# Islands of Space — Character guide

> Key figures in Islands of Space by John W. Campbell.

- [Dr. Richard Arcot](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/islands_of_space_se/characters/dr_richard_arcot.md): Arcot is the restless mind at the center of the team, the man whose bantering confidence and wild theoretical leaps make interstellar travel conceivable. His playful needling of friends like Fuller hides a genuine willin
- [Morey](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/islands_of_space_se/characters/morey.md): Morey is the steady counterweight to Arcot's showmanship, the man who grumbles theatrically about doing all the hard work while Arcot collects the glory. As the elder Morey's son and the expedition's financier, he carrie
- [Wade](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/islands_of_space_se/characters/wade.md): Wade's past as the invisible Air Pirate makes him the crew's most complicated member, a former adversary turned indispensable colleague through psychomedical cure and Arcot's trust. He brings chemistry, invisibility tech
- [Torlos](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/islands_of_space_se/characters/torlos.md): Torlos commands a Nansalian ship and greets the Earthmen with wary curiosity, communicating through telepathy in a world where speech is secondary. His enormous strength and three-hundred-fifty-pound frame are matched by
- [John Fuller](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/islands_of_space_se/characters/john_fuller.md): Fuller is the hands-on builder among theorists, the man Arcot teases as 'the late John Fuller' for arriving an hour late from Chicago. He grumbles about being dragged from his drafting table, yet the promise of seeing An
- [Tharlano](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/islands_of_space_se/characters/tharlano.md): Tharlano represents the accumulated wisdom of a race that has endured the cold dark of interstellar space, and he greets the Earthmen with measured respect rather than fear. He recognizes their desire to return home but 
- [Sator](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/islands_of_space_se/characters/sator.md): Ruler of the Satorians, a hostile alien civilization.
- [Nansal](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/islands_of_space_se/characters/nansal.md): Leader of the Nansalian people, a peaceful alien race.
- [Robert Morey](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/islands_of_space_se/characters/robert_morey.md): Son of the elder Morey, a young crew member.

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