Ken
Names: KenKenneth MacdonaldKennethKennyLavender LipsKen Macdonald
First appears in Book 3: Diamond Mask, chapter 4 (INNER HEBRIDES, SCOTLAND, EARTH, 25–26 MAY 2062)
Appearances
What you know
Book 3: Diamond Mask
- Ch 4Ken is Dee's brother, two years older, who cured his childhood asthma by self-redaction during a near-death experience. He is considered latent, with a puny mental screen.
- Ch 4Ken accidentally overheard Dee's thoughts when her screen cracked, learning about her boxes and her resistance to operancy. He promises no betrayal and encourages her.
- Ch 4Ken is Dee's older brother; he knows nonoperants are called 'deadheads' and calmly says they will be that until science makes them meta.
- Ch 4Ken secretly keeps a stolen, faded photo of their father labelled I.M.—2055, showing him in an environmental suit beside an odd aircraft.
- Ch 4Ken is Dee's older brother, teasing her and hurrying her off the ferry.
- Ch 5Dorothea's older brother, born in 2055, frail and latent, with exceptional intellect; therapists said he would never be operant.
- Ch 6Ken suspects Evaluator Lek is a Krondaku Grand Master metacreatively disguised as a human, and believes he is probing Dee.
- Ch 6Ken promises Dee that when grown he will take her to Caledonia.
- Ch 6Ken and Dee are latent, as are their father Ian and grandfather Kyle.
- Ch 6Ken is Dee's older brother; he scorned her fears and idolises Jamie MacGregor, who made normals treat True People fairly.
- Ch 9Ken is Dee's older brother. He helps Dee devise the plan to fake the minidose and shield her secret, and he is a tough, teasing sibling.
- Ch 9Ken gave Dee an acorn at the funeral, mockingly calling it what she will make when she dies, but he was crying.
- Ch 9Ken, Dee's brother, is a nonoperant who stays drugged in the stateroom during the voyage and misses the arrival.
- Ch 10Ken is anxious to please his father, secretly resents Dee's mind powers, and fears being sent back to Earth if she is.
- Ch 15Ken is Dee's older brother, sickly and dreamy, who defends her against Gavin and must return home by noon.
- Ch 15Ken's own coercion became operant over four years ago; it is weaker than Dee's, and he uses it to keep Gavin Boyd from hassling him.
- Ch 15Ken is often sick, dislikes Caledonia's boring winters, misses Edinburgh, and envies Dee as Daddy's Little Princess.
- Ch 15Ken's flitter GT-10 was crippled when torachan in its cargo ruptured the storage cells and the gas envelope, and its pylon bolts failed.
- Ch 15Ken is Dee's brother and Ian Macdonald's son.
- Ch 16Kenneth appears from preliminary tests to have Grand Master farsensing and coercing abilities.
- Ch 17Ken is Dee's thirteen-year-old brother, who also is going to Earth and treasures a model teuthis from Grandad.
- Ch 18Ken is Dorothée's brother, two years older, a book-collecting youth studying metapsychology at the Institute; he does chores for Rogi in exchange for database access.
- Ch 23Married Luc Remillard in Hanover; both are metapsychologists.
Connections
- family ofDiamond Masksister and older brother
- family ofViola Strachanson
- family ofGrannygrandmother
- family ofDaddyfather
- family ofKyle Macdonaldgrandfather
- enemy ofGavin BoydGavin bullies him
- partner ofLucmarried
Key moments
- Book 3 · Ch 4Ferry crossing to Islay
Family travels by old ferry from Kennacraig toward Islay. Seasick Dee, coached by Ken, opens her self-redaction power in secret and cures herself.
- Book 3 · Ch 4Dee wakes as ferry docks
Dee wakes from a vivid dream of Magdala's tale, finds her book-plaque matching the dream, and follows Ken off the ferry at Port Askaig.
- Book 3 · Ch 5Viola leaves Ian
After Ian, swayed by his father Kyle, refuses to sell Glen Tuath, Viola decides she no longer loves him, announces a divorce and returns to Earth with Kenneth and Dorothea.
