1. [mentioned in passing]
Colony planet. The trust fund that Hartley
Baldwin left for Friday would pay
for her migration there.
(Friday)
2. Colony planet, official designation
Nu Pegasi VI; a stop of Asgard's
itinerary.It is described as having cold winters and being not yet
economically independent.
(Starman Jones)
R.S. Half Moon
[mentioned in passing] Supply ship to Space
Station One during its construction.
The "culmination of a three-hundred-year program of controlled genetics".
Unfortunately for the genetic planners, he had no interest in producing
offspring. After thwarting a revolt by the Survivors
Club and falling in love with Longcourt Phyllis, he took more of an
interest in life. In response to his demand to know whether life had meaning,
a colossal research project into that question was organized by the
government. He and Phyllis had two children, Hamilton Justina and Hamilton
Theobald.
Building superintendent of the loft that Sam
Cavanaugh rented while a puppet
master host. Sam infected him with a puppet master.
(The Puppet Masters)
Hanshaw
Sport model of spaceship (runabout) mentioned in passing by Hazel
Stone in response to Roger's quoting the line from Hamlet, "I can
tell a hawk from a handsaw."
Neighbors of the Lazarus Long
homestead on New
Beginnings (on which Lazarus used the name Woodrow Smith). Hilda Hanson
married Lazarus' son Zack Smith,
and Ole Hanson married his daughter Helen Smith. Sven Hanson and Ingrid
Hanson are also mentioned.
(Time Enough for Love)
Happiness
Euphoric drug issued to the servants of the Chosen, intended
to keep them docile. It is nontoxic but highly addictive. Its use is
voluntary, but almost all the servants indulge.
1. [mentioned in passing]
Name listed on the Nautilus
roster.
(Between Planets)
2. Principal at the Dallas high school
from which Donald Smith
graduated.
(To Sail Beyond the Sunset)
Jeff Hardesty
A student at Goddard
Institute in Luna City, a
friend of Holly Jones
and her partner in spaceship designing. Though she claimed the relationship
was strictly business, she was greatly annoyed by the time and attention he
lavished on Ariel
Brentwood, an actress and tourist from Earth. But when Holly broke both
arms saving Ariel from a fall while flying, Jeff was completely concerned for
her and barely noticed Ariel. There are strong hints that the two would
eventually marry, but Holly still intended to be engineering partners.
Mrs. Hardesty (no first name)
Jeff's mother appears briefly.
("The Menace from Earth")
Mistress Hardesty (no first name)
Alias by which Richard
Ames addressed Gwen
Novak while interrogating the nightwalker who intercepted them as they
tried to leave her apartment. [If this story takes place in the same universe
as "The Menace From Earth" (see Jeff
Hardesty), the surname may be common in Luna.]
Howard
Families member who advocated using force to deal with their short-lived
opponents; he made a distinction between homo vivens [members of the
Howard Families] and homo moriturus [everyone else].
(Methuselah's Children)
Charles Hardy
[mentioned in passing] Member of the Howard
Families, father of Edmund Hardy.
(Methuselah's Children)
Edmund Hardy
1.Howard
Families member who loaned clothes to Lazarus Long
after his dive into Lake Michigan to escape pursuing proctors. He was
Lazarus' great-great grandson, and a member of the Foote family.
(Methuselah's Children)
2. [mentioned in passing]
Descendant of Lazarus
Long, lived 2099–2259. [Possibly the same person as in Methuselah's
Children.]
(Time Enough for Love)
Edward Hardy
[mentioned in passing] Howard
Families member, grandfather of Edmund Hardy.
1. Chief biologist and longevity
researcher for the Howard
Foundation.
(Methuselah's Children)
2. [mentioned in passing]
Ship's surgeon in the New
Frontiers. [Probably the same person as in Methuselah's Children.]
(Time Enough for Love)
Ishtar Hardy
1. Chief technician in Secundus' rejuvenation
clinic, who personally attended Lazarus Long
after his rejuvenation. The name "Ishtar" was bestowed upon her by Galahad
Jones (her original name is not given), and it pleased her so much that
she had her name legally changed to it. She migrated to Tertius
and became head of the rejuvenation clinic there.
Atomics plant engineer relieved of duty by Dr. Silard when
his behavior patterns changed. He was put to work on research, and developed
an atomic fuel suitable for space flight.
