A Heinlein Concordance

created by M. E. Cowan

Robert A Heinlein

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From the stories:   A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W XYZ
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A Heinlein Concordance ©2004 M.E.Cowan

 
Facelli (no first name)
Driver who gave Alex Hergensheimer and Margrethe Gunderson a ride as they were making their way through various universes to Kansas City.
(Job: A Comedy of Justice)

Fair Employment Commission
[mentioned in passing] Bureaucracy that protected workers against discrimination. It prohibited job applications that listed the sex of the applicant.
("Delilah and the Space Rigger")

Fair Witness
Person rigorously trained to observe, remember, and report without prejudice, distortion, lapses in memory, or personal involvement. See also Anne.
(Stranger in a Strange Land)

Faircoat Marion
Woman mentioned during Monroe-Alpha Clifford's search for Hartnett Marion. [In the novel, names are given surname first.]
(Beyond This Horizon)

fairies
Native Venerian lifeform resembling the mythical Earth creatures, wings and all. They are apparently carnivorous, and both sexes "nurse" the young.
(Podkayne of Mars)

Faithful
Servant whom Lazarus Long rented on Blessed because no one without a body servant is recognized by merchants.
(Time Enough for Love)

Falcon
Harriman express liner of the Hawk line. "Noisy" Rhysling hopped a ride on it back to Earth. He was in the power room when an accident killed the chief jetman, and died himself while working to shut down the engines and reduce the radioactivity to safe levels.
("The Green Hills of Earth")

Secretary Fall (no first name)
[mentioned in passing] Jubal Harshaw stated that he was convicted of receiving a bribe that his codefendant was acquitted of paying.
(Stranger in a Strange Land)

Families' Seat
Underwater refuge and meeting place for the Howard Families, located in Lake Michigan near Chicago.
(Methuselah's Children)

family
In most of Heinlein's early books, families are similar to the U.S. middle-class 20th-century nuclear family: father, mother, and children living together but not sharing their dwelling except possibly with a grandparent. The roles of family members also seem portrayed as traditional: breadwinner father, housekeeping mother, children being raised to and expecting to assume the same roles in adulthood.

In Methuselah's Children, serial monogamy is common among the Howard Families because of the sheer length of their lives and the desire to produce offspring with different partners for genetic reasons.

In Beyond This Horizon, marriage contracts last a specified period of time and are optionally renewable. Women apparently do not take their husbands' surnames after marriage.

In Star Beast, children can "divorce" their parents and request a court-appointed guardian.

In "The Menace from Earth", Holly Jones apparently anticipates both marrying Jeff Hardesty and having a career as a spaceship designer.

Beginning with Stranger in a Strange Land, Heinlein envisions alternative families. Although characters in Stranger have heterosexual pair-marriages, members of the Church of All Worlds live in "nests" where they share domestic chores and presumably child-rearing. Unmarried women bear children apparently without being concerned about societal disapproval.

In the Luna of The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress, polyandry and line marriages [see marriage] are common, although these arrangements are scandalous to conservative areas of North America.

The interrelated novels Time Enough for Love, Number of the Beast, The Cat Who Walks Through Walls, and To Sail Beyond the Sunset all feature the group marriage of the Long clan, within which sexual pairings are indiscriminate (though apparently exclusively heterosexual) and children are the joint responsibility of all adult members.

The protagonist of Friday was a member of a similar group marriage, until the family members found out she was an Artificial Person..

None of the stories explicitly depicts a legal homosexual marriage, but in the later novels homosexuality and homosexual partnerships are apparently taken for granted.

Family
1. The crew of the Sisu or any other Free Trader ship; all are related by blood, marriage, or adoption.
(Citizen of the Galaxy)
2. The servants in the Lord Protector's household. The Lord preferred a patriarchal image to that of owner-and-master.
(Farnham's Freehold)

Family Living
High-school course that Kip Russell was required to take. It was intended to prepare the students for adult life; but it was based on solely on the latest sociological theories, and was thus impractical and unrealistic.
(Have Space Suit — Will Travel)

Far Centaurus
To the Scientists aboard the Ship, interpreted as Heaven, the culmination of Jordan's Plan. The ship's original destination was Proxima Centauri.
(Orphans of the Sky)

Far Eastern Possession
The former Japanese Empire, controlled by the United States after World War II.
(To Sail Beyond the Sunset)

Faraway
Human colony planet invaded and occupied by the Bugs.
(Starship Troopers)

Farbenindustrie
1. [mentioned in passing] Company that did business on Mars.
(Double Star)
2. [mentioned in passing] Earth corporation mentioned by Tom Fries (probably the same as in Double Star).
(Podkayne of Mars)

fardie
[mentioned in passing] Item referred to by Kathleen in a message to Tom Bartlett; he had no idea what it was, and cited it as an example of how much society and language had changed.
(Time for the Stars)

farkels
[mentioned in passing] Unidentified food Maureen Johnson was offered for breakfast at the Grand Hotel Augustus.
(To Sail Beyond the Sunset)

Farley (no first name)
1. Scientist at MIT requested by Curt Reisfeld for his research team into the items that his daughter and Kip Russell had brought back with them.
(Have Space Suit — Will Travel)
2. Lieutenant, ship's weapons engineer aboard the Rodger Young.
(Starship Troopers)

Farleyfile
A file that contained detailed information about John Joseph Bonforte's casual friends and associates. Bonforte (and Larry Smith) used it to recall personal details about the people he met with, to create [the illusion of?] strong friendly relations with them.
(Double Star)

Betty Farnese
Ian Tormey's sister, whom Friday met in New Zealand. She emigrated to Botany Bay under the name Betty Frances.
(Friday)

Federico Farnese
Ian Tormey's brother-in-law, a genetic engineer. Friday found herself in bed with him "the morning after" at Ian's New Zealand flat, with no memory of the night before. He emigrated to Botany Bay under the name Frederick J. Frances. Also called Chubbie or Freddie.
(Friday)

