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

 
Mr. B
Alex Hergensheimer's designation for the boss of the thug who came aboard the Konge Knut to collect the million dollars in Alec Graham's lockbox. His real identity was never revealed.
(Job: A Comedy of Justice)

Dr. Babcock (no first name)
Relativist (astrogator) in the Lewis & Clark. He was killed on Elysia.
(Time for the Stars)

Babcock Bay
Site on Constance where the Lewis & Clark was anchored; no doubt named after Dr. Babcock.
(Time for the Stars)

Babies Unlimited
Host-mother firm in Las Vegas.
(Friday)

baby barlops
[mentioned in passing] Unidentified food that Maureen Johnson was offered for breakfast at the Grand Hotel Augustus.
(To Sail Beyond the Sunset)

Baby Bill (no last name)
[mentioned in passing] Two-year-old whom the 1969 headlines reported as winning a $1 million TV jackpot.
(Methuselah's Children)

Babylon
Code name of a regional headquarters of the Cabal.
("If This Goes On—")

Back Room
Expensive restaurant where Dudley Jefferson took Don Harvey to eat. While there, they realized they were being followed.
(Between Planets)

Baden-Powell Troop
Name chosen for "A" deck's Boy Scouts, to signify their [English] time zone also in honor of the founder of the Boy Scouts. Other names were originally proposed, but rejected: Deep Space, St. George, St. Patrick, Sky High, Space Rats, Star Rovers. 
(Farmer in the Sky)

Badger Patrol
Bruce Hollifield's Scout patrol on Earth.
("Nothing Ever Happens on the Moon")

Major Bagby (no first name)
John Lyle's commanding officer and confessor at the Palace.
("If This Goes On—")

Bainbridge Martha
Mordan Claude's wife and chief technical assistant, a sterile mutation. She helped fight off the attackers at the Board of Policy offices the night of the Survivors Club's unsuccessful coup attempt.
(Beyond This Horizon)

Baird (no first name)
1. Pastor of the South Side Tabernacle, to which John Lyle was sent during his escape from the Palace.
("If This Goes On—")
2. Chairman of the committee opening the envelopes for predictions of Academy members' deaths to test Hugo Pinero's claim to have invented a machine that accurately predicts a person's date of death.
("Life-Line")

Baja California
1. Site of a mob attack on Jeffers and Lucy Weatheral of the Howard Families.
(Methuselah's Children)
2. Dawn Ardent had been the highest-paid stripper there before she joined the Fosterite Church.
(Stranger in a Strange Land)

Baker Street Irregulars
Luna City children recruited to spy on the Warden's finks, distribute literature, etc.
(The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress)

Bakersfield
Section of the Diego-Reno Roadtown.
("The Roads Must Roll")

Emma Baldwin
Presumably Hartley Baldwin's wife; she was listed as Friday's mother on the birth certificate issued for Friday's adoption.
(Friday)

Hartley M. Baldwin
1. Physicist who developed the Nova Effect while attempting to prove it wouldn't work. He headed a secret organization of New Men whose purpose was to influence the progress of society. One of his aliases was Gregory Baldwin, a helicopter dealer.
("Gulf")
2. Head of a secret organization (probably the same as in "Gulf"). He was lame, but still formidable. Friday's adoptive father, he had arranged for her conception, choosing the genetic material himself. His employees often called him Mr. Two-Canes.
(Friday)
In both "Gulf" and Friday, he was also known as Kettle Belly Baldwin.

Jean Baldwin
Pilot officer third class in the original crew of the Vanguard. He was killed by mutineers.
(Orphans of the Sky)

Baldwin Locomotives
Company from which Donald Cargraves considered ordering a dynamometer when his original order was cancelled.
(Rocket Ship Galileo)

"The Ballad of Yukon Jake"
Bawdy ballad that Dora taught to Minerva.
(Time Enough for Love)

Reverend Paul Balonius
In Alex Hergensheimer's world, a 19th century traveling preaching who had the Bible completely memorized.
(Job: A Comedy of Justice)

Doctor Balsamo (no first name)
Name on the door of the office to which Oscar Gordon came in answer to an ad for "a brave man". Oscar recognized the name as an alias of Count Cagliostro, and Star claimed he was her uncle.
(Glory Road)

PFC Dutch Bamburger
Section leader to whom Juan Rico was assigned for his first combat drop.
(Starship Troopers)

Bands of Brothers
Historical totalitarian sect. They used chemical brainwashing to keep their followers docile. A treatment similar to theirs was used on John Joseph Bonforte by his kidnappers.
(Double Star)

Bank Central
Government treasury, which issued the payment to General Services for developing the gravity field.
("—We Also Walk Dogs")

Bank of America and Hong Kong
Financial institution on Venus. After independence was declared, the name was changed to New London Trust and Investment Company.
(Between Planets)

Bank of Hong Kong
Financial institution in operation throughout the world; apparently considered more stable than most.
(Friday)

Bank of Hong Kong Luna
Bank that issued its own currency, which was more valuable and stable than Lunar Authority scrip. The currency was not legally acceptable within Authority jurisdiction, but it was accepted Earthside and used in black market transactions in Luna. It was backed by gold and other commodities.
(The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress)

Bank of New Zealand
Financial institution where the Davidson family did business.
(Friday)

Rose Bankerson
Patient assigned to Valentine Michael Smith's hospital suite after he was allegedly transferred to another suite.
(Stranger in a Strange Land)

Stanley Bankfield
Political officer first class in the IBI, assigned to Venus as a special adviser to the military governor. He interrogated Don Harvey after the Federation occupation.
(Between Planets)

Bankrupt Hungarian (no other name)
Used spaceship dealer, a competitor of Dealer Dan Ekizian.
(The Rolling Stones)

Dr. Bannister (no first name)
Academic dean at Kansas City University when Maureen Johnson was a student there.
(To Sail Beyond the Sunset)

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.
(I Will Fear No Evil)

Alvin Barkley
U.S. President in time line two, 1941–1949.
(To Sail Beyond the Sunset)

Mrs. Barkmann
See Jill Boardman.
(Stranger in a Strange Land)

Brother "Bible" Barnaby
Roadside preacher who conducted the revival meeting that Alex Hergensheimer and Margrethe Gunderson attended, during which the Rapture occurred.
(Job: A Comedy of Justice)