("Blowups Happen")
Harper (no first names)
Settlers on New
Beginnings into whose old house Dora
Brandon's family moved when the Harpers went homesteading. Her parents
died when the house burned down.
(Time Enough for Love)
Harper-Erickson fuels
Artificial isotopes developed by engineers working for D. D.
Harriman. The fuel could be used in space flight. (Developed in "Blowups
Happen", but not called there by this name. See Gus Erickson
and Cal
Harper.)
("The Man Who Sold the Moon")
Harrickson (no first name)
Member of the Survivors
Club conspiracy, given unspecified assignments for the revolt.
(Beyond This Horizon)
Charlotte Harriman
D. D.
Harriman's wife. She opposed his "wild schemes" such as sending a rocket
to the moon.
("The Man Who Sold the Moon", "Requiem")
Delos D. Harriman
Business tycoon who inspired and largely funded many space-related
endeavors, including the first trip to the moon. Harriman is mentioned
indirectly in most of the Future History stories, mostly in businesses and
institutions bearing his name:
Harriman & Strong, a development firm in which he was a
partner with George
Strong ("The Man Who Sold the Moon", To Sail Beyond the Sunset)
Harriman Enterprises, the contractor that financed Space
Station One and employed many of the workers on it ("The Man Who Sold
the Moon", "Delilah and the Space Rigger", To Sail Beyond the Sunset)
Harriman Foundation, which funded scientific research ("'It's
Great to Be Back!'")
Harriman Hall, a training center for pilots ("The Green Hills of
Earth")
Harriman Memorial Park, just east of which a reservation was set
up for the Howard
Families (Methuselah's Children)
Harriman Memorial Refuge, a fund for the orphans of spacemen
(Time Enough for Love)
Harriman Scholarships, a program financed by his investments in
lunar companies ("Requiem")
Harriman Tower, headquarters for applications for emigration to
the Moon ("'It's Great to Be Back!'")
Harriman Trust, business established for developing Luna ("The Black
Pits of Luna"); parent company of other businesses owned by Harriman ("The
Man Who Sold the Moon"); and banking establishment on Secundus
(Time Enough for Love)
Many stories also include various references to the Harriman spaceships.
In "The Man Who Sold the Moon", he is a businessman and developer whose
lifelong dream was to go to the moon. He threw all of his resources and his
considerable influence into the project, but was at the last denied the
opportunity to go himself.
In "Blowups Happen", he is the founder of Rockets Consolidated, and he
underwrote the first issue of Antarctic
Pitchblende.
In Methuselah's Children, he is mentioned in passing as the man who
launched the first Moon rocket.
In "Requiem", he secretly financed a moon rocket to take him personally to
the Moon, launching in spite of legal attempts to stop him; and died shortly
after landing on the lunar surface.
In To Sail Beyond the Sunset, Lazarus Long
advised the Howard
Foundation to invest in companies that Harriman owned.
("The Black Pits of Luna", "Blowups Happen", "Delilah and the Space
Rigger", "The Green Hills of Earth", "It's Great to Be Back!", "The Man Who
Sold the Moon", Methuselah's Children, "Requiem", Time Enough for
Love, To Sail Beyond the Sunset)
Harriman & Strong
Corporation whose subsidiaries and affiliates included:
Allied Enterprises
Andes Development Company [Probably located in the Andes Mountains of
South America; therefore possibly founded to develop launch sites.]
Antipodes Transways
Belt Transport Corporation
Hughes Field [rocket port]
New World Homes (also mentioned in To Sail Beyond the Sunset)
Roadways
Skyblast Freight (In To Sail Beyond the Sunset, Maureen
Johnson was a director in 1970.)
("The Man Who Sold the Moon",
To Sail Beyond the Sunset)
Mathematician and director of the U.S. Naval Observatory. He raised fears
that the atomic plants were unstable and may blow up.
("Blowups Happen")
Harrison
(no first name) [mentioned in passing] Denizen of the Midway-Copton
building.
("The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag")
Harry (no last name)
1. Engineer who worked to restore
communications in the Moon after the counterattack by Earth.
(The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress)
2. Pilot on Matt Dodson's
first test flight; probably himself a cadet.
(Space Cadet)
Jubal Harshaw
1. Millionaire lawyer, physician, and
writer to whose Poconos retreat Jill
Boardman brought Valentine
Michael Smith. He was a self-described bon vivant, sybarite, neo-pessimist
philosopher, professional clown, amateur subversive, and parasite by choice.
