I Will Fear No Evil - Heinlein Concordance

A Heinlein Concordance

created by M. E. Cowan

Robert A Heinlein

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I Will Fear No Evil

Abandoned Area

Urban neighborhoods in which poverty, crime, and physical deterioration were so great the authorities simply gave up on them.

Abelard

Chimpanzee involved in the first successful brain transplant.

(also in other stories)

Abercrombie and Fitch

[mentioned in passing] Department store still doing business at the beginning of the 21st century.

Agroproducts, Inc.

A competitor of one of Smith Enterprises' subsidiaries.

Buzz Aldrin

Jake Salomon mentioned him briefly to Joan Eunice Smith as being a member of the first expedition to the moon, with Neil Armstrong.

Alma-Ata

[mentioned in passing] City, apparently under the jurisdiction of China, where a Morale Corps sergeant gave birth by Caesarean to a two-headed boy. The event was recorded for television broadcast.

ancestry

Johann Sebastian Bach Smith was German-American, having changed his name from Schmidt probably because of World War I prejudices.

(also in other stories)

Anders (no first name)

[mentioned in passing] Judge McCampbell's judicial colleague.

Dr. Andrews (no first name)

[mentioned in passing] Eugenics Foundation board member who had nominated H. S. Olsen as the director.

(also in other stories)

Armbrust

[mentioned in passing] Cunningham's former employer.

Neil Armstrong

Mentioned in passing as the first human on the moon.

(also in other stories)

Reverend Thomas Barker

Long Beach, California, minister who broadcast the show Equal Time for God, and claimed that the world had ended on December 31, 1999.

Matthew Barnes

Bureaucrat who processed applications for migration to Luna. Joan Eunice Smith took him to task for wasting her time.

Mrs. Baum (no first name)

[mentioned in passing] Woman who ran a notions shop in Johann Sebastian Bach Smith's childhood neighborhood. She had one son who was killed in World War I, and another who made a name for himself in electronics.

Betsy

Eunice Branca's pet name for her automated stenodesk.

(also in other stories)

Mrs. Bierman (no first name)

Johann Sebastian Bach Smith's secretary until her retirement; Eunice Branca had been her assistant.

Big Sam

See Sam.

Jefferson Billings

[mentioned in passing] Owner of a pawnshop from whom Jake Salomon got a certified check, at Johann Sebastian Bach Smith's insistence, with which to pay for a life insurance policy with Eunice Branca as the beneficiary.

Bird's Nest

Abandoned Area through which Jake Salomon was taking Eunice Branca home when his Rolls was fired on.

Boss

Eunice Branca's usual name for Johann Sebastian Bach Smith.

(also in other stories)

La Boutique

Expensive women's clothing store in Gimbel's Compound. [French, "shop"]

Lindsay Boyle

Australian surgeon who performed successful brain transplants on chimpanzees. He was banned from practicing medicine in Australia because of controversy over his research and results; he moved to South America, then ultimately became a citizen of China. He transplanted Johann Sebastian Bach Smith's brain into Eunice Branca's body.

Angela Branca

[mentioned in passing] Joe Branca's sister, unwed mother of three children.

Annamaria Branca

[mentioned in passing] Joe Branca's sister, an unwed mother.

Eunice Evans Branca

Johann Sebastian Bach Smith's personal secretary. A beauty contest winner at 18, she rejected the chance of a video career for a degree in secretarial electronics with a minor in computer language and cybernetics. Married and childless (except for a child she bore but gave up for adoption at 16), she was killed at age 28 and her body donated for Smith's brain transplant; they shared a rare blood type. The transplant was a success, but Eunice's personality remained in the body and she regularly communicated with Smith.

Blanca: Mispronunciation of Eunice Branca's surname in a sensational newscast about Johann Sebastian Bach Smith's identity hearing.

Jose (Joe) Branca

Eunice Branca's husband, a gifted artist although illiterate. After Eunice's death he remarried; he and his wife briefly joined Joan Eunice Smith on her ocean voyage.

Mrs. Branca (no first name)

Joe Branca's mother, an alcoholic dependent on welfare and on her son and daughter-in-law's charity. She lived in another city, to the couple's relief.

Brenner (no first name)

Life-support specialist and physician to Johann Sebastian Bach Smith's after the brain transplant.

Brown Room

Room in Johann Sebastian Bach Smith's house where Jake Salomon stayed when visiting during Johann's recuperation from the brain transplant.

Rev. Dr. Montgomery Chang, D.D.

[mentioned in passing] "Most Humble Supreme Leader of the Way, Inc.", who lobbied for institutionalizing Buddhism and licensing Zen teachers.