Barnaby (no first name)
The principal at Maureen Johnson's high school.
(To Sail Beyond the Sunset)

"Barnacle Bill"
Bawdy ballad that Dora taught to Minerva.
(Time Enough for Love)

Barnard's Planet
Miniscule moon orbiting about one diameter from Jupiter; site of a scientific research base.
(Farmer in the Sky)

Elizabeth (Betsy) Barnes
Blind child pianist who was lost on the moon after a crash landing in which her pilot was injured. She directed researchers to her by identifying a musical tone generated by laser beam scanner.
("Searchlight")

Matthew Barnes
Bureaucrat who processed applications for migration to Luna. Joan Eunice Smith took him to task for wasting her time.
(I Will Fear No Evil)

Barnes (no first name)
1. Manager of the Des Moines stereo broadcast station. His puppet master was the first discovered by the Section. He was killed by Sam Cavanaugh.
(The Puppet Masters)
2. Cadet engineer on the Diego-Reno Roadtown.
("The Roads Must Roll")
3. Betsy Barnes' father.
("Searchlight")
4. Acting cadet adjutant at Hayworth Hall. He declined a commission from Commodore Arkwright at the time of Matt Dodson's swearing-in.
(Space Cadet)
5. Office manager of Argus Patrol, who acted as matron when dealing with female offenders.
(To Sail Beyond the Sunset)

Barsoom
1. The name that the crew of the Gay Deceiver gave to the Mars they discovered ten universes "over" from their own. It was covered with vegetation and inhabited by Russian and British colonies.
(The Number of the Beast)
2. The "dead sea bottoms of Barsoom" were among the locales of the nightmare Kip Russell had after he had been kidnapped with Peewee Reisfeld.
(Have Space Suit — Will Travel)

Barstow
One of the Howard Families.

Anne Barstow
Maureen Johnson's great-granddaughter, born December 25, 1935, to Roberta Weatheral (Nancy Irene Smith's daughter) and Zachary Barstow. She married Eugene Hardy in 1951.
(To Sail Beyond the Sunset)

Ariel Barstow
Ishtar Hardy's great-great-great grandmother. Lazarus Long was once married to her, and he said that Ishtar resembled her.
(Time Enough for Love)

Eve Barstow
Howard Families member who disputed the conclusions of the experiment to end the Masquerade. She proposed a Coventry-like sanctuary for the Families. She became one of Zaccur Barstow's lieutenants on the New Frontiers.
(Methuselah's Children)

Ira Barstow
Howard Families member who sent a submarine from the underwater Families' Seat to rescue Lazarus Long and Mary Sperling when they dove into the lake to evade arrest.
(Methuselah's Children)

Kenneth Barstow
He was related to Maureen Johnson's family through Zachary Barstow's marriage to Maureen's granddaughter Roberta Weatheral. He was the photographer at Susan Smith's wedding to Henry Schultz.
(To Sail Beyond the Sunset)

Susan Barstow
Howard Families member whom Justin Foote 45th had expected to succeed Ira Weatheral as Chairman Pro Tem. She did succeed Arabelle Foote-Hedrick after that Chairman's brief term.
(Time Enough for Love)

Zaccur (Zack) Barstow
1. Chief trustee for the Howard Foundation. He reported on the circumstances and locations of members after the Covenant was suspended to allow their arrest. He negotiated with Slayton Ford to take the New Frontiersand all the Families into exile in another star system.
(Methuselah's Children)
2. He was described by Lazarus Long as his "partner in crime"; no doubt the same man as on the New Frontiers. Two of his grandparents were mulatto.
(Time Enough for Love)

Zachary Barstow
Husband of Maureen Johnson's granddaughter Roberta Weatheral.
(To Sail Beyond the Sunset)

Bruce Bartlett
Tom and Pat Bartlett's father, a micromechanic and "student of almost everything…but especially of history". He was willing to pay a hefty penalty every year for having more than his quota of children, rather than admit the government's right to limit family size.
(Time for the Stars)

Faith, Hope, and Charity Bartlett
Older sisters of Tom and Pat Bartlett.
(Time for the Stars)

Lynette Bartlett
Pat Bartlett's second child. His wife refused to let her be tested for telepathy.
(Time for the Stars)

Molly Bartlett
a. Mother of Tom and Pat Bartlett. b. Pat's oldest child, who developed telepathic talent and formed a "secondary team" with Tom, taking her father's place when he and Tom grew too far apart to communicate.
(Time for the Stars)

Patrick Henry Michelangelo (Pat) Bartlett
The higher twin of the pecking order, he was chosen to go in the Lewis & Clark when he and his brother were hired to serve as a telepathic communications team between interstellar ships and Earth. After he was paralyzed in a skiing accident, Tom went on the ship instead; surgery revealed that the paralysis was psychosomatic, and it was "cured". Pat married his childhood sweetheart and had two children. He operated a successful business in his and Tom's names.
(Time for the Stars)

Thomas Paine Leonardo Da Vinci (Tom) Bartlett
He was assigned to the Lewis & Clark after Pat's accident, only a long while later admitting that neither twin had really wanted to go, and that he resented his brother's domination. He worked as a communicator through the entire trip, teaming with his niece Molly Bartlett after he lost contact with Pat, then with her daughter Vicky. Upon returning to Earth, he rejected Pat's plans for him to run "their" business, and married Vicky.
(Time for the Stars)

Vicky Bartlett
Great-niece of Pat Bartlett, who became his telepathic partner. Because of the relativistic time differences, they were close to the same age when he returned to Earth, and they were married soon after his return. He called her "Freckle Face."
(Time for the Stars)

Bartlett Brothers, Inc.
Corporation founded by Pat Bartlett; he also invested his twin brother's salary in it.
(Time for the Stars)

Basic Modern Physics
One of Hugh Hoyland's textbooks. To the residents of the Ship, it was a "Sacred Writing", considered allegorical.
(Orphans of the Sky)