The missing Ben
Caxton was returned at his instigation, and he orchestrated Mike's
acceptance as a representative of the entire planet Mars as well as
protection for him from those who coveted his wealth. After some reluctance,
he joined the Church of
All Worlds, and witnessed Mike's martyrdom.
3. Member of the Long extended family,
born 1907 in time line
three.
(To Sail Beyond the Sunset)
Ed and Betty Hartley
Couple who consulted Hugo Pinero
for the dates of their deaths. Despite his efforts to delay them, they were
killed in a traffic accident just outside his office while hurrying to meet
their friend Ellen.
("Life-Line")
Joseph Hartley
Colony hydroponicist. Because his infant daughter was sick and the power
had been cut off from the colonists' refuge during their rebellion against the
Mars
Company, he tried to surrender but was killed as soon as the soldiers saw
him. (Mrs. Hartley also appears.)
(The Red Planet)
"Satchel" Hartley (no other first name)
Contract laborer who befriended Humphrey
Wingate on the Evening Star
and was purchased with him. They escaped together after learning they would be
sold South.
("Logic of Empire")
Hartnett Marion
A guest at Johnson-Smith
Estaire's party with whom Monroe-Alpha
Clifford fell in love. After a frantic search for her, he met her again in
the Sierra Nevada Forest while he was still deranged from the abortive Survivors
Club coup. Thinking she was a mutation, he
tried to kill her, but she survived. She was actually an experimental genotype
possessing extraordinary emotional control and civility. She married him in
spite of his earlier behavior towards her. Clifford called her "Molly".
(Beyond This Horizon)
Hartstone (no first name)
[mentioned in passing] Interplanetary
Patrol member who died on the first expedition to Pluto. He had been
commissioned as an officer after only a year as a cadet.
(Space Cadet)
Hartwick (no first name)
[mentioned in passing] Physician known to Cynthia
and Ted Randall. He "specialized in "very private operations for society
people."
1. [mentioned in passing]
The president was elected by the student body.
(I Will Fear No Evil)
2. [mentioned in passing]
One of the experimental rocket satellites operated by the Harvard Radiation
Laboratory came dangerously close to the Rolling
Stone's trajectory.
[mentioned in passing] The first Earth expedition to Mars. [Probably
sponsored by Harvard University and the Carnegie Institute of Technology.]
(The Red Planet)
Dr. Cynthia Harvey
Don's mother, a native of Venus and an
archeologist working on Mars. She was a
member of the Organization.
(Between Planets)
Donald James Harvey
Born in transit to Ganymede of an
Terran father and Venusian
mother, he lived for his first few years on Venus but spent
his school years on Earth. His parents ordered him to Mars, where they
were working, when tensions increased between Venus and Earth, but he was
caught in the Venus
RepublicHigh Guard
attack on Circum-Terra
and chose going to Venus over returning to Earth. After the invasion of Venus
by Earth military forces he escaped from detention and joined the guerrilla
insurgents. From there he was sent to Sir Isaac
Newton, a Venerian dragon
he'd befriended on Earth, where he learned that Sir Isaac, his parents, and
various other acquaintances were working on technology that would make
military aggression impossible, and that he had been given crucial information
by a friend of his parents before leaving Earth. After turning over the
information and seeing the defenses developed, he was sent to Mars on the
prototype ship to help defeat the Earth forces and rejoin his parents. (At his
ranch school he was given the nickname "Don Jaime" because of a fancy Spanish
saddle his parents had given him.)
Roadworker who objected to inflammatory talk about strikes and takeovers.
He was murdered while negotiating on the government's behalf with rebel
roadworkers.
("The Roads Must Roll")
Hascomb and Sons
[mentioned in passing] Shipbuilders who operated on Hekate.
A played-out mine that Hugh Farnham
owned, where he and Barbara
Wells took shelter from the atomic bombardment after being returned to
their own time.
(Farnham's Freehold)
Sylvia (Goldie) Havenisle
Friday's
night nurse during her recovery from her kidnapping. She had helped in
Friday's rescue, carrying her out of the house. Friday lived with her after Hartley
Baldwin's organization was disbanded, until Goldie hired out as a nurse
with a mercenary troop.
