, Maurice, Denis and for a time Marc.
- Ch 14Jack keeps up an appearance of physical normality with outsiders, but experimented in adolescence with many bodies, including female, aged, diseased, exotic and feline forms.
- Ch 14The Lylmik told Jack he will be nominated to the Concilium at adulthood the next year, as a Paramount Grand Master and youngest magnate ever.
- Ch 14Jack's redactive power lets him read secrets from any Dynasty member's conscious mind, which he used to track the Hydra hunt.
- Ch 14Jack agreed to give up his plan to confront Dorothea on Caledonia and to consult the Lylmik instead.
- Ch 15Jack is a powerful operant who tried to farspeak Dee from Earth, claiming to be a boy; Dee distrusts him and never answered.
- Ch 16Sixteen-year-old son of Paul Remillard, to be made a Paramount Grand Master magnate, paramount in all five metafaculties.
- Ch 16Jack is said to be cagey about his views on Unity, collects advanced degrees, meditates a lot, and may have a hidden physical abnormality after his 'miraculous' recovery.
- Ch 16Adrien insists no member of his family believes Jack is involved in the killings.
- Ch 17The false Viola warned Dee that Jack was wicked and wanted to enslave powerful minds, but the angel says Fury hates and fears Jack.
- Ch 18Jack was nominated to the Concilium at adulthood; he admits Dorothée's antipathy is 'his own fault'; he stayed out of reach of her probing.
- Ch 18Jack was born twelve years after Fury first appeared, so Rogi argues he cannot be Fury; Dorothée resents his attempts to contact her.
- Ch 18Ti-Jean and Marc averted a seismic catastrophe on Satsuma and were hailed as heroes.
- Ch 18Ti-Jean devises a plan: Rogi and Dorothée attend Marc's Halloween party on Orcas Island, and he will handle the rest.
- Ch 19Jack, a paramount Grand Master aged twenty, is a Magnate of the Concilium and codeveloper of cerebroenergetic equipment with his brother Marc.
- Ch 19Jack's normal form is a disembodied brain; his bodies are metacreative constructs, known to family as Jack the Bodiless.
- Ch 19At the party Jack disguised himself as a clown and, after being probed, secretly reported to Lek using a subspace communicator.
- Ch 19Jack led the metaconcert on Satsuma while Marc was the focusing agent.
- Ch 19Jack's probe answers listed his suspects for Fury in order: Marc, Anne, Paul, Severin, Adrien, Maurice, Philip, Catherine, Rogia.
- Ch 19In his natural mutant form Jack seems invulnerable; he survived a plasma blowout unharmed.
- Ch 20Jack went to Okanagon in his personal starship to identify Clinton Alvarez's body and look for clues to the other Hydra killers.
- Ch 20Dee regards Jack as an inhuman 'Superthing' but the only Remillard above suspicion of being Fury; Hydra considers him Fury's Great Enemy.
- Ch 21Jack knows the Hydra metaconcert configuration but not the Hydra-units' identities; his starship has left Orb, and the Supervisors consider him in danger of becoming a wise guy.
- Ch 21Jack saved his brother Marc on Satsuma when their metaconcert faltered.
- Ch 22Jack secretly guarded Dee but was forbidden by the Lylmik Supervisors to interfere, even if she died; he only cushioned her fall after she escaped.
- Ch 22Jack expects to find and confine Madeleine and Parnell, forcing Fury to reveal itself, and prays to learn how to kill it.
- Ch 23Jack once built a physical body, a gonzo-class creative feat, and is devoted to the Milieu and Unity.
- Ch 23Jack is secretly in love with Dorothée, and hides it with sarcasm; Rogi realizes it and is moved.
- Ch 23Jack wants to try the new E18 hats with Marc on Caledonia's magma reservoir, believing disaster would otherwise be major.
- Ch 24Jack insists on helping Caledonia despite Dorothea's coolness and her view that the situation is hopeless.
- Ch 24Jack proposes altering the magma's composition by separating its volatiles so the degassed residue sinks back into the mantle.
- Ch 24Jack's plan needs two metaconcerts: one to separate volatiles, another to delay eruption until separation is complete.
- Ch 24Proposes pairing himself and the Dirigent as two paramounts in a dual metaconcert to hold down Caledonia's volatile magma; he would be executive and she the focus.
- Ch 24Admitted that even with the double metaconcert the plan has only a fifty-fifty chance of success, and is willing to sacrifice himself for Caledonia.