Alexander (Duke) Farnham
Hugh Farnham's son, a lawyer, named after his maternal grandfather. His father's assistant translator in Ponse's household, he became addicted to Happiness. He submitted to castration so he could be his mother's companion in Ponse's personal chambers.
(Farnham's Freehold)

Grace Farnham
Hugh Farnham's wife, an alcoholic. She lost touch with reality after the family was hurled forward in time, became Ponse's "bedwarmer", and was mostly unaware of her real circumstances.
(Farnham's Freehold)

Hubert (Hugh) Farnham
His family, and his daughter's guest Barbara Wells, survived a nuclear attack because of the bomb shelter he'd built over the family's protests. They were hurled thousands of years into the future by the blast. He set up a freehold until the group was taken captive by the rulers of the land. He became Chief Translator for his captor, using the books he'd had in the shelter, but he resisted "domestication". After he made an unsuccessful escape attempt with Barbara and their twin sons, they were volunteered as subjects in a time-travel experiment and returned to the time just before the nuclear blast. They took refuge in an abandoned mine outside the blast area, setting it up as a freehold and trading post.
Farnham's Freehold
Trading post established by Hugh Farnham and Barbara Wells when they were sent back in time by Ponse's scientists.
See also books stocked in the Farnham bomb shelter
(Farnham's Freehold)

Hugh Farnham [Jr.]
Barbara Wells' older twin son by Hugh Farnham.
(Farnham's Freehold)

Karen Farnham
Hugh Farnham's daughter, a college student. Pregnant before the nuclear attack, she died in the freehold just after giving birth. The baby died a short while after her.
(Farnham's Freehold)

Karl Joseph Farnham
Barbara Wells' younger twin son by Hugh Farnham.
(Farnham's Freehold)

Katherine Josephine Farnham
Karen Farnham's daughter, who lived only a day after her mother died in childbirth.
(Farnham's Freehold)

Gerald (Jerry) Farnsworth
"Good Samaritan" who offered Alex Hergensheimer and Margrethe Gunderson a ride when they were stranded and naked in Texas. He invited them into his house for as long as they could stay. Actually an aspect of Lucifer, he also helped Alex in his search for Margrethe after the Rapture, eventually effecting their reunion. When the couple settled in Eden, Kansas, they "remembered" the Farnsworths as their best friends whom they'd met after the Mazatlán earthquake.
Farnsworth's Folly
Jerry Farnsworth's ranch.
(Job: A Comedy of Justice)

Katherine (Kate) Farnsworth
Jerry's wife, who offered gracious hospitality to Alex Hergensheimer and Margrethe Gunderson when they were stranded in Texas. While searching for Margrethe after the Rapture, Alex learned she was Rahab, the harlot who aided Joshua's before his conquest of Jericho. Jerry called her "Duchess".
(Job: A Comedy of Justice)

Sybil Farnsworth
Teenaged daughter of Jerry and Kate, a recent convert to the Old Religion (witchcraft). She was actually an afrit named Egret, who also the was desk clerk when Alex Hergensheimer checked into Hell's Sans Souci Sheraton hotel.
(Job: A Comedy of Justice)

Julius Farping
Cousin to the narrator in Jubal Harshaw's story "Uncle Tobias", "a Stonebender by marriage."
(The Number of the Beast)

Farquarson (no first name)
Astrophysicist mentioned by Dr. Krathwohl in his response to Grace Cormet's question about gravitation.
("—We Also Walk Dogs")

Farside Hardbase
Missile base on the far side of the moon.
("Searchlight")

Far-Star
[mentioned in passing] The Rudbeks' intended destination after leaving Akka, before they were intercepted by slavers.
(Citizen of the Galaxy)

Lady Fascia
[mentioned in passing] Jubbulpore noblewoman from whom Thorby stole a scarf.
(Citizen of the Galaxy)

Snotty Fassett (no other first name)
A West Point graduate two years senior to John Lyle. He was an agent provocateur who'd instigated the stoning of a pariah that John witnessed. He was killed by Magdalene Andrews when he spied on her, John, Zebadiah Jones, and Judith.
("If This Goes On—")

Fat Man
[mentioned in passing] Restaurant across from the Nairobi Hilton, recommended to Friday by the customs agent.
(Friday)

Fatima
Planet on which Lazarus Long made his living as a beggar-storyteller after his ship had been confiscated for use as a slaver vessel. The culture was based on Earth's Islamic civilization. Lazarus worked his way into a high government office, and was able to reclaim the ship. When he and his family fled the planet, they took along the Protector of Servants (state slave factor), and spaced him.
(Time Enough for Love)

Dr. Fatima
Roy MacClure's mispronunciation of Dr. Ftaeml.
(The Star Beast)

Fawcett (no first name)
Hiring agent for HyperSpace Lines.
(Friday)

FBS
See Federal Bureau of Security.
("Gulf")

FDS
Government police agency; the meaning of the initials is not given.
(Stranger in a Strange Land)

Feast of the Ninth Moon
[mentioned in passing] Holiday on Jubbul.
(Citizen of the Galaxy)

Federal Bureau of Security
Agency for which Joe Briggs worked before he "lost" the Nova Effect tapes. Usually referred to as FBS.
("Gulf")

Federal Forces
The Prophet's army, more an internal police force than an army.
("If This Goes On—")

Federal Service
Only those who serve their full stint are granted voting rights. When the Federation is not at war, most service is equivalent to nonmilitary Civil Service jobs, and anyone who applies must be found some sort of job.
(Starship Troopers)

Federated Free Nations
Successor to the United Nations, which existed during Kip Russell's time.
(Have Space Suit — Will Travel)

Federated Nations
Earth's governing body, which also controlled the Luna until the Revolution. Generally called the Federation.
(The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress)

