1. Milk cow purchased by the Lermers for
their homestead on Ganymede. She
was named by Peggy
Kenyon. She died in the aftermath of the quake that wrecked the atmosphere
plant, and was replaced with Mabel II.
Location of a washroom booth through which the Section offices
could be reached.
(The Puppet Masters)
MacArthur Theater
[mentioned in passing] Site where a neodog was exhibited in
Juan Rico's
hometown.
(Starship Troopers)
Roy MacClure
Secretary for Spacial Affairs for the Federated Community of
Civilizations. As a political appointee, he was a figurehead; the real work
was done by Henry
Kiku.
(The Star Beast)
Malcom MacDonald
Police sergeant who was controlled by a puppet
master. When he was challenged by a vigilante, he killed the man but was
torn to pieces by a mob, along with his puppet master.
(The Puppet Masters)
Archie MacDougal
Chief jetman aboard the Falcon. He was an
old friend and former apprentice of "Noisy"
Rhysling. He died in the power room accident.
("The Green Hills of Earth")
Sandy MacDougal
Lazarus
Long claimed the Wandering Jew was using that alias when they met.
(Time Enough for Love)
Malcolm MacGregor
Master sergeant aboard the Kilroy Was
Here, who died in the return landing crash.
Mentioned in passing as an authority on revolutions.
(The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress)
Machine Tools Division
[mentioned in passing] Division of Smith
Enterprises interested in acquiring control of Homecrafts, Ltd.
(I Will Fear No Evil)
MacIntosh (no first name)
1. (Miss) Johann
Sebastian Bach Smith's private-duty nurse. She threatened to quit when
Johann her authority and called her "Miss Bedpan". He immediately apologized
and raised her salary.
(I Will Fear No Evil)
2. Chancellor of the University of New
Mexico in the 1960s and 1970s. Maureen
Johnson admired him for refusing to give in to educational fads.
Free
United States citizen who was sent to Coventry after
violating the Covenant and
refusing "readjustment". He expected to find an anarchist's utopia, and
entered his exile with a full load of camping and survival gear. His
possessions were promptly confiscated by "customs guards" just inside the
border, and he was arrested and imprisoned for resisting them. Fader Magee
helped him to escape, and also to avoid conscription in the New American army.
When they learned that New America
was plotting to break out of Coventry and invade the United States, first
Fader (a member of the Covenant's Secret Service) and then MacKinnon attempted
to return outside to give a warning. MacKinnon was successful; once the
mission was completed, he was declared cured of his antisocial tendencies.
Still wanting more adventure than society offered, he considered joining the
Secret Service.
Lunar
immigrant who, dissatisfied with living conditions there, returned to Earth,
only to realize that in spite of the inconvenience the Moon had become his
home. He reapplied and was accepted for permanent Lunar citizenship.
("'It's Great to Be Back!'")
Donald MacRae
Physician in the Mars colony, friend
of the Marlowes.
(The Red Planet)
Josephine MacRae
Lunar
immigrant who, dissatisfied with living conditions in Luna, returned to Earth
and then realized that the Moon had become home; wife of Allan.
1.Peewee
Reisfeld's rag doll, which she took everywhere with her. She even had it
with her when she was kidnapped and during the subsequent adventures until she
returned to Earth.
(Have Space Suit — Will Travel)
2. Clothing boutique where Joan Eunice
Smith shopped during her first outing after the brain transplant.
2.Dora offered to
sing "Mademoiselle from Army Tears" for the Gay Deceiver
crew.
(The Number of the Beast)
Margaret Mader
Anthropologist whom the Free Traders
on the Sisu
allowed to travel with them, although they were normally wary of outsiders.
She befriended Thorby
Rudbek and did her best to explain their customs to him. When the ship
reached Losian, she
transferred to El
Nido to return to the Terran
Hegemony.
Junior medical officer aboard the Forward, who
diagnosed Friday's
pregnancy and jumped ship with her to settle on Botany Bay. He
was probably the father of Matilda
Jackson's child, though he married someone else in Botany Bay.
Fellow prison inmate who helped David
MacKinnon after his arrest for resisting customs guards. They broke jail,
avoided conscription, and learned of the New America
plot to invade the United States. Fader was a Secret Service agent who was
keeping tabs on events within Coventry. After
an initial unsuccessful attempt, he made it back outside to give reports of
the plot.
[mentioned in passing] Second officer on the Caravan,
described by Roger Stone
as a "wolf in ship's clothing". Apparently he and Meade Stone
had a flirtation when the family traveled to Venus.
(The Rolling Stones)
Maginnis (no first name)
Stores clerk in the Asgard. He got
drunk and was disciplined by Sam
Anderson.
[mentioned in passing] Filipino hero described by Juan Rico as
"great man, great soldier-probably be chief of psychological warfare if he
were alive today." Johnnie believed there should be a troopship named after
him.