(Friday)
Havermeyer Laboratories
Research firm in which Thorby
Rudbek owned stock, that also owned barge lines and bakeries. After Thorby
took control of his companies, Joel de la
Croix was hired here to develop a defense against slavers' paralysis
beams.
(Citizen of the Galaxy)
Henry M. Haversham IV
[mentioned in passing] Main character in a Jubal
Harshaw story.
When Curt
Reisfeld was a child he entered their publicity contest for a trip to the
Moon; he was awarded a trip years later and his daughter Peewee
Reisfeld talked him into letting her go in his place.
1. [mentioned in passing]
A favored horse in the Irish Sweepstakes.
(Glory Road)
2.John
Dahlquist died of radiation poisoning after disarming H-bombs that
renegade Interplanetary
Patrol officers intended to use to gain control of Earth's governments.
("The Long Watch")
3.Luna City was
bombarded with atomic weapons after it "dropped rocks" on Earth.
Military organization that served the Terran
Hegemony. Thorby
Rudbek joined them briefly so that they could search for his true identity
and deliver him to his original home; he signed up under the name Thorby
Baslim.
(Citizen of the Galaxy)
Tom Heimenz
Blacksmith who hired Lazarus Long
for the day when Lazarus travelled back to the year 1916.
(Time Enough for Love)
F. V. Heinicke
When Ricky
Gentry's grandmother won custody of her, Ricky changed her name to her
grandmother's. Under this name she held a trust to which Daniel
Boone Davis' stock dividends were paid, and she was cryogenically frozen
in Riverside
Sanctuary at age 21 until Dan was revived from his stasis. Belle Darkin
had told Dan that Ricky's surname was changed, but could only offer such
guesses as Haneker, Haney, Hanolon, Heinz, or Hinckley.
Planet that boasted the finest shipyards in the Galaxy, It was the usual
site of the Gathering of
the People of the Free
Traders. ([mentioned in passing] A company on the planet is
licensed to bottle Coca-Cola.)
1. Chimpanzee involved in the first
successful brain transplant.
(I Will Fear No Evil)
2. Chimpanzee used as a puppet master
host by Section
researchers. She learned to pick locks and transmitted puppet
masters to gibbons in neighboring cages.
(The Puppet Masters)
Hemisphere Power Building
Building where D. D. Harriman and George Strong attended a meeting of the for the power company syndicate's directors, in which Harriman tried to buy patents related to space travel.
2. [mentioned in passing]
Great-great-granddaughter of Maureen
Johnson and mother of Colin
Campbell's child. She was a major in the Time
Corps and one of the raiding party that rescued Mike during the
Lunar Revolution. [Referred to as Gretchen Armstrong Henderson.]
(To Sail Beyond the Sunset)
High Grade Henderson (no other first
name)
[mentioned in passing] Asteroid miner whom Charlie the
hermit claimed was eaten by his partner.
(The Rolling Stones)
Ingrid Henderson
[mentioned in passing] Owner of Ingrid's Swap Shop, a
general store. She was Jinx
Henderson's wife, and a direct descendant of Hazel
Stone.
(The Cat Who Walks Through Walls)
Jinx Henderson
Salvage operator who rescued Richard
Ames and Gwen
Novak after their crash landing on Luna. He was owner
of Happy Chance Salvage Service, Dry Bones Ice Company, Henderson's Overland
Cartage Company, and John Henry Drilling, Welding and Rigging Contractors. He
took Ingrid
Henderson's surname when he married her; he was born John Black Eagle.
Mobile
Infantry recruit who questioned the need to learn knife-throwing. Because
of later offenses, he was court-martialed for disobeying orders and striking a
superior, and was sentenced to ten lashes and a Bad Conduct Discharge.
2. Astrogator aboard the Asgard. He
recommended Max
Jones for astrogator training, and treated him as a protegé. He died of a
heart attack during the layover on Halcyon. When
the ship was stranded on Charity, the
settlement's main avenue was named after him.
(Starman Jones)
Henrietta (no last name)
[mentioned in passing] Colonist working in the Lowell
Academy commissary when the migrating colonists took refuge there.
(The Red Planet)
Henry (no last name)
Johnny
Ling claimed this was his "milk name" when he tried to persuade Don
Harvey to sell him the ring that Dudley
Jefferson had given him (it was embossed with an "H").
