A Heinlein Concordance

created by M. E. Cowan

Robert A Heinlein

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From the stories:   A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W XYZ
From the real world:   a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w xyz

A Heinlein Concordance ©2004 M.E.Cowan

 
Robert Taft
U.S. politician mentioned in passing.
(To Sail Beyond the Sunset)

William Howard Taft
U.S. president mentioned in passing.
(To Sail Beyond the Sunset)

Tagalog
Juan Rico's native language, used at home; Standard English was used for business, school, etc.
(Starship Troopers)

Talbot Saloon
A model of automated taxi.
(Stranger in a Strange Land)

Taliaferro
[mentioned in passing] Original spelling of Ronson Tolliver's surname. (In spite of the spelling, it is pronounced like "Tolliver".) One of the people with this name in Golden Rule was wanted dead.
(The Cat Who Walks Through Walls)

Talley (no first name)
[mentioned in passing] Member of Ted Bronson's World War I platoon.
(Time Enough for Love)

Tamar
Lady of Mercy, an aspect of Mota.
(The Day After Tomorrow)

Tamara's Song
Zebadiah Carter misheard the title as "Tomorrow's Song". See "My Arms Enclose You Still".
(Time Enough for Love)

Clyde Tammany
Member of Juan Rico's History and Moral Philosophy class in Officer Candidate School.
(Starship Troopers)

Tammy (no last name)
Waitress in the Nogales, Arizona, ice cream shop where Alex Hergensheimer and Margrethe Gunderson went to buy a hot fudge sundae.
(Job: A Comedy of Justice)

Tangaroa
Name assigned to the planet where Rod Walker took his Advanced Survival test.
(Tunnel in the Sky)

Tanner (no first name)
Physician on duty with the counterfeit Valentine Michael Smith when Ben Caxton interviewed him.
(Stranger in a Strange Land)

Tannhauser
1. A character in the stage presentation Don Harvey saw at the Back Room.
(Between Planets)
2. See Hilton Tannhauser.
(Podkayne of Mars)

Mrs. Tarbutton (no first name)
Woman who complained about travelling conditions and just about everything else aboard the Bifrost. She ultimately decided not to board the Mayflower. Her husband Joseph is also mentioned.
(Farmer in the Sky)

Tart
See Astarte.
(Space Cadet)

Task Force Redemption
Invasion force that was involved in Schedule Counter Blast. They were defeated and taken over by puppet masters.
(The Puppet Masters)

Tasman Palace
Hotel in Auckland, New Zealand, where Friday and Vickie Davidson stayed during a shopping trip.
(Friday)

Tau Ceti
Star that was the first stop on the Lewis & Clark's itinerary, where they discovered one habitable planet and named it Constance.
(Time for the Stars)

Captain Taylor (no first name)
[mentioned in passing] Either a state patrolman or a forest ranger, assigned to the locale where Donald Cargraves built the moon rocket.
(Rocket Ship Galileo)

Tchaka
[mentioned in passing] Federation troop ship.
(Starship Troopers)

Byram Teal
Member of the board of Smith Enterprises, named president and CEO when Johann Sebastian Bach Smith retired.
(I Will Fear No Evil)

Tech High
[mentioned in passing] Holly Jones' high school.
("The Menace from Earth")

Technical Institute
School that Art Mueller, Ross Jenkins, and Morrie Abrams had planned to attend before they got involved with the moon rocket.
(Rocket Ship Galileo)

Ted (no last name)
Man who was involved in a gangbang of Winifred Gerston the night she graduated from nursing school.
(I Will Fear No Evil)

Teena
See Pallas Athene.
(Time Enough for Love, The Number of the Beast, To Sail Beyond the Sunset)

Teh-positive
Type of alternate universe.
(The Number of the Beast)

Teller University
University that offered an Advanced Survival course. One of its classes was stranded on their test planet when the tunnel connecting the planet with Earth collapsed.
(Tunnel in the Sky)

Tellus Prime
Earth, the first center of the human race, in time line two.
(To Sail Beyond the Sunset)

Tellus Tertius
[Latin tellus, "earth"; tertius, "third"]
1. Planet on which Ira Weatheral and Lazarus Long established a colony, mostly their own family members, after agreeing that Secundus had become too crowded and "civilized."
(Time Enough for Love)
2. Home of Lazarus Long and his group marriage. It was the site of the Interuniverse Society conference.
(The Number of the Beast)
3. Home of the Long extended family, including Maureen Johnson.
(The Cat Who Walks Through Walls, To Sail Beyond the Sunset)

