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Wesley Adams

Wes Adams is the nervous founder of a brand-new nation called Mastodonia, who must convince a skeptical State Department that his country is real, legitimate, and worth recognizing.

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Also known as Wes, Adams, Wes Adams

First appearance: hellhounds of the cosmos

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President of Mastodonia, waiting anxiously for news from Washington.

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Adams arrives in Washington with a portfolio, a constitution, and the weight of a first presidency thrust upon him, facing a secretary of state and a chief of protocol who have never heard of his country. His awkwardness with the wrecked car and the general's shotgun contrasts with the audacity of his diplomatic mission: recognition, Point Four aid, a defense pact. He is the human face of a wild gamble, and his nervous persistence in the early negotiations determines whether Mastodonia becomes a footnote or a nation.

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Aftermath
Closing

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President of Mastodonia, waiting anxiously for news from Washington.
III
Adams is weary from cutting wood and suggests trapping beaver and digging ginseng as potential income sources.
IV
Calibrated the time unit; identifies the mastodon as Buster; shoots the saber-tooth after the attack.
V
Referenced as the brilliant scientist who built a time machine and disappeared with Cooper and Hudson.
VI
Cradles the time unit and leads the discussion on how to use it without the helicopter.
VIII
Climbs the pyramid with the time unit and presses the button, but nothing happens.
The Empty Purpose
Absent but central; his guilt and obsessive hope to repair the time machine drive the chapter's tension.
Chapter XI
Returns after twenty-five years, crashing his car into the general's property, and is bewildered by the general's reaction.

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