- Ch 25Jack can create and dissolve bodies at will; for the descent he reverted to a bodiless silvery brain in a crystal bowl to conserve mental energy.
- Ch 25Unlike the rest of the Remillard family, Jack's mutation damaged his rejuvenating genes, so his brain will age and he expects to die at about seventy.
- Ch 25Jack has lived with his mutation since childhood; Marc and Uncle Rogi curbed his early social errors, like creating weird bodies to nauseate elders.
- Ch 25Jack farspoke Dorothea in adolescence because he was lonely; Rogi persuaded him to stop.
- Ch 25Jack is eager for Dorothea's approval and wants to know everything about her; she wonders whether he sees more than an alliance against Fury and Hydra.
- Ch 25Jack's brain was unaffected by the flashover. He rebuilt the metaconcert to accommodate Diamond's higher creative flux, saving Caledonia's reservoir operation.
- Ch 25Jack redacts Diamond, removes her pain and shock, and makes her a white gown and robe from food rations.
- Ch 25Jack confesses he loves Diamond, saying he has since they met at Marc's party, and believes it is impossible.
- Ch 25Jack is a paramount and is known to be invulnerable to flashover; he has practice transforming organic matter.
- Ch 26Jack redacted Dorothée during the ascent, repairing lung tissue and easing her pain.
- Ch 26Jack and Dorothea announced they would marry in summer 2078.
Book 4: Magnificat
- Ch 1Jack and Dorothea Macdonald married in 2078; Rogi's memoirs call them an unlikely pair of saints.
- Ch 3Called Jack or Ti-Jean; engaged to Dorothea Macdonald, and Kyle calls him Jack the Bodiless.
- Ch 4Jack disclaimed interest in CE technology after the Caledonian inquiry, now focuses on galactic politics, promoting Unity and his love affair with Dorothea Macdonald.
- Ch 4Jack is Marc's younger brother, a bodiless 'grotesque mutant genius' who sits on the Panpolity Directorate for Unity and favors the CE moratorium.
- Ch 5Jack has unlimited resources and will build the modified CE equipment and design the metaconcert program.
- Ch 7Jack framed Alvarez six years ago to stop fifteen-year-old Dorothea going to Okanagon to interrogate him; Uncle Rogi told him of her plan.
- Ch 7Jack calls himself 'the Bodiless' and feels his knowledge of human feeling is academic; Dorothea insists he has a genuinely human mind.
- Ch 8Jack the Bodiless is known as Ti-Jean and has coercer-blue eyes.
- Ch 9Jack, the bodiless youngest son of Paul, is a disembodied brain who creates bodies from artificial plasm; he is about to marry Dorothea.
- Ch 9Jack made a new body with functioning sexual organs and hormones but lacks spontaneous erotic response, so he asks his father for help before his wedding night.
- Ch 9Jack coerced Rogi into drinking too much champagne to avoid receiving Rogi's prenuptial sex instruction.
- Ch 9Jack is a disembodied-seeming mutant who lacks the formative experience of normal human sexuality and wants a human male paradigm to build his sex life on.
- Ch 9Jack asks Paul for his memories of sexual arousal because Rogi will not lower his mindscreen, and Jack refuses to invade anyone's mind.
- Ch 9Jack avoids casual psychokinesis while embodied, considering it déclassé, and dresses in formal wedding clothes by hand.
- Ch 9Jack's aura is a gold and blue halo with twelve star-white flamelike petals, more intense than any Paul had seen.
- Ch 9Jack was conceived by Teresa's trick, making Paul a party to a crime against the Proctorship Repro Statutes.
- Ch 10Jack marries Dorothée in an Edwardian-themed outdoor ceremony at the White Mountain Hotel.
- Ch 11Jack married Dorothea on 18 June 2078 and took her on a honeymoon flight to his home on Kauai.
- Ch 11Jack can make an invincible shield protecting him from physical and mental harm, and will teach it to Dorothea; he is her kumu.
- Ch 11Jack believes Rogi is honest and not a true alcoholic, and thinks the Denis/Fury theory may well be true.
- Ch 11Jack is a disembodied, naked, self-sustaining brain with near-godlike mental powers, who has made himself a body and is married to Diamond Mask.
- Ch 11Jack lacks the self-redacting immortality gene complex of his family and is genetically programmed to age and die like a normal human.
- Ch 11Jack cannot create viable sperm DNA, so he and Diamond will have no children.