- Book 3 · Ch 6Mind-probing at the Bowmore stillroom
Dee feels a powerful exotic mind-prober in the distillery stillroom, sees the three Gi, repels the probe, and Ken suspects Evaluator Lek is a disguised Krondaku.
- Book 3 · Ch 6Visit to Grandad's birthplace
Dee and Ken see Kyle Macdonald's birthplace cottage, talk about their father and grandfather on Caledonia, and Ken promises to take Dee there someday.
- Book 3 · Ch 6Masha attacked at Tòn Mhór
While Dee dreams, Masha is mentally assaulted and clutches Ken in agony. Dee flees for help and is halted by a Galactic Magistratum official.
- Book 3 · Ch 6Lek rescues Ken and Masha
Lek follows Dee up the headland, forces Masha to release Ken, heals the children and calms Masha, who had been deluded into attacking them after her family were killed.
- Book 3 · Ch 6Lek tells the children of the deaths
Lek tells Dee and Ken their mother, uncle and aunt have died; Dee decides privately they will go to their father on Caledonia.
- Book 3 · Ch 9Dee fakes the minidose
Dee pretends to inject herself with the minidoser and keeps her mind-screen up during the first hyperspace jump. Gran suspects, confronts her, and tries to coerce answers, but Dee reveals only her self-redacting power.
- Book 3 · Ch 9Funeral in Edinburgh
After police questioning, the family attended the Requiem Mass and burial of the ashes of Mummie, Uncle Robbie and Aunt Rowan. Ken gave Dee an acorn.
- Book 3 · Ch 10Arrival on Caledonia
Dee, Ken and Masha land at the starport in a storm; Dee is overwhelmed by crowd telepathy, hears the angel, and learns Ian cannot meet them because of the airplant harvest.
- Book 3 · Ch 10Kyle collects the family
Next morning Kyle greets the children, is stunned by rejuvenated Masha, warns the children about farm life, and flies them across Clyde toward Glen Tuath.
- Book 3 · Ch 10Lunch at Portknockie and gifts
The family eats at a seafood restaurant; Kyle slips away and returns with gifts for all three, including a loaded necklet for Masha.
- Book 3 · Ch 10Arrival at Glen Tuath Farm
The Porsche egg descends through airplant fog and lands at the farm. Janet Finlay greets Masha and the children coolly and tells Dee she must wait until supper to see her father.
- Book 3 · Ch 15Dee's first harvest day
On her eleventh birthday Dee suits up, endures Gavin's taunts, and joins the team piloting The Big Cheese; Ian assigns her a block and pronounces her competent.
- Book 3 · Ch 15Torachan attack on GT-10
Torachan hidden in Ken's cargo shred his storage cells and gas envelope. His flitter spins and sinks, the pylon bolts fail, and the backup frees the fuselage, but the parafoil fouls.
- Book 3 · Ch 15Dee rescues Ken with psychokinesis
Prompted by the angel, Dee halts time, untangles the parafoil, and lands Ken softly on a grassy islet. Her father sees everything, and the flight recorder logged it, so she cannot hide her powers.
- Book 3 · Ch 17Dee's last farm chores
After a quiet breakfast, Dee trucks feed to the livestock and says goodbye to Cutach and Pigean before leaving for Earth.
- Book 3 · Ch 17Departure for Earth
After goodbyes with Janet and Ian, Dee, Ken, Masha and Kyle leave in the egg flyer for Clyde and Earth.
- Book 3 · Ch 18Rogi meets Dorothée
In March 2069 twelve-year-old Dorothée visits Rogi's bookshop to buy a birthday gift for her brother, befriends Marcel, and begins a long friendship with Rogi.
- Book 3 · Ch 23Wedding of Kenneth and Luc
In 2076, Kenneth Macdonald and Luc Remillard marry in Hanover; Dorothée and Rogi renew their friendship at the reception.
- 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.