Richard Baslim
A colonel in the Terran Hegemony's X-Corps. He was promoted to wing marshal, but asked to be demoted so he could command a ship. He lost an eye and a leg freeing a Free Trader ship from slavers. For a while he taught in the Guard Academy, then transferred to the X-Corps and infiltrated the Nine Worlds to report on the slave trade there. He established himself in Jubbulpore as Baslim the Cripple, a beggar, and while in this role purchased Thorby Rudbek, eventually training the boy as a messenger and making arrangements for his return to the Hegemony in the event of Baslim's death. Baslim was killed by Imperial soldiers when Thorby was in his teens.
(Citizen of the Galaxy)

Bast
Deity invoked by Friday in a moment of exasperation.
(Friday)

Bastille Day
a. Code name for Manuel Garcia O'Kelly's secret file in Mike's memory banks; Mannie's birthday. b. No doubt, during their mission to Earth Bernardo de la Paz told the French that this was the day they overthrew Lunar Authority. In nearly every country he told audiences that Luna's "independence day" was the same as their own.
(The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress)

Batavia
See New Batavia.
(Double Star)

Bates County Fair
Fair that featured the Care Free's "moon flights", which inspired D. D. Harriman to hire the ship and pilots to take him to the Moon for real.
("Requiem")

The Bats' Cave
Flying arena in Luna City. The area was actually the air storage tank for the city, a natural formation; but the large size, light gravity, and higher-than-normal air pressure made it ideal for flying.
("The Menace from Earth")

Battle of Britain
Lazarus Long, Jubal Harshaw, and Maureen Johnson remembered a different outcome than shown in Boondock historical records. In the Boondock version, Germany won this battle, there was no Allied landing at Marseilles, and Germany was smashed by atomic bombs. The Time Corps recognized the battle as a crucial historical event, and planned a mission to restore the "correct" history, as well as to rescue Ira Johnson. Part of the mission involved providing medical teams to heal people wounded in the bombing of Coventry, taking them to Boondock or Beulahland if necessary.
(To Sail Beyond the Sunset)

Moshai Baum
Wolfgang Korsakov's boss and vice-chairman of Free Luna's governing committee.
(The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress)

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.
(I Will Fear No Evil)

Bob Baxter
Classmate of Rod Walker. He teamed with Carmen Garcia for the Advanced Survival test. He and Carmen were Quakers who planned to become medical missionaries. They joined Cowpertown when the students were stranded on the test planet, married, and had at a child (named Hope Roberta Baxter) while there; but when the planet was recontacted they promptly returned to Earth for medical training.
(Tunnel in the Sky)

Edris Baxter
Farm girl whose father hoped she would marry Hugh Hoyland. She married Mort Tyler after Hugh's disappearance.
(Orphans of the Sky)

Tim Baxter
Owner of the carnival, Baxter's Combined Shows and Riot of Fun, with which Valentine Michael Smith worked. (He was also known by the stage name Professor Timoshenko.)
(Stranger in a Strange Land)

Bayonne (no first name)
First lieutenant, commander of the First Platoon, C Company, on the Tours.
(Starship Troopers)

Brian Bean
Devonshire Royal Fusiliers lieutenant stationed in Windsor City, assigned to escorting the crew of the Gay Deceiver.
(The Number of the Beast)

Beanfield (no first name)
Mrs. Donahue's lawyer in her suit against Lummox for eating her roses.
(The Star Beast)

Beanstalk
1. Earth-to-geostationary orbit transport cable.
(Friday)
2. Jerry Farnsworth owned stock in it; it was presumably an earth-to-orbit transport cable.
(Job: A Comedy of Justice)

Grace-of-God Bearpaw
Classmate of John Lyle, half Scottish and half Cherokee. He was a Cabal member who passed messages to John.
("If This Goes On—")

Granny Bearpaw (no first name)
Cook for Marian Hardy Smith and Brian Smith.
(To Sail Beyond the Sunset)

Jimmie Bearpaw
Cadet candidate aboard the Rodger Young when Juan Rico was stationed there as a captain. He participated in the invasion of Klendathu.
(Starship Troopers)

Beau Brummel
Roan gelding owned by Thomas Jefferson Johnson.
(To Sail Beyond the Sunset)

Albert Beaumont
One alias of the man Friday killed after he followed her down the Beanstalk from Ell-Five space station. The name was on a passport and American Express card; he also carried passport and Diners Club card for "Adolf Belsen," passport and Bank of Hong Kong card for Arthur Bookman, and documents for Archibald Buchanan.
(Friday)

Pierre Beaumont
Government chief of protocol who requested General Services' aid in setting up an interplanetary conference on Earth, including comfortable (i.e. low-gravity when necessary) facilities for all delegates.
("—We Also Walk Dogs")

Beaux Arts Hall
Concert hall on Mars that owned one of four real pianos on the planet. [French beaux arts, "beautiful arts"; or less literally, "fine arts"]
(Podkayne of Mars)

Bebe (no last name)
Girl with whom Larry Smith had a one-night-stand while she was still a minor. Dak Broadbent mentioned his knowledge of her to keep Smith under control (by showing Larry he could be blackmailed).
(Double Star)

Bechtel High Construction Corporation
Company that Bill Johnson's forged papers stated had owned his indenture.
(The Cat Who Walks Through Walls)

Helen Beck
Childhood friend of Carol Smith who was a particular favorite of Maureen Johnson. She became an exotic dance with the stage name Sally Rand. She died in 1979.
(To Sail Beyond the Sunset)

Aunt Becky (no last name)
Disguise artist hired by Sam Anderson to make Max Jones look old enough for a spacer job.
(Starman Jones)

Bedloe Crater
Site of the original Statue of Liberty; by inference, it was created by an atom bomb explosion.
(Tunnel in the Sky)

Beecham's Bootery
Business two doors from the Acme Building, which Cynthia Randall noted while tailing Ted Randall and Jonathan Hoag.
("The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag")

Gaines Beecher
Resident agent general for the Mars Company. He tried to stop the colonists' seasonal migration, and plotted with Marquis Howe to send Willis to the London Zoo. After his machinations were revealed, adult Martians "sent him away".
(The Red Planet)

Herbert Beecher
Student at Lowell Academy, son of Gaines Beecher. He was one of the few students who did not live at the school, and who approved of the new regulations (imposed by his father).
(The Red Planet)

Beelzebub
Lucifer's secretary. He wrote a response to Alex Hergensheimer's request for an audience with Lucifer, requiring that Alex write his memoirs.
(Job: A Comedy of Justice)

Beetle (no first name)
A guest at Allan MacRae's homecoming party, who objected to taxpayers' money being used for lunar development.
("'It's Great to Be Back!'")

