Louise Banks

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

also known as I, Mom, Dr. Banks

Narrator and Linguist

A linguist recruited by the military to establish communication with the heptapods. She marries Gary, becomes a mother to the addressed daughter, and begins to experience time simultaneously after learning Heptapod B.

In Story of Your Life (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.