Former Rams football player and Fosterite
preacher.
(Stranger in a Strange Land)
Jackie (no other name)
"Jackie gave it to me" was the standard response to queries to Luna City
children about the subversive material they handed out. Jackie, of course, did
not exist.
UCLA student recruited to act as a lady's maid, under the name Shizuko,
for Friday on
her trip to The
Realm. Her real role was a guard (effectively a warden). After her cover
was blown and Friday escaped to Botany Bay,
she also jumped ship and joined the colony.
2. Company in which Jerry
Farnsworth owned stock.It presumably built and operated skyhook cables.
(Job: A Comedy of Justice)
Jacobstein Ray (Jake)
Director of the investigation into telepathy.
(Beyond This Horizon)
Jake (no last name)
1. Washroom attendant at the Constitution
Club, whom Sam
Cavanaugh infected with a puppet
master. He died because "his master would not let him take time out for
necessities."
(The Puppet Masters)
2. [mentioned in passing]
Midshipman in David Lamb's
class.
[mentioned in passing] Bird described as having eyes on the
back of its head.
(Tunnel in the Sky)
Bill (Tex) Jarman
Interplanetary
Patrol cadet who made friends with Matt Dodson
on their first day. He arranged to be assigned to the Aes Triplex
to stay with his friends, and was named watch officer when the senior crew
transferred to a disabled ship to repair and return it. When he and the other
cadets were sent to Venus to answer a
distress call, they discovered the Astarte and
helped restore and return it to the Triplex after his landing craft was
damaged.
(Space Cadet)
Bodie Jarman
Tex
Jarman's uncle, the black sheep of the family, about whom Tex had a wealth
of tall tales.
[mentioned in passing] Author of Predators and Prey.
(Tunnel in the Sky)
Jay's Drive-In
[mentioned in passing] When captured, Kip Russell
had a pencil with him stamped with their slogan; he repudiated their claim to
make the "thickest shakes in town", since his were the thickest.
(Have Space Suit — Will Travel)
J.B. (no other name)
President of California Commercial Credit, which Friday persuaded
to issue her a credit card after she won the California lottery.
Reporter who "discovered" the bag of diamonds that D. D.
Harriman had given to Leslie
LeCroix to take on the Moon flight.
("The Man Who Sold the Moon")
Dudley Jefferson
A friend of Don
Harvey's parents and member of the Organization,
whom Don contacted before he left Earth. He was arrested in Don's company, and
Don was later told he "suffered a fatal heart attack" during interrogation. He
had sent Don a ring that, though Don was unaware of it, contained information
crucial to building a weapons defense and faster-than-light-travel system.
Original name of the base used for the Prophet's proctors in St.
Louis. It was taken over by the Cabal and restored
to this name when a temporary capital was set up there.
By inference, Sybil
Farnsworth got into trouble once for making an illegal tape of their
music.
(Job: A Comedy of Justice)
Jelal (no first name)
Career ship's sergeant, Juan Rico's
platoon sergeant aboard the Rodger Young
and de facto platoon leader after Lt. Rasczak's
death. He eventually made captain, but lost his legs. Nicknamed "Jelly", and
anyone who had made one combat drop could call him that to his face.
(Starship Troopers)
Señor Jellybelly (no other name)
Bernardo de
la Paz's name for the Argentine delegate to the Federation
commission that was considering Lunar independence. He owned a brothel in
Buenos Aires, and Bernardo deliberately insulted him by asking about it.
(The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress)
Jelly's Jaguars
Name proposed for Rasczak's
Roughnecks after Lt. Rasczak was
killed. It was vetoed by Sgt. Jelal, who insisted on keeping the original.
(Starship Troopers)
Al Jenkins
Member of Juan Rico's
first platoon, barred from a drop because he had a cold. After most of the
platoon was wiped out, he joined Willie's Wildcats with Johnnie. He survived
the First
Battle of Klendathu and was assigned to the Rodger
Young; he was later killed during a drop.
(Starship Troopers)
Albert Jenkins
Ross
Jenkins' father, a retired electrical engineer.