Charlie (no last name)

Jake Salomon's shotgun driver, an "XYZ" compulsive killer on parole under Jake's patronage. He was killed when he provoked a fight in a bar.

(also in other stories)

Chesterfield Club

[mentioned in passing] Club in Kansas City circa 1934, remembered by Joan Eunice Smith as featuring nude waitresses.

Chubby (no other name)

Man involved in a gangbang with Winifred Gerston the night of her graduation from nursing school. She remembered him because he left her coffee, food, and hangover remedy the next morning.

Cliff (no last name)

Technician who monitored Johann Sebastian Bach Smith's life support system after the brain transplant.

Constitutional Liberation Rally

[mentioned in passing] Extreme left-wing political party in the United States.

Mrs. Crampton

One of Johann Sebastian Bach Smith's granddaughters (either Marla or Elinor); she was involved in the suit to have him declared dead so they could inherit his wealth.

Cunningham (no first name)

Johann Sebastian Bach Smith's butler. (His wife Mary is also mentioned in passing.)

Anton Dabrowski

Joan Eunice Smith's driver, nicknamed Ski. He and his wife Olga accompanied her on her ocean voyage.

Daily Selenite

Luna colonies' newspaper.

Dave Daly

[mentioned in passing] Host of a news show.

Evelyn Smith Darlington

Johann Sebastian Bach Smith's daughter (deceased), and Johanna Seward's mother. He suspected she was not biologically his.

Jim Darlington

Evelyn Smith Darlington's widower, father of June Frabish and Johanna Seward.

Della (no last name)

Joan Eunice Smith's cook.

Democratic Party

[mentioned in passing] A splinter political party, with few members under the age of 65.

Diana Transport

[mentioned in passing] Company that presumably operated on Luna or between Earth and Luna.

Dr. Lyndon Doyle

[mentioned in passing] Name under which a warrant was issued for Lindsay Boyle after he performed Johann Sebastian Bach Smith's brain transplant; Boyle was out of jurisdiction before it was issued.

DuValle (no first name)

Clerk, or perhaps manager, at Madame Pompadour.

Elinor (last name either Crampton or Lopez)

Johann Sebastian Bach Smith's granddaughter, one of the plaintiffs in the suit to have him declared legally dead after the brain transplant.

Evelyn (no last name)

Bailiff at Joan Eunice Smith's competency/identity hearing.

Dr. Feinstein (no first name)

Eye specialist who treated Johann Sebastian Bach Smith after his brain transplant.

Eve Finchley

Tom Finchley's teenaged daughter, who accompanied Joan Eunice Smith on her ocean voyage.

Hester Finchley

Tom Finchley's wife, who accompanied Joan Eunice Smith on her ocean voyage.

Tom Finchley

Joan Eunice Smith's driver, who accompanied her on her ocean voyage.

First Satanist Church

[mentioned in passing] Headquartered in California, it went to court for relief from "discriminatory taxation."

June Frabish

Johann Sebastian Bach Smith's granddaughter, sister of Johanna Seward. She was involved in the suit to have him declared legally dead after his brain transplant.

Frankel (no first name)

Joan Eunice Smith's attending surgeon in Luna at her baby's birth.

(also in other stories)

Fred (no last name)

Joan Eunice Smith's armed driver.

(also in other stories)

frimp

Contemporary slang describing in brief the activity at an orgy.

Gadabout

Model of automobile owned by Eunice Branca, small enough to keep in their apartment.

Ganymede

The Lunar Commission proposed terraforming it.

(also in other stories)

Dr. Roberto Garcia y Ibañez

Johann Sebastian Bach Smith's personal physician, who attended him both before and after the brain transplant. He married Winifred Gerston.

Gaslight Club

Nightclub that Joan Eunice Smith visited to celebrate her recovery from the brain transplant.

General Textbooks

[mentioned in passing] A division of Smith Enterprises that was particularly profitable.

George Washington Carver

[mentioned in passing] Name of a Food Cave in the Lunar colonies.

Winifred (Winnie) Gerston

Joan Eunice Smith's private-duty nurse after Joan Eunice's brain transplant. Joan Eunice hired her as a "lady's maid" after she was fully recovered. Winnie married Dr. Roberto Garcia and accompanied Joan Eunice on her ocean voyage.

(also in other stories)

Miss Ghana

[mentioned in passing] When she was chosen Miss Universe, she announced her intentions to be the first starship commander, inspiring a sharp rejoinder from the space pilots' union.