Federation
1. Earth government, which also controlled the colony planets. The plot of Between Planets involved a rebellion by Mars and Venus against Federation rule.
(Between Planets)
2. By inference (a reference to the Federation Space Corps), a world government had been instituted.
(Have Space Suit — Will Travel)
3. International organization, probably a successor to the United Nations. Canada, Great Britain, the North African Confederacy, and Brazil are mentioned as members, but the United States definitely is not.
("If This Goes On—")
4. The usual term used for the Federated Nations.
(The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress)
5. The government at the time of the Howard Families' exile from Earth.
(Methuselah's Children)
6. The Terran Federation dominated system politics even though not all planets were members.
(Podkayne of Mars)
7. World government, a successor to the United Nations and more effective.
(Stranger in a Strange Land)
8. World government, in which only Federal Service veterans have the franchise, the justification being that only they have learned to put group interests ahead of personal, and having served the government they have earned the right to participate in it.
(Starship Troopers)

Federation Peace Forces
Invading army on Venus.
(Between Planets)

Federation Space Corps
Government agency that established a lunar colony during Kip Russell's lifetime.
(Have Space Suit — Will Travel)

Choy Lin and Choy Mu Fedoseev
Brothers who were Wyoming Knott's co-husbands. She divorced them after giving birth to a deformed child and realizing she had probably been affected by childhood exposure to radiation, the fault of the Lunar Authority's lack of concern for the colonists' health and safety.
(The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress)

Maurice Feinstein
[mentioned in passing] Died in a laboratory explosion on Luna. A memorial was set up to him and other victims.
("The Black Pits of Luna")

Dr. Feinstein (no first name)
Eye specialist who treated Johann Sebastian Bach Smith after his brain transplant.
(I Will Fear No Evil)

Dr. Feldman (no first name)
Psychiatrist who screened applicants for emigration to Luna.
("'It's Great to Be Back!'")

Felicity
Planet to which Secundus' troublemakers, mostly Equalitarians, are shipped as an experiment to see if a democratic government can work if formed from people all of whom believe in it.
(Time Enough for Love)

Fearless Fenton (no other first name)
[mentioned in passing] Performer who enacted a "Death-Defying Dive" in the carnival that Valentine Michael Smith and Jill Boardman joined.
(Stranger in a Strange Land)

Andrew Ferguson
1. Engineer and researcher who worked for Harriman & Strong. He was assigned to the moon rocket project.
("The Man Who Sold the Moon")
2. [mentioned in passing] Engineer who worked for Harriman Enterprises. When George Strong expressed skepticism about Maureen Johnson's "prophecy" of moving roads and roadtowns, she suggested he discuss the theory with Ferguson. (His first name is not used, but he obviously the same person as in "The Man Who Sold the Moon.")
(To Sail Beyond the Sunset)

Fermi Physical Labs
[mentioned in passing] Laboratory that leased space aboard Space Station One while it was still under construction.
("Delilah and the Space Rigger")

Mario Ferrara
[mentioned in passing] Clothing designer that Hilda Burroughs made up to explain the outfit she wore to meet Windsor City officials.
(The Number of the Beast)

Festival
See La Fiesta de Santa Carolita.
(To Sail Beyond the Sunset)

Fiddler's Green
1. [mentioned in passing] Colony planet.
(Friday)
2. Alex Hergensheimer's term for the limbo into which his previous world had gone when he found himself in Alec Graham's place.
(Job: A Comedy of Justice)

Fidelity Savings and Trust Bank
Bank where Lazarus Long, in his Ted Bronson persona, did business in 1916 Kansas City.
(Time Enough for Love)

Fielding (no first name)
[mentioned in passing] Member of Ted Bronson's combat platoon.
(Time Enough for Love)

La Fiesta de Santa Carolita
Fertility rite celebrated on the planet where the Grand Hotel Augustus was located. Also called Festival. It originated with Maureen Johnson's daughter Carol as a celebration of the anniversary of her first sexual experience. [Spanish, "the feast of Little St. Carol"]
(To Sail Beyond the Sunset)

Fiesta Patio
Restaurant where George Strong took Maureen Johnson to lunch after showing her houses to buy.
(To Sail Beyond the Sunset)

Fifth Internationalist
Wyoming Knott's political persuasion. The beliefs are not described, but it is probably a version of socialism or communism.
(The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress)

Fifth Symphony
Musical composition was played during the mass meeting to decide whether the Howard Families should return to Earth (probably as a ploy to create homesickness and influence the vote in favor of returning).
(Methuselah's Children)

Figuris Veneris
Book of etchings that Ira Johnson had Maureen use as a sex education manual. Apparently they were reproductions of ancient Greek, Roman, and Egyptian pictures depicting sexual activities.
(To Sail Beyond the Sunset)

Senator Filibuster
Resident of Hog Alley, real name not given.
(Space Cadet)

Eve Finchley
Tom Finchley's teenaged daughter, who accompanied Joan Eunice Smith on her ocean voyage.
(I Will Fear No Evil)

Hester Finchley
Tom Finchley's wife, who accompanied Joan Eunice Smith on her ocean voyage.
(I Will Fear No Evil)

Tom Finchley
Joan Eunice Smith's driver, who accompanied her on her ocean voyage.
(I Will Fear No Evil)

Miss Finchley (no first name)
Teacher who, thought childless and unmarried, nonetheless taught Centerville High's course in "Family Living."
(Have Space Suit — Will Travel)

Finders, Inc.
Company that hired Friday as a courier supposedly to transport in her "trick navel" a human ovum to The Realm. In reality, they actually impregnated her with the fertilized ovum. (Hartley Baldwin had her memorize their address, for reasons that are never explained.)
(Friday)

Find Your Friends and Loved Ones
Co-op organized by and for the newly arrived souls in heaven after the Rapture, established near the Asher Gate.
(Job: A Comedy of Justice)

Fingal's Cave
Skating rink in Luna City to which Jeff Hardesty took Ariel Brentwood.
("The Menace from Earth")

Evelyn Fingerhut
[mentioned in passing] Editor who bought romance stories from Richard Ames. He warned Ames that knowing something about his subject matter is a handicap in selling stories.
(The Cat Who Walks Through Walls)