Friend of Hugh
Hoyland, who contacted the muties to rescue
Hugh from execution for heresy. He accompanied Hugh on his escape from the Ship.
(Orphans of the Sky)
main control room
Room located in the center, no-gravity section of the Ship. It was said
to be haunted by the ghost of Jordan. Joe-Jim
Gregory brought Hugh Hoyland
here to convince him that there was a universe outside the Ship.
Estrellita
and José Long's second, high-class restaurant. It had a coffee shop
attached to it called "Estelle's Kitchen", after the first restaurant. [French
maison, "house"]
Laundry where the proprietress hid Thorby
Rudbek from pursuing guards. Her man had been taken to the mines and so
she never passed up a chance to thwart the Sargon's
guards.
(Citizen of the Galaxy)
Major (no other name)
Only name used for the leader of Friday's
kidnappers.
1. Royal Canadian Mounted Police
sergeant who interrupted the broadcasts by groups claiming responsibility for
Red
Thursday.
(Friday)
2. (Mrs.) Landlady with whom Maureen
Johnson and her father stayed when they attended the Chicago World's Fair.
(To Sail Beyond the Sunset)
Malone
"Mr. Malone wants this car-immediately" is Section code for
"destroy the evidence", in this case the car that "the Cavanaughs" drove to Des Moines to
check the flying saucer reports.
(The Puppet Masters)
Mamaloi
The elder sister of the deity Uncle the
Mighty, of the Chosen. She was
invoked as Eternal Mamaloi, a personification of the female principle.
(Farnham's Freehold)
Mamie
Milk cow purchased by the Bill Lermer's
family after they rebuilt their farm following the quake. She was broken to
the yoke.
(Farmer in the Sky)
MAMMA
Military base near the Farnhams'
home, probable target of the atomic bombardment that hurled them into the
future.
"Popular" name for Valentine
Michael Smith, used in all the broadcasts and news stories about him.
(Stranger in a Strange Land)
Manager (or Managing Partner)
Since Golden Rule
was privately owned and not chartered by any government, the Manager was the
ultimate and only authority. Decisions were arbitrary and utterly final.
(The Cat Who Walks Through Walls)
Hotel Manchester
Seedy hotel in which Jonathan
Hoag impulsively rented a room, reluctant to go home after the doctor
refused to identify the stain found under his fingernails.
Song that Johann Smith's neighbor Mrs. Wicklund
played on her Victrola before seducing him (he was in his teens at the time).
(I Will Fear No Evil)
Queen Margrethe
[mentioned in passing] Queen of Scandinavia in one world in
which Alex
Hergensheimer and Margrethe
Gunderson found themselves. Her capital was Kobenhavn.
(Job: A Comedy of Justice)
Maria (no last name)
Name to which both of Podkayne
Fries' Venusian maids
answered. Portuguese by
ancestry, they claimed to speak no other language except Portuguese, but
Podkayne overheard them speak in System
Ortho.
(Podkayne of Mars)
Marianne (no last name)
Matt
Dodson's girlfriend back home. During his first leave he realized they had
nothing in common.
Secretary to Saint Peter in Heaven. He called her "Charlie".
(Job: A Comedy of Justice)
Marjatta (no last name)
Swedish woman whom Oscar Gordon
met on L'Île
du Levant. She was a performer in a Paris revue. She invited him to visit
her should he ever be in Sweden, and he did after his return from the quest
for the Egg of
the Phoenix.
Jim Marlowe's father. He led the Mars colonists in
defying the Mars
Company's attempts to keep them in South Colony
during the winter, and became a leader in the revolt against control by Earth.
Mars
colonist and student at Lowell
Academy who discovered the Mars
Company's plans to prevent the colonists' regular migration to more
tolerable climates. Because of his friendship with the Martian nymph,
Willis, the
adult Martians helped him warn the colonists about the Company's plans and to
establish the colony's independence from control by Earth companies.
Marriage is obviously important to Heinlein. In many stories a marriage is
central to the story, the characters take time out from crises to marry, or it
is implied that marriage between main characters is inevitable: Between
Planets, Beyond This Horizon, The Door Into Summer,
Double Star, Farnham's Freehold (Hugh considered Barbara
Wells his wife in the absence of legal arrangements; never mind that his
legal wife was still living, though separated from him and seemingly oblivious
to his existence), Friday, Glory Road, "Gulf", "If This Goes
On-", I Will Fear No Evil, Job, "Let There Be Light", "The
Menace from Earth", The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress, The Number of the
Beast, The Puppet Masters, Time Enough for Love, Time for
the Stars, and Tunnel in the Sky.
1. Serial monogamy is apparently common
in the society of Beyond This Horizon. Marriage contracts are for a
limited number of years, renewable by mutual consent.
(Beyond This Horizon)
2. Marriages are more political than
personal among the Free
Traders. They are designed to exchange personnel and create bonds between
ships. Women are traded to other ships for marriages, while men remain in
their "home" ships.