Gibraltar Club

Males-only club to which Jake Salomon and Johann Sebastian Bach Smith belonged. Jake withdrew Johann's membership after the brain transplant.

Gigi (no last name)

Woman who lived with Eunice and Joe Branca's neighbor Big Sam. She modeled for Joe, and married him after Eunice's death, doing her best to manage their finances. She and Joe accompanied Joan Eunice Smith through part of her ocean voyage.

Gilmore (no first name)

[mentioned in passing] man who ran a drugstore in Johann Sebastian Bach Smith's childhood neighborhood.

Gimbel's Compound

[mentioned in passing] Shopping complex where Joan Eunice Smith enjoyed a spree on her first day out after her brain transplant.

Goddard

Earth-to-Luna shuttle that Joan Eunice Smith and her companions took to Luna City.

Gold Seal Bonded Escorts

[mentioned in passing] Company that provided escorts/bodyguards.

Bill Gresham

[mentioned in passing] Old friend of Johann Sebastian Bach Smith.

Grove Press

[mentioned in passing] Company that bought the films option on Molly Maguire's skydive labor/delivery.

Mrs. Grundy

[mentioned in passing] When Joan Eunice Smith used this name to connote "conventional morality", Eunice Branca countered that she was Eunice's fourth-grade teacher, who had an affair with the principal.

Marian H (full surname not given)

[mentioned in passing] Woman with whom Jake Salomon had had an affair; he called her "Maid Marian".

Handy (no first name)

Senile Supreme Court Justice who overturned standards for lunar immigration. The Lunar colonies ignored him because he lacked jurisdiction.

Hank (no last name)

Son of Fred and Della; he accompanied Joan Eunice Smith on her ocean voyage.

Harvard [University]

[mentioned in passing] The president was elected by the student body.

(also in other stories)

Curt Hedrick

Chief physician who attended Johann Sebastian Bach Smith after the brain transplant.

Heloise

Chimpanzee involved in the first successful brain transplant.

(also in other stories)

Homecrafts, Ltd.

[mentioned in passing] A division of Smith Enterprises was trying to buy control of this company.

Hubert (no last name)

Johann Sebastian Bach Smith's valet, hired by Jake Salomon after Johann's brain transplant.

(also in other stories)

The Hungry Man

Restaurant in Gimbel's Compound from which Joan Eunice Smith bought a picnic lunch.

Imperial Atomics

[mentioned in passing] Company that constructed the power plant in Jake Salomon's Rolls Royce.

Internal Defense

Government agency, presumably the successors to the FBI.

Izard City, Arkansas

[mentioned in passing] There was a report that a hen laid an egg here with the Sign of the Cross on it.

Jodrell Bank

[mentioned in passing] Institute that authorized the Manned Pluto Probe, but lost touch with it.

Johanna Mueller Schmidt Memorial Eugenics Foundation

Sperm bank founded by Johann Sebastian Bach Smith. He went there as Joan Eunice Smith to be impregnated with "his own" sperm.

Johnson (no first name)

[mentioned in passing] Family living near Joe Branca's mother; they had twins, one a dropout and one on parole.

(also in other stories)

Susan Jones

[mentioned in passing] Alias under which Joan Eunice Smith planned to set up an account for shopping.

Jones (no first name)

Alias under which Joan Eunice Smith reserved a nightclub table to celebrate her recovery from the brain transplant.

(also in other stories)

Kansas City (Missouri)

[mentioned in passing] Joan Eunice Smith remembered a club there, circa 1934, that featured nude waitresses.

(also in other stories)

Kennedy Tunnels

[mentioned in passing] Thoroughfares between Luna City and the Apollo Industrial Complex.

Kystra (no first name)

Gynecologist who tended Eunice Branca's body after Johann Sebastian Bach Smith's brain had been transplanted into it.

Las-Vegas-in-the-Sky

Vacation resort in Earth orbit.

Mrs. Lopez (no first name)

One of Johann Sebastian Bach Smith's granddaughters (either Marla or Elinor), involved in the suit to declare him legally dead after the brain transplant.

(also in other stories)

Lu (no other name)

[mentioned in passing] Chairman of China and its satellites, unspecified whether past or present. He published "Thoughts of Chairman Lu".

Luna City

City built under the Moon's surface, including not only habitations but farms and other necessities, plus a varied cultural life.

(also in other stories)

Lunar Commission

Colonization organization. It was operated the Interstellar Advisory Subcommittee that made the first attempt at interstellar flight, choosing Tau Ceti over Alpha Centauri for the destination.

Machine Tools Division

[mentioned in passing] Division of Smith Enterprises interested in acquiring control of Homecrafts, Ltd.