(Rocket Ship Galileo)
Ed Jenkins
D. D.
Harriman's personal servant, whom Harriman offered to set up in a
restaurant when he decided to get rid of all his servants.
("The Man Who Sold the Moon")
Martha Jenkins
Ross
Jenkins' mother, who argued in favor of Ross going to the Moon, after
initial opposition.
(Rocket Ship Galileo)
Peewee Jenkins (no other first name)
Street urchin whom Jefferson
Thomas and Alec Howe
recruited to run errands and make necessary contacts.
A Howard
Families member, related to the Schmidts, husband of Carol Smith.
Originally a mathematics (topology) major in college, after World War I he
switched to theater arts, eventually becoming a professional stage magician.
He died in 1955 in a stage accident.
(To Sail Beyond the Sunset)
Ross Jenkins
His parents owned the land on which the Galileo
Marching-and-Chowder Society tested rockets; he was the Club chemist
specializing in rocket fuel. His father initially forbade him to postpone
school to go to the Moon with Donald
Cargraves, but did allow him to work on the rocket during the summer.
After Ross' mother changed her mind, Ross was also permitted to go to the
Moon.
(Rocket Ship Galileo)
Jenkins (no first name)
1. [mentioned in passing]
(Mrs.) Centerville
resident whom Kip Russell
persuaded to buy a dozen cakes of Skyway soap, leaving him the wrappers to
send in for their contest for a trip to the Moon.
(Have Space Suit — Will Travel)
2. [mentioned in passing]
(Mrs.) Jonathan
Hoag's cleaning lady, wife of the building's janitor.
5. Girl who babysat for Maureen
Johnson's first three children. [Possibly related to Rod Jenkins?]
(To Sail Beyond the Sunset)
Bishop Jennings (no first name)
[mentioned in passing] Religious authority in Minneapolis.
("If This Goes On—")
Hannah Jensen
Alias Friday used as a
"repair technician" on the fence between the Chicago
Imperium and Canada, trying to cut her way through.
(Friday)
Oscar Jensen
Interplanetary
Patrol candidate from Venus. He became a
good friend of Matt Dodson,
passed his training at the same time, and was assigned to the Aes Triplex
with him. He was named chief communications officer after the senior officers
were transferred to a derelict ship for repairs. He landed on Venus with Matt
and Tex
Jarman to investigate a distress call, took command when the senior
officer was injured, and negotiated aid from the natives. After the mission
was completed, he was assigned as temporary liaison to the equatorial region
because of his rapport with the natives.
(Space Cadet)
Tom Jeremy
[mentioned in passing] Character in the video serial The
Space Troopers.
[mentioned in passing] One of the judges of the Society
for Creative Anachronism joust at the Interuniverse
Society conference. He is also mentioned as covering the convention for
his journal. [SF and science writer Jerry Pournelle?]
Farmwife who fed Jefferson
Thomas during his reconnaissance mission. Her husband informed Jeff that
registration cards were necessary.
(The Day After Tomorrow)
Simon Jester
Mike's pen
name for subversive doggerel, caricatured as a little horned devil with
pitchfork and tail, sometimes stabbing a fat man. He was quickly adopted by
Loonies in general, and cartoons and verses that Mike had not produced
appeared everywhere, becoming the Revolutionary equivalent of "Kilroy Was
Here".
1. [mentioned in passing]
The husband of Oscar
Gordon's old girlfriend; he was away from home on business when she
invited him to dinner "for old time's sake".
Small ship used to shuttle colonists from the Mayflower to
Ganymede
colony, and for suborbital travel around the moon. It was originally
commissioned for use between Ganymede and Project Jove.
(Farmer in the Sky)
Joan (no last name)
1. Girl who sent Oscar Gordon
a Dear John letter, but contacted him after he'd returned from the quest for
the Egg of the
Phoenix. She was clearly interested in renewing their "friendship" in
spite of her marriage, but he backed out.
4. (Uncle) Possibly apocryphal relative
of Richard
Ames about whom Ames told Gwen
Novak highly improbable stories about his sex life. He was a resident of
Grinnell,
Iowa.