- Ch 11Jack made a pa'u for Diamond from wauke bark kapa cloth and built a grass shack on Pu'u Kiloia for their wedding night.
- Ch 12Jon, called Jack the Bodiless, was Paul's second choice to head the Directorate; Essence thinks he already shares the Unified state and cannot understand human reluctance.
- Ch 13Jack will design the brainboard for new CE helmets while in Orb, then build them and practice the metaconcert with the Dynasty on Kauai.
- Ch 16Jack proposes using Severin as a calmatively redacted dummy unit, aware but without volition, to complete the eightfold metaconcert configuration.
- Ch 16Jack doubts Luc (childhood epilepsy) and Ken (marginal grandmaster redactive faculty) would be suitable substitutes for Severin.
- Ch 17Jack, a disembodied brain, took part in the metaconcert as a red-aura floating helmet and afterward searched the area in vain.
- Ch 17Jack created a simulacrum of a body, dead in bed of a cerebral hemorrhage, to stage Denis's death.
- Ch 18Jack resigned as pro tem chairman of the Directorate for Unity so that Anne could be reelected; he and Dorothea are celebrating their first wedding anniversary.
- Ch 18Jack's third intensive scan of Earth found no trace of Denis/Fury; he considers a d-jump (metapsychic teleportation) the likeliest explanation if the entity survived.
- Ch 18Jack, a Catholic, speculates that Unity is a transcendent love and supreme friendship that does not diminish individuality, akin to the unity of the Trinity.
- Ch 18Jack suspects that a catastrophe may be needed to spark human Unity, since humanity has often advanced after disasters; he shows his wife a disturbing mental image of it.
- Ch 18Jack's wife, a Scot, doubts her faith in Unity and fears losing human independence or exposing her inner self to many minds.
- Ch 21Jack took a milder line than Paul, taking care not to denigrate Marc's professed desire to make operant embryos widely available.
- Ch 22Jack survived a transition in a burning hospital room, metamorphosing and reincarnating as a child, driven by the fear of death.
- Ch 22Jack's mutation is called an evolutionary dead end by the voice, and his genome differs significantly from Marc's.
- Ch 23Jack suspects the integrated Denis/Fury entity can d-jump, and refuses another scan of Earth, prioritizing countering Marc and Mental Man.
- Ch 24Marc's brother, the only bodiless Homo summus; he wears a mock body out of reluctance to diverge from the human form.
- Ch 25Married to Dorothea; he warns that human scientific capability does not exceed the Milieu's and researches coadunating children and metaconcert focusing.
- Ch 25Jack and Davy searched Caledonia in metaconcert but found no trace of Fury; Jack plans to take Paul to Concord for treatment.
- Ch 25Jack identifies three suspects for Fury's disguise: Kodama, Masha MacGregor-Gawrys and Ruslan Terekev, all of whom left Caledonia.
- Ch 26Marc's brother Jack was recorded bodiless, without his knowledge, by a deep-driller black box; the Tri-D inspires Mental Man.
- Ch 29Jack accepted the Carbuncle, planned to tell Davy MacGregor of Fury's death in secrecy, and chose to hide that Denis was Fury.
- Ch 29After meeting Marc at CEREM, Jack and Marc became adversaries rather than friends, a rift lasting until the Rebellion's culmination.
- Ch 30Jack is Marc's brother; Marc called him a blind, selfish fool for rejecting the plan for Mental Man.
- Ch 33Jack is Dorothea's husband and Marc Remillard's brother; he is the only loyalist human Concilium member still off his home planet.
- Ch 34Jack and Dorothea returned the Great Carbuncle to Rogi, then left in Jack's starship to confront Marc at Okanagon.
- Ch 34Jack and his wife Dorothea were canonized by the Milieu after dying heroically at Okanagon.