Miss MacIntosh (no first name)

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.

(also in other stories)

MacKenzie (no first name)

Alias under which Joan Eunice Smith and Jake Salomon honeymooned.

Madame Pompadour

Clothing boutique where Joan Eunice Smith shopped during her first outing after the brain transplant.

(also in other stories)

Molly Maguire

[mentioned in passing] Sensie star who gave birth during a sky dive as a publicity stunt.

"Margie"

Song that Johann Smith's neighbor Mrs. Wicklund played on her Victrola before seducing him (he was in his teens at the time).

Marie (no last name)

Joan Eunice Smith's waitress at the Pompeii-Now.

Marla (last name either Crampton or Lopez)

Johann Sebastian Bach Smith's granddaughter, party in the suit to have him declared legally dead after the brain transplant.

Martian Manned Field Laboratory

[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.

Martian

Artifacts were found by human expeditions, but the Martians themselves were extinct.

(also in other stories)

McCampbell (no first name)

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.

Norma McCampbell

[mentioned in passing] Judge McCampbell's wife.

Mrs. McIntyre (no first name)

Alias used by Joan Eunice Smith when she went to a medical clinic for her pregnancy test.

(also in other stories)

Mentone (no first name)

Member of Joan Eunice Smith's security staff. Joan threatened to replace O'Neil with him when O'Neil questioned an order.

Mercury Newsletter

[mentioned in passing] Purveyor of confidential investment information.

Mercury Private Courier Service

[mentioned in passing] Security mail service. Among other things, it detected and disarmed bombs.

Merrimac

[mentioned in passing] Model of armored car.

Montevideo

[mentioned in passing] Site of perpetual peace negotiations.

Narcotol

[mentioned in passing] A brand of tranquilizer, presumably over-the-counter.

National Rare Blood Club

Both Johann Sebastian Bach Smith and Eunice Branca were members, blood type AB-negative. Smith proposed finding potential body donors through the club.

Ned (no last name)

Jake Salomon's aide.

(also in other stories)

"The Octopus"

Johann Sebastian Bach Smith's name for Eunice Branca's stenodesk.

Oklahoma State House

[mentioned in passing] It was occupied by the People's Agrarian Emergency Government (what their political philosophy or agenda was is not described, nor their purpose in occupying the state house).

Old Kentucky Rat Poison

"Bottled in the barn". Beverage that Joan Eunice Smith offered to Jake Salomon and Roberto Garcia after her recovery from the brain transplant.

H. S. Olsen (no other first name)

Doctor and director of the Eugenics Foundation.

O'Neil (no first name)

Johann Sebastian Bach Smith's Chief of Security.

(also in other stories)

Our Lady of Mercy

[mentioned in passing] Hospital to which Eunice Branca was called to give blood; she killed a mugger in the parking lot.

Paris

[mentioned in passing] Site of perpetual peace negotiations.

Parkinson (no first name)

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.

(also in other stories)

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.

Paul (no last name)

Winifred Gerston's lover, with whom she split when he would not divorce his wife.

People's Agrarian Emergency Government

[mentioned in passing] Revolutionary group that occupied the Oklahoma State House.

People's Fraternal Society of Cosmonauts, Astronauts, and Space Engineers

[mentioned in passing] This union was part of the AFL-CIO.

Miss Perkins (no first name)

H. S. Olsen's secretary.

(also in other stories)

Pernambuco

[mentioned in passing] Region in northeastern Brazil, the site of an alleged UFO landing.

PLA

One of the United States' conservative political parties. What the initials stand for is not explained.

Pluto

A scientific institute sent a manned probe to explore the planet, but the expedition was lost en route.

(also in other stories)

Pompeii-Now

Nightclub in an Abandoned Area visited by Joan Eunice Smith to celebrate her recovery from the brain transplant.

Pussy Cat

Joan Eunice Smith's trimaran; also Tom Finchley's pet name for Joan (possibly the inspiration for the ship's name).

Republican Party

[mentioned in passing] A splinter political party, with few members under age 65.

Riot Years

[mentioned in passing] Johann Sebastian Bach Smith's house was built as an armed fortress during that time.

Roberts Building

Building where the Johanna Mueller Schmidt Eugenics Foundation was located.

Rockford (no first name)

Jake Salomon's driver, an ex-Syndicate enforcer. He was on parole under Jake's supervision.

Rolls

Jake Salomon and Johann Sebastian Bach Smith had cars with bodies by Rolls Royce but armor and power plant custom-made.

(also in other stories)

Rosenthal (no first name)

Psychiatrist who attended Johann Sebastian Bach Smith after the brain transplant.

