The initial setting and the site of the story’s tragic conclusion.
Description: A typical suburban home where Blue lives with his pregnant wife, Rena. It represents a place of domestic life, marital tension, and relative safety until the S.D.I. crisis.
Featured in the opening scene, it establishes the immediate and indiscriminate nature of the threat.
Description: A busy, civilian area, typical of a modern city hub.
Significance: The first visible victim of the S.D.I. satellite is a businessman outside LAX, instantly disintegrating and leaving a charred spot.
The temporary, high tech setting for the start of Blue’s mission.
Description: A mission shuttle carrying the techno astronaut team to dismantle the rogue S.D.I. satellite.
Significance: It symbolizes a final, desperate attempt by humanity to regain control over its technology. It is quickly and violently destroyed, leading to Blue’s forced departure from Earth’s reality.
This unnamed planet serves as the primary setting for the majority of the story, acting as a bizarre, psychological stage for Blue’s survival and self discovery.
The immediate site of Blue’s crash landing and the emergence of his power.
Description: A strange, forested area where Blue first lands after his shuttle is destroyed.
Significance: It is where Blue first conjures objects and, most notably, his ex-girlfriend Kim, initiating the main conflict on the planet.
A prominent, defining feature of the planet’s landscape.
Description: Large, distinctive orange rocks that are a key element of the environment.
Significance: The Orange Humanoid (Bob) physically resembles these rocks, suggesting he is a natural, native element of the planet’s ecology.
A frequent setting for confrontations and demonstrations of the planet’s unusual physics.
Description: The shore or surface of a body of water.
Significance: It is where the Orange Humanoid demonstrates his ability to run across the water, highlighting the alien nature of the world. It is also a site of several battles with the Silver Creatures.
A fortified sanctuary and the home of a historical Earth survivor.
Description: A massive tree where James (“The One Who Won’t Leave The Trees”) lives with the orange humanoids.
Significance: It acts as a safe haven and a place of exposition, where James explains the history of the planet and the true nature of the power they share.
The lair of the planet’s controller.
Description: Referred to as the being “beneath the earth,” suggesting a location deep underground or within a subterranean structure.
Significance: This is the site of the confrontation with the formidable, maroon colored creature Odin, who reveals his control over the planet and his ability to prevent people from leaving.