Temple
Capitol of the Prophet's religious and government organization, located in New Jerusalem.
("If This Goes On—")

Temple Herald
Journal that printed duty rosters for the Prophet's guards in New Jerusalem.
("If This Goes On—")

Temple of the Great Pyramid
New name suggested by Sam for the Church of All Worlds after its headquarters was burned down.
(Stranger in a Strange Land)

Templeton Gate
Teleportation Gate that was the departure site for Rod Walker's Advanced Survival test.
(Tunnel in the Sky)

The Ten Commandments
Town in Oklahoma, still in the horse-and-buggy era, through which Alex Hergensheimer and Margrethe Gunderson passed.
(Job: A Comedy of Justice)

Tencora
[mentioned in passing] Planet on which owners of stray animals are apparently not responsible for their actions.
(The Star Beast)

Terence (no last name)
Classified documents clerk who brought Friday a copy of The Only Deadly Weapon. He had assisted in her rescue.
(Friday)

Termite Creek (also called Termite Terrace)
Spot on Barsoom where the Gay Deceiver established a temporary camp. It was named after unseen scavengers.
(The Number of the Beast)

Terra
See Earth.
(in most of the stories)

Terra Base
Earth headquarters for the Interplanetary Patrol, located in Colorado.
(Space Cadet)

Terra Pilot and Traffic Hazards Supplement
Technical manual used by Lazarus Long in his cruiser, the I Spy.
(Methuselah's Children)

Terra Station
Permanently inhabited orbiting station, used by military personnel as well as civilians.
(Space Cadet)

Terra Station First Baptist Church
Church that sponsored dances and other social events for off-duty military personnel. Matt Dodson and his friends were invited there.
(Space Cadet)

Terran Corporation
[mentioned in passing] Business organization, or perhaps an organization involved in the world government.
(Tunnel in the Sky)

Terran Hegemony
Earth's sphere of influence, a loose confederation of planets rather than a monolithic government.
(Citizen of the Galaxy)

Terran Medal
Federation military award.
(Starship Troopers)

Territa
Colony planet near the Hyades, where B. P. Matson and Helen Walker chose to settle after their marriage.
(Tunnel in the Sky)

The Terror
[mentioned in passing] Widespread disorders that preceded the breakup of the North American republic in the 20th century. Disturbances also occurred in Russia and the British Isles though the effects were not as severe. The Terror culminated in a world war.
(Starship Troopers)

Tertius
See Tellus Tertius.
(The Cat Who Walks Through Walls, The Number of the Beast, Time Enough for Love, To Sail Beyond the Sunset)

Tessie (no last name)
[mentioned in passing] John Thomas Stuart's aunt, a believer in astrology.
(The Star Beast)

"Texas Star"
[mentioned in passing] Square-dancing tune popular in Cowpertown.
(Tunnel in the Sky)

Father Tezuka (no first name)
Japanese-American priest who taught at Rockhurst College. Maureen Johnson learned Japanese from him.
(To Sail Beyond the Sunset)

Thaddeus (no last name)
Physician who attended Valentine Michael Smith at Bethesda Medical Center. Jill Boardman called him "Tad".
(Stranger in a Strange Land)

Thaf Beta IV
[mentioned in passing] Destination of El Nido after its stop at Losian.
(Citizen of the Galaxy)

"That Red-Headed Venusberg Gal"
Unpublished (and presumably bawdy) song by "Noisy" Rhysling.
("The Green Hills of Earth", "Logic of Empire")

Thebes, Missouri
Maureen Johnson's home town. [As far as can be determined, Thebes, Missouri, is entirely fictitious.]
(To Sail Beyond the Sunset)

Thebes Consolidated Grammar and High School
School attended by Maureen Johnson and her siblings.
(To Sail Beyond the Sunset)

Thelma (no last name)
Tourist in Luna whom Hazel Stone overheard talking about buying a souvenir turtle; she also expressed outrage that Hazel was wearing a weapon.
(The Rolling Stones)

"Theoretical Investigation into the Stability of Several Radioisotopic Fuels — With Notes on the Charon-Power Satellite Disaster"
[mentioned in passing] Classified document that the Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission offered to D. D. Harriman to persuade him not to use "X-fuel" in the moon rocket.
("The Man Who Sold the Moon")

Theory of Colonial Expansion
Political book by Chamberlain that was suppressed on Earth. Don Harvey's father sent it to him.
(Between Planets)

Theta Centauri
Sun of Garson's Planet.
(Starman Jones)

Thetis Pygmies
[mentioned in passing] Nonhumans who can see in the dark.
(Tunnel in the Sky)