Belial
President of the bank in Eden, Kansas, with which Alex Hergensheimer did business. He was no doubt a manifestation of Lucifer's minion.
(Job: A Comedy of Justice)

Bell Labs
The Buenos Aires laboratory contained the fastest computer in existence, but Manuel Garcia O'Kelly compared it unfavorably to Mike's total capabilities.
(The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress)

Beluthihatchie
City in Luna.
(The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress)

Commander Benboe (no first name)
[mentioned in passing] Jackie Daudet's teacher for Advanced Survival.
(Tunnel in the Sky)

Benison
Armed vehicle used in the attack on New Jerusalem.
("If This Goes On—")

"Sack" Bennett (no other first name)
Communicator first class in the Asgard. He doubled as Captain Blaine's secretary and factotum. He owed his nickname to others' belief that he spent most of his time sleeping.
(Starman Jones)

Bennett and Wheeler Mercantile Company
Store in Butler, Missouri, where Maureen Johnson shopped.
(To Sail Beyond the Sunset)

Beowulf
[mentioned in passing] Featured in the nightmare Kip Russell had while held captive with Peewee Reisfeld.
(Have Space Suit — Will Travel)

"Berenice's Hair"
[mentioned in passing] Love song by "Noisy" Rhysling.
("The Green Hills of Earth")

Bergitta (no last name)
Stewardess in the Tricorn, whom Podkayne Fries helped care for babies during the radiation storm.
(Podkayne of Mars)

Jock Berkeley
Executive at Skyways whom D. D. Harriman transferred to handle administration of the moon launch project.
("The Man Who Sold the Moon")

Berkeley Station
[mentioned in passing] A stop of the belt-strip transport that ran to Tom and Pat Bartlett's home.
(Time for the Stars)

Bernstein (no first name)
Doctor at Riverside Sanctuary.
(The Door Into Summer)

Gilbert Berquist
Joseph Douglas' executive assistant. He obstructed Ben Caxton from seeing the doctor in charge of Valentine Michael Smith. After Mike and Jill Boardman escaped from the hospital, he traced them to Ben's apartment and came for them with a security officer; Mike caused the two to disappear after they threatened Jill.
(Stranger in a Strange Land)

Dr. Berquist (no first name)
Cryonics expert employed by the Mutual Assurance Company.
(The Door Into Summer)

Bert (no last name)
Elevator operator in the Midway-Copton Building.
("The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag")

Berthing General
Department in Heaven responsible for assigning quarters to the millions of souls recently arrived from the Rapture.
(Job: A Comedy of Justice)

Bertie (no last name)
Student at the College of Professor Wogglebug in Oz. He may have been an analog of Herbert Smyth-Carstairs.
(The Number of the Beast)

Florence Berzowski
Powerman second class in the tank that attacked the Pass Christian saucer. She held the air lock open so that the puppet masters could be destroyed, and died in the assault.
(The Puppet Masters)

Berzowski
[mentioned in passing] Suggested by Chuck Freudenberg as a middle name for the "D. B. Davis" who took out a patent on Drafting Dan.
(The Door Into Summer)

Bessmer's Griffin
[mentioned in passing] Denizen of Spica IV. Described briefly by Helen Walker as a predator that, not really having a central nervous system, is extremely hard to kill.
(Tunnel in the Sky)

Beta Aquarii
See Nova Terra.
(Starman Jones)

Beta Ceti
Star where the Lewis & Clark found one habitable planet.
(Time for the Stars)

Beta Corvi III
[mentioned in passing] Max Jones saw several of its natives in Earthport.
(Starman Jones)

Beta Hydrae
[mentioned in passing] Chet Jones went on the first expedition there.
(Starman Jones)

Beta Hydri
[mentioned in passing] The second stop on the Lewis & Clark's journey. No habitable planets were found.
(Time for the Stars)

Beth (no last name)
Jack Weemsby's secretary.
(Citizen of the Galaxy)

Beth Lou (no last name)
[mentioned in passing] Girl whom Richard Ames claimed his mother knew, who unwittingly married her mother's brother, about whom he wrote a True Confessions story. He actually got the story from The Ring Cycle.
(The Cat Who Walks Through Walls)

Bethesda Medical Center
Valentine Michael Smith was taken there for medical care and observation after arriving on Earth, and no doubt also to keep him under government control.
(Stranger in a Strange Land)

Bethlehem-Antares
[mentioned in passing] Manufacturer of weapons systems. The Free Traders sometimes did business with them.
(Citizen of the Galaxy)

Betsey
Jackie Daudet's name for her dart gun.
(Tunnel in the Sky)

Betsy
1. Eunice Branca's pet name for her automated stenodesk.
(I Will Fear No Evil)
2. (no last name) Resident of Oz discussed by Deety Burroughs and Cap'n Bill.
(The Number of the Beast)

The Better 'Ole
Bar on Garson's Planet frequented by Imperial Marines. Sam Anderson's reluctance to go there raised Max Jones' suspicions that he was an AWOL Marine.
(Starman Jones)

Betty (no last name)
1. [mentioned in passing] Apparently Andrew Jackson Libby's girlfriend back on Earth.
("Misfit")
2. Quadling girl in Glinda the Good's court in Oz. She may have been an analog of Betty Smythe-Carstairs.
(The Number of the Beast)
3. Beulah's foal, trained by Dora Brandon.
(Time Enough for Love)

Beulah (no last name)
1. [mentioned in passing] Wife of the President of M.I.T.
(Have Space Suit — Will Travel)
2. Female mule that Lazarus Long acquired for Dora Brandon on New Beginnings; Buck's mate.
(Time Enough for Love)