Safe Harbor

Jake Salomon's enclave estate.

Jacob Moshe (Jake) Salomon

Chief counsel for Johann Sebastian Bach Smith and for Smith Enterprises. He had an affair with Eunice Branca, and after her death he authorized Johann's brain transplant into her bodied. He married "Joan Eunice Smith" but died of a heart attack several months afterward. Both Eunice and Joan Eunice called him Jock.

Sam (no last name)

Usually called "Big Sam", a neighbor of Joe and Eunice Branca and a self-styled guru.

(also in other stories)

Johanna Mueller Schmidt

[mentioned in passing] Johann Sebastian Bach Smith's mother.

Schmidt (no first name)

Johann Sebastian Bach Smith's original surname. He changed it to "Smith" by spelling it that way to a recruiting sergeant on December 8, 1941.

(also in other stories)

SDS

One of the United States' two conservative political parties.

Sea Ranches

[mentioned in passing] Division of Smith Enterprises.

Selenterprises

[mentioned in passing] Company that presumably operated on Luna or was involved in Lunar development.

Johanna Darlington Seward

Johann Sebastian Bach Smith's granddaughter, an instigator of the suit to have him declared legally dead after the brain transplant.

Shorty

See Hugo White.

(also in other stories)

Simplex Footman

Mechanical device that performed routine tasks.

Sino-American Lunar Commission

Overseeing organization for lunar colonization. It set quotas and standards for emigration.

Skoda

Company that provided armor plating for passenger cars.

Mrs. Sloan (no first name)

Johann Sebastian Bach Smith's private-duty nurse after the brain transplant.

Agnes Smith

Johann Sebastian Bach Smith's first wife, who died in childbirth.

Joan Eunice Smith

The name Johann Sebastian Bach Smith adopted after his brain was transplanted into the body of his secretary, Eunice Branca.

Johann Sebastian Bach Smith (original name Schmidt)

Incredibly wealthy but old to decrepitude and kept alive by machines, he arranged to have his brain transplanted into a young body (secretly hoping he would die in the attempt). The transplant into the body of his secretary Eunice Branca, however, was successful; he retained his memory and personality but Eunice was in the "background" of his mind. He took the name Joan Eunice Smith, weathered an attempt by his granddaughters to have Johann Smith declared dead, and had "herself" impregnated with "his" sperm. Joan Eunice married Jacob Salomon, emigrated to Luna, and died in childbirth, possibly of delayed rejection syndrome.

Roberta Smith

Johann Sebastian Bach Smith's daughter, alienated from him by his ex-wife, but "reconciled" with him because of his money.

Smith Enterprises

Conglomerate founded and controlled by Johann Sebastian Bach Smith.

Socialist

A splinter political party; it had almost no members under age 65.

Sperling (no first name)

Judge McCampbell's aide.

states

[mentioned in passing] By the year 2000, there were 54 in the United States.

Byram Teal

Member of the board of Smith Enterprises, named president and CEO when Johann Sebastian Bach Smith retired.

Ted (no last name)

Man who was involved in a gangbang of Winifred Gerston the night she graduated from nursing school.

Tony (no last name)

Artist who gave Joe Branca his training.

(also in other stories)

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.

Alec Train

Attorney who prosecuted the suit that challenged Johann Sebastian Bach Smith's identity after his brain transplant.

Ruth Train

[mentioned in passing] Alec Train's wife.

Tranquille

[mentioned in passing] Tranquilizer administered by injection.

The Twenty-First Century Stud

[mentioned in passing] Shop where Joan Eunice Smith bought presents for Jake Salomon.

United States of America

Although it included 54 states, it was rapidly descending into chaos. The traditional political parties (Democratic, Republican) were fringe groups, and most cities were armed camps.

(also in other stories)

Upjohn International

[mentioned in passing] Corporation that announced a dividend shortly after Johann Sebastian Bach Smith's brain transplant.

Vacuum Industries, Ltd.

Corporation presumably involved in industrial development in outer space.

visitor

Mrs. Branca's term for welfare caseworker.

Dr. Hans Von Ritter

Member of the Board of Smith Enterprises.

Hugo White

One of Joan Eunice Smith's bodyguards, a preacher. His friends called him Shorty because he was so large.

Mrs. Wicklund (no first name)

Johann Sebastian Bach Smith's downstairs neighbor, who seduced him when he was 14.

Yola (no last name)

Model at Madame Pompadour.

Zaustinski

[mentioned in passing] Jake Salomon mentioned a man who spelled his name this way but pronounced it "Jones". (An inheritance was involved.)

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