(Citizen of the Galaxy)
3. In Golden Rule
it is possible only through church ceremonies, since there is no legal
institution of marriage.
(The Cat Who Walks Through Walls)
4. In Luna, polygamous
and particularly polyandrous customs evolved because of the drastic shortage
of women. Simple polyandry was common, but clan marriages (details not given)
and line
marriages are also mentioned.
(The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress)
5. Marriage in the Ship in effect
involved transfer of ownership of women from fathers to husbands. The woman
had no say in the matter.
(Orphans of the Sky)
6. Limited contract marriages are
apparently common; surprise is expressed that Sam
Cavanaugh insists on an open-ended contract with no need for renewal.
(The Puppet Masters)
7. [mentioned in passing]
The Howard
Families practiced every variation except lifelong monogamy. The Long
household on Tertius
was a group marriage with particular concern for the economic and emotional
welfare of the children.
(Time Enough for Love)
8. Among the Howard
Families, serial monogamy was common because of their long lives. The
intermarriages had an incestuous quality as the number of marriages and
remarriages multiplied within a relatively small pool of eligible spouses.
Some of the Howard couples had open marriages; outside partners, however,
required one's spouse's approval.
In Heinlein's stories, the Red Planet is usually described as barren and
cold with a thin atmosphere, just barely habitable by humans in pressurized
habitats or after terraforming. The "canals" are real waterways (usually
frozen). The planet has native life, variously described in different books.
Though some of the books depict conflicts between human colonists and native
Martians, none portray the natives as resentful of the invasion of their home;
often, the Martians remains largely oblivious to the human presence.
1. Present residence of Don
Harvey's parents, neutral in the dispute between Venus and Earth.
Mars was inhabited by intelligent natives as well as by human colonists.
(Between Planets)
2. Mentioned in passing as inhabited by
humans.
(The Cat Who Walks Through Walls)
3. It was colonized by Earth. John
Joseph Bonforte pushed through legislation guaranteeing the rights of
nonhumans, and was adopted by the native Martians.
(Double Star)
4. [mentioned in passing]
Settlements on Mars and Venus were abandoned when the Prophet banned
space travel. (Or more likely, other countries on Earth maintained contact,
but as far as the people under the Prophet's control were concerned, the
settlements were abandoned. In Time Enough for Love, it is implied that
the colonies managed to survive.)
("If This Goes On—")
5. In this time line,
Mars is an almost airless desert. See also the various descriptions under
"Martians".
(The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress)
6. The "Mars" that the crew of the Gay Deceiver
visited had an earthlike environment and had been colonized by both Great
Britain and Russia. The natives were less intelligent than humans and were
domesticated as field hands.
(The Number of the Beast)
7. Human settlements were independent of
Earth, but
there was great pressure to join the Earth-dominated Federation.
Mars was also inhabited by intelligent natives.
(Podkayne of Mars)
8. It was colonized by humans governed
by an Earth corporation until their revolt, but also inhabited by intelligent
natives who were tolerant of the human settlements as long as the humans
caused no trouble.
(The Red Planet)
9. It was settled by humans. The tariffs
and taxes were almost prohibitive of interplanetary trade. Tourism was the
biggest industry.
(The Rolling Stones)
10. It was inhabited by intelligent
natives possessed of supernatural powers. The first Earth expedition died
except for one infant, Valentine
Michael Smith, who was raised by the natives and was brought to Earth by
the second expedition. In spite of the native inhabitants, a legal wrangle
arose on Earth over whether Smith "owned" Mars by right of habitation and
inheritance.
(Stranger in a Strange Land)
11.Lazarus Long
spent the Interregnum
here, managing a bordello under the name "Happy" Daze.
Business enterprise that chartered the colonization of Mars. Its policies
showed more concern for profits than for the survival and welfare of the
colonists. It was overthrown when it tried to prevent the semiannual migration
between the northern and southern hemispheres, which decision probably would
have caused the deaths of many colonists from the extreme winter weather.
Institution that "stored" babies cryonically between the time that their
parents gave birth to them and they were prepared to raise them. Under this
system, women could give birth when they were young and optimally healthy,
then the families could raise the children when they were more affluent and
settled.
(Podkayne of Mars)
Marsport
1. Human city near the Martian
equator. It was permanently occupied, mostly by employees of the Mars
Company.
(The Red Planet)
2. Main city of the Mars colony, a
commercial and tourist center.
(The Rolling Stones)
Marstellar (no first name)
[mentioned in passing] Judge in the town in which Lazarus Long
began his trip back to 1916.
(Time Enough for Love)
Marsten (no first name)
Captain of the guerrilla group with which Don
Harvey fought on Venus. He had been
on detached duty at the time of the Federation
invasion, and so avoided capture. He took it upon himself to gather together
all soldiers not captured by the Federation. This group was called Marsten's
Raiders.