Beulahland
1. [mentioned in passing] Code name for an unspecified location that figured in the plot to disrupt the Miracle of the Incarnation.
("If This Goes On—")
2. The universe in which the crew of the Gay Deceiver settled briefly, looking for a safe place to have their babies. It was pastoral, libertarian, and mostly very dull. The history was slightly different from the crew's homeworld: There was no slavery, but much indenture; and sometime in the 16th century the oceans had risen considerably, changing the coastlines and much of the political situation.
(The Number of the Beast)
3. [mentioned in passing] Restaurant in Charity.
(Time Enough for Love)
4. Ishtar Hardy grew bodies there for Pallas Athene and Mike. The Time Corps apparently used it as a place to take care of business (for example, provide extensive medical treatment) outside "real time." Many of the civilians injured during the Battle of Britain were taken there to be healed.
(To Sail Beyond the Sunset)

Bible
[mentioned in passing] Stocked in the Farnham bomb shelter.
(Farnham's Freehold)

Bible Stories Retold: The Walls of Jericho
[mentioned in passing] Broadcast that Hilda Burroughs suggested as an alternative to further adventure among the universes, as a way of illustrating how very dull Beulahland was.
(The Number of the Beast)

Reverend Doctor Ezekiel "Bible" (real name not given)
Minister at the church Maureen Johnson attended in Kansas City.
(To Sail Beyond the Sunset)

Biddle, Firsby, Frisby, Biddle & Reed
[mentioned in passing] Law firm of which Mark Frisby was a member. ["Firsby" may be a typographical error for "Frisby" in the Berkley paperback edition; Mark is referred to as "the younger Frisby".]
(Stranger in a Strange Land)

Bidwell (no first name)
Executive with Amalgamated Life Insurance, and trustee of the Academy of Science. It was at his bidding that Hugo Pinero was invited to address the Academy.
("Life-Line")

Mrs. Bierman (no first name)
Johann Sebastian Bach Smith's secretary until her retirement; Eunice Branca had been her assistant.
(I Will Fear No Evil)

Bifrost
1. Shuttle operating between Earth and the Moon, which Bill Lermer rode to the Mayflower.
(Farmer in the Sky)
2. The mythological bridge between Valhalla, the Norse abode of dead heroes, and the world of the living. It was extended to Tellus Tertius during the Interuniverse Society conference.
(The Number of the Beast)

Bifrost Lounge
Passenger lounge in the Asgard; equipped with a viewport, and off-limits to crew members but not to officers.
(Starman Jones)

Big Anna (no last name)
One of the whores in Lazarus Long's bordello on Mars.
(Time Enough for Love)

Big Billy Whiskers
Goat that Lazarus Long took homesteading on New Beginnings.
(Time Enough for Love)

Big Rock Candy Mountain
Mountain range northwest of Leda on Ganymede.
(Farmer in the Sky)

Big Sam
See Sam.
(I Will Fear No Evil)

Bill (no last name)
1. D. D. Harriman's pilot.
("The Man Who Sold the Moon")
2. Bellhop at the Hotel Manchester who showed Jonathan Hoag to his room.
("The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag")

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.

Billy (no last name)
Genetically defective Howard Families child. He was telepathically sensitive, but had to be given a stimulant just to be aware of his surroundings. He broadcast Mary Sperling's warning to the Families when the Covenant was suspended.
(Methuselah's Children)

Billy Mitchell
Spaceship that Ariel Brentwood took back to Earth.
("The Menace from Earth")

The Bird
Creator-archetype visualized as a bird of prey. It was worshipped by the Sons of the Bird, but according to Jonathan Hoag it did not exist.
("The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag")

Bird's Nest
Abandoned Area through which Jake Salomon was taking Eunice Branca home when his Rolls was fired on.
(I Will Fear No Evil)

B.I.T.
Institute on Tellus Tertius that included the rejuvenation clinic (Boondock Institute of Technology?). Lazarus Long was Chairman Regent.
(The Number of the Beast)

Alma Bixby
[mentioned in passing] Maureen Johnson's neighbor in Kansas City.
(To Sail Beyond the Sunset)

Jake Bixby
Friend of Kip Russell, whom he helped soup up a car.
(Have Space Suit — Will Travel)

Jerome Bixby
Husband of Audrey Johnson.
(To Sail Beyond the Sunset)

B.J.
West Point slang, meaning unspecified. It was used by John Lyle's seat mate on the Comet; John suspected it was intended to lure him into revealing himself as a fugitive.
("If This Goes On—")

Bjork (no first name)
Trooper in Silva's platoon.
(Starship Troopers)

Bjorkensen (no first name)
Faster-than-light engineer in the Serendipity.
(Time for the Stars)

John Black
Man who claimed Hugh Hoyland's uncle owed him three swine; the case was decided by the Witness.
(Orphans of the Sky)

Black Angels
Jets used to escort Sam Cavanaugh, Mary Cavanaugh and Andrew Nivens to the command base at Pass Christian.
(The Puppet Masters)

Black Beauty
Ian and Janet Tormey's horse, sold when they emigrated from Earth. [Possibly inspired by the Anna Sewell novel of that name.]
(Friday)

John Black Eagle
Jinx Henderson's name before he married Ingrid Henderson.
(The Cat Who Walks Through Walls)

Black Hat Safaris, Pty
Business half-jokingly proposed by Hilda Burroughs to Lazarus Long, initially as a dummy corporation to cover other activities.
(The Number of the Beast)

Black Hats
Name for otherwise unidentified villains who tried to kill Jacob Burroughs, apparently in an attempt to eliminate knowledge of transdimensional travel. Zebadiah Carter suspected them of killing his cousin Zebulon, a mathematician. One Black Hat who impersonated a forest ranger was killed by Zeb and found to be nonhuman when Hilda Burroughs dissected it. Another appeared at the Interuniverse Society conference, but escaped when an attempt was made to apprehend it.
(The Number of the Beast)

The Black Hole
First-class bar in the Forward.
(Friday)

Black Knight
Anonymous contestant in the Society for Creative Anachronism joust at the Interuniverse Society conference. [At one point, called "Poul"; almost certainly SF author Poul Anderson.]
(The Number of the Beast)

Black Room
Site where the Egg of the Phoenix was activated, so that the new ruler of the Twenty Universes could absorb the previous rulers' memories.
(Glory Road)

Blackie (no other name)
"Customs inspector" in Coventry who relieved David MacKinnon of most of his belongings and arrested him for resisting.
("Coventry")