(The Cat Who Walks Through Walls)
Jockaira
1. Inhabitants of an Earthlike planet
orbiting star ZD9817. They
were 7-8 feet tall, with large limpid eyes but loose toothless mouths and
bifurcated upper lips. Although roughly humanoid in appearance, they were very
different socially and mentally. They contacted the Howard
Families telepathically and welcomed them to their planet, even providing
a city for them. Jockairan food was suitable for humans, and the Jockaira were
intensely eager to fill human needs; but many human concepts, such as privacy,
baffled them. The humans usually shortened their name to "Jocks". They turned
out to be "domestic animals" under the control of unseen higher beings, who
removed the humans from their planet ("flying" them back into the ship) when
Slayton
Ford became psychotic after contact with them and they decided humans
could not be domesticated. (A reference to "Jockaria" is obviously a
typographical error.)
(Methuselah's Children)
2.Lazarus Long
claimed to have returned to the planet (which had been deliberately
miscatalogued to keep humans away from it), and massacred the "gods". His "twin
sisters" called the race "Jabberwockies".
(Time Enough for Love)
Jodrell Bank
[mentioned in passing] Institute that authorized the Manned
Pluto Probe,
but lost touch with it.
(I Will Fear No Evil)
Joe (no last name)
1. a. Terran soldier who invaded the Two
Worlds Dining Room, taking Don
Harvey prisoner and killing Old Charlie.
b. One of the soldiers hunting Don after his
escape from the detention camp.
Treaty negotiated at the end of World War III. By inference, it banned the
construction of nuclear weapons.
("If This Goes On—")
Anna Johansen
Classified documents clerk who retrieved The Only
Deadly Weapon from Friday; she had
assisted in Friday's rescue from her kidnappers.
(Friday)
Johansen (no first name)
[mentioned in passing] Astrogator in the Thule. Kelly asked
Max Jones
briefly about him because Max had claimed to have tried for chartsman aboard
that ship.
In the United States where Alex
Hergensheimer ended up after the Mazatlán
earthquake, he was His Most Christian Majesty, Hereditary President of the
United States and Canada, Duke of Hyannisport, Comte de Quebec, Defender of
the Faith, Protector of the Poor, and Marshal in Chief of the Peace Force.
[Inferring from Hyannisport, he could be John Kennedy or a descendant.]
(Job: A Comedy of Justice)
John Henry Drilling, Welding and Rigging Contractors
Also known as Old John, a hermit in the Adirondacks where Sam
Cavanaugh had his cabin. He was possibly the source of the puppet
master that infected Sam's cat.
(The Puppet Masters)
Adele Pfeiffer Johnson
1.Lazarus
Long's maternal grandmother. She lived in St. Louis after leaving her
husband, but refused to divorce him.
(Time Enough for Love)
2.
Maureen
Johnson's mother, born 1854. Although Maureen respected her, they did not
get on well because of significant personality differences. Unlike her
husband, Adele was completely conventional in her opinions and morals. Whereas
Maureen could — and did — discuss anything, particularly sexuality, with her
father, she took pains to hide her more "progressive" opinions and behavior
from her mother. She was quite surprised to realize that, like all Howard
Families brides, her mother conceived her first-born child before
marriage.
[mentioned in passing] Howard
Families member, grandmother of Edmund
Hardy. [It's unclear whether this is the Alice Irene Johnson mentioned in
To Sail Beyond the Sunset.]
(Methuselah's Children)
Alice Irene Johnson
[mentioned in passing] Ira Johnson's
sister (1840–?). The family lost track of her after she married "back east".
[It's unclear whether this is the Alice Johnson mentioned in Methuselah's
Children.]
Ira
Johnson's father (1813–1918), the oldest in his family, born in Illinois.
He served in the [1840s] war with Mexico as a sergeant in the Illinois
militia. He volunteered to fight in the Civil War, but was turned down.
(To Sail Beyond the Sunset)
Audrey Adele Johnson
Maureen
Johnson's older sister, born 1878. She married Jerome Bixby in 1896.
(To Sail Beyond the Sunset)
Aurora Johnson
Ira
Johnson's sister (1850–?). She married several times; when last heard from
in 1930, she was in California.