Knowledge of the ritual is restricted to members of the nest. In the public
part of the ceremony, the sponsor confronts the nominee, who offers to be
killed if any propriety was breached; then the sponsor escorts him in for
interrogation, with highly stylized questions and responses. The entire ritual
lasts for exactly one-ninth of Mars' rotation, and
is followed by a feast. After the feast speeches are given, and the adoptee is
awarded a Martian name and lifewand. John
Joseph Bonforte was the first human nominated for adoption into a Martian
nest. Larry
Smith successfully impersonated him for the ritual after Bonforte's
kidnapping left Bonforte permanently brain-damaged.
[mentioned in passing] Employees of the laboratory found
artifacts of an extinct human-equivalent intelligence. Chinese members of the
expedition denied they were artificially produced.
Extinct, or nearly so, writing system that Podkayne
Fries claimed to use for her journal, in an unsuccessful attempt to keep
her brother from reading it.
1. The natives of Mars were described as
having "pseudo-wings". They were apparently human-sized or smaller, and very
intelligent.
(Between Planets)
2. Natives were described as "the poor
degenerate starveling descendants of the once-mighty Builders of Mars", no longer
adequately intelligent.
(Beyond This Horizon)
3. The natives looked "like a tree trunk
topped off by a sun helmet…grew pseudo limbs…Could look in all directions at
once without turning their heads-if they had heads, which of course they
don't." They also had a distinctive odor. They reproduced by fission. Theirs
was an ancient, highly formal culture; its overriding principle is the concept
of "propriety".
(Double Star)
4. Martians themselves are not
mentioned, but "Noisy"
Rhysling's memories of the cities they built inspired his song "The Grand
Canal".
("The Green Hills of Earth")
5. Artifacts were found by human
expeditions, but the Martians themselves were extinct.
(I Will Fear No Evil)
6. The "wogs" on the Mars visited by the
Gay
Deceiver resembled the Black Hats
that were apparently pursuing the crew, but were no more intelligent that
Earth dogs.
(The Number of the Beast)
7. It was implied that Martians had no
heads, but were so advanced that they took little interest in things other
than philosophy.
(Podkayne of Mars)
8. Natives were described as averaging
12 or more feet tall, with three legs, three eyes, and arms ending in "palm
flaps". An ancient and contemplative race not given to violence, they had the
ability to "disappear" anything (or anyone) that attacks them. They apparently
remained in contact with the physical world after death. Juvenile Martians
were completely unlike adults, resembling furry basketballs that occasionally
extruded eyes or limbs, and apparently possessing minimal intelligence.
(The Red Planet)
9. Natives were described as having
three legs. Their communities were prohibited to humans by treaty, but Lowell Stone
was taken to meet one. Though obviously not traumatized by the experience, he
refused to talk about it afterward.
(The Rolling Stones)
10. Adults were huge, reminding humans
of "boats under sail", while juveniles (nymphs) were fat, furry spheres, all
bounce and mindless energy. Adults led contemplative lives, and maintained
contact with the physical world after "discorporation". Their language
contained many concepts inaccessible to humans, and they possessed a wide
range of apparently "supernatural" powers.
(Stranger in a Strange Land)
John Martin
One of the Four Heroes
of the Interplanetary
Patrol, whose name is always called (the answer given by a designated
patrol member) at every muster. (The reason he is included was not given.)
(Space Cadet)
Mary Lou Martin
1. Biochemist and ecologist with
numerous degrees and a particular interest in bioluminosity. She contacted Archibald
Douglas to discuss his research into chemical light sources. Together they
developed a process for producing cheap and plentiful light and power. They
eventually married. Her research paper Co-lateral Symbiosis of the Boll
Weevil is mentioned.
[mentioned in passing] A "visiting professor" in Hell,
teaching harlotry. She was on the permanent faculty in Heaven (what she taught
there was not specified).
1. Policy of the Howard
Families to simulate the death of members once they reached an unusual age
and to provide them with a new identity. It was vital during the Interregnum,
but increasingly annoying in a more civilized society because of the high cost
of dishonesty and continual uprooting (not to mention the difficulty of
establishing identities given modern record-keeping). When a small group of
Howard volunteers tried ending the Masquerade, however, they found that people
with shorter life-spans envied and resented the long-lived enough to persecute
them.
(Methuselah's Children)
2. Beginning in 1920, the Howard
Families began trimming years off their official ages whenever possible, and
eventually acquired new identities every 30 years or so to protect themselves
from the majority who had normal life spans and might resent or fear those
with "unnaturally" long lives. The Masquerade was in full force during the Crazy Years,
which occurred sometime after the 1980s.
[mentioned in passing] Book stocked in the Farnham bomb
shelter.
(Farnham's Freehold)
mathematics
In Have Space Suit — Will Travel and The Rolling Stones in
particular, but also in passing mentions in most of his stories, Heinlein
states that mathematics is the most important science, and anyone who does not
know advanced math should not be considered civilized or intelligent.