Alex
Hergensheimer's wife in his home universe. She was upright to an extreme,
and apparently not a pleasant life companion. She made it into Heaven during
the Rapture but made such a nuisance of herself complaining about others'
behavior that St. Peter had her thrown out of his office.
(Job: A Comedy of Justice)
Alexander Hergensheimer
Ordained clergyman and officer of Churches
United for Decency, he was chosen the victim in a bet between Yahweh and Loki to test the
faith of Yahweh's most devoted follower. While a passenger on the MV Konge Knut, he
accepted a bet to try a firewalk after witnessing a demonstration, and during
the walk was transported to a different universe where he was known as Alec Graham.
From there, with Margrethe
Gunderson he was shuttled from universe to universe, either staying just
long enough to build up hope that they were finished with the ordeal, or
shifted with disconcerting rapidity and frequency. He came to think of
Margrethe as his wife, but although she accepted Jesus moments before the
Rapture they were separated when he was taken bodily into Heaven. Deciding
that eternity without her would be unbearable, he chose to go to Hell to
search for her. He gained Lucifer's aid in
revealing Yahweh's contrivances and winning a peaceful existence for himself
and Margrethe with all memory of their experiences erased and all their
desires fulfilled.
A Black
Hat who came looking for Jacob
Burroughs and his family, claiming to be a forest ranger. Zebadiah
Carter killed him. Hilda
Burroughs dissected him and discovered he was nonhuman. [An anagram of Bob
Heinlein.]
Member of the Federation
High Council who supported Willem van
Tromp's decision to quarantine Valentine
Michael Smith to protect him from physical stress and culture shock. (He
was called "David", but his full name was not given.)
(Stranger in a Strange Land)
High Minister for Science
Member of the Federation
High Council who demanded that scientists be allowed to interrogate Valentine
Michael Smith immediately upon his arrival on Earth. (He was called "Pete"
or "Pierre", but his full name was not given.)
Name used by Timothy
Johnson for his alien boss. The alien is described as five feet tall with
squat legs and disc-like feet, a tail or third leg that balanced him while at
rest, two pair of many-jointed arms, purplish-brown oily skin, and a face
hideous to humans. He was the vanguard for an invasion of Earth. His entire
race and their planet were "rotated" out of this dimension in punishment for
their attempted crimes.
Herbert Smith-Carstairs' aide, also known as "Squeaky". Deety
Burroughs thought that a bartender at the Interuniverse
Society conference was his double.
(The Number of the Beast)
Hired Girl
Automated floor cleaner designed by Daniel
Boone Davis, also the name of the automation company founded by him and Miles
Gentry.
Class required of all high school students, though no grade was given. It
was always taught by Federal
Service military veterans. In Officers Candidate School, a more advanced
version is required that is a deciding factor in granting commissions.
Federal
Service recruiting officer who swore in Juan Rico and
Carl. He was "on display" with legs and right arm missing. Johnnie met him
after hours and learned that he wore prosthetics except when on duty, the
missing limbs being intended to impress prospective recruits with the
seriousness of their decision.
(Starship Troopers)
Jonathan Hoag
1. Well-to-do and fastidious gentleman
who, realizing he had no idea what he did every day, hired Ted
Randall and Cynthia
Craig Randall to follow him. This assignment involved them with the
plotting of the Sons of the
Bird, and in untangling the mess Hoag remembered that he was not an
ordinary human being but an "art critic" on Earth to experience human reality
so as to judge the worthiness of the "artistic endeavor", i.e. Earth.
("The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag")
2. He was assigned to guarding the
Critics' Lounge at the Interuniverse
Society conference, ensuring that no one but critics would enter.
Former Federation
senator exiled to Luna City and
named Warden there. He stayed inside his Compound and let things take their
own course. He was not a bad sort, but the Loonies hated him on general
principles and called him "Mort the Wart". He was killed during the
Revolution.
Teleport Gate that had one
terminal in New York City.
(Tunnel in the Sky)
The Hobo's Cookbook
[mentioned in passing] Book stocked in the Farnham bomb
shelter.
(Farnham's Freehold)
hog
One of the perils of the road beyond the Doral's
lands on Nevia.
They vaguely resembled Earth hogs, but were larger, uglier, much meaner, and
carnivorous.
