Character from remembrance-of-earths-past by
Nobel-nominated British neuroscientist and Third Wallfacer — the husband-and-wife team's quieter half, whose public plan was to enhance human cognition and whose real plan was to install defeatism into the strategic class so they would build escape ships instead of warships.
Hines speaks softly, listens patiently, and is the only Wallfacer to have brought a co-conspirator: his wife Keiko Yamasuki, with whom he has shared every paper since their twenties. His genius is the long con in service of saving as many people as possible. His mental seal — the stamping of false beliefs into a willing brain — is presented as a cognitive enhancement and is in fact a defeatist virus, designed to clear humanity's psychology for the only outcome he believes survivable: flight. Later in life he works with Luo Ji on the Snow Project, ostensibly tracking the Trisolaran fleet, in fact rehearsing the Dark Forest broadcast. He is rarely sure which of his beliefs are his own.
A tall, gaunt Englishman in his sixties, with the gray rumpled professorial look of a man who has been the smartest person in every room since age twelve. Long thin face, hooded eyes, a soft graying beard kept short. Tweed jackets, never a tie. There is something faintly aristocratic in the way he holds his teacup.
Also known as: Hines, Bill, 比尔·希恩斯