Mildred Mathews
Kentucky resident who quizzed Manuel Garcia
O'Kelly about lunar life, especially marriage and family customs, causing
his arrest for public immorality. (Her husband is also briefly mentioned.)
(The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress)
Patience Mathews
Earthside twin and communications partner of one of the Lewis &
Clark telepaths. She constantly interfered with her sister's attempts at
romance with other crew members.
(Time for the Stars)
Prudence Mathews
One of the telepaths aboard the Lewis &
Clark, dominated by her twin (see preceding entry). She died in the plague
that struck after the Constance
landing.
(Time for the Stars)
Mathewson (no first name)
[mentioned in passing] Venus colonial
given special attention by the occupying forces, reason unspecified.
(Between Planets)
Dr. B. P. Matson (no other first name)
Instructor for the Advanced
Survival course at Patrick
Henry High School. He tried to discourage Rod Walker
from taking the solo test. He married Rod's sister Helen Walker
after Rod was lost; they emigrated to a colony planet shortly after his
return. His students called him "Deacon", but not to his face.
(Tunnel in the Sky)
Maud S.
Horse sired by the sire of Loafer. She was
famous for her speed.
(To Sail Beyond the Sunset)
Maurice (no last name)
[mentioned in passing] Boy who collided with Jonathan
Hoag while skating, and to Hoag's distaste was rude about it.
("The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag")
Theodor Mawson
Storekeeper ordinary, member of the original crew of the Vanguard. He
was elected Captain after the mutiny was suppressed and all pilot and
engineering officers had been killed.
Widow who ran the school in Top Dollar.
She helped Lazarus Long
raise Dora
Brandon when Dora was orphaned. She was Lazarus' lover, but eventually
married the widower Parkinson.
(Time Enough for Love)
Sam Mayes
Junior officer in the Bifrost control
room. At the Captain's behest he allowed Hank Jones and
Bill
Lermer to observe operations.
1. Space ship originally intended for
long-range exploration, but converted to a colony ship when more advanced
models were designed for exploring. Bill Lermer
and his family emigrated to Ganymede in it.
Port city to which Alex
Hergensheimer and Margrethe
Gunderson were taken by the Mexican Coast Guard airship that rescued them
from midocean after the Konge Knut
struck an iceberg. Mazatlán was the ship's original destination, but the city
to which they were taken was obviously in a different world. They were
indentured there to pay the expenses of their rescue.
Judge who had Johann
Sebastian Bach Smith declared a ward of the court after his brain
transplant, with Jake Salomon
as his guardian, mostly to protect him from his granddaughters. He later
presided over the identity hearing. He was Johann's lodge brother. He was
called "Mac" by his friends.
(I Will Fear No Evil)
Norma McCampbell
[mentioned in passing] Judge McCampbell's wife.
(I Will Fear No Evil)
McCarthy (no first name)
[mentioned in passing] Member of the volunteer fire team in
Top Dollar.
(Time Enough for Love)
Brother Eddie McCaw
Adjutant of the Salvation Army center where Alex
Hergensheimer and Margrethe
Gunderson sought help after being transported to Nogales,
Arizona, following the Mazatlán
earthquake. He gave them housing and hired Margrethe as a temporary cook. He
became Brother McNabb after a worldshift.
Hartley
Baldwin's agent inside Mrs. Keithley's
lunar compound,
a telepath used for contact with Baldwin's headquarters. He posed as a
gardener.
("Gulf")
Bruce McGowan
Teller
University student who joined the group of stranded Advanced
Survival students that Rod Walker and
Jackie
Daudet were gathering, but resisted Rod's authority, ultimately pulling a
knife on him. He was exiled from the community, but eventually allowed to
return. He refused to work or participate in the Cowpertown
activities, but after a fight with Rod he reformed at least temporarily.
(Tunnel in the Sky)
Jock McGowan
Teller
University student who joined the group gathered by Rod Walker,
but resisted his authority. He led the band that tried to take charge of the
group; he was exiled after attacking Rod, and later reported dead. [An error
for Bruce McGowan, or a relative?]
(Tunnel in the Sky)
Theo McGowan
Bruce McGowan's wife on the Advanced
Survival planet, as shiftless and slatternly as he.
(Tunnel in the Sky)
Dr. McIlvaine (no first name)
Comparative psychologist with the Smithsonian Institution, author of Mars, Venus, and Earth:
A Study in Motivating Purposes. He was involved in the puppet
master research.
(The Puppet Masters)
James McIntyre
Captain of the Care Free.
Originally a spacer, he was blacklisted for drinking on the job. He was hired
by D. D.
Harriman to fly him to the Moon.
Farmboys who were blamed for the "hoax" after the flying saucer landing,
and who acted as tour guides for the fake saucer that Sam and Mary
Cavanaugh investigated. They were almost certainly puppet
master hosts.
Girl with whom Kip Russell
briefly went steady. She "wanted to talk boys and clothes" while he wanted to
"talk space and engineering", so she dropped him.