Fingers (no other name)
"Mayor" of Bill Johnson's alley in Golden Rule. He is obviously an underworld boss.
(The Cat Who Walks Through Walls)

Fink File
Name used by Manuel Garcia O'Kelly for his copy of Special File Zebra, in which the Warden had listed all his operatives working in antigovernment groups.
(The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress)

Abie Finkelstein
Topographer in the exploration and survey group that Bill Lermer joined.
(Farmer in the Sky)

Arthur Finnegan
Current Ambassador from Mars to the Three Planets Summit, who believed that Mars should give in and join the Terran Federation.
(Podkayne of Mars)

Lance Corporal Finnegan (no first name)
Name by which Hendrik Schultz claimed he was once known; he immediately afterward reversed himself.
(The Cat Who Walks Through Walls)

Finnish
Official language of the Sisu, also called Suomish or Suomic.
(Citizen of the Galaxy)

Dr. Finnley (no first name)
Director of the Nova Effect weapons project, a political appointee.
("Gulf")

Finny (no other name)
Associate of hoboes and expert counterfeiter. His original name might have been Phineas, or the nickname might have come from his preference for $5 bills. He made a registration card for Jefferson Thomas.
(The Day After Tomorrow)

Finster
Port of call for the Sisu. The slug-like natives live in telepathic (?) symbiosis with lemur-like creatures; it was believed that the slug supplies the brains and the lemuroid the manipulating abilities. The planet trades gemstones, copper, and a psychotherapeutic alkaloid in exchange for heavy metals and clocks. On Thorby Rudbek's first visit there, the most valuable trade item turned out to be comic books and pinups confiscated from the young men's rooms.
(Citizen of the Galaxy)

Firefly
1. [mentioned in passing] Free Trader ship.
(Citizen of the Galaxy)
2. [mentioned in passing] Spaceship headed for the asteroids, mentioned by Jonathan Fries.
(The Rolling Stones)
3. Winged Earth-to-space rocket operated by Trans-Lunar Transit.
("Space Jockey")

First Battle of Klendathu
Battle waged in reaction to the destruction of Buenos Aires; Juan Rico's first military action. The battle was disastrous for Earth, but was called a "strategic victory". (See Klendathu.)
(Starship Troopers)

First Bible Truth Church of the Holy Spirit
Church in which James Washington was ordained a deacon.
(Double Star)

First Defense Gunners
Laser-gun squad formed in Luna City against the probability of an attack by the Federation. It was mostly comprised of ice drillers.
(The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress)

First Genetic War
Instigated by the attempt to eliminate violence from human genetic makeup.
(Beyond This Horizon)

First Lunar Expedition
Nazi group that reached the moon and established a base before the Galileo. They bombed that ship after Art Mueller made radio contact with them, to prevent word of their existence reaching Earth. They were part of a plan to re-establish the Third Reich and conquer all of Earth.
(Rocket Ship Galileo)

First Plasmite Church
Cult in Las Vegas that "sacrificed" virgins. An acolyte offered Friday a job as the virgin.
(Friday)

First Prophet
See Nehemiah Scudder.
("If This Goes On—", Methuselah's Children; also mentioned in To Sail Beyond the Sunset)

First Satanist Church
[mentioned in passing] Headquartered in California, it went to court for relief from "discriminatory taxation."
(I Will Fear No Evil)

First Truthers
[mentioned in passing] Members of a conservative religious sect.
(Beyond This Horizon)

First Tyrant of Madagascar
[mentioned in passing] Ruler assassinated by a "nameless peasant". He was cited in a discussion of the relative importance of things.
(Beyond This Horizon)

First Venus Expedition
[mentioned in passing] From the context, apparently the members resorted to cannibalism after being stranded with no hope of rescue.
(Tunnel in the Sky)

Mrs. Fishbein (no first name)
The neighbor to whom Bill Lermer gave his pet bird before emigrating.
(Farmer in the Sky)

Fishing
[mentioned in passing] An Outdoor Life publication stocked in the Farnham bomb shelter. 
(Farnham's Freehold)

Mungerson Fitts
Assistant Deputy Administrator for Superrogatory Statistics in Golden Rule. He offered to handle Richard Ames' problem when Ames asked to see the Manager.
(The Cat Who Walks Through Walls)

Dr. Fitts (no first name)
[mentioned in passing] Physician attending Edith Jameson's dinner party at which the brown stain under Jonathan Hoag's nails was pointed out.
("The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag")

Girdle (Girdie) Fitz-Snugglie (real name not given)
Podkayne Fries' pseudonym for the only other non-geriatric passenger on the Tricorn besides her and her brother Clark. A notorious society girl, she travelled to Venus to find work after she lost her wealth (possibly to a fortune-hunting husband). On the Tricorn, Clark became madly infatuated with her. When they reached Venus, Girdie got work first as a cigarette girl, then as a blackjack dealer, in a Venusberg casino; Podkayne predicted she'd soon be a stockholder.
(Podkayne of Mars)

Five Acres and Independence
[mentioned in passing] Book stocked in the Farnham bomb shelter.
(Farnham's Freehold)

Five Companies, Inc.
Contractor that built Space Station One.
("Delilah and the Space Rigger")

Tim Floherty
Second assistant engineer aboard the Forward.
(Friday)

Flammarion
[mentioned in passing] Ancient astronomer who also investigated psychic phenomena and life after death.
(Beyond This Horizon)

Flannigan (no first name)
Crew member of the Asgard.
(Starman Jones)

flat cat
Furry native Martians, round and featureless except for three eyes (not always visible), and the limited ability to change shape (e.g. spherical to flat). They emitted a purring sound when stroked, which was soothing and almost irresistible to humans. They also were parthenogenetic, and gave birth in droves when overfed. From one flat cat, the Stones ended up with a holdful, which fortunately they were able to sell off to lonely Asteroid miners.
(The Rolling Stones)

Flat Cat Alley
Castor and Pollux Stone's designation for their ship, as a trading post in the Asteroid Belt.
(The Rolling Stones)