Blackstone (no first name)
Captain of Mobile Infantry aboard the Tours and commander of D Company, which was nicknamed Blackie's Blackguards.
(Starship Troopers)

Blaine (no first name)
Captain of the Asgard. He suffered a mild breakdown from exhaustion after the death of the astrogator, Dr. Hendrix, and sent the ship through an uncharted anomaly because he failed to correct a mathematical error. He deteriorated seriously after the ship was lost, ultimately committing suicide.
(Starman Jones)

Blekinsop (no first name)
Minister of Transport for Australia, who was touring with Larry Gaines when the road engineers began their revolt.
("The Roads Must Roll")

Blessed
Planet on which Lazarus Long rose from slave field hand to high priest. He escaped from the planet when his spaceship was "lost", and intended never to return. Nonetheless, he did go back two centuries later, at which time he purchased and freed Estrellita and José Long.
(Time Enough for Love)

blessings
Unit of currency on Blessed.
(Time Enough for Love)

Blind Tom
[mentioned in passing] From the context, a mathematical or memory prodigy. (In "Lost Legacy", a pianist Blind Tom is mentioned who could play by ear any piece of music he had heard only once.)
(Starman Jones)

C. D. Bloch
S.S. major who led the invasion of Jubal Harshaw's house. He was assigned to guard Valentine Michael Smith's hotel suite after the Federation conference.
(Stranger in a Strange Land)

Blokes in the Black Hats
See Black Hats.
(The Number of the Beast)

blood kites
Unpleasant flying denizens of Nevia, extremely murderous but otherwise undescribed.
(Glory Road)

Blood's a Rover
Code name assigned to Maureen Johnson during the Battle of Britain mission.
(To Sail Beyond the Sunset)

Bluebeard
1. Code name of a member of the Committee for Aesthetic Deletions.
(To Sail Beyond the Sunset)
2. Jackie Daudet's name for her knife.
(Tunnel in the Sky)

Honorable Pamela Hyphen-Hyphen Blueblood
Manuel Garcia O'Kelly's rendition of the name of Stuart LaJoie's wife; her real name is not given.
(The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress)

Blumenthal Peter
Manager of Diana's Playground.
(Beyond This Horizon)

Board of Policy
The government's economic bureau; its principal routine activity was to distribute new currency made necessary by constantly increasing productivity.
(Beyond This Horizon)

Gillian (Jill) Boardman
1. Nurse who rescued Valentine Michael Smith from "protective custody" in Bethesda Medical Center at Ben Caxton's instigation. She took him to Jubal Harshaw after Ben disappeared and an attempt was made to arrest her. She became Mike's water brother, accompanying him on his travels and becoming a high priestess in the Church of All Worlds. She was called "Dimples" by her co-workers, "Little Brother" by Mike.
Mrs. Barkmann (no first name).
Jubal Harshaw's deliberate mispronunciation of Jill Boardman's surname, to confuse Heinrich in his attempt to arrest her.
(Stranger in a Strange Land)
2. She appears briefly at the Interuniverse Society conference.
(The Number of the Beast)
3. As Gillian Boardman Long, RN, she is mentioned as a high priestess of the Church of All Worlds.
(To Sail Beyond the Sunset)

Bobo
Microcephalic dwarf mutie who captured Hugh Hoyland and brought him to Joe-Jim Gregory. He was killed in Phineas Narby's attack on the muties.
(Orphans of the Sky)

Bodel (no last name)
Waitress in the Konge Knut bar. She was the purser's neighbor, and exchanged joking insults with him; he called her "Gertrude".
(Job: A Comedy of Justice)

Bog
Deity invoked in curses. [Russian, "god"]
(The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress)

Anita Boles
Secretary hired by Brian Smith Associates after the office moved from Brian Smith's house to the Kansas City business district. She quit when she got married. 
(To Sail Beyond the Sunset)

S.S. Bolivar
[mentioned in passing] Starship that was lost in transit because of a tiny flaw in a relay.
(The Star Beast)

Simon Bolivar
1. Transport ship from Terra Base to the James Randolph.
(Space Cadet)
2. Bennie Montez learned in history that he "built the Pyramids, licked the Armada, and made the first trip to the Moon".
(Starship Troopers)

Bon Marché
[French, "good market"; colloquially, a bargain.]
1. [mentioned in passing] Free Trader ship.
(Citizen of the Galaxy)
2. Luna City market that gave away liberty caps as premiums.
(The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress)
3. Department store in Westville in whose front window Lummox took refuge during his rampage.
(The Star Beast)

Bon Ton Beauté Shoppe
Sidris Davis' business. After she was recruited for the Revolution, and recruited her assistant in turn, it became a center of subversive planning and activity. [French, "good tone"; colloquially, stylish or in fashion.]
(The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress)

Bonaparte
[mentioned in passing] Port city on Halcyon.
(Starman Jones)

Jesse F. Bone, DVM
1. [mentioned in passing] Veterinarian fetched from another universe to help save the cat Pixel's life after the raid to save Mike.
(To Sail Beyond the Sunset)
2. [no first name, but probably Jesse F. Bone] Surgeon for horses and people at the Society for Creative Anachronism joust during the Interuniverse Society conference.
(The Number of the Beast)

Judge Bonelli (no first name)
[mentioned in passing] Mars magistrate.
(The Rolling Stones)

John Joseph Bonforte
1. The Right Honorable, former Supreme Minister and leader of the opposition party, head of the Expansionist coalition. He was kidnapped by terrorists to prevent his adoption into a Martian nest, and never recovered from the abuse inflicted. Larry Smith was hired to impersonate him during his captivity. When Bonforte died of a stroke after his party won a crucial election, Smith continued the impersonation, "becoming" Bonforte for life. Bonforte was called "Chief" by his employees.
(Double Star)
2. He (actually Larry Smith) and his wife (see Penelope Russell) presided over the Society for Creative Anachronism joust.
(The Number of the Beast)

Bonforte (no first name)
Author of Sky Beasts: A Guide to Exotic Zoology.
(Starman Jones)

Bonn (no first name)
Joe Briggs' government agency boss.
("Gulf")

Book of Common Prayer
[mentioned in passing] Stocked in the Farnham bomb shelter.
(Farnham's Freehold)

Arthur Bookman
See Albert Beaumont.
(Friday)

books
In several novels, Heinlein provides detailed lists of books that have a particular literary or practical value.