(Glory Road)
Hog Alley
Corridor Five of "A" deck aboard the James
Randolph, in which Matt Dodson
was assigned a berth. It was known for the carefree conduct of its
inhabitants. Among other things, they organized the Hog Alley Band from the
musically-inclined cadets assigned to the corridor. The Hog Alley People's
Forum was a group of the older cadets, who informally took charge of the new
cadets.
[mentioned in passing, in a footnote to the story] Pioneer
in astrogation theory, his most important work was written in 1925; all
subsequent work in astrogation is a refinement of his basic principles.
Eagle
Scout from Denver, Colorado,
who was stopping over in Luna while
emigrating to Venus. He was
determined to make Eagle Scout for Earth, Luna, and Venus, the first and
probably only Triple Eagle in history, even though he had only three weeks in
Luna. While on a two-man camping trip with an experienced Lunar Scout he saved
himself and the other boy after they fell into a morning
glory, and there is a hint at the end of the story that he would indeed
make Eagle.
("Nothing Ever Happens on the Moon")
hollow grams
Alex
Hergensheimer's understanding of "holograms", used to decorate the rooms
in Jerry
Farnsworth's house, including changing the function of room (for example,
from parlor to dining room).
Bus system that operated in Heaven, which Alex
Hergensheimer rode during his search for Margrethe
Gunderson. When a passenger on the bus asked for Alex's blessing, Alex's
sainthood became manifest.
Women who provided sexual as well as domestic services for the Prophet. The
novices apparently were kept unaware of the sexual aspects of their duties
until they were chosen to attend the Prophet.
("If This Goes On—")
"Home"
Title of a propagandistic poem by Adam Selene,
published in a Luna City
magazine.
Product of genetic experiments by the Empire of
the Great Khans. They were extremely specialized, and so ultimately a
failure. [Latin, "changeable man"]
[mentioned in passing] Artificial
Person laboratory in South Jersey.
(Friday)
Honace Brothers, Pty.
Through his parents, Thorby
Rudbek owned it indirectly through a chain of six companies, with
controlling interest. He also owned noncontrolling stock with larger
dividends.
3. Lunar colony, apparently independent
of Lunar
Authority but with close ties to Luna City. Its
newspaper was called the Hong Kong Gong. Its currency, Hong Kong Luna
dollars, was not recognized by Lunar Authority, but was accepted in the other
lunar colonies and on Earth, being backed by gold and other commodities.
Native laborers in Windsor
City. They resembled Black Hats but
were about as intelligent as Earth dogs. The human colonists (apparently
British imperialists) usually called them "wogs".
Survivors
Club conspirator. He was accused of disobeying orders and summarily
executed.
(Beyond This Horizon)
horned ghosts
Unpleasant denizens of Nevia Valley:
"much like the Minotaur; from [belly] down they were splay-footed satyrs." Oscar Gordon
had to fight through them to get to the Doral's
land.
(Glory Road)
Hornets
[mentioned in passing] Platoon under the same commander as
Rasczak's
Roughnecks.
Misleadingly named room where travellers to and from Mars waited to go
through customs.
(Podkayne of Mars)
Hotel de las Olas Altas
Hotel in Mazatlán in
which Alex
Hergensheimer claimed to have been staying, so that he could get his
passport "replaced" after the earthquake. [Spanish olas altas,
"high waves"]
Unknown on the Ship, described as
a kind of compartment. (The inhabitants of the Ship lived in the ship's berths
and other chambers, not in free-standing dwellings.) Bill Ertz
misread it as "horse", to his great confusion.
He lived 1825–1873. He became wealthy during the Reconstruction (after the
Civil War) and mandated in his will that his money be used to "lengthen human
life". The administrators of the trust attempted to satisfy this mandate by
offering inducements to offspring of long-lived people to interbreed, assuming
that their long lifespans may be hereditary.
(Methuselah's Children; also mentioned in Time Enough for
Love and To Sail Beyond the Sunset)
Howard (no first name)
Representative of the Long
Range Foundation who recruited the Project
Lebensraum twins for telepathic communications between starships and
Earth. After Pat Bartlett
was paralyzed, Howard persuaded their parents to let Pat's twin Tom go on
the Lewis
& Clark in his place.
Descendants of the original participants in the Howard
Foundation's longevity breeding "experiments", all of them extraordinarily
long-lived. They became a closely intertwined clan representing all races,
united by both blood ties and business relationships. When their extraordinary
longevity became public knowledge, they fled Earth to avoid persecution,
returning only after medical means of prolonging life made the "secret"
available to everyone. They established a colony on Secundus during
the Diaspora.
