We are introduced to Dr. Lokken in 08.007 where she is described as a “dour-looking woman”. When she speaks in 08.008 it is “with a Norwegian accent”.

Dr. Lokken is familiar with Grace’s work and describes him as “infamous” and his paper as “childish” and ”a slap in the face to the entire scientific community” before saying it’s “absurd” that he’s involved.

Lokken and Grace then proceed into what Stratt describes as “some sort of science-related pissing contest”.

Lokken is responsible for the idea of making the Hail Mary a centrifuge so the lab equipment doesn’t have to operate in zero g. We find out in 08.083 she works for the ESA.

As well as this section (Section 32), she appears in Section 51, Section 52, Section 86, and briefly (without speech) in Section 54 and Section 61.

She is also referred to by the narrator in Space in Section 33 and Section 53.

Dr. Lokken’s direct speech consists of 96 quoted passages, 1,913 tokens, and 599 unique words.

She is is the only character to say the words ‘suffice’, ‘IceCube’, ‘annihilate’, ‘billionth’, ‘horrifying’, ‘counterintuitive’, ‘sectionality’, ‘leftover’, ‘routinely’, ‘chromatographs’, ‘balances’, ‘requisitioned’, ‘particle’, ‘recklessness’, ‘upshot’, ‘antiparticle’, ‘removes’, ‘probabilities’, ‘tornadoes’, ‘exhibits’, ‘groundbreaking’, ‘punctured’, ‘author’, ‘imaginable’, ‘nucleus’, ‘deleted’, ‘powers’, ‘development’, ‘positron’, ‘galactic’, ‘zipping’, ‘quartermaster’, ‘draft’, ‘infamous’, ‘spectrometers’, ‘halted’, ‘Majorana’, ‘inconvenience’, ‘spontaneously’, ‘hulls’, ‘committee’, ‘strokes’, ‘sequencers’, ‘viscosity’, ‘glassware’, ‘unheard’, ‘microbiologists’, ‘famously’, or ‘moderator’ and the only person other than the narrator to use the words ‘component’, ‘guarantee’, ‘incoming’, ‘free’, ‘contacts’, ‘sides’, ‘hinges’, ‘tries’, ‘modified’, ‘attaches’, ‘cabling’, ‘converted’, ‘quickly’, ‘electromagnetic’, ‘brings’, ‘burst’, ‘atom’, ‘advance’, ‘cosmic’, ‘slap’, ‘gamma’, ‘electron’, ‘truly’, ‘expression’, ‘Norwegian’, ‘clump’, ‘file’, ‘contain’, ‘interlock’, ‘bypass’, ‘unusually’, ‘drops’, ‘vectors’, ‘ignore’, ‘observatory’, ‘advances’, ‘nicely’, ‘shined’, ‘et’, ‘cetera’, ‘fails’, ‘opinion’, ‘photon’, ‘benefit’, ‘separately’, ‘books’, ‘kinetic’, ‘edge’, ‘dense’, ‘neutrino’, ‘listen’, ‘Zylon’, ‘differences’, ‘detector’, ‘mechanism’, ‘mistake’, ‘microscopes’, ‘discovered’, ‘millimeter’, ‘collision’, ‘layer’, ‘separation’, ‘childish’, ‘runs’, ‘raw’, ‘write’, ‘replica’, ‘collides’, ‘hits’, or ‘none’.

We will explore more about Dr. Lokken in a future beanbag.