Farnham's Freehold: Hugh Farnham stored these books in the family bomb shelter both to provide practical guides to survival and to preserve cultural artifacts.

Number of the Beast: For a story he was writing, Jubal Harshaw listed several books that would be suitable for use in "unsympathetic magic."
  • China Painting Self-Taught
  • Elsie Dinsmore volumes 8–11
  • Thoughts at Evening by Roberta Thistlewaite Smithe

Orphans of the Sky: The Crew preserved the ancient reference manuals as sacred scripture, having long since lost any understanding of their contents. Joe-Jim Gregory owned and read many books that he'd stolen from the Crew area.
  • Basic Modern Physics
  • Care and Maintenance of the Auxiliary Four-Stage Converter
  • Handbook of Power, Light, and Conditioning
  • The Romance of Modern Astrography by Franklin Buck
  • The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas

Rocket Ship Galileo: The Galileo Marching-and-Chowder Society library contained scientific reference books and textbooks along with classic science-fiction novels.

Boondock
[boondocks, "rough country" or "rural area", from the Tagalog word for mountain]
1. First settlement on Tellus Tertius; home of Lazarus Long's family.
(Time Enough for Love)
2. Main settlement of Tellus Tertius.
(To Sail Beyond the Sunset)

Thomas Boone
Federation Senator and Fosterite who invited Valentine Michael Smith to visit a Fosterite church.
(Stranger in a Strange Land)

Miriam (Mimi) Booth
Clerk in the quartermaster's department at the Cabal's cavern headquarters. She joined Zebadiah Jones, John Lyle, and Magdalene Andrews in a swimming party.
("If This Goes On—")

Deirdre Boothroyd
Daughter of Commissioner Boothroyd; she asked for John Joseph Bonforte's autograph when Larry Smith was impersonating him.
(Double Star)

Boothroyd (no first name)
Commissioner in Goddard City on Mars, a Humanity Party appointee.
(Double Star)

Lizzie Borden
Code name of a member of the Committee for Aesthetic Deletions. Formerly a member of the Order of Santa Carolita, she fell out of favor with the leaders and was subjected to surgical research. She revealed to Maureen Johnson that they were in Kansas City, though Maureen speculated that it was not in a time line patrolled by the Time Corps.
(To Sail Beyond the Sunset)

Lucrezia Borgia
Code name of a member of the Committee for Aesthetic Deletions. Maureen Johnson described her as looking like "Whistler's Mother".
(To Sail Beyond the Sunset)

"The Born Loser"
One of "Noisy" Rhysling's songs; Lazarus Long was constantly humming or singing it, and he taught it to Dora.
(Time Enough for Love)

Boss
1. The most common name used by employees for Hartley Baldwin.
(Friday)
2. Sister Marie Charles' name for St. Peter.
(Job: A Comedy of Justice)
3. Eunice Branca's usual name for Johann Sebastian Bach Smith.
(I Will Fear No Evil)
4. Jubal Harshaw's employees' usual way of addressing him. He scolded Jill Boardman for using it when she wasn't on his payroll.
(Stranger in a Strange Land)

Botany Bay
Colony planet where Friday jumped ship, accompanied by Percival Roberts, Matilda Jackson, and Jerry Madsen. She found that the Farneses and Tormeys, with Georges Perreault, had emigrated there.
(Friday)

Bottom Alley
Lowlife district in Luna City.
(The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress)

Boulevard of the Suns
Thoroughfare through Capital from the spaceport to the government buildings, including the Auditorium of the Department of Spatial Affairs.
(The Star Beast)

bouncer
See Willis.
(The Red Planet)

Bournby (no other name)
Member of the Survivors Club conspiracy, assigned to communications for the coup.
(Beyond This Horizon)

La Boutique
Expensive women's clothing store in Gimbel's Compound. [French, "shop"]
(I Will Fear No Evil)

The Boy Scout Handbook
[mentioned in passing] Book stocked in the Farnham bomb shelter.
(Farnham's Freehold)

Boy Scouts of Ganymede
Boy Scout troops were organized aboard the Mayflower by Bill Lermer and Hank Jones. When they arrived at the Ganymede colony, they discovered there was already organized scouting there. After some tension between the two groups, eventually they united.
(Farmer in the Sky)

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.
(I Will Fear No Evil)

Bozell (no first name)
1. Friend of Brian Smith; like Brian, he was stationed at Camp Funston after World War I began.
(Time Enough for Love)
2. Fellow Army officer of Brian Smith, who reported for duty with him when the U.S. entered World War I. [Definitely the same person as in Time Enough for Love. In Time Enough for Love he is a captain; in To Sail Beyond the Sunset, a lieutenant.]
(To Sail Beyond the Sunset)

Tom Bradley
Senior executive assistant to Joseph Douglas.
(Stranger in a Strange Land)

Professor and Mrs. Bradley (no first names)
Thorby Rudbek's paternal grandparents. Professor Bradley was a historian. Their son took the Rudbek name on marrying, and they received an allowance from the Rudbek estate. Neither of them was willing to listen to, much less believe, Thorby's story of his captivity and slavery.
(Citizen of the Galaxy)

Neil O'Heret Brain
Head of the mathematics department at Jacob Burroughs' university, and professional stuffed shirt. He was presumably really a Black Hat. He was reported dead in the Winged Victory implosion, but the death may have been faked. [anagram of Robert A. Heinlein]
(The Number of the Beast)

Angela Branca
[mentioned in passing] Joe Branca's sister, unwed mother of three children.
(I Will Fear No Evil)

Annamaria Branca
[mentioned in passing] Joe Branca's sister, an unwed mother.
(I Will Fear No Evil)

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.
(I Will Fear No Evil)

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.
(I Will Fear No Evil)

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.
(I Will Fear No Evil)

The Branch Office
Lucifer's name for the "place" where lesser beings could communicate with Koshchei. He took Alex Hergensheimer there to appeal his loss of Margrethe Gunderson.
(Job: A Comedy of Justice)

