Patty Paiwonski's late husband, a tattoo artist. (See next entry.)
(Stranger in a Strange Land)
Patricia (Patty) Paiwonski
1. Tattooed Lady in the carnival that Valentine
Michael Smith and Jill
Boardman joined. She performed with a boa constrictor. A member of the Fosterite
church (converted by Foster himself), she had his life story tattooed on her.
She joined the Church of
All Worlds. Jill and Mike called her Aunt Patty.
Site of Hartley
Baldwin's organization training grounds in California. The entire
operation moved there after their cover was blown in the Chicago
Imperium.
1.Ira
Weatheral's computer (previously called Minerva) after
its data were transferred to the Dora's memory
banks. "She" was usually called Athena or Teena. Her personality was strongly
influenced by Lapis Lazuli
and Lorelei Lee Long, though she had most of Minerva's memories. She ran
most operations on Tertius,
and intended to become flesh and blood herself after a century or so.
(Time Enough for Love)
2. She acted as secretary to Jubal
Harshaw while he visited the Long
household, transcribing his stories before he dictated them.
(The Number of the Beast)
3. Cybernetic "clone" of Ira
Weatheral's computer Minerva. She teamed with Mike to provide
structural simulations for the Time
Corps.
(To Sail Beyond the Sunset)
Mrs. Palmer (no first name)
South Colonist who asked Jamie
Marlowe's personal opinion of the migration crisis. She took over Lowell
Academy's kitchen when the colonists took refuge there.
(The Red Planet)
Palmglade Hotel
North Miami Beach hotel where Andrew
Nivens went "on vacation" after the President rejected his initial report
on the puppet
masters.
Alliance (probably created by invasion and occupation) that attacked and
occupied the United States. It had previously absorbed the Soviet Union. Its
leaders were demonstrably racist, treating conquered peoples with considerable
contempt and ferocity. Overpopulation was the likely motivation for its
aggressions.
1. Boom town that owed its existence to
the nearby atomic plant.
("Blowups Happen")
2. Site of an atomic power plant that
was shut down after a near-accident and replaced with an orbiting power
station. (Almost certainly a reference to the events of "Blowups Happen.")
A "heretic" who did not accept any part of the Church of the Prophet.
Pariahs were herded into ghettos and persecuted, sometimes stoned to death
with official approval. There are suggestions that "pariahs" are almost always
Jewish.
1. Member of the board of directors of
Smith
Enterprises, who moved that Johann
Sebastian Bach Smith be invited to retire; he got no support from the
other members. Wealthy through his mother-in-law (possibly one of Johann's
daughters), he was fired from the board when his voting stock dropped below 5%
of the total.
Favorite artist of Maureen
Johnson; his works were replicated as a present for her 125th birthday in
Boondock.
(To Sail Beyond the Sunset)
Henry M. Parson
[mentioned in passing] His estate was party to a lawsuit
(vs. Rhode Island) which settled the legal definition of death in the 1970s.
(I Will Fear No Evil)
Sam Parsons
Lunar Eagle
Scout and Senior Patrol leader who was assigned to keep track of Bruce
Hollifield. He injured a leg falling into a morning
glory and was rescued by Bruce.
("Nothing Ever Happens on the Moon")
Party
Revolutionary organization started by Bernardo de
la Paz, Wyoming
Knott, and Manuel Garcia
O'Kelly. They founded it on the cell system, in which any member knew at
most four other members. The organizers developed a system of Party names,
which not only protected members' real identities but also, through the first
letter of the name, revealed their position in the hierarchy and how recently
they had been recruited.
King
Willem's equerry, a Hindu and veteran of the Space Force.
(Double Star)
PRS Pathfinder
1. [mentioned in passing]
Spaceship intended for one-way interstellar travel, which was being built on
and near Luna
during all of Don
Harvey's life.
(Between Planets)
2. [mentioned in passing]
Space ship that in the early days of spaceflight came in from orbit out of
control and destroyed a Belgian village.
(The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress)
3.Interplanetary
Patrol ship that was engaged in charting a section of the Asteroid
Belt. When radio contact was lost, the Aes Triplex
was one of four ships assigned to search for her. They found that the hull had
been breached by a tiny asteroid, and all crew members died in the
decompression.
[mentioned in passing] Dancer who starred as Titania in the
Halifax Ballet Theater's performance of A Midsummer Night's Dream that
Richard
Ames attended the night Herr
Nameless approached him about killing someone.
(The Cat Who Walks Through Walls)
Pauline Peaks
Name given to mountains south of the valley surveyed by the exploration
team of which Bill Lermer
was a member; they were named after team leader Paul du
Maurier.