Judge Fleishacker (no first name)
New America judge who upheld the "customs agents" who confiscated David MacKinnon's possessions, and sent him to jail in lieu of a fine for resisting arrest.
("Coventry")

Fleming Marjorie
A fifth cousin of Hamilton Felix, considered a possible breeding partner for him.
(Beyond This Horizon)

Flexible Frank
Automated all-purpose cleaner invented by Daniel Boone Davis and marketed by Hired Girl.
(The Door Into Summer)

flogging
Standard punishment in the Federal Service, also used for civil infractions such as drunk driving.
(Starship Troopers)

Florence Nightingale Troop
"A" deck Girl Scout troop in the Mayflower. Peggy Kenyon became a member.
(Farmer in the Sky)

Dizzy Flores (no other first name)
Trooper on the Rodger Young who was wounded during a raid. He was rescued by Ace and Juan Rico, but died on the way back to the ship.
(Starship Troopers)

Flower of Forgetfulness
Ming china bowl coveted by O'Neil. General Services acquired it for him from the British Museum (by means unspecified) in return for his help in developing artificial gravity.
("—We Also Walk Dogs")

Flying Dutchman
[mentioned in passing] Space-to-space ship operated by Trans-Lunar Transit.
("Space Jockey")

U.S.S. Flying Fish
[mentioned in passing] Submersible carrier that investigated the site of the Winged Victory implosion.
(The Number of the Beast)

Flying Greyhound
Chartered air vehicle that Valentine Michael Smith's entourage rode to the Capital.
(Stranger in a Strange Land)

"Fly-Rite"
Tranquilizer that William Cole took to alleviate acrophobia attacks.
("Ordeal in Space"; also mentioned in "Jerry Was a Man")

fog-eater
Mildly derisive term for Venusians; tone of voice, context, and speaker determined the level of insult.
(Between Planets)

foldbox
Contraption that can hold a truckload of goods but fold in on itself to the size and weight of a normal backpack, by "folding" the contents into other dimensions. Rufo carried one on the expedition through Nevia, but lost it in the swamp.
(Glory Road)

Followup Service, Ltd.
[mentioned in passing] Chicago-based business that apparently forwards messages, etc., for travellers.
(The Rolling Stones)

Fones (no first name)
Brian Smith's employer (partner in Davis and Fones), who offered Brian a chance to buy him out when he retired. The offer required Brian to pay Fones more money than the deal was worth over a period of 12 years. Instead of accepting the offer, Brian started his own business.
(To Sail Beyond the Sunset)

Fong, Tomasawa, Rothschild, Fong & Finnegan
Luna City law firm that handled Hartley Baldwin's estate, particularly Friday's inheritance. After the eldest member's retirement, Gloria Tomasawa was senior partner.
(Friday)

Food Conservation Act
Law that forbade farmers to let farmland go unused, or be sold for other purposes.
(Starman Jones)

Foote
One of the more prominent Howard Families. Members played a prominent role in Howard business over the generations.

Charles Foote
Husband of Maureen Johnson's great-great granddaughter Nancy Jane Hardy.
(To Sail Beyond the Sunset)

Evelyn Foote
1. [mentioned in passing] Member of the Howard Families and mother of Edmund Hardy.
(Methuselah's Children)
2. Lazarus Long's fourth wife; he was her second husband, and they had seven children. Her first husband was Lazarus' cousin Jack Johnson.
(Time Enough for Love)

Harriet Foote
[mentioned in passing] Ancestor of Justin Foote 45th, and his link with Lazarus Long. [Through Evelyn Foote?]
(Time Enough for Love)

Horace Foote
Howard Families member arrested after the suspension of the Covenant. He bit out his tongue rather than submit to hypnotic questioning.
(Methuselah's Children)

Justin Foote
1. Speaker for the Trustees of the Howard Foundation. He explained at a Howard Families meeting the reasons for keeping the Foundation a secret, and then for experimenting with changing the policy. Once aboard the New Frontiers, he declared the board of trustees dissolved because the relationship between the Families and society had been severed. He became one of Zaccur Barstow's lieutenants aboard ship. When they returned to Earth, he insisted on his right to reclaim the property he'd abandoned in the forced emigration.
(Methuselah's Children)
2. The first of that name, great-great-great-grandson of Maureen Johnson, born to Nancy Jane Hardy and Charles Foote on December 31, 2000.
(To Sail Beyond the Sunset)

Justin Foote 45th
1. Howard Families archivist who annotated Lazarus Long's memoirs, and eventually emigrated to Tertius. He was a descendant of both Andrew Jackson Libby and Lazarus Long.
(Time Enough for Love)
2. A remote descendant of Maureen Johnson, through her daughter Nancy.
(To Sail Beyond the Sunset)

Arabelle Foote-Hedrick
Chairman pro tem of the Howard Families after Ira Weatheral retired. Lazarus Long had to take on his "honorary" right to assume the chairmanship to keep her from arresting Ira and sending him to Felicity. Lazarus referred to her as "Her Extreme Ubiquity". She was presumably assassinated, or at least replaced extremely quickly after her assumption of the office.
(Time Enough for Love)

Laura Foote-Hedrick
Lazarus Long's wife on Landfall; he had been married to her grandmother a century earlier. They had nine children; she divorced him some 40 years later and married Roger Sperling. A member of the Hedrick family by matrilineage, though she used her patronymic.
(Time Enough for Love)

John Edward Forbes-Smith
Boy who proposed "St. George Troop" for "A" deck, to reflect its time zone; an Irish boy promptly objected. He was less formally known as Johnny Edwards.
(Farmer in the Sky)

Slayton Ford
Federation Administrator who oversaw the search for the Howard Families. He agreed to help the Families escape on the New Frontiers. He was voted out of office just before the emigration, joining the Families in exile. He was proposed as administrator of the New Frontiers because of his superior political experience, and accepted after a carefully orchestrated rumor campaign to build sympathy for him (probably arrange by Lazarus Long). He suffered severe psychosis after meeting the Jockaira's masters, recovering only after a period in cold sleep but not resuming his duties as administrator.
(Methuselah's Children; Also mentioned in passing in Time Enough for Love.)