Bud and Marge Brandon
Couple who settled on New Beginnings from the second shipload of colonists. They died when their house caught fire, but were able to save their young daughter Dora Brandon.
(Time Enough for Love)

Dora Brandon
1. Orphaned on New Beginnings when her parents died in a house fire, she was adopted by Helen Mayberry with Lazarus Long's help. She became the schoolmistress when Helen retired. She married Lazarus after revealing that she knew his real identity, and went homesteading with him. She lived a long life, bearing many children, but Lazarus was still brokenhearted at her death. He named his shipboard computer after her, patterning its personality after her. Minerva modeled her flesh-and-blood appearance after Lazarus' descriptions of her.
(Time Enough for Love)
2. As Dora Brandon Smith, she is mentioned in passing as Lazarus Long' wife in New Beginnings.
(To Sail Beyond the Sunset)

Captain Michael Brant
Married Dr. Winifred Coburn in order to be eligible for the Mars expedition, and was chosen commander: his other tasks included pilot, astrogator, relief cook, relief photographer, rocketry engineer. He died at age 30 shortly after the expedition landed on Mars. He was the father of Valentine Michael Smith.
(Stranger in a Strange Land)

Dr. Winifred Coburn Brant
Member of the Mars expedition: semantician, practical nurse, stores officer, historian. She died at age 41 shortly after the expedition landed on Mars.
(Stranger in a Strange Land)

Brasilia Room
Roof-garden restaurant atop the Dom Pedro Casino, to which Dexter Cunha took Podkayne Fries, along with Girdie Fitz-Snugglie and Clark Fries.
(Podkayne of Mars)

Brasilian Union
Independent government and member of the Federation. [Most likely Brazil, and possibly surrounding territories.]
(The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress)

brassard
1. Symbol worn to indicate that a man is unarmed (women are not expected to arm themselves). It was considered a sign of weakness and inferiority, except on the elderly.
(Beyond This Horizon)
2. Badge worn by proctors as a symbol of their authority to enforce the Covenant.
(Methuselah's Children)

Johann Braun
Rod Walker's classmate, who was armed to the teeth and accompanied by a fierce dog for the Advanced Survival test, but was killed almost immediately.
(Tunnel in the Sky)

Lothar Braun
"Rising young statesman" proposed for Minister of External Communications in the John Joseph Bonforte cabinet. He had served as caucus sergeant-at-arms and junior whip.
(Double Star)

Breakfast With the Browns
Stereo show broadcast from Zone Red, which Sam Cavanaugh viewed briefly to see if he could determine conditions there from the show.
(The Puppet Masters)

Breckenridge (no first name)
Recruit who took up Sergeant Zim's challenge to fight him; he had his wrist broken in the effort. He died during a survival test in the Canadian Rockies.
(Starship Troopers)

Captain and Mrs. Breeze (no first names)
They had received permission for three children and had them early in their marriage, to be cryonically preserved until they had time and money to raise them. Unfortunately, the Marsopolis Creche thawed out the Fries babies instead of theirs.
(Podkayne of Mars)

Brenner (no first name)
Life-support specialist and physician to Johann Sebastian Bach Smith's after the brain transplant.
(I Will Fear No Evil)

Ariel Brentwood
Actress and tourist to whom Holly Jones was assigned as a guide. When Holly passed her on to Jeff Hardesty for an outside tour, Jeff apparently developed a crush on her, and to Holly's dismay began spending all his time with her. He persuaded Holly to teach Ariel how to fly, and when Ariel lost control Holly saved her from a possibly fatal crash landing. They parted friends when Ariel returned to Earth.
("The Menace from Earth")

Carolyn Briggs
Chief Archivist of the Howard Foundation on Secundus, successor to Justin Foote 45th.
(Time Enough for Love)

Joe Briggs (a.k.a. Joe Greene)
Secret agent sent to the Moon to retrieve tapes describing the Nova Effect. He was taken prisoner by Mrs. Keithley after mailing the tapes to prevent their capture, and was rescued by Hartley Baldwin. His agency's head held him responsible for the mission's failure although he was given no support for it; he resigned and joined Baldwin's New Men, eventually being assigned to stop Mrs. Keithley's coup attempt using the Nova Effect. He died disarming the weapon, and a memorial was erected to him and his wife on the Moon. He used the name Joe Greene among the New Men, and also the aliases Joel Abner (a commercial traveler), Joseph Gilead (explorer, lecturer, and writer), and Jack Gillespie (loader and driver-helper on a diesel freighter).
("Gulf")

Roderick Briggs
Son-in-law of Maureen Johnson and Brian Smith; he married Doris Jean Smith in 1946.
(To Sail Beyond the Sunset)

Rufus Briggs
A Howard Foundation trustee who insulted Maureen Johnson while staying with the family during the 1940 Democratic Convention by expecting her to see to his laundry.
(To Sail Beyond the Sunset)

Sue Briggs
Student stranded during the Advanced Survival test. She joined Cowpertown and married Bill Kennedy.
(Tunnel in the Sky)

Terence Briggs
[mentioned in passing] Howard Families member, grandfather of Edmund Hardy.
(Methuselah's Children)

Virginius Briggs
[mentioned in passing] Howard Families member, physician with the Howard Clinic on Secundus; he was credited with the first use of a pseudogravity field to facilitate childbirth. (But Lazarus Long claimed in his memoirs that Lazarus had actually been the first to use it.)
(Time Enough for Love)

Zaccur Briggs
[mentioned in passing] Lazarus Long's son by Phyllis Briggs-Sperling.
(Time Enough for Love)

Miss Briggs (no first name)
Sam Cavanaugh's night nurse after he was rescued from the puppet master.
(The Puppet Masters)

Phyllis Briggs-Sperling
Libby Professor of Mathematics [probably after Andrew Jackson Libby], and the first woman to win the Ira Howard Memorial Century Medal for contributing 100 registered offspring to the Howard Families. Lazarus Long was her fifth husband.
(Time Enough for Love)

Bright Cliffs
Deety Burroughs' code name during the Battle of Britain mission. [Possibly inspired by the "White Cliffs" of Dover, England.]
(To Sail Beyond the Sunset)

Bright Eyes
[mentioned in passing] Name given to a flat cat.
(The Rolling Stones)

Colonel Brisby