Song that Dora offered to
sing for the Gay Deceiver
crew; she'd learned it from Lazarus
Long. (In Time Enough for Love, Lazarus was constantly humming a
song about a "born loser" that he'd learned from "Noisy"
Rhysling; a pawnshop figured prominently.)
(The Number of the Beast)
FNS Pax
Federated
Nations flagship deployed for the invasion of Luna after the
colonies declared independence. [Latin, "peace"]
Deety
Burroughs' name for the song whose cadence was used to activate Gay
Deceiver; she learned it from her maternal great-grandfather.
(The Number of the Beast)
pay dirt
Earth soil
completely sterilized and then reinfected with organisms necessary for plant
growth. It was combined with crushed Ganymede rock
to create farms.
Involuntary enrollment was used as a means of transporting undesirables to
Lunar colonies.
(The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress)
Peace Dragoons
Federated
Nations troops transported to Luna to enforce
authority. Their job was made difficult by the hatred and ridicule of
colonists (who called them Goons), and by their own anger at learning that the
trip was necessarily one-way because of the long-term effects of low gravity.
Earth-based regiments mutinied after hearing rumors that more troops would be
shipped to Luna.
(The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress)
peace lamp
Ceremonial light that was part of Monist worship
practices. It was lit during dinner, among other times.
1. Code name Kip Russell
used to test Oscar's [his space
suit's] radio circuit. Peewee
Reisfeld heard him and thought he was calling her, resulting in his
capture by Wormface's
minions.
Government agency that issued licenses for parenthood. It authorized Podkayne
Fries' parents to have five children, and would have licensed seven had
they wanted them.
Universe that got two votes among the Gay Deceiver
crew for Favorite Fantasy World. The inside-out world the crew visited was
conjectured to be a composite of Hollow-Earth fantasies.
(The Number of the Beast)
Jake Pemberton
Pilot for Trans-Lunar
Transit, who had family problems because of his demanding schedule. After
pulling off a nearly-impossible rescue when his ship was knocked off course,
and making an emergency flight on the Moon, he was offered a permanent job
flying the Luna-to-orbit
route.
[mentioned in passing] Revolutionary group that occupied
the Oklahoma State House.
(I Will Fear No Evil)
People's Fraternal Society of Cosmonauts,
Astronauts, and Space Engineers
[mentioned in passing] This union was part of the AFL-CIO.
(I Will Fear No Evil)
People's Republic of England
Government in the universe in which Alex
Hergensheimer was rescued from midocean and taken to Mazatlán. It
was apparently an enemy of the United States.
High-school classmate who was Maureen
Johnson's first sexual partner. He enlisted for the Spanish-American War,
but died of fever in Chickamauga
Park, Georgia.
[mentioned in passing] Region in northeastern Brazil, the
site of an alleged UFO landing.
(I Will Fear No Evil)
Georges Perreault
Quebecois housemate of Janet and Ian Tormey,
unofficially Ian's co-husband (polygamous marriages being illegal in British
Canada). He was an artist and "Mendel Professor of Teratology" at the
University of Manitoba, an expert in genetic engineering. He accompanied Friday on her
attempt to return to the Chicago
Imperium. He ultimately emigrated to Botany Bay.
[mentioned in passing] Ira Johnson's
preceptor (mentor-instructor) when Ira was still studying medicine; he
considered the idea that sterility was important in practicing medicine to be
a far-fetched French notion.
1. [mentioned in passing]
Legally part of Mars; Podkayne
Fries once made a class trip there, the farthest she had been off-planet
before her trip to Earth.
(Podkayne of Mars)
2. The customs station for Mars, and thus the
port-of-call of the Rolling
Stone.
(The Rolling Stones)
PHQ
Planetary Headquarters of the Venus armed
forces. It was located in New London.
Publication in which Horatio
Abernathy intended to publish results of experiments measuring the "speed"
of telepathic communication.
(Time for the Stars)
physics
It was considered mysticism aboard the Ship; ancient texts
were interpreted allegorically.
(Orphans of the Sky)
Picardy Transmutation Plant
[mentioned in passing] Company where Jinx
Henderson first worked after immigrating to Luna.
(The Cat Who Walks Through Walls)
Pickering (no first name)
Ship's surgeon aboard the Aes Triplex,
technically a staff member of the Marines.
(Space Cadet)
Picnic Island
Atoll on one of the Teh-positive
worlds which the Gay Deceiver
crew chose as a convenient resting spot while exploring the axis.
(The Number of the Beast)
Piddle
[mentioned in passing] Mrs. Percy B. S. Souchek's poodle,
over whose death she sued the Los Angeles City-County Commissioners.