"They Found Him in the Bush"
[mentioned in passing] Song popular with Venus contract laborers.
("Logic of Empire")

thigarek
Any form of tobacco, a staple item of trade with Venerian natives (the amphibians, not the dragons).
("Logic of Empire")

Third Space War
See Bug War.
(Starship Troopers)

Thomas (no last name)
Lazarus Long's cook on Landfall.
(Time Enough for Love)

Beasley Thomas
Mayor of Luna City, Roger Stone's successor.
(The Rolling Stones)

Jason (Jay) Thomas
Port pilot of Phobos Port.
(The Rolling Stones)

Jefferson Thomas
One of the few survivors in the Citadel after the Ledbetter Effect disaster. Trained as a lawyer; he went into social administration and became a hobo to gather information for a thesis, then stayed one because he liked it. He was sworn into the Army after he wandered into the Citadel's secret entrance. He volunteered for intelligence work after the PanAsian invasion and was promoted from private to lieutenant for the assignment, then to captain when he took charge of Denver recruitment as a priest of Mota. Among the hoboes he was known as Gentleman Jeff.
(The Day After Tomorrow)

Dr. Thorgsen (no first name)
Inventor of an apparatus to determine the origin and destination of the galaxy.
(Beyond This Horizon)

Professor Thorwald (no first name)
Scientist who aided in the investigation of the Pathfinder's disabling. He concurred that fossils and artifacts aboard her indicated that the Asteroid Belt was a remnant of an inhabited planet that blew itself up.
(Space Cadet)

Thoth IV
[mentioned in passing] Port of call for the Sisu.
(Citizen of the Galaxy)

Thoughts at Evening
[mentioned in passing] Book by Roberta Thistlewaite Smithe used in a Jubal Harshaw story for "unsympathetic magic".
(The Number of the Beast)

Thousand Nights and a Night
[mentioned in passing] Burton's translation of the Arabian Nights stories, stocked in the Farnham bomb shelter.
(Farnham's Freehold)

Threadneedle Street
[mentioned in passing] Thoroughfare in Golden Rule.
(The Cat Who Walks Through Walls)

Three Galaxies
The advanced worlds of the Lesser Magellanic Cloud, Greater Magellanic Cloud, and Milky Way comprised a quasi-political "police" force to protect themselves against "uncivilized" worlds that might develop dangerous technology and cause trouble for the more advanced worlds.
(Have Space Suit — Will Travel)

Three Men in a Boat
[mentioned in passing] Samuel Russell's favorite book, by Jerome K. Jerome.
(Have Space Suit — Will Travel)

The Three Musketeers
One of Joe-Jim Gregory's stolen books. Bill Ertz was intrigued by it, but puzzled by some details.
(Orphans of the Sky)

Three Planets
[mentioned in passing] Company doing business on Mars.
(Double Star)

Three Planets Fiscal
Company in which Thorby Rudbek owned stock; it actually operated on 27 planets.
(Citizen of the Galaxy)

Three Planets Summit
A diplomatic summit that involved Mars, Venus, and Earth. It addressed the issue of whether Mars should join the Terran Federation.
(Podkayne of Mars)

Three-Cornered Hat
Podkayne Fries's nickname for the Tricorn.
(Podkayne of Mars)

three-filled
Martian expression for three to the fourth power (81).
(Stranger in a Strange Land)

three-fulfilled
Martian expression for an unspecified power of three.
(Stranger in a Strange Land)

Three-Planets Treaty
1. [mentioned in passing] A treaty that apparently guaranteed the sovereignty of planetary natives, even where humans had established colonies.
("Ordeal in Space")
2. Treaty organization among Earth, Venus and Mars, and including Luna.
(Podkayne of Mars)

three-replenished
Martian expression for three to the sixth power (729).
(Stranger in a Strange Land)

three-waiting
Martian expression for three cubed (27).
(Stranger in a Strange Land)

Grant Roderick Throxton
Child of Jimmy Throxton and Jackie Daudet; he was probably named after Grant Cowper and Rod Walker.
(Tunnel in the Sky)

Jimmy Throxton
Friend and classmate of Rod Walker who, took his Advanced Survival test at the same time as Rod. He was found injured by Jackie Daudet. After his recovery they and Rod made plans to gather the surviving students into a community. He married Jackie in Cowpertown.
(Tunnel in the Sky)

Colonel Thrushbotham (no first name)
Military officer who classified as secret Hubert Twitchell's time-travel research.
(The Door Into Summer)