Foreman
Obsolete computer that Manuel Garcia O'Kelly serviced in Luna City.
(The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress)

Forest
[mentioned in passing] Colony planet, newly settled and still in the log-cabin stage.
(Friday)

Forest of Dragons
Dangerous section beyond the Doral's land on Nevia, through which Oscar Gordon, Star, and Rufo had to pass.
(Glory Road)

Chief Forked Tongue
Maureen Johnson jokingly claimed he was her séance guiding spirit when George Strong asked where she got her information about the future.
(To Sail Beyond the Sunset)

Forsyte's Solution
Mathematical breakthrough, otherwise unspecified, that made spaceflight possible. 
(The Rolling Stones)

Jeremy Forsyth
SS Konge Knut passenger who paid off his bet to Alex Hergensheimer after Alec Graham's successful firewalk. He was named Gerald Fortescue in Alex's original world. (Also known as "The Well-Travelled Man".)
(Job: A Comedy of Justice)

Fort Carson
[mentioned in passing] Oscar Gordon's boot camp.
(Glory Road)

Gerald Fortescue
See Jeremy Forsyth.
(Job: A Comedy of Justice)

Forty-One
Member of Joe-Jim Gregory's gang.
(Orphans of the Sky)

Forward
HyperSpace Lines liner that Friday rode as a courier to The Realm. She and several fellow passengers jumped ship to join the colony on Botany Bay.
(Friday)

"Forward, Foster's Children"
Fosterite anthem.
(Stranger in a Strange Land)

Archangel Ben Foster
Founder of the Church of the New Revelation, usually called the Fosterite Church. The "Archangel" title was bestowed posthumously. No details are given of his life.
(Stranger in a Strange Land)

Fosterites
Members of the Church of the New Revelation. Their services had the atmosphere of a sales convention or football rally, their theology was a mix of conventional wisdom and pop psychology, and their membership was large enough and active enough to be extremely influential in politics.
(Stranger in a Strange Land)

Foundation
1. Organization that cleared applicants for emigration to the Moon.
("'It's Great to Be Back!'")
2. See Howard Foundation.
(Methuselah's Children, Time Enough for Love, To Sail Beyond the Sunset)

The Four Heroes (or The Four)
The most famous martyrs of the Interplanetary Patrol: Ezra Dahlquist , Wheeler, Rivera, and John Martin. Their names are called in every muster, with specified individuals responding, "I answer for him." [The reasons why Wheeler and Martin are among the heroes are not given.]
(Space Cadet)

Four Planets Passenger Service
1. Company from which Lazarus Long considered buying a transport ship to get the Howard Families to the New Frontiers, but decided against the ship because he couldn't pilot it alone. (The "four planets" are probably Earth, Venus, Mars, and Earth's moon.)
(Methuselah's Children)
2. [mentioned in passing] Company that owned the War God. (The "four planets" are probably Earth, Venus, Mars, and Earth's moon. The company is referred to only as "Four-Planets," but is almost certainly the same as in Methuselah's Children)
(The Rolling Stones)

Four-Planet Export
[mentioned in passing] Trading company mentioned by Jefferson James. (The "four planets" are probably Earth, Venus, Mars, and Earth's moon.)
(The Rolling Stones)

"Four Whores Came Down From Canada"
[mentioned in passing] Ballad that Dora the computer taught to Minerva.
(Time Enough for Love)

Fourth-of-July League
Propaganda group that handled the North American appearances of Manuel Garcia O'Kelly and Bernardo de la Paz. The name was intended relate Lunar independence to Independence Day in America.
(The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress)

Dr. Fox
[mentioned in passing] Professor at the University of London who in 1945 demonstrated that the hemoglobin of individual rabbits has unique wavelengths. He could not reproduce the results for humans, but the researchers at the Citadel used his research in developing the Ledbetter Effect.
(The Day After Tomorrow)

June Frabish
Johann Sebastian Bach Smith's granddaughter, sister of Johanna Seward. She was involved in the suit to have him declared legally dead after his brain transplant.
(I Will Fear No Evil)

fraki
Literally, a small, shapeless, semisaurian scavenger of Alpha Centauri Prime III; it has no redeeming features and many unsavory qualities. The term is used by Free Traders to refer to nonspacers, with the obvious connotation of "not one of us, therefore beneath contempt".
(Citizen of the Galaxy)

frallup
Insulting slang term of the year 2001, meaning unspecified; Belle Darkin applied it to the late Miles Gentry.
(The Door Into Summer)

Archer Frame
Intern who attended Valentine Michael Smith at Bethesda Medical Center.
(Stranger in a Strange Land)

Betty Frances
See Betty Farnese.
(Friday)

Frederick J. Frances
See Federico Farnese.
(Friday)

Saunders (Sance) Francis
Assistant to Jay Clare and husband of Grace Cormet. He and Grace were assigned to outfitting the interplanetary conference on Earth, including devising a method of providing artificial gravity.
("—We Also Walk Dogs")

Franco (no first name)
Chief Proctor in Golden Rule.
(The Cat Who Walks Through Walls)

Frank (no last name)
Married into the Davis family in 2076. (Men who join line marriages generally kept their original surnames.)
(The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress)

Frankel (no first name)
1. Joan Eunice Smith's attending surgeon in Luna at her baby's birth.
(I Will Fear No Evil)
2. [mentioned in passing] Member of Matt Dodson's cadet squad training on the James Randolph.
(Space Cadet)

Art Frankel
Co-pilot in the Little David.
(Between Planets)

Captain Ian Frankel
Battalion commander at Camp Arthur Currie.
(Starship Troopers)

Dr. Frankenstein
Code name of a member of the Committee for Aesthetic Deletions.
(To Sail Beyond the Sunset)

Frankfurt, Germany
The city in which Sister Mary Rose had been a Dominican hospital administrator.
(Job: A Comedy of Justice)