(To Sail Beyond the Sunset)
Axel Johnson
Member of the Howard
Families. He was nominated for chairman of the emergency meeting after the
suspension of the Covenant, but
withdrew in favor of Lazarus
Long.
Nightwalker (undocumented laborer) who intercepted Gwen
Novak and Richard
Ames as they were moving out of her apartment. He was ineptly disguised as
a proctor.
Alfred McNeil's great-niece, and his telepathic partner, only a little
girl when the Lewis &
Clark's voyage began. Tom Bartlett
learned to communicate with her.
1. (Referred to only as Edward Johnson.)
Lazarus
Long's great-uncle, a railroad engineer who had been killed on the job. Ira Johnson
speculated that Ted
Bronson might be his bastard son, to account for Ted's resemblance to
various Johnsons.
(Time Enough for Love)
2.Ira Johnson's
brother (1844–1884). He fought in the Civil War. He was killed in a train
wreck.
(To Sail Beyond the Sunset)
Eleanor Johnson
Young, widowed Howard
Families member, mother of a new baby when the New
Frontiers left Earth. She spoiled her son dreadfully during the voyage,
and followed him back to the New Frontiers when the Families decided to return
to Earth, even though she had not wanted to go.
(Methuselah's Children)
Elizabeth Louise (Betty Lou) Barstow
Johnson
Nelson
Johnson's wife, from Massachusetts; they met while she was a student at
Kansas University.
Ira
Johnson's grandfather (1795–1897), born in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. He
served in the War of 1812. After he married Amanda Fredericks, they moved to
Illinois, then moved again to Minnesota after the War with
Mexico. He died in a Minneapolis nursing home.
1. Medical student and one of the first
members of the Howard
Foundation project.
(Methuselah's Children)
2.Lazarus
Long's grandfather, also Ira
Weatheral's ancestor. He was approximately 80 years old when Lazarus left
home. The Howard
Families records report that he was killed during the World War II
bombings in London. When Lazarus returned to 1916 Kansas City,
he made Ira's acquaintance and was accepted as a possible nephew.
(Time Enough for Love)
3.Maureen
Johnson's father (1852–1941), a physician in Lyle County,
Missouri. He was born August 2, 1852, in Freeborn County, Minnesota, the
youngest of four boys and three girls. When he was 12, he ran away to enlist
as a drummer boy for the Civil War, but was fetched home after three weeks. He
served as an Army physician during the Spanish-American War, then re-enlisted
after Maureen was married, serving in Cuba, in the Philippines, and in China
during the Boxer Rebellion. He left the Army in 1912 and moved to Kansas
City,where Maureen lived. After being refused for activity duty during
World War I, he was accepted into the Missouri militia. He volunteered for
medical service with the AFS (American Friends Service?) in 1940 and was
reported missing in the Battle of
Britain during World War II. One purpose for the Time
Corps' mission to the Battle of Britain was to rescue Ira before he was
killed.
(To Sail Beyond the Sunset)
Jack Johnson
[mentioned in passing] Lazarus
Long's cousin, who married Meg Hardy after
she divorced Lazarus.
(Time Enough for Love)
James Ewing Johnson
Ira
Johnson's brother (1833–1884). He died while attempting to ford the Osage
River during spring flood. Maureen
Johnson's aunt Carole Pelletier Johnson was his widow. He fought in the
Civil War
1.Lazarus
Long's mother, with whom he fell in love when he traveled back in time to
his childhood home. Although he did not tell her his true identity, he did
reveal that he was a time traveler.
(Time Enough for Love)
2. After returning to his "present",
Lazarus made plans to return to the moment of his mother's death, to rescue
her and bring her to Tertius
for rejuvenation.
The plan succeeded with the help of the Gay Deceiver
crew.
(The Number of the Beast)
3. Mother of Lazarus
Long. Born in Thebes,
Lyle
County, in southern Missouri on July 4, 1882 (Gregorian), the daughter of
physician Ira
Johnson and Adele
Pfeiffer Johnson. She married Brian Smith
in 1898 and moved with him to Kansas City.