Thule
1. [mentioned in passing] Site of Army cryogenic storage.
(The Door Into Summer)
2. Max Jones' forged records showed he worked in this ship before he applied for work in the Asgard.
(Starman Jones)
3. Planet on which Helen Walker was stationed.
(Tunnel in the Sky)

Lt. Thurlow (no first name)
Bomb officer aboard the Aes Triplex, also assigned to oversee the cadets' training. He was named executive officer and astrogator after half the crew transferred to the Pathfinder. While commanding the mission to Venus to investigate a distress call, he suffered a concussion in the landing and remained comatose until the cadets lifted the Astarte into orbit.
(Space Cadet)

Thurston the Great
[mentioned in passing] Magician whom Ted Bronson took Woodrow Smith to see.
(Time Enough for Love)

Thus Spake Zarathustra
[mentioned in passing] Friedrich Nietzsche's book, stocked in the Farnham bomb shelter.
(Farnham's Freehold)

Th'wing
Venerian who tended to Lt. Thurlow after his head injury; she and Matt Dodson became good friends.
(Space Cadet)

Professor Tiergarten (no first name)
[mentioned in passing] Scientist who was eager to interrogate Valentine Michael Smith immediately after his arrival on Earth.
(Stranger in a Strange Land)

Tik-Tok
Character encountered during the Gay Deceiver's visit to Oz. He befriended Gay Deceiver.
(The Number of the Beast)

Tim (no last name)
A member of the Church of All Worlds, who met Jubal Harshaw and took him to the new "nest" after the Church headquarters was burned down. (Possibly Tim Baxter?)
(Stranger in a Strange Land)

Clarence Timberly
Pastor of Cyrus Vance Parker Memorial Methodist Episcopal Church during Maureen Johnson's youth.
(To Sail Beyond the Sunset)

time
1. J. Darlington Smith was seen as a "time traveler" although he had not really bypassed the normal sequence of time.
(Beyond This Horizon)
2. Hubert Twitchell discovered that reversing the polarity needed to nullify gravity would send objects through time; but there was an equal chance of going backwards or forwards. In a test of whether the theory was valid, Daniel Boone Davis traveled back to the year when he entered cold sleep.
(The Door Into Summer)
3. A massive atomic explosion hurled the Farnham bomb shelter thousands of years into the future. The Chosen scientists discovered a method of sending objects back in time, but when Hugh Farnham and Barbara Wells were sent back, they discovered themselves apparently in an alternate world.
(Farnham's Freehold)
4. The Three Galaxies officials were able to send Kip Russell not only back to Earth, but back in time to just after he was kidnapped.
(Have Space Suit — Will Travel)
5. Jacob Burroughs was working on a time machine when he developed the technology that enabled travel through other universes.
(The Number of the Beast)
6. The inhabitants of the Ship had the concepts of "before", "now", "after"; but not of measured times, being isolated from astronomical phenomena and lacking seasons on which such measurements are usually based.
(Orphans of the Sky)
7. Lazarus Long determined that the same method used to move the Dora through space could also be used for time travel. He used the method to travel back to Kansas City in the early 20th century, but missed his actual destination by several years.
(Time Enough for Love)
8. The teleportation Gates in common use were originally invented as time machines; they were less commonly used for that purpose, and also as stasis fields to "freeze" time.
(Tunnel in the Sky)
9. The "irrelevant" vehicles could travel through time as well as through space and into other universes. Such travel made the concept of a fixed linear time obsolete. Their invention was quickly followed by the formation of the Time Corps to control changes to history.
(The Cat Who Walks Through Walls, To Sail Beyond the Sunset)
10. "All You Zombies", a story outside the Future History canon, described the peculiar circumstances in which a time traveler became his own father — and mother.

Time Corps
See Time Police for the Circle of Ouroboros.
(To Sail Beyond the Sunset)