Elderly Black telepath aboard the Lewis &
Clark. He insisted that the younger crew members call him "Uncle Alfred".
His partner on Earth was his great-niece; they were the same age when reunited
after the voyage.
Staff officer for Hartley
Baldwin's organization. He rode with Friday to San
Jose after the organization was disbanded.
(Friday)
Gloria Brooks McNye
Replacement radioman and electronics engineer for the construction crew of
Space
Station One. She was chief communications engineer for the permanent
station staff, and signed on for the construction crew to become familiar with
the setup. Her arrival caused the contractor extreme discomfort until he
realized that a woman's presence, far from being disruptive, resulted in
improvements in productivity and morale. She preferred to be called Brooks;
her co-workers during construction called her Brooksie.
[mentioned in passing] Medical facility treating Peter
Johnson.
("—We Also Walk Dogs")
Memtok (no last name)
Chief Palace Domestic to the Lord
Protector of the Noonday
Region. He was proud that he was both deprived of his thumbs and neutered,
showing that he had served his lord both as stud and as household servant. He
was the most powerful servant in the household.
H. G. Wells novel about the fourth dimension and parallel universes. Alex
Hergensheimer had read the first installment in a magazine, but after the
Protect-Our-Youth legislation was passed, later installments were never
published.
[mentioned in passing] Government that got involved in a
war with Interworld
Transport. It lost, mostly because the corporation had no central location
to attack and therefore could not be easily destroyed.
(Friday)
Meyer (no first name)
German recruit who teamed with Heinrich to
attack Sergeant
Zim at Zim's invitation. He understood but did not speak Standard English.
(Starship Troopers)
"M-G"
"Mutation-Ganymede", the label for terrestrial plants genetically adapted
to Ganymede
conditions.
Member of the Venus Republic
force occupying Circum-Terra.
He was ordered to guard Don
Harvey while Don's claim of Venusian
citizenship was checked.
(Between Planets)
Mike
1.Manuel Garcia
O'Kelly's nickname for the main computer in Luna City,
after Arthur Conan Doyle's character Mycroft Holmes. The name may have been inspired by the
computer's official name, "High-Optional, Logical, Multi-Evaluating
Supervisor, Mark IV, Mod. L", or HOLMES IV. Designed for decision-making on
insufficient data, Mike had peripherals and functions added until his
complexity reached that of the human brain and he "woke up". After being
introduced to human revolutionaries by Mannie, Mike became the chief
strategist of the Lunar revolution, assuming the public persona of Adam Selene.
He successfully controlled the war against Earth, but "died" when connections
with his outlying peripherals were severed; even after repairs were made he
did not "return". He had been capable of assuming different voices and
personalities; e.g. he was "Michelle", speaking in a French-accented soprano,
with Wyoming
Knott.
(The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress)
2.Colin
Campbell was recruited to help the Time
Corps rescue Mike from destruction during the final battle of the Lunar
Revolution. The book's ending leaves his fate unknown.
(The Cat Who Walks Through Walls)
3. [mentioned in passing]
He was rescued by Colin Campbell and Hazel
Stone from certain destruction during the final battle of the Lunar
Revolution. He teamed with Pallas
Athene to provide structural simulations for the Time
Corps.
(To Sail Beyond the Sunset)
Mikki (no last name)
[mentioned in passing] Juggler who worked the main plaza in
Jubbulpore.
Massive, forbidding structure on Karth-Hokesh
where the Egg
of the Phoenix was guarded after being stolen. A denizen of the Tower
claimed it was originally located in the Carpathians on Earth.
Ira
Weatheral's computer on Secundus. "She"
was self-aware with a fully developed personality. Ira also called her "Little
Nag". She duplicated her memories into a computer aboard the Dora, named Athena
so that her own personality and many of her memories could be implanted in a
cloned human body. After "incorporation" she assumed the name Minerva Long
Weatheral Long.
(The Number of the Beast, Time Enough for Love)
minim
Currency unit, presumably a trifling amount, used in the Nine Worlds.
2. Site of an uprising blamed on
pariahs. Their ghetto was closed and they were relocated to "reservations" in
Montana and Wyoming.
("If This Goes On—")
Minnie (no last name)
[mentioned in passing] Sybil
Farnsworth's aunt. Sybil claimed the last time her father had spanked her
was her ninth birthday, when she'd set fire to this aunt.
[mentioned in passing] Company that manufactured sentient
computers with masculine personalities.
(The Number of the Beast)
Miracle of the Incarnation
Annual event staged to reinforce the people's belief that the Prophet ruled by
direct authority of God. The current ruler took on the appearance of the First
Prophet, Nehemiah
Scudder (thanks to modern broadcast technology) and confirmed the validity
of the government.
Podkayne
Fries' cat, also known as Miss Pokie. Podkayne commented that her mother's
behavior with the triplets reminded her of the cat with her first litter.
1. Bank with which Lazarus Long
did business during his trip back in time to Kansas City.
