Rachel Weintraub

Character from Hyperion by Dan Simmons

Sol's daughter who aged backward — an archaeologist who touched the wrong tomb and spent years forgetting everything she'd learned, one day at a time, until her father handed her as an infant to a god.

Also known as: Rachel, Rachel Weintraub

What They Know

• Archaeologist struck by Merlin Sickness at the Time Tombs — ages backward, losing one day of memory per night
• Became Moneta after the Shrike sent her backward through time
• The visual of Sol carrying his infant daughter who was once an adult is the Cantos' most devastating image
• The Scholar's Tale is told as tragedy — the resolution is temporal mechanics

Connections

• child_of — sol
• becomes — moneta
• taken_by — shrike

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