While raising numerous children, she also helped him start his mining
consulting business. They moved to Chicago in 1940, to an apartment building
owned by the Howard
Foundation through a dummy, then moved again to San Francisco where Brian
served in the Army during World War II. After World War II, they lived with
their widowed daughter-in-law, Marian
Hardy Smith, in Texas until 1946, when Brian asked for a divorce to marry
Marian. She moved back to Kansas City in 1946, attending Rockhurst College
1946–1952 and acquiring multiple degrees. Acquiring a million-dollar share in
Harriman
Industries, she became a director and used her "inside knowledge" of the
future to encourage investments in major technology. She wrote a newspaper
column under the name Prudence Penny with the ultimate aim of promoting the
idea of an expedition to the moon; in 1965 she moved to Colorado Springs to be
near the site of the first moon launch. She was eased off the Harriman board
of directors when Daniel Dixon
took control. She moved to Albuquerque in 1972, and was initiated as a witch
(Wicca rite) that same year. She would have died in 1982 in a traffic
accident, except that the crew of the Gay Deceiver
rescued her at the last minute. She trained as a rejuvenator, then became a Time
Corps agent.
(To Sail Beyond the Sunset)
Nelson Johnson
Maureen's cousin and occasional sex partner. His parents were James
Ewing Johnson and Carole
Pelletier Johnson; he was determined to be eligible for Howard
Foundation benefits. He earned a master's degree in agronomy at Kansas
State University. He became a partner in Brian Smith's
mining consulting firm; he and his wife lived with the Smiths for the first
few years of the partnership. He joined the Marines when the U.S. entered
World War I and lost a foot in Belleau Wood in 1918. He re-enlisted for
limited duty during World War II.
(To Sail Beyond the Sunset)
Peter Johnson
Son of Mrs. Peter Van Hogbein Johnson [see next entry]; he broke his hip
playing polo just before an important dinner party his mother was hosting.
("—We Also Walk Dogs")
Mrs. Peter Van Hogbein Johnson (no other
first name)
Society matron who requested General
Services' help so that she could both be at her son's hospital bedside and
act as hostess for an important dinner party. They arranged a two-way video
broadcast between the party and her son's hospital room.
Maureen
Johnson's older brother, born 1881. He enlisted in the Army in 1898 to
fight in the Spanish-American War.
(To Sail Beyond the Sunset)
Timothy Johnson
One of Kip
Russell's captors. He was imprisoned with Kip after his usefulness was
over, and disappeared after several days — possibly eaten by Wormface. Kip
called him "Fatty" even after learning his real name.
1. Former real estate salesman suggested
to be a priest of Mota. He turned out
to be a spy and collaborator for the PanAsians,
and was killed by Jefferson
Thomas.
(The Day After Tomorrow)
2. [mentioned in passing]
Family living near Joe Branca's
mother; they had twins, one a dropout and one on parole.
[mentioned in passing] A point in Singapore the farthest
distance from the docks; Oscar Gordon
narrowly avoided being taken there "by mistake" by a cabdriver.
[mentioned in passing] Food technician first class with the
Mars
Expedition settlement. He died of "homesickness" and was "cherished" by
the MartianOld Ones.
(Stranger in a Strange Land)
Caspol Jones
[mentioned in passing] L. Ron
O'Leemy claimed to have a warrant for his arrest.
(The Number of the Beast)
Chang Jones
Lunar
Congressman who proposed a grain embargo against Earth.
Max
Jones' late uncle. A member of the Astrogators'
Guild, he gave Max his astrogation books and promised to register him as
his heir with the Guild but was unable to do so before his untimely death.
1. Associate technician tending Lazarus
Long. Dubbed "Galahad" by Ishtar
Hardy, he preferred it over his real name, Obadiah. He was a student of
ancient cultures before becoming a rejuvenation
technician. He joined the Lazarus Long's group marriage in the Tertius
colony.
A member of Bill Lermer's
scout troop on Earth, who
emigrated in the Mayflower.
Although the two did not get along well on Earth, they slowly became good
friends during the voyage.
(Farmer in the Sky)
Holly Jones
1. Third-generation Lunarite, a
15-year-old student at Tech High who worked as a tourist guide but planned to
become a spaceship designer with her friend Jeff
Hardesty.