Frankie (no last name)
Head bartender of the Country Kitchen.
(The Cat Who Walks Through Walls)

"Frankie and Johnny"
[mentioned in passing] One of "Noisy" Rhysling's standard songs.
(Time Enough for Love)

Frawling Committee
[mentioned in passing] Committee that issued a report on reincarnation.
(Methuselah's Children)

Fred (no last name)
1. Vicksburg Lowtown barkeeper with whom Friday became acquainted. He kept her apprised of job opportunities and mercenary troop plans.
(Friday)
2. Joan Eunice Smith's armed driver.
(I Will Fear No Evil)

Freddie (no last name)
Adolph Weisskopf's assistant, and possibly his lover.
(To Sail Beyond the Sunset)

Emperor Frederick
King Willem's predecessor on the Imperial throne. He was possibly a member of the House of Orange.
(Double Star)

Fredericks (no first name)
Major who commanded, by default (the commander having been killed), a brigade in Operation Bughouse.
(Starship Troopers)

Prince Frederik
See Eric Gustav.
(Job: A Comedy of Justice)

Free Child
A child who had "divorced" his or her parents and chosen professional guardians. The details are scanty, but among the grounds for divorce are coercion in choice of career and "odd ideas." Betty Sorenson was a Free Child, and mentioned living in a dormitory.
(The Star Beast)

Free Luna
Revolutionary movement started by Bernardo de la Paz and Manuel Garcia O'Kelly.
"Free Luna!"
Slogan of the Revolution, picked up and used universally as a greeting or farewell throughout the lunar colonies.
(The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress)

Free State
Absolute dictatorship within Coventry. The ruler was known as The Liberator. Its watchwords were Duty and Obedience, and no freedom of opinion was tolerated. Anything not forbidden was compulsory. The Free State fought a series of wars with New America trying to absorb its territory, but the two governments settled their differences to form an alliance to break out of Coventry and invade the United States.
("Coventry")

Free State of Antarctica
[mentioned in passing] Member of the Federation.
(Stranger in a Strange Land)

Free Traders
Intensely clannish and xenophobic spacefaring culture based on intricate family relationships. As the name implies, Free Traders are interplanetary merchants, a loose confederation of ships independent of any planetbound government. They may be roughly analogous to Old Terran gypsies except for their higher social status and reputation for honesty. Each Free Trader ship has a complex set of traditions and family relations that separates it from outsiders, to whom they consider themselves vastly superior. Each crew is entirely related by blood, marriage, or adoption, and each ship has its own language, usually based on a Terran language. The Free Trader lingua franca is based on Church Latin, but also contains more than 2,000 words to describe family relationships. The Free Traders practice exogamy within their culture-marriage to non-Free Traders is unthinkable-and are a patrilocal matriarchy: girls move to other ships to marry while boys stay in their home ship, but aside from the male Captain, conducting trading sessions, women make all major decisions. Non-Free Traders may be adopted into a clan (see Thorby Rudbek), but only under extraordinary circumstances; even then acceptance of them is slow and difficult.
(Citizen of the Galaxy)

Free United States
The government after the overthrow of the Prophet. It was modeled after the original United States of America, but instead of the Constitution it was based on the Covenant. Just as many clauses in the Constitution were a direct reaction to Great Britain's treatment of the American Colonies, much of the Covenant was a reaction to the repression and intolerance of the Prophets.
(various Future History stories, in particular "If This Goes On—" and "Coventry")

Free United States Army
Underground militia sworn to the overthrow of the Prophet; it included many members of the Cabal.
("If This Goes On—")

Freedom Party
Underground Equalitarian movement on Secundus, dealt with by deporting its members.
(Time Enough for Love)

Frenchy (no other name)
Ship's cook in the Asgard.
(Starman Jones)

Fresno Sector
Section of the Diego-Reno Roadtown.
("The Roads Must Roll")

Chuck Freudenberg
Assistant chief engineer for Hired Girl in the year 2000. He became Daniel Boone Davis' friend. After Dan regained control of Hired Girl, he fired the chief engineer and put Chuck in charge of research and design engineering.
(The Door Into Summer)

Freund (no first name)
Member of Matt Dodson's cadet squad training aboard the James Randolph.
(Space Cadet)

Commander Frick (no first name)
Staff commander and communications officer aboard the Lewis & Clark; he supervised the telepaths. He died during the journey.
(Time for the Stars)

Friday
An Artificial Person who worked as a courier for Hartley Baldwin's organization. She was kidnapped and interrogated by torture by agents of Shipstone, but rescued by Baldwin; she was later stranded in Canada during the aftermath of Red Thursday. Making her way back to Baldwin's organization, she trained to assimilate and correlate vast amounts of data but was thrown on her own resources by Baldwin's death and the dissolution of his agency.

After working as a mercenary for a while, she eventually hired out as a courier, ostensibly to transport a genetically altered ovum to the First Family of The Realm. When she learned that she was pregnant with the fertilized ovum and realized that she would not be allowed to live after delivering the embryo, she took refuge on the colony planet Botany Bay where she was reunited with her Canadian friends and their family. Friday settled comfortably into the role of frontier wife and mother, holding many civic leadership positions and taking an active role in raising her own and others' children.

Friday did not learn until after Hartley Baldwin's death that he had arranged for her conception, using among many others his own genetic material and that of Joe and Gail Greene. He had intended to raise her as his own, and had in fact arranged adoption papers and retroactive birth certificate for her.

Friday's aliases were Marjorie Baldwin, Friday Jones, and Marjorie Friday. The name on her adoption papers was Marjorie Baldwin; she used this alias not knowing it was her legal name. (When Friday was dealing with J.B. while using this name, he mispronounced it several different ways: Bedlam, Belgium, Bulgrin.)