time lines
The time lines, or alternate universes, are named after the first person to walk on the moon.
  1. Code name John Carter. In this time line, the 1940 Democratic presidential nomination went to Paul McNutt, and the Republican nomination to Robert Taft.
  2. The time line in which Maureen Johnson was born, code name Leslie LeCroix. In this time line, Franklin Roosevelt was nominated for a third presidential term in 1940, then died of a stroke while playing tennis, creating a constitutional crisis in the dispute over who would be President if the electoral college votes were not yet cast. (This is the only time line in which Roosevelt had not had polio.) The Japanese attacked San Francisco, not Pearl Harbor, on December 7, 1941; in reaction, 60,000 Japanese-Americans were slaughtered on the West Coast. California was placed under martial law afterwards. (Tokyo and Kobe are also mentioned, presumably as the alternate Hiroshima and Nagasaki.) This is the time line of the Interregnum of the Prophets.
  3. Code name Neil Armstrong. It is the native time line of Hazel Stone and Jubal Harshaw — the locus of the events in The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress and Stranger in a Strange Land. Unlike in other time lines, Venus is uninhabitable and Mars an almost airless desert. As in time line two, Earth suffered the Crazy Years in the second half of the twentieth century.
  4. Code name Ballox O'Malley, home time line of Zebadiah Carter and Jacob Burroughs.
  5. Code name Fairacres, the time line in which the United States was defeated in World War II. The Japanese and German empires split America between them along the Mississippi River. (This may be the locus of the events in The Day After Tomorrow.)
  6. A variant of time line two in which the Second American Revolution never took place, and thus the Reign of the Prophet persisted. Maureen Johnson ended up in it after the sabotage of the time bus, in the year 2184.
(To Sail Beyond the Sunset; also, indirectly, in The Cat Who Walks Through Walls)

Time Police for the Circle of Ouroboros
Organization, also called the Time Corps, that patrolled the various time lines and prevented undue interference in them.
1. They sent Hazel Meade Stone to recruit Richard Ames to help rescue Mike from destruction at the end of the Lunar revolution.
(The Cat Who Walks Through Walls)
2. Maureen Johnson became an agent after joining the Tertius colony.
(To Sail Beyond the Sunset)

time travel
See time.

Luke Timons
Reporter employed by the Daily Herald. Hugo Pinero chose him as a subject for a demonstration of his "Life-Line" machine. He was killed the same day as the demonstration, as Pinero had predicted.
("Life-Line")

Professor Timoshenko
Master of ceremonies, owner, and manager of the carnival with which Valentine Michael Smith travelled. His real name was Tim Baxter.
(Stranger in a Strange Land)

The Tin Woodman
Character encountered during the Gay Deceiver's visit to Oz.
(The Number of the Beast)

Tinker's Guild
Guild that Lazarus Long joined on Fatima, with the aid of some under-the-counter dealing with the Guildmaster. He repaired appliances and occasionally sold advanced electronics. He became the assistant to a government trade official, eventually replacing him.
(Time Enough for Love)

Tirl
Angel who advised Alex Hergensheimer on how to search for Margrethe Gunderson; he called St. Peter's office on Alex's behalf to check on her whereabouts.
(Job: A Comedy of Justice)

Tish
See Patricia Zhukov.
(The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress)

Titan
1. From the context in which it is mentioned, it was probably a penal colony.
(Podkayne of Mars)
2. Home "planet" of the puppet masters. Earth sent an expedition there to eliminate them.
(The Puppet Masters)
3. After their stay in the Asteroid Belt, the Castor and Pollux Stone's family headed for the human settlement Titan Base.
(The Rolling Stones)

Titania
Name bestowed by Podkayne Fries on the Venerian "fairy" guarding here while she was held hostage by Mrs. Grew.
(Podkayne of Mars)

titans
See puppet masters.
(The Puppet Masters)

Tivoli
[mentioned in passing] Entertainment was broadcast directly to the New Age Hotel from this nightclub.
("Gulf")

Uncle Tobias
[mentioned in passing] Title character in a story by Jubal Harshaw.
(The Number of the Beast)

Joe Todd
Security guard at Hired Girl who prevented Daniel Boone Davis from entering his workshop after Miles Gentry had swindled him out of his share of the company.
(The Door Into Summer)

Togetherness Magazine
[mentioned in passing] Journal to which Jubal Harshaw sold poetry.
(Stranger in a Strange Land)

Tokyo
In Maureen Johnson's time line, the Japanese surrendered after its destruction, ending World War II.
(To Sail Beyond the Sunset)

Toland (no first name)
South Colony engineer who set up apparatus to verify that it was Marquis Howe's voice that Willis was mimicking.
(The Red Planet)

Tolley (no first name)
Chairman of the common council on Ganymede, who had to deal with the new immigrants' complaints.
(Farmer in the Sky)

Ronson H. Tolliver
A partner in the company that ran Golden Rule. Herr Nameless presumably wanted him killed, but was himself killed before he could explain why.
(The Cat Who Walks Through Walls)

Ronson Q. Tolliver
[mentioned in passing] Son of Ronson H. Tolliver.
(The Cat Who Walks Through Walls)

Stella M. Tolliver
[mentioned in passing] Wife of Ronson H. Tolliver.
(The Cat Who Walks Through Walls)

Tom (no last name)
President of the United States.
(The Puppet Masters)