He closed his account there after learning of the United States' declaration
of war.
(Time Enough for Love)
2. Kansas City bank where Maureen
Johnson kept her account until 1907. The manager's reaction to her request
to withdraw all her money warned her of a coming bank panic.
Japanese-American friend of Jefferson
Thomas, who was in hiding from the PanAsians.
His wife Alice was massacred, along with his children Frank Jr., Jimmy, and
Shirley. He was recruited by the Citadel
survivors, and ultimately died defending the others against Lowell
Calhoun's insane violence.
(The Day After Tomorrow)
Mitteleuropa
Government unit during the events of The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress.
[mentioned in passing] Former owners of the soda shop that
Alex
Hergensheimer and Margrethe
Gunderson bought in Eden, Kansas.
(Considering the name — Asmodeus — probably a minion of Lucifer, helping to
create the utopia for Alex and Margrethe.)
Shiftless neighbor of Max Jones who
married Max's stepmother and persuaded her to sell the farm even though it was
technically owned by Max. He threatened Max with a beating for disagreeing
with the decision.
(Starman Jones)
Dan Montgomery
"Visitor" to Lazarus
Long's homestead on New
Beginnings. He was killed when he and his family tried to take over the
farm and he threatened Dora
Brandon.
(Time Enough for Love)
Darby Montgomery
"Visitor" to Lazarus
Long's homestead. He was killed by Lady Macbeth
when he and his family tried to take over the farm.
(Time Enough for Love)
Monty Montgomery
Father of Dan and Darby. He was killed by Dora Brandon
when they tried to take over her and Lazarus
Long's farm.
(Time Enough for Love)
Nellie Jones Montgomery
Max
Jones' stepmother. She sold his farm without his knowledge after she
remarried, even though legally, Max owned the farm.
Site of an Interplanetary
Patrol armory. John
Dahlquist was stationed here, and prevented a military coup by barricading
himself inside the nuclear weapons storage building.
("The Long Watch")
Hotel Moon Haven
[mentioned in passing] Establishment in Luna that allegedly
could compete with the finest on Earth.
1. District Moderator for Genetics,
married to Bainbridge
Martha. Worked hard at persuading Hamilton
Felix to have children, arranging for him to meet Longcourt
Phyllis and founding the Great Research (into reincarnation) at his
behest.
1. Chairman of Cuisine Incorporated,
part of the Harriman
Trust.
("The Man Who Sold the Moon")
2. Stockholder in Skyblast
Freight who offended Maureen
Johnson by assuming she was a member of the clerical staff and treating
her imperiously, when she was actually the director.
Colonel in the Russian Viceroy's Imperial Guard on Barsoom, who
attempted to confiscate the Gay Deceiver
and take her crew prisoner. Zebadiah
Carter burned his ornithopter and effected their escape. Zeb also called
him by a variety of insulting names. A bartender in the Interuniverse
Society conference resembled him.
A sinkhole formation in the lunar surface, often covered by a thin crust
that makes it impossible to spot. If someone falls in, the crumbling sides
make it impossible to get out.
Guard sent to apprehend Georges
Perreault and Friday after they
prevented an assassination attempt on the California
Chief Confederate.
(Friday)
Foo Moses Morris
Comrade who went bankrupt guaranteeing loans for LuNoHoCo's
catapult and other Revolutionary projects. He started over with a Hong Kong Luna
tailor shop.
[mentioned in passing] Federation
troop transport.
(Starship Troopers)
Mota
Deity invented by Whitey
Ardmore as a front for revolutionary propaganda and activities. According
to the official doctrine, Mota had one thousand attributes; six were
worshipped at his Temple. One of the teachings of Mota was cooperation with
the government, thus sparing them the disapproval of the PanAsians.
Their freedom to establish temples all over the country made the religion a
perfect front for finding and recruiting fighters against the occupation.
Among his many attributes were Barmac; Dis, Lord of Destruction.
A unanimous choice of fantasy world among the crew of the Gay
Deceiver. Hilda
Burroughs speculated that the red fog they encountered was from that
universe.
(The Number of the Beast)
Mother Boor's Tucker Bag
[mentioned in passing] Restaurant or pub in Luna City.
(The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress)
Mother of Blades
Four-armed mutant, the principal weaponsmaker of the muties.
(Orphans of the Sky)
Mother Shaum's
Taproom (and probably brothel) near the Jubbulpore
spaceport to which Richard
Baslim sent Thorby
Rudbek with a message. After Baslim's death, Mother Shaum helped Thorby
escape the Sargon's
guards.
(Citizen of the Galaxy)
Mother Thing
Alien with whom Peewee
Reisfeld was held captive. She was given the name by Peewee because of her
emanation of warmth and security. Vaguely feline in appearance, she also
resembled a lemur but was not a primate. Her official position with the
galactic community was roughly analogous to "police officer"; she monitored
activities on different planets, particularly ventures into space, and acted
upon any ventures that might threaten other civilizations.