(Methuselah's Children, Time Enough for Love, To Sail
Beyond the Sunset)
Howard Foundation
Trust formed to provide financial rewards for members of the Howard
Families who interbred. It eventually branched out into research for methods
of rejuvenation
and prevention of aging, and also administered the legal and economic affairs
of the Howard Families. Forewarned by Lazarus Long
about the 1929 stock market crash, it moved its assets to Swiss bank accounts,
and restructured its operations as a Canadian corporation to avoid U.S.
restrictions on owning gold.
(Methuselah's Children, Time Enough for Love, To Sail
Beyond the Sunset)
Relative of the Mars
Company's chairman and headmaster of Lowell
Academy, who took the position just as Jim Marlowe
started school there. He tried to turn the school into a military academy,
considering the colonists to be "barbarians" who needed repressive discipline.
He tried to steal Willis and sell
him to the London Zoo. Willis' recital of a conversation between him and Gaines
Beecher revealed the Company's plans to prevent the colonists' semiannual
migration to a more tolerable climate.
1. Young resident of the Ship who was
recruited to be a Scientist. He
was encouraged by younger Scientists to support their plans for a new order,
but was captured by muties and taken
as Joe-Jim
Gregory's personal servant. From Joe-Jim he learned the true nature of the
Ship, and was allowed to return to Scientists' territory to persuade them to
join the muties in completing the Trip. He was able
to show one Scientist the Outside, but was arrested for heresy and just barely
escaped with his life; he eventually fled the Ship with a few companions when
they approached a habitable planet.
(Orphans of the Sky)
2. [mentioned in passing]
His descendants were discovered, only a few thousand strong but still
surviving.
Nonhumanoid aliens, long-lived and vastly superior to any other known
race. Their home planet is called Hroshijud; their language is Hroshija. They
became convinced that an important Hroshia was being held on Earth and
threatened to destroy it if she was not returned. After various developments,
John
Thomas Stuart's pet Lummox was
learned to be the missing Hroshia (from her point of view, John Thomas Stuart
was the pet). Because of her attachment to John Thomas, humans were able to
negotiate an extremely favorable treaty in exchange for her agreeing to return
home.
1. Member of the Genetic
Planning Council, Speaker for the Day during the hearing to consider Mordan
Claude's proposal for an investigation into life after death.
Human-supremacist and imperialist movement that split off from the Expansionist
Party when the Expansionist Party evolved from a Manifest Destiny movement
to one recognizing the rights of nonhuman races.
(Double Star)
Humm-Wadsworth-Burton
Psychological classification test designed to determine who was
temperamentally suited for roadwork and other sensitive employment.
("The Roads Must Roll," also mentioned in "Lost Legacy.")
[mentioned in passing] Breakfast cereal, sponsor of the Pidgie
Widgie show.
(The Star Beast)
Asa Hunter
Farmer who helped Friday after
she'd struggled into Arkansas
territory following the explosion of the Skip to
M'Lou. When she settled on Botany Bay,
she founded the Asa Hunter Bread-Upon-the-Waters Revolving Fund to help ship
jumpers and other new settlers pay their bounty to join the colony.
(Friday)
Hunter's Horn
Mountain peak near the Farnham home. Duke
Farnham's recognition of it established that the bomb shelter had been
hurled through time but not space.
[mentioned in passing] An Outdoor Life publication
stocked in the Farnham bomb
shelter.
(Farnham's Freehold)
Huxley (no first name)
Head of the Department of Applied Miracles at West Point
when John
Lyle was a cadet. He became the commanding general of the Cabal's
revolutionary army, and chose John as his personal aide to help train the
militia.
("If This Goes On—")
Huxley Field
Spaceport near Chicago from which Slayton Ford
lifted off to rendezvous with the New
Frontiers. (Possibly named after General Huxley of "If This Goes On-")
(Methuselah's Children)
Hyacinthus Veneris Johnsoni
"Venus
swamproot", a native plant harvested by the natives to trade to humans, and
processed by contract labor. Its use was not specified.
The Heinlein
Society was founded by Virginia Heinlein on behalf of her husband, science
fiction author Robert Anson Heinlein, to "pay forward" the legacy of Robert A. Heinlein to future generations of "Heinlein's Children."