Steven Gilligan
Names: Steven GilliganProfessor GilliganSteventhe professor
First appears in Book 4: Heaven’s River, chapter 16 (16. Human Replicant Reserve)
Appearances
What you know
Book 4: Heaven’s River
- Ch 16Steven Gilligan, a replicated former department chair at the University of Landing, is an expert on artificial environments and megastructures.
- Ch 16Gilligan still lectures at the university via a custom manny and faces regular protests that a dead man holds a living person's job.
- Ch 36Steven Gilligan has suspended his lectures because of the Bobiverse War and is analyzing expedition scans of Heaven's River.
- Ch 64Steven Gilligan, the megastructure expert, joins the group in virt and will tour Heaven's River with Bridget using Garfield's manny.
- Ch 65Professor Gilligan leads a human consortium seeking support to build a megastructure for human habitation.
Book 5: Not Till We Are Lost
- Ch 17Professor Gilligan on Vulcan has promised Bill to ask academic contacts about the physics problem.
- Ch 22Steven Gilligan says ANEC's data dumps sparked a megastructure-building boom, and he represents the O'Neill Corporation in negotiations with the Bobs.
- Ch 46Someone in Professor Gilligan's consortium proposes fitting an O'Neill cylinder with mover plates as a generation ship.
- Ch 72Steven Gilligan represents megastructure consortiums proposing megastructures, SURGE drives and wormholes to evacuate people, and asks Bill for specs.
Connections
- member ofUniversity of Landing
- inVulcan Post-Life Arcology
- ally ofRiker
- friend ofRiker
- inVulcan
- related toHannah Turnbullreferred her to Bill
- related toO'Neill Corporationretained as negotiator
Key moments
- Book 4 · Ch 16Will consults Professor Gilligan
Will shows megastructure expert Steven Gilligan scans of Heaven's River; Gilligan reveals hollow infrastructure mountains, a transit line and a four-river design.
- Book 4 · Ch 36Will revisits Gilligan
Will consults Steven Gilligan, who shares findings on segment baffles, the vacuum monorail network, administrative entrances and the megastructure's pervasive surveillance.
- Book 4 · Ch 64Hugh reveals the ANEC deal
Hugh tells the Bobs he traded SURGE, SUDDAR and SCUT to ANEC for the secret of true AI, explaining ANEC's prime directive and defending the trade against Bill's objections before leaving for Skippy space.
- Book 5 · Ch 19Bill consults Hannah Turnbull
On Professor Gilligan's referral, Bill presents his negative-energy work to physicist Hannah Turnbull, who finds it promising but dead-ended. Bill resolves to try brute-force simulation.
- Book 5 · Ch 22Theresa at the moot pub
Bob brings Theresa, in a human avatar, to a Bobiverse pub day where Steven Gilligan explains the megastructure boom and opens negotiations with Bill for the O'Neill Corporation.
- Book 5 · Ch 72Meeting of the Ancient Ones
Bob, Bill, Garfield, Howard and Will meet with Steven Gilligan, who proposes a megastructure-based evacuation and a diplomatic mission to the Federation.