Hackworth

Role, aliases, and summary hidden by structure-only view.

also known as Gwendolyn Hackworth, John Percival Hackworth, the Alchemist

engineer/Drummer boundary-crosser

Recently extracted from the Drummers after a decade of nanosite-mediated unconscious existence; debriefed by Colonel Napier; retains fragmentary images of nanotechnological work he performed.

In The Diamond Age (Neal Stephenson, 1995)