Ozark farmboy who ran away from home after his stepmother remarried and
sold the farm. After learning that his uncle had not fulfilled his promise to
get him into the Astrogators'
Guild, he used forged papers to get menial work aboard the starship Asgard. He
rapidly went from tending animals to training as a chartsman After the ship
was lost through an uncharted anomaly and all others with astrogation skills
died, he successfully piloted the ship back to known space, and was accepted
as an apprentice astrogator by the Guild.
(Starman Jones)
Mei-Ling Jones
One of the telepaths aboard the Lewis &
Clark (Chinese-Peruvian, she pronounced her surname "Hone-Ace"). She
married Chet
Travers; their baby died in the plague.
Reserve officer and wealthy friend of Humphrey
Wingate. He signed up with Wingate as a contract laborer on Venus and was sent
to the South Pole, but managed to buy his and Wingate's contracts and free
them from indenture.
("Logic of Empire")
Susan Jones
[mentioned in passing] Alias under which Joan Eunice
Smith planned to set up an account for shopping.
(I Will Fear No Evil)
Zebadiah Jones
John
Lyle's roommate, who joined the Cabal with John,
working for Psych and Propaganda with the rank of major; he very shortly
became a colonel and acting head of Propaganda.
("If This Goes On—")
Jones (no first name)
1. (Mrs.) Holly Jones'
mother, a mathematical chemist for General
Synthetics of Luna, who
encouraged her daughter's plan to become a spaceship designer.
("The Menace from Earth")
2. Alias under which Joan Eunice
Smith reserved a nightclub table to celebrate her recovery from the brain
transplant.
1. [mentioned in passing]
Builder of the New
Frontiers.
(Methuselah's Children)
2. Organization that sponsored the Proxima
Centauri Expedition. After many generations, dim memories and tradition on
the Ship
transformed this into Jordan, the deity that guided the Ship's spiritual
progress. (Is there a connection with Methuselah's Children?)
(Orphans of the Sky)
Jordan's Plan
The original ship's itinerary, interpreted metaphorically by the Scientists as
a guide for moral behavior and Key to Spiritual Enlightenment.
(Orphans of the Sky)
Jorgensen (no first name)
Captain of the Tours, who tutored
Juan Rico in
math when she learned he had orders to improve his skills.
2. The Farnhams' African American
houseboy, an accounting student. He survived the nuclear war and was hurled
forward in time with them in their bomb shelter. Hugh Farnham
made him his second in command. After the group was found by the Chosen, he was
taken on as a protégé by Ponse, repudiating
his earlier relationship to the Farnhams but doing what he could to make their
lot easier.
(Farnham's Freehold)
3.Star's uncle; she
claimed that Count Cagliostro was one of his aliases.
Battalion formed from inhabitants of the pariah
reservations and volunteers from other nations, to battle the Prophet. The
members were presumably Jewish.
Chief planet of the Nine Worlds
and site of the capital. Thorby
Rudbek was brought here to be sold at slave auction, and Richard
Baslim had volunteered for an undercover assignment there to report on the
slave trade.
Young Holy Virgin
appointed to serve the Prophet. John Lyle fell
in love with her, and when she was traumatized to learn what "service" was
required, he joined the Cabal to help
rescue her from her fate. She was smuggled into Mexico, but instead of being
reunited with John after he went underground, she married a man she met in
Mexico.
("If This Goes On—")
Julia (no last name)
Edith
Jameson's sister-in-law, who called attention to the stain under Jonathan
Hoag's fingernails and tried to guess his profession.
("The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag")
Dr. Julian (no first name)
[mentioned in passing] Foremost theoretician on
gravitation. Unfortunately for the purposes of General
Services, he was deceased.
Code name Kip Russell
used to test Oscar's [his space
suit's] radio circuit. When Peewee
Reisfeld heard his broadcast "Junebug to Peewee" she thought he was trying
to contact her.
Mike's name
for the auxiliary computer used for launching ballistic loads.
(The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress)
Junior Council
Representative body in the Mayflower,
chosen from emigrants under 18 years old. They had little influence on
decisions aboard the ship, although they actively lobbied the Senior
Council.
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."