Uncle Tom
Johnny Ling used this name for the head of New London Trust and Investment, though he denied any blood relation.
(Between Planets)

Tom Paine
Personal space yacht and travelling office of John Joseph Bonforte. Larry Smith travelled in it from Earth to Mars while learning his role for the Bonforte impersonation.
(Double Star)

Tomahawk
[mentioned in passing] Chicago, Springfield & Earthport ringroad train that ran past Max Jones' farm.
(Starman Jones)

Tombaugh Station
Lunar base named for the discoverer of Pluto.
(Have Space Suit — Will Travel)

Tombstone Island
Section of New London, Venus.
(Between Planets)

Tomkins vs. Allied News Distributors
[mentioned in passing] Supreme Court decision in Alex Hergensheimer's homeworld under which community standards of the "typical" community in each state applied to all other cities.
(Job: A Comedy of Justice)

Tommy (no last name)
Howard Families member who worked communications in the Families' seat under Lake Michigan.
(Methuselah's Children)

Gloria Tomosawa
Senior partner in the Luna City law firm that handled Hartley Baldwin's bequest to Friday. She was also vice president and chief trust officer of Ceres and South Africa Acceptance.
(Friday)

Joe Tompson
Pusher in Van Huysen's chopping shed.
("Logic of Empire")

Tom-Tom Singer
Entertainer featured at The Back Room; the style is not described except that it is very loud.
(Between Planets)

Tony (no last name)
1. Maitre d' in Rainbow's End.
(The Cat Who Walks Through Walls)
2. Artist who gave Joe Branca his training.
(I Will Fear No Evil)
3. Lawyer and member of the Harriman Trust board.
("The Man Who Sold the Moon")
4. Name with which Sidris Davis mistakenly addressed a Baker Street Irregular sent to tail Hazel Meade.
(The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress)
5. A member of the Church of All Worlds.
(Stranger in a Strange Land)

Top Dollar
First settlement on New Beginnings, apparently founded by Lazarus Long; he owned the bank and the trading post (under his alias Ernest Gibbons).
(Time Enough for Love)

Tora (no last name)
Thorby Rudbek's adoptive great-aunt in the Sisu.
(Citizen of the Galaxy)

torch ship (or torchship)
1. Ship designed to travel near the speed of light. Several torch ships were sent to explore other solar systems by the Long Range Foundation.
(Time for the Stars)
2. Ship that uses mass conversion for power.
(Tunnel in the Sky)

Torheim
Port city on Valhalla.
(Time Enough for Love)

Torland (no first name)
Ship's surgeon in the Tricorn.
(Podkayne of Mars)

Ian Tormey
Captain of the SB Abel Tasman, who invited Friday to visit him while in New Zealand. She accepted the offer after her family divorced her, and he invited her to his home in Canada where she was stranded by Red Thursday. He and his family disappeared after she left to return to the Chicago Imperium, but she encountered them again on Botany Bay and joined their group marriage.
(Friday)

Janet Tormey
Ian Tormey's wife. She gave Friday her credit cards to pay her way through California to the Chicago Imperium. Friday met her again on Botany Bay.
(Friday)

Torne, Hernia, Lien and Snob
Company that ran Anything Unlimited, providing catering and other services for the Interuniverse Society conference.
(The Number of the Beast)

Torricelli
Site of a tube station in Luna.
(The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress)

tortoise
Mechanical equivalent of a burro. It was solar powered and was designed to travel through any terrain.
("Coventry")

Toto
Dorothy Gale's dog, present at the dinner held in Oz for the crew of the Gay Deceiver.
(The Number of the Beast)

A Tour of Earth's Colonies
Book by Ellsworth Smith, read by Bill and George Lermer as they prepared to emigrate to Ganymede.
(Farmer in the Sky)

Tours
Federation troop transport to which Juan Rico was assigned during his officer training.
(Starship Troopers)

Jack Towers
[mentioned in passing] Insurance underwriter whom Johann Sebastian Bach Smith suggested to fill out an insurance policy on him with Eunice Branca as the beneficiary.
(I Will Fear No Evil)

Townsend (no first name)
Member of the board of Detheridge & Company.
("The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag")

Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet
When Valentine Michael Smith read the play, he did not understand why Romeo "discorporated too soon", and wanted Jubal Harshaw to ask Romeo why.
(Stranger in a Strange Land)

Trailblazer
Ship on which John Thomas Stuart VIII made three exploration voyages. On the second voyage he acquired Lummox, and the ship did not return from the third.
(The Star Beast)

Alec Train
Attorney who prosecuted the suit that challenged Johann Sebastian Bach Smith's identity after his brain transplant.
(I Will Fear No Evil)