(Stranger in a Strange Land)
Pidgie Widgie
Puppet star of a children's video show about space adventures. Its hostess
had some social and political influence because of the show's popularity, and
started "Friends of
Lummox".
A mutie by
birthplace and definition, but human in appearance. A member of Joe-Jim
Gregory's gang, he helped rescue Hugh Hoyland
from execution for heresy.
Company that published Maureen
Johnson's book, The Housewife's Guide to Thrifty Investing.
(To Sail Beyond the Sunset)
Hugo Pinero
1. Inventor of a method of accurately
predicting the exact day of any person's death. After the Science Academy's
attempts to discredit him failed and his service threatened to ruin the
insurance companies, he was murdered by an unknown assailant and his machinery
was destroyed.
("Life-Line")
2. Referred to by Mary
Sperling as "Pinero the Charlatan", but Lazarus Long
insisted he could do just what he claimed; he also said that he tried the
service himself but Pinero refused to give him an answer and refunded his
money.
Engineer in the Lord
Protector's household. He gave Hugh Farnham
a tour of the plant and an elaborately drawn map of the Summer Palace, not
knowing that Hugh wanted the information for an escape attempt.
1. A cat that was able to "walk through
walls". He accompanied Gwen
Novak and Colin
Campbell on the mission to rescue Mike from being
"killed" during the final battle of the Lunar Revolution.
(The Cat Who Walks Through Walls)
2. (The same cat as in The Cat Who
Walks Through Walls) He was with Maureen
Johnson when her time bus was sabotaged and she was arrested in time line
eleven. When he returned to Boondock
without Maureen, Hilda
Burroughs took him to Oz, where he could
talk, so he could tell what had happened to Maureen and where she was.
[mentioned in passing] California sensie star, with whom
lottery winners were awarded a dinner.
(Friday)
PK3722
1. Star to which the Jockaira's
masters sent the Howard
Families after rejecting them for "domestication". It was populated by the
Little
People.
(Methuselah's Children)
2.Lazarus Long
deliberately miscatalogued the planet to keep humans away from it, but he
returned to it ask Mary
Sperling's opinion of the time-travel theory worked out by Dora.
(Time Enough for Love)
PLA
One of the United States' conservative political parties. What the
initials stand for is not explained.
Juan
Rico's first combat site after his assignment to the Tours. It was
attacked by the Federation in
order to capture Bug leaders.
(Starship Troopers)
Planetary League
Probably a successor to the United Nations. After a war between the
Afro-European
Federation and the Estados Unidos de Sud that occurred during the
voyage of the Lewis &
Clark, the constitution was rewritten and the name changed to United
System. Planetary League Auxiliary Speech was the lingua franca on Earth.
Indirectly referred to by Manuel Garcia
O'Kelly as "hotel chain, one with rabbit trademark". Bernardo de
la Paz discussed with the managing director the prospect of resorts in Luna.
(The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress)
Plaza of Liberty
Site near the slave auction where Thorby
Rudbek was sold to Richard
Baslim; it was Baslim's regular begging station.
Podkayne
Fries' favorite bedtime story, told to her by her uncle Tom Fries. It
was probably made-up stories about Podkayne herself.
(Podkayne of Mars)
Podkayne
Martian
saint from whom many living Martians claim descent. Podkayne
Fries was named after it.
(Podkayne of Mars)
"Poetry and Arts in Luna: A New
Renaissance"
Lecture supposedly scheduled by Adam Selene.
Announced in Lunaya
Pravda, the scheduled public appearance was intended solely to rile Lunar
Authority and perhaps flush out Authority agents.
[mentioned in passing] Organization that arranged a
firewalking demonstration for the passengers of the Konge Knut.
The representative allowed Alex
Hergensheimer to try, but "took no responsibility" for the results.
The Marlowes'
hypochondriac and self-indulgent neighbor. Willis repeated
in her presence gossip about her. She protested the charges against Gaines
Beecher in the colonists' meeting. She and her husband were killed when
they tried to surrender to Mars Company
forces after the colonists took refuge in Lowell
Academy.
Kitten adopted by Susan Smith
after the death of Captain
Blood. Susan kept her when she got married, but the cat found its way back
to Maureen
Johnson's home. Polly died in 1972.
Largely cribbed from the United States Declaration of Independence, it was
sent to Chicago to announce the Mars colonists'
successful revolt against the Mars
Company.
Scientific project from which George
Lermer salvaged parts for Peggy
Kenyon's pressurized stretcher.
(Farmer in the Sky)
Project Lebensraum
Long
Range Foundation program to send interstellar vehicles out at near-light
speeds to find habitable planets. [German lebensraum, "habitat" or
"living space"]
(Time for the Stars)
Project Porcupine
Research project sponsored by Rudbek to find
methods of making slavery unprofitable.
