Louise Banks

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

also known as Louise, Mom, Dr. Banks

Linguist and mother

A linguist recruited by the military to decode the heptapod language. She experiences her daughter's entire life non-linearly as a result of learning the alien language.

In Stories of Your Life and Others (Ted Chiang, 2002)

Possibly the same character

Same author, same name, in other works — cross-work identity is not asserted here, only suggested. Nartopo tracks character identity per work; these are separate pages that may or may not depict the same character.