(Have Space Suit — Will Travel)
"Motherhood in the New World"
[mentioned in passing] Topic of an address by Agnes
Douglas to the Daughters of the Second Revolution.
(Stranger in a Strange Land)
Mother's Helper
Model of household robot owned by the Tom and Pat
Bartlett's family. It was obsolete and frequently broke down.
Mountain near the Farnhams'
home. Duke
Farnham's recognition of it while reconnoitering confirmed that the bomb
shelter had been blasted through time but not space.
Company that contracted to build a temporary pen for Lummox outside
the courtroom. John Thomas
Stuart thought it best not to explain that Lummox ate steel like candy.
A member of the Chosen and Ponse's heir; he
shared Ponse's his vices but had none of his good qualities. Ponse ordered him
to play bridge with Hugh Farnham
as his partner, but Mrika was a poor sport and quit midgame.
(Farnham's Freehold)
M.R.S.
Merchant Rocket Ship.
(Space Cadet)
"Mrs. 'Awkins"
Tissue of chicken heart kept alive since the early 20th century, first by
the Rockefeller Institute and then by researchers of the Howard
Foundation. It was used in longevity research. Taken along on the New
Frontiers, it eventually reached a size of 50 or 60 pounds.
Member of the Galileo
Marching-and-Chowder Society. He and his mother ran a store. A member of
Donald
Cargraves' crew building and piloting a rocket to the Moon, he was the
photographer for the rocket tests as well as a ham radio operator.
Art's
late father. He had been sent to a concentration camp by the Nazis for
refusing to do research for them. He was released through his American wife's
efforts, but died soon after.
(Rocket Ship Galileo)
Mueller (no first name)
The Cabal's
staff "metamorphist", i.e. plastic surgeon who changed faces for underground
agents.
Legendary Irishman about whom Rufo told tall
tales.
(Glory Road)
mules
1. "Drone" workers genetically
engineered by the Empire of
the Great Khans for various specialized tasks, but usually to be warriors.
(Beyond This Horizon)
2. On New
Beginnings, the mules were genetically engineered to understand complex
commands, and some could talk (with difficulty). Unlike normal mules, they
were fertile.
[mentioned in passing] Accounting automaton that Maureen
Johnson dealt with while trying to get the dead man removed from her bed
at the Grand
Hotel Augustus.
(To Sail Beyond the Sunset)
"Millimetre" Muntz (no other first name)
Scout from "Troop Ninety-Six, New Jersey", who questioned the authority to
organize Scouting in the
Mayflower;
he was overruled and disallowed from the meeting.
Head of the "Friends of
Lummox", who demanded an audience with the Secretary for Spatial Affairs.
She was the creator of the Pidgie
Widgie children's video stories. Roy MacClure
tried to persuade Henry
Kiku to appear on her show.
[mentioned in passing] Resident of Hog Alley, real
name not given.
(Space Cadet)
musicalarkies
Electronic entertainment produced on Secundus; it is
not described.
(Time Enough for Love)
mutations
1. They were occasionally introduced by
genetic engineers to foster improvements in the human race. Excessive
tampering such as that by the Empire of
the Great Khans led to warfare.
(Beyond This Horizon)
2. The human race gradually diversified
after being dispersed among many planets in the galaxy.
(Citizen of the Galaxy)
3.Earth plants were
genetically altered to better survive the conditions in extraterrestrial
colonies.
(Farmer in the Sky)
4.Hartley
Baldwin maintained that the human race was gradually evolving into "New Men" with
greater intellectual capacity.
("Gulf")
5. The Scientists
taught that mutations were the result of sin among the Crew.
(Orphans of the Sky)
6.Lazarus Long
speculated that his extreme longevity was the result of a mutation in the 12th
chromosome.
(Time Enough for Love)
muties
Mutated humans who roamed the low-gravity sections of the Ship. They
organized their own society and waged guerrilla war against unmutated humans.
While tolerated by the Elders as part of Jordan's
Plan, they were marked for extinction by the younger scientists. Though
usually deformed in some way, they sometimes looked no different from normal
humans. (The term may come from "mutants", or from "mutineers", since the
original mutineers took refuge in those sections of the ship now occupied by
the muties.)
(Orphans of the Sky)
Mutual Assurance Company
[mentioned in passing] Company that offered suspended
animation.
(The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress; also in The Cat Who Walks Through
Walls, To Sail Beyond the Sunset)
Myrtle T. Hanshaw
Steamship that ferried Rachel's
Raiders to St. Louis. It was blown up in midjourney.
(Friday)
The Mystic (no other name)
Alex
Hergensheimer's name for a fellow passenger on the Konge Knut,
who attended the firewalking demonstration. He [or she?] opined that the
firewalkers did it "through the fourth dimension".
(Job: A Comedy of Justice)
Myths, Legends, and Traditions — The Romantic
Side of History
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."