Ruth Train
[mentioned in passing] Alec Train's wife.
(I Will Fear No Evil)

Tranquille
[mentioned in passing] Tranquilizer administered by injection.
(I Will Fear No Evil)

Trans-America
Bank directed by Gaston P. Jones.
("The Man Who Sold the Moon")

Trans-Crisium
Transportation tube route between Lunar Authority Complex and Luna City.
(The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress)

Translunar Building
Site of local offices for the Genetics Investigations project.
(Time for the Stars)

Trans-Lunar Transit
Company that operated rockets between Earth and the Moon. Jake Pemberton worked for them.
("Space Jockey")

Trans-Planet
Communications and news network.
(Stranger in a Strange Land)

Transport Commission
Government agency that controlled the roadcities.
("The Roads Must Roll")

Transport Enterprises
[mentioned in passing] Corporation in which Lazarus Long was a major stockholder.
(Time Enough for Love)

Transtellar Migration Corporation, Ltd.
New Canaveral company that provided transport tariffs from which Estrellita and Josι Long figured their "debt" to Lazarus Long for the trip from Blessed to Landfall.
(Time Enough for Love)

Transuranics Golden Division
[mentioned in passing] Mining company on the planet Golden.
(Friday)

Chet Travers
Crew member assigned to communications in the Lewis & Clark. He married Mei-Ling Jones.
(Time for the Stars)

A Treasury of American Poetry
[mentioned in passing] Book stocked in the Farnham bomb shelter.
(Farnham's Freehold)

Treaty of New Delhi
The treaty that ended the war between the Chinese Hegemony and the Russo-Anglo-American Alliance at the end of the 20th century. Its failure to deal with the exchange of POWs contributed to the worldwide collapse of organized governments.
(Starship Troopers)

treaty towns
The only places on Mars where indigenous Martians and humans mingled, and there only under strict conditions.
(The Rolling Stones)

Triangle Line
Company that provided commercial spaceship travel among Earth, Venus, and Mars. Its ships included Triad, Triangulum, Trice, Tricolor, and Tricorn.
(Podkayne of Mars)

Triangular Conference
Negotiations among Venus, Earth, and Mars, in which the Department of Spatial Affairs was involved.
(The Star Beast)

Tricorn
Triangle Line ship in which the Marsopolis Creche provided Podkayne and Clark Fries with first-class fares to Venus and Earth.
(Podkayne of Mars)

trinary
The Martian counting system was founded on base three, probably because Martians were tripedal.
(Stranger in a Strange Land)

Trip
To the inhabitants of the Ship, not a literal voyage but a spiritual journey.
(Orphans of the Sky)

Tri-Planet Treaty
Among other things, the treaty forbade disturbing cultural relics. (See also Three-Planets Treaty.)
("The Green Hills of Earth")

Triple-S Lines
Interworld Transport; its slogan was "Speed-Safety-Service".
(Friday)

Tri-S
Video display devices through which the Daily Data was broadcast.
(Methuselah's Children)

Tristan
Hero of an Arthurian legend, featured in the nightmare that Kip Russell had after being kidnapped with Peewee Reisfeld.
(Have Space Suit — Will Travel)

Tri-University Life Engineering Laboratory
Facility in Detroit, Michigan, where Friday was "designed". [The Detroit and southeastern Michigan area has several major universities, including Wayne State University in Detroit, University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Oakland University in Rochester, University of Detroit, and Michigan State University in Lansing.]
(Friday)

Trojan horse
Ejection capsule in which troopers are dropped from their ship to a planet's surface. It was designed with several layers, each of which protects the trooper against re-entry but also peels off in chunks to create radar "noise" to mask the drop. The inmost "egg" holds the trooper immobile through the drop and is discarded at the trooper's command.
(Starship Troopers)

Troop One
Boy Scout troop in Luna.
("Nothing Ever Happens on the Moon")

Trot
[mentioned in passing] Little girl mentioned as a resident of Oz.
(The Number of the Beast)

Orson Trowbridge
Dak Broadbent told Larry Smith that this actor was a second choice for the John Joseph Bonforte impersonation. Smith described him as an unforgivable ham, so Broadbent's statement may have been a ploy to get Smith to agree to participate in the plan.
(Double Star)

Sarah Trowbridge
[mentioned in passing] Young woman of Maureen Johnson's acquaintance who disappeared while traveling from her father's farm to nearby Rich Hill.
(To Sail Beyond the Sunset)