[mentioned in passing] Organization owned by Shipstone.
(Friday)
Prophet
Leader of the theocracy that controlled the United States during the Interregnum.
The First Prophet was demagogue Nehemiah
Scudder; his successors were also known as the Prophet Incarnate.
("If This Goes On—", Methuselah's Children; mentioned in passing in
"Coventry")
[mentioned in passing] "Title" bestowed upon Lazarus Long
in one of his lives.
(Time Enough for Love)
prostitutes
In many stories, Heinlein portrayed prostitution as an honorable
profession; his prostitutes ranged from hard-working and respectable to highly
admired and honored.
1. The PanAsians
forced women from conquered areas into houses of prostitution. (This is the
only example of prostitution being oppressive and shameful.)
(The Day After Tomorrow)
2. Apparently prostitution is a legal
occupation practiced by both Artificial
Persons (though under indenture) and "natural" humans.
(Friday)
3. Prostitution was legal or at least
tolerated on Mars; "Noisy"
Rhysling worked as a musician in a bordello.
("The Green Hills of Earth")
4. Prostitution was a respectable
profession in Luna, perhaps
partly because the high ration of men to women made the women a valuable
"commodity".
(The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress)
5. "Courtesan" was a legal and honorable
profession on Secundus and Tertius.
Prostitution was also legal on Mars, although the
government tried to regulate the prices; Lazarus Long
talked about the bordellos there.
Daniel
Boone Davis' proposed name for a robot he planned to design, and did
design during his "second time" in 1970. It was an improvement over Flexible
Frank.
(The Door Into Summer)
Protect-Our-Youth
State law in Alex
Hergensheimer's homeworld that outlawed science fiction and other
"corrupting influences".
(Job: A Comedy of Justice)
Protector of Servants
State slave factor on Fatima, who
confiscated Lazarus
Long's trading ship and used it as a slave transport. When Lazarus
regained the ship, he took the factor offplanet with him and spaced him.
(Time Enough for Love)
Protector of the Faith
[mentioned in passing] Presumably the ruler of Fatima.
(Time Enough for Love)
Protector of the Lunar Colonies by Appointment of
the Lunar Authority
"First recorded attempt to reach the nearer stars of the galaxy". The
expedition ship, the Vanguard, was
launched in 2119 CE. The crew mutinied and killed all officers capable of
running the ship; thus it drifted in space for generations afterward. Although
the inhabitants retained enough skill through the generations to keep the ship
habitable, they lacked any real understanding of science and all knowledge of
their origin and history.
Subtitled "The Housewife Investor", a column ghost-written by Maureen
Johnson for country newspapers. She defined financial terminology,
discussed news issues that might affect investments, and made recommendations
for investing based on Lazarus
Long's information. The column quickly spread to city dailies. Her
ultimate purpose was to establish a reputation for economic savvy, leading up
to promoting the idea of a moonship in the column.
Cabal group
that released overtly respectful articles, etc., designed to create doubts
about the Prophet. After
the successful coup, it debated "counter-brainwashing" citizens to remove them
from the Prophet's influence.
("If This Goes On—")
public eye
Floating security monitor in the Kenya Beanstalk port.
(Friday)
Pug (no last name)
Peasant who returned to the Doral
the longhorses that Star, Rufo, and Oscar Gordon
had borrowed. Seeing his awe of the group, Oscar "knighted" him, bestowing on
him the name Lerdki 't Pug Easy. Privately, however, Oscar called him "Manure
Foot".
(Glory Road)
Agnes Pulvermacher
Resident of Cowpertown
after the Advanced
Survival students were stranded. She was married to Curt Pulvermacher.
(Tunnel in the Sky)
Curt Pulvermacher
Resident of Cowpertown
after the Advanced
Survival students were stranded. He was married to Agnes Pulvermacher.
Character encountered during the Gay
Deceiver's visit to Oz.
(The Number of the Beast)
puppet masters
Amoeba-like extraterrestrial parasites that invaded Earth to use humans as
their hosts, completely controlling mind and body. After the Earth
infestations were destroyed by infecting infested regions with nine-day
fever, they were traced to Titan, and an
expedition sent to wipe them out.
(The Puppet Masters)
purple itch
Mythical disease that Podkayne
Fries predicted her brother Clark would die from for avoiding the
inoculations required on Venus.
(Podkayne of Mars)
pusher
Foreman for Venus contract
laborers. Pushers usually exercised tyrannical power over the laborers.
Man with whom Eldreth
Coburn was becoming romantically involved before her father shipped her
off to Earth. After the adventure in the Asgard, she
returned home and married him.
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."