(Friday)

Friends of Free Luna
Supposedly an organization that supported Lunar independence; actually "Stu [Stuart LaJoie], a professional public opinion firm, several thousand chronic petition signers, and a great stack of Hong Kong dollars."
(The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress)

Friends of Lummox
Group formed by Beulah Murgatroyd to prevent Lummox' destruction.
(The Star Beast)

Friends of Walker Evans
See Walker Evans.
(The Cat Who Walks Through Walls)

Agnes Fries
One of the students stranded during the Advanced Survival test.
(Tunnel in the Sky)

Clark Fries
Podkayne Fries' brother, six Martian/eleven Terran years old, a genius with definite antisocial tendencies and a wide mercenary streak. He journeyed with his sister and uncle Tom Fries to Venus, on their way to Earth. He smuggled a bomb aboard the Tricorn after being bribed by a stranger, but dismantled the bomb and later used it in escaping from kidnappers.
(Podkayne of Mars)

Duncan, Elspeth, and Grace Fries
Infants accidentally revived from cryogenic suspension and presented to Podkayne Fries' family just before their scheduled trip to Earth. They were called "Delta," "Epsilon," and "Gamma" while in suspension.
(Podkayne of Mars)

Jonathan Fries
Mayor of Rock City and manager of the general store. Nicknamed "One-Price".
(The Rolling Stones)

Martha Fries
Wife of Jonathan Fries.
(The Rolling Stones)

Podkayne Fries
1. And adolescent girl (eight Martian/fifteen Terran years old) who was a citizen of Mars and had ambitions of becoming captain of a space liner. She journeyed to Venus on her way to Earth, with her brother and uncle Tom Fries. While on Venus she was kidnapped by her uncle's political opponents and was seriously injured in a bomb blast following her escape. She was called "Poddy" by nearly everyone, and "Flicka" by her uncle. She was named Podkayne after a Martian saint.
Podkayne's father (no first name given)
Van Loon Professor of Terrestrial History with Ares University, a Guggenheim fellow. His true love was Martian history. He was a veteran of the Mars Revolution, in which he lost an arm.
Podkayne's mother (no first name given)
A master engineer for heavy construction, surface or freefall. She was awarded the Hoover Medal and the Christiana Order, Knight Commander, for rebuilding Deimos and Phobos. She has received many honorary degrees for her work. She worked at the Bureau of Planetary Engineering at a desk job while having her five babies in rapid succession, then resumed field work, and was frequently away from home while Podkayne and Clark were growing up. Design Criteria With Respect to the Effects of Radiation on the Banding of Pressure-Loaded Sandwich Structures is a paper published by Podkayne's mother; it was typical of her work.
(Podkayne of Mars)
2. [mentioned in passing] Visitor to the Interuniverse Society conference, a "therapy empathist".
(The Number of the Beast)

Tom Fries
Podkayne Fries' great-uncle and favorite relative. Originally a transportee, he was a Revolutionary veteran, a member of the Elks club, Past Grand Commander of the Martian Legion, and Senator-at-Large of the Martian Republic. He was appointed Minister Plenipotentiary and Ambassador Extraordinary to the Three Planets Summit, travelling with Podkayne and Clark to give the impression he was only on a pleasure trip. He opposed the idea of Mars joining the Terran Federation because it would most likely become dominated by Terran interests. His political enemies kidnapped Podkayne and Clark to force him to vote their way.
(Podkayne of Mars)

Frigg Temple
[mentioned in passing] Birthing clinic in Torheim.
(Time Enough for Love)

frimp
Contemporary slang describing in brief the activity at an orgy.
(I Will Fear No Evil)

Frisby Gerald
Young man present during the discussion of the Adirondack Stasis Field at Johnson-Smith Estaire's party.
(Beyond This Horizon)

Mark Frisby
Lawyer retained by Ben Caxton for his interview with Valentine Michael Smith at Bethesda Medical Center. He was a partner in the law firm of Biddle, Firsby, Frisby, Biddle & Reed.
(Stranger in a Strange Land)

Colonel Frisby (no first name)
President of Argus Patrol.
(To Sail Beyond the Sunset)

Frisco (no first name)
Venusian colonist who found Allucquere near Kaiserville after her settlement was stricken with nine-day fever.
(The Puppet Masters)

Mrs. Fritschlie (no first name)
Patient in whose room Jill Boardman planted Ben Caxton's bug to listen in on Valentine Michael Smith.
(Stranger in a Strange Land)

Fritz
Dog that Lazarus Long took homesteading with him and Dora Brandon on New Beginnings.
(Time Enough for Love)

Robert Frost
A book of his poetry was stored in the Farnham bomb shelter.
(Farnham's Freehold)

Dr. Frost (no first name)
[mentioned in passing] Astronomer under whom D. D. Harriman hoped to work at Yerkes Observatory, before he learned he could not afford college.
("Requiem")

Dr. Ftaeml
Rargyllian dignitary who acted as translator for negotiations between Earth and the Hroshii. Though he had been retained by the Hroshii, his sympathies were clearly with the humans. He became a good friend of both Sergei Greenberg and Henry Kiku.
(The Star Beast)

Dr. Fu Manchu
Code name of a member of the Committee for Aesthetic Deletions.
(To Sail Beyond the Sunset)

Fung Chee Mu
[mentioned in passing] His Serene Majesty, Chairman of the Australasian Republic.
(Tunnel in the Sky)

Funston (no first name)
Member of Matt Dodson's cadet squad training in the James Randolph.
(Space Cadet)

Alpha, Beta, and Gamma Furtney
Triplets involved in Project Lebensraum, old maids telepathic among themselves. They provided inter-ship communications.
(Time for the Stars)

Futility
Game designed by Hamilton Felix; there was no way to lose it.
(Beyond This Horizon)

Future History
Heinlein's universe got two votes for Favorite Fantasy World among the crew of the Gay Deceiver.
(The Number of the Beast)

Fuzzy Britches
The flat cat that Castor Stone bought for his baby brother. Since the entire family pampered it and fed it and flat cats reproduce whenever they're overfed, the ship was soon awash with its descendants; when the flat cats were relegated to the hold, only Fuzzy Britches was kept by the family — on a strict diet.
(The Rolling Stones)

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