Sergei Trujillo
[mentioned in passing] Janitor to whom Mike issued a paycheck for $10,000,000,000,000,185.15 — the last five digits being the correct amount. Knowing he couldn't cash it, Trujillo sold it to a collector.
(The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress)

Harry S Truman
In Maureen Johnson's time line he was never a U.S. senator and did not become President. Brian Smith knew a Captain Harry Truman in France, who was a haberdasher.
(To Sail Beyond the Sunset)

Trustees
Leaders of the Howard Families.
(Time Enough for Love)

Trygve Lie
1. Interplanetary Patrol ship whose weapons were put out of commission as part of the coup attempt.
("The Long Watch")
2. [mentioned in passing] Patrol ship that collided with the spaceship Rising Star, leaving no survivors.
(The Rolling Stones)

Tsar of Russia
[mentioned in passing] Ruler in Alex Hergensheimer's homeworld.
(Job: A Comedy of Justice)

Tshaka Memorial Park
[mentioned in passing] Nature preserve in Africa.
(Tunnel in the Sky)

Tsing (no other name)
[mentioned in passing] Author of Collapse of the Golden Hegemony.
(Starship Troopers)

Premier Tsuetkov
[mentioned in passing] The Soviet Premier, called by Andrew Nivens the "Prisoner of the Kremlin".
(The Puppet Masters)

Tube Station South
[mentioned in passing] Transport depot in Luna City.
(The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress)

Tube Station West
Transport depot that contained storage lockers; Manuel Garcia O'Kelly kept his pressure suit there.
(The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress)

Joe Tully
Co-worker of William Cole who invited him home for an overnight visit. Mrs. Tully (no first name) also appears briefly.
("Ordeal in Space")

John "Warwhoop" Tumbril
Chief Confederate (i.e. government leader) of the California Confederacy. Friday saved him from an assassination attempt.
(Friday)

Patrick Tumulty
Politician mentioned in passing.
(To Sail Beyond the Sunset)

Turing potential
A computer's ability to develop independent intelligence, including self-awareness; applied to Minerva.
(Time Enough for Love)

Turmoil Ages
The Chosen's name for the time before the Atomic War.
(Farnham's Freehold)

Charlie Turner
Third engineer in the War God.
(The Rolling Stones)

The Twenty-First Century Stud
[mentioned in passing] Shop where Joan Eunice Smith bought presents for Jake Salomon.
(I Will Fear No Evil)

Twenty Universes
Domain that extends through various dimensions, encompassing a number of worlds within the dimensions. It is not explicitly described, but it is ruled by an "emperor" (see Star) who cybernetically absorbs the memories and experiences of all previous emperors. The capital world, Center, is a cosmopolitan crossroads for the many species that inhabit the Twenty Universes.
(Glory Road)

Dr. Hubert Twitchell
Physicist who discovered a means of time travel, only to have it classified secret by the Army. Daniel Boone Davis persuaded him to demonstrate his machine by sending Dan back to 1970. Afterwards, Dan resolved to write a book on the man. 
(The Door Into Summer)

Twitchell (no first name)
Commandant of the Special Service squadrons. He was involved in the search for Valentine Michael Smith.
(Stranger in a Strange Land)

Two Maggots
Establishment in Paris that Oscar Gordon frequented while waiting for Rufo to answer his personal ad.
(Glory Road)

Two Planets Corporation
[mentioned in passing] Operation on Venus.
(The Puppet Masters)

Two Wise Heads
The muties' title for Joe-Jim Gregory.
(Orphans of the Sky)

Two Worlds Dining Room
Restaurant to which Johnny Ling took Don Harvey. When Ling stuck him with the check, Don got a job there washing dishes and also got a room in the back to sleep in.
(Between Planets)

Mr. Two-Canes
See Hartley M. Baldwin.
(Friday)

Two-Continents Amusement Corporation
A Harriman company that provided video entertainment.
("The Man Who Sold the Moon")

Tycho Base
Military base on the Moon.
("Searchlight")

Tycho City
[mentioned in passing] Settlement on Luna.
(Between Planets)

Tycho Under
Lunar colony.
(The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress)

Tycho-Under Mutual
Bank operating in Luna.
(The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress)

Mort Tyler
Friend of Hugh Hoyland who wanted to be a scientist. He was eventually assigned to the Ship's Convertor as senior watch officer and married Edris Baxter after Hugh's disappearance. He testified against Hugh in his heresy trial. He was killed by Alan Mahoney during Hugh's rescue from execution.
(Orphans of the Sky)

Tyrannosaurus Ceti
Scientific name given to a lizardlike predator found on Constance.
(Time for the Stars)

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