Connections
- family ofMarcbrothers
- family ofTeresason
- partner ofDiamond Maskmetapsychic union
- family ofPaulfather
- family ofRogi Remillardgreat-granduncle
- friend ofRogi RemillardJack is willing to learn to love Rogi
- family ofDenisgrandfather
- ally ofMarcmentor
- related toMalama Johnsontaught him psychocreativity
- related toColette Royhis lead physician
- family ofMadeleinesister
- family ofLucbrother
- enemy ofDenis
- ally ofMalama Johnsontaught him to shut Fury out
- friend ofTom Spotted Owl
- createdE15
- member ofRemillard Dynasty
- ally ofRogi Remillard
- family ofParnellcousins
- enemy ofHydra
- ally ofDiamond Maskto pair in dual metaconcert
- family ofAnneaunt
- family ofMarie-Madeleine Fabresister
- related toRemillard Family Trustreceived Lawai Kai estate from it
- createdPu'u Kiloiabuilt the grass shack there
- related toDenisfaked Denis's death with a simulacrum body
- createdred glass marble key ringbuilt the enlarged gem on Kauai
- family ofDiamond Maskhusband and wife
Key moments
- Book 1 · Ch 2Rogatien's walk along the frozen river
Rogatien snowshoes up the icebound Connecticut at dawn, recalls Marc and Jack's boyhood talks in the pine woods, reflects on pattern in the cosmos, and resolves to write the Remillard chronicle.
- Book 1 · Ch 2Marc and Jack's rivalry begins
In the woods near the Gilman center, Marc and the dying Jack argued, giving rise to a rivalry that would nearly ruin the Milieu.
- Book 2 · Ch 3Plan for the Memoirs
Unifex directs Rogi to resume his Memoirs with Jack's early life and disincarnation, Dorothea's role, and the Metapsychic Rebellion, skipping most of the Proctorship years.
- Book 2 · Ch 4Rogi's recurring nightmare
Rogi recounts his nightmare: Jack's birth, his body's disintegration, his brain surviving, Marc's turn to enhancement, and the Metapsychic Rebellion ending in a planet's destruction.
- Book 2 · Ch 12Teresa sings again
At dusk Teresa fills a water container, then sings to the evening-star planet and her child. Her lost voice has returned, filling Rogi with awe and foreboding.
- Book 2 · Ch 24Denis touches Jack's mind
Denis probes Teresa's fetus; Jack identifies him, greets him as Grandpère and slams down an extraordinary screen, leaving Denis shaken.
- Book 2 · Ch 24Rescue from the blizzard
The woman heard Rogi's mind calling, found him half-buried near the Ape Creek outflow, and could not drag him. She asked Jack to coerce him into walking. She then fetched his meat and gear before the blizzard.
- Book 2 · Ch 24Rogi meets Jack mind to mind
Rogi touches his hand to her belly and calls to the baby. He experiences the womb through Jack's mind. Jack greets him and opens himself to him.
- Book 2 · Ch 26Hydra and Fury confer
Hydra proposes recruiting Jack; Fury tells her to stay away from Davy and wait, promising a nervebomb.
- Book 2 · Ch 27Teresa explains Christmas and faith to Jack
While decorating a small Christmas tree, Teresa discusses with her unborn son why God would create minds and become incarnate, answering with love and faith.
- Book 2 · Ch 27Christmas dinner and gifts
Rogi returns with firewood, and they share a moose dinner, hot buttered rum, and the lit candles. Rogi gives wooden safety pins and a papoose carrier plan.
- Book 2 · Ch 27Teresa performs The Snow Maiden
Teresa sings the opera for Rogi in costume, with Jack projecting illusory scenery from her memories; her singing voice is restored.
- Book 2 · Ch 29Teresa prepares Jack for birth
After Jack 'lightened', Teresa spoke to him for hours about birth, pain and prayer, and promised he would be guarded.
- Book 2 · Ch 29Labor begins in the cabin
On Epiphany in extreme cold, Teresa prepares the cabin and bed for birth; Rogi lies to Denis about the labor and Teresa's waters break.
- Book 2 · Ch 29Rogi aids Jack through birth pain
Jack cries out in agony as he moves through the birth canal; Rogi merges minds with him and steadies him until Jack regains control.
- Book 2 · Ch 29Birth of Jack
With Rogi's help, Teresa delivers Jack in the cabin. Rogi revives him, cuts the cord, and Jack telepathically thanks them before his mind withdraws into infancy.
- Book 2 · Ch 29Champagne toast and Rogi goes out
After tending Teresa and the afterbirth, they toast with champagne. Near midnight Rogi goes out for firewood, unaware of creatures watching from the east.
- Book 2 · Ch 30Denis rescues the fugitives
Before dawn, Denis and Fred arrive in a Poltroyan orbiter above the cabin, terrifying Jack, and announce they will take Teresa, Rogi and Jack to Kauai to hide until pardons are arranged.
- Book 2 · Ch 30Jack meets Denis
Jack meets his grandfather Denis, accepts a pat but refuses mental contact and says he cannot love him. Denis then reports that Paul will not see them yet.
- 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 31Marc reunites with his mother
Mama farspeaks that she and Jack are back; Marc rides through the sleet to his grandfather's farm and finds her with the baby, under house arrest pending arraignment.
- Book 2 · Ch 31Marc meets baby Jack
Marc sees Jack's healthy body, bonds mentally with him, and clashes when Jack coerces him. Marc agrees to mentor Jack and promises to explain lethal genes.
- Book 2 · Ch 31Hostile mind and Fury discuss Marc
A hostile mind boasts of deflecting Marc's will through the CE helmet and asks to kill him; Fury refuses, and they discuss energizing it secretly.
- Book 2 · Ch 32Family reacts at Teresa's house
Rogi, Marc and the children gather with Teresa. She explains the pardon options; Marc angrily criticizes Paul, and Rogi sends him away.
- Book 2 · Ch 33Jack reveals Adrienne's death
Jack admits spying on Marc's kiss with Adrienne, then tells Marc she was killed minutes earlier by a Hydra controlled by Fury. Marc cannot find her aura.
- Book 2 · Ch 33Marc runs to alert Paul
Horrified, Marc grabs Jack's cradleboard and runs down the beach, mind-screaming to his father to leave the water. Paul swims back to shore.
- Book 2 · Ch 34Paul and Denis learn of Hydra
Marc transmits Jack's memory of Adrienne's killing, the seven drained chakras and the fivefold Hydra image to Paul and Denis, who urge secrecy.
- Book 2 · Ch 36Teresa's Turandot triumph
Teresa's opening night as Turandot in New York is a triumph; Paul reconciles with her backstage and moves back home to Hanover the next day.
- 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 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 39Marc's secret outings with Jack
In autumn Marc steals the amputee Jack from the hospital in a life-support backpack to Pine Park, where they debate death, sex, God, the Milieu, and Fury and Hydra.
- Book 2 · Ch 39Jack's cancers return
Marc tells Rogatien that Jack's bone cancers have returned and are attacking his spine and skull. Marc's mother copes by imagining Jack already dead, and Marc thinks this is sensible.
- Book 2 · Ch 40Remillard Christmas caroling
Rogi led thirty-four cousins in carols under Teresa's window, then took hay wagons to the hospital to carol for Jack, who gave each child a miniature white rose.
- Book 2 · Ch 41Teresa's suicide
Teresa took pills and died, trying to drag Jack into death with her; he fell into a ten-hour coma and new cancers appeared.
- 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.
- Book 2 · Ch 42Marc visits Jack
Marc overcomes his fear and visits Jack, who warns that Hydra has resumed killing and has matured, and asks Marc to warn Rogi and boost security.
- Book 2 · Ch 43Ice-cycle race crash
At the loop, an out-of-control bike strikes Marc's Honda and explodes. Marc, warned by Jack, survives; the other rider, Gordon McAllister, dies.
- Book 2 · Ch 43Fury names Jack the Great Enemy
Furious at Hydra's failure, Fury concludes that Jack, who recognized Gordo's Hydra face, is the new Great Enemy he must kill himself.
- Book 2 · Ch 45Jack emerges alive and bodiless
In the ruined room Marc and Rogi find Jack, who shifts from a young man to a brain to a small boy. Rogi carries him out, to the firefighters' astonishment.
- Book 2 · Ch 47Aftermath of the fire and the stolen egg
Marc and Rogatien take Jack from the hospital; Anne's egg is found stolen untraceably, the four Hydra children vanish, and the Magistratum searches in secret without success.
- Book 2 · Ch 47Human enfranchisement and Teresa's ashes
On 3 October 2054 humanity becomes a full Milieu member; afterward Marc, Rogatien and Jack scatter Teresa's ashes over Kauai.
- Book 3 · Ch 3Fury induces Marc to let Jack work
After Marc's modified ECI fails in simulation, Fury coerces him to hand Jack the comset. Jack disincarnates and quickly redesigns the ECI.
- Book 3 · Ch 3Simulation of the redesigned SIE succeeds
Jack's redesign passes the helmet simulation with a large creativity boost. Marc says he will build and test it on himself and forbids Jack to take part.
- Book 3 · Ch 3Fury plans to eliminate the Edinburgh researchers
After witnessing Marc and Jack's E15 breakthrough, Fury decides the three Scottish researchers threatening the project must be killed by Hydra, lured out of the university and eliminated without trace.
- Book 3 · Ch 12Saint Patrick's Day party at Orb
The Remillards attend the Poltroyans' Irish-themed party; Denis and Lucille avoid Rory Muldowney and discuss Marc, Unity and the Hydra.
- Book 3 · Ch 12Jack learns of Marc's plan
Jack, after winning at the races, reveals he overheard Marc planning to leave Dartmouth and open a private lab near Seattle; Luc warns him to keep quiet.
- Book 3 · Ch 12Lylmik at the St. Patrick's party
Four disguised Lylmik dance, drink and discuss the Hydras, Fury, and Jack's uncanny mental kinship with them while awaiting Unifex's promised climactic event.
- Book 3 · Ch 14Five years of relative peace
After Lucille's 2063 wish, the Polity stays peaceful; Marc works in seclusion on CE, Jack grows up, and Paul recovers from the Muldowney incident.
- Book 3 · Ch 14Rogi dissuades Jack from visiting Dorothea
In 2067 at his bookshop, Rogi persuades Jack not to go to Caledonia to confront Dorothea. They discuss the Hydra threat and Jack agrees to consult the Lylmik.
- Book 3 · Ch 17Fury's false dream visit
Fury impersonates Dee's dead mother in a dream, praises her potential, disparages Jack and her farm companions, and urges secrecy. Dee later realizes the deception.
- Book 3 · Ch 18Rogi enlists Ti-Jean and lures Dorothée to the masquerade
From Kauai, Rogi calls Ti-Jean, who proposes Marc's Halloween party on Orcas Island. Rogi persuades Dorothée to attend, introduced as his girlfriend Surya, before they leave for Okanagon.
- Book 3 · Ch 19Diamond Mask probes Jack
Diamond Mask lures the disguised Jack to the library and covertly probes his mind, learning about his nature, suspicions of Fury, and his interest in Dorothea, then erases his memory of it.
- Book 3 · Ch 19Jack reports to Lek
Jack locks the library, uses Marc's subspace communicator to alert Lek of an intimode mind-squirt, then telepathically contacts him across 4000 lightyears.
- Book 3 · Ch 19Dorothea dances with Marc
Dorothea dances with Marc, who probes her mind and fails; he asks for an alliance against their common enemy and explains the Satsuma metaconcert accident.
- Book 3 · Ch 21Supervisors discuss Illusio and Jack
After Unifex leaves, the remaining four vote to make Illusio Deputy Dirigent of Caledonia, decide Jack must not help her against Hydra, and turn to prayer.
- Book 3 · Ch 22Jack finds Celine's body
Jack, who secretly watched, confirms Celine is dead and plans to later help heal Dee, while Madeleine and Parnell vanish.
- Book 3 · Ch 23Aftermath on Islay
Dorothée is healed with Jack's help; Magistratum agents take over, the attacker is identified as Celine Remillard and her ashes are scattered, with the case sealed.
- Book 3 · Ch 23Dorothée asks the Remillards for help
At a wedding, Dorothée explains Caledonia's seismic threat and hopes Marc and Jack will test CEREM equipment there. Rogi's joke about her three grandmasters embarrasses her, and she leaves.
- Book 3 · Ch 23Marc refuses and Jack's feelings revealed
Marc refuses the geozap, accusing Jack of being in love with Dorothée, then storms off. Jack deflects with sarcasm while Rogi tears up.
- Book 3 · Ch 23Magma reservoir confirmed
After Hamilton's death and Dorothée's appointment as Dirigent, surveyors confirm the Clyde reservoir will erupt within two to three years; Dorothée calls Rogi, who calls Jack.
- Book 3 · Ch 24Arrival at Windlestrow Muir
Scurra II lands in a downpour at the geophysical camp; Dorothea and Calum Sorley meet Jack and Rogi, and Jack and Dorothea quarrel over his involvement.
- Book 3 · Ch 24Catastrophe simulation
MacNabb shows a Tri-D model of the rising volatile magma reservoir and its eruption; he tells Jack conventional CE modification has no chance.
- Book 3 · Ch 24Supper council
The operators discuss Neelya's diversion plan and its risks; Jack says yes to designing a new approach using two metaconcerts to separate volatiles and delay eruption.
- Book 3 · Ch 24Dual metaconcert plan agreed
Jon proposes pairing himself and the Dirigent in a double metaconcert to contain Caledonia's magma; the group agrees, and the driller team goes to collect magma data before training.
- Book 3 · Ch 25Jack reveals his bodiless form
Aboard D-4, Jack strips and dissolves his created body into a brain in a fishbowl; Dorothea reacts with pity, then curiosity.
- Book 3 · Ch 25Descent and confidences
During the hours-long descent Jack and Dorothea share life stories, and her hostility toward him gives way to sympathy.
- Book 3 · Ch 25Degassing begins and the queue ruptures
Jack and Dorothea form a lid over the magma reservoir while the other eight separate volatiles. Hours in, the rising queue breaks through the sheath and the alarm sounds.
- Book 3 · Ch 25Dysergism and flashover
Diamond's unexpected surge of creativity overwhelms the metaconcert, the reservoir lid collapses and flashover badly injures her. Jack rebuilds the metaconcert and a new, thicker lid holds.
- Book 3 · Ch 25Mysterious helper joins the metaconcert
As Jack prepares to abort, an unidentified powerful mind speaks by CE-enhanced farspeech, offers to phase in as a creativity brainboard and shouts to continue; Jack recognizes it with hysterical laughter.
- Book 3 · Ch 25Jack redacts Diamond and confesses love
On the way to the surface, Jack heals Diamond partially, shelters her from horror, and tells her he loves her. She wonders how she sees him without any disguise.
- Book 3 · Ch 26Diatreme eruption
With Marc replacing Dorothea in Jack's metaconcert, the gas separation succeeded. The diatreme erupted at Loch Windlestrow, sparing Caledonia and ejecting ice and diamonds. The drillers returned safely.
- Book 3 · Ch 26Dorothea's aftermath and engagement
Dorothea, injured, toured the quake-damaged regions in a diamond-decorated mask and flying suit, winning deep respect. She and Jack announced their wedding plans.
- Book 4 · Ch 5Plan to cure Denis agreed
Anne and Rogi plan a secret CE-enhanced coercive-redactive metaconcert to cure Denis and destroy Fury, with Jack building equipment and Dorothée probing Rogi's memories; the plan is kept from the rest of the family.
- Book 4 · Ch 7Jack reports Anne's crash
Jack telepathically tells Dorothea that his Aunt Anne's starship crashed on Okanagon, probably sabotage, during a visit to investigate Rebel influence in the Twelfth Fleet.
- Book 4 · Ch 7Anne's courier ship crash
Anne's express courier was deliberately crashed on Okanagon, possibly by a coerced pilot. She survived and said 'Hydra', raising fears of a hidden Hydra on Okanagon; the case is kept quiet.
- Book 4 · Ch 9Drunk Rogi subdued
Rogi, drunk on champagne Jack coerced him to drink, tries to flee redaction; Marc freezes him with coercion and takes him to sober up.
- Book 4 · Ch 9Jack asks Paul for sexual guidance
Jack reincarnates in a new body and confesses he needs help with erotic imagination before his wedding night; Paul recounts first seeing Teresa.
- Book 4 · Ch 9Paul speaks of his marriage and infidelity
While Jack dresses for his wedding, Paul recounts falling for Teresa, the family's genetic tragedies, the end of their love, and his promiscuity, with Jack asking probing questions.
- Book 4 · Ch 9Jack asks for Paul's sexual memories
Jack explains that he needs a human male's memories of arousal and asks Paul to share them. After inner turmoil, Paul agrees, embracing Jack as a wedding gift.
- Book 4 · Ch 10Wedding of Jack and Dorothée
Jack and Dorothée marry in a nuptial mass. Rogatien spots Hydra among the waiters, but Marc cannot see him and blocks Rogatien's farspeech. After the kiss, Dorothée's diamond mask vanishes briefly.
- Book 4 · Ch 10Rogi reveals Fury's identity
Rogi locks Jack and Dorothée in the Roosevelt Parlor after the wedding and opens his mind so they can read what he knows of Fury's identity.
- Book 4 · Ch 11Honeymoon arrival on Kauai
Jack and Dorothea see the green flash, discuss Rogi's revelations and plans to heal Denis, and arrive at Jack's fortified Lawai Kai home.
- Book 4 · Ch 11Honeymoon night on Pu'u Kiloia
After a Hawaiian-style second wedding exchange of leis, Jack carries Diamond to a grass shack among night-blooming cereus. They consummate their marriage; Jack finds his desire real and Diamond removes her mask for him.
- Book 4 · Ch 11Exchange of leis and vows
Jack presents Diamond with pikake and orchid leis and says he weds her again in the old island way; she replies in kind and they recite verses from the Song of Songs.
- Book 4 · Ch 13Rogi's mind is reamed for the exorcism
Jack and Dorothée secretly visit Hanover and redact Rogi's memories for data on Fury, then explain the plan to heal Denis on Christmas at Marie's farm.
- Book 4 · Ch 15Rogatien's depression and dread
After recovering over the summer, Rogatien grows depressed in autumn 2078, rejecting that Denis is Fury yet knowing the metaconcert redaction of Denis will proceed at Christmas with his own participation.
- Book 4 · Ch 16Dummy-unit plan agreed
Jack proposes using Severin as a sedated dummy participant, as done on the Siberian planet. Paul agrees to proceed, and prepares to cue the others and bring Denis downstairs.
- Book 4 · Ch 17Integration of Denis and Fury
Rogi lures Denis to the cellar, where eight minds forge a metaconcert, subdue him, and force the fusion of Denis and Fury, leaving an unnamed merged personality that then vanishes.
- Book 4 · Ch 17Denis's faked death
After Denis vanishes, Lucille confronts the narrator. Jack fabricates a body, Severin signs the death certificate, and the First Magnate arranges formalities. Fake ashes are interred in Berlin, New Hampshire, and memorials follow.
- Book 4 · Ch 18Jack tells Anne of the bootleg CE factory
Walking through Rive Gauche, Jack tells Anne about the Caledonian mental-laser helmet factory, suspicion of Ian Macdonald, and possible Rebel militancy; they also discuss Denis's vanishing.
- Book 4 · Ch 18Anniversary dinner
Paolo gives Dorothea a free takeout meal, and she and Jack share a candlelit anniversary dinner with champagne and roses.
- Book 4 · Ch 18Jack and his wife discuss Unity
Over dinner in Venice, Jack and his wife discuss her doubts about Unity. He suggests a catastrophe may trigger it, shows her a disturbing image, then they make love and glimpse something they sought.
- Book 4 · Ch 22Marc is urged to Jackform Mental Man
A telepathic voice tells Marc of Steinbrenner's coming breakthrough and urges him to force Mental Man's maturation through Jackforming, overriding his moral doubts; Marc accepts it will work yet calls it a dream.
- Book 4 · Ch 23Rogi's ream and argument
Dorothée reams Rogi's memory of seeing Denis's spectre; the result is inconclusive. Rogi argues with Jack and Dorothée over Marc, whom they fear is preparing for war.
- Book 4 · Ch 25Tri-D debate and tense green room
After the televised debate, loyalists and Rebels spar over the loyalty oath, arms buildup and sequestration; Paul vows to prove the Rebels are stockpiling weapons.
- Book 4 · Ch 25Dorothea reveals her face and coadunating children
At the Couthy 'Shroom, Dorothea removes her mask; the group learns children are coadunating and that Jack and Dorothea have had an unprecedented experience, to be kept secret.
- Book 4 · Ch 25Jack and Dorothea analyze the attack
They conclude that Fury attacked Paul, identify three suspects, and deduce that Denis's resurgence saved Paul. Dorothea plans a pro-Unity campaign.
- Book 4 · Ch 27Denis's farewell
Denis speaks mentally to his father, tells him to call for help and take the Carbuncle to Jack in Hawaii, then bids him adieu. The narrator weeps alone.
- Book 4 · Ch 29Rogi tells Jack of Denis's death
On Kauai, Rogi tells Jack most of the story of Denis/Fury's death and gives him the Great Carbuncle. Jack resolves to keep Fury's identity secret.
- Book 4 · Ch 29Jack meets Marc at CEREM
Jack confronts Marc at CEREM; the meeting goes badly and the brothers become adversaries.
- Book 4 · Ch 33Ian's secret appeal
Ian asks Dorothea and Jack, on behalf of a Rebel faction, whether war can be averted; they reveal the loyalist strategy and that they will confront Marc.
- Book 4 · Ch 34Departure for Okanagon
Jack and Dorothea return the Carbuncle to Rogi, collect Paul after verifying his neural recovery, and set out to confront Marc.
- Book 4 · Ch 34Destruction of Okanagon
As a bubble of coadunate energy expands from the Carbuncle, Marc fires antimatter bombs; they pass through and strike Okanagon, killing two billion people.
- Book 4 · Ch 34Confrontation ends
Humanity, including many Rebels, joins the Song of Unity. Marc's blast destroys Scurra and Paul, but the Mind of Humanity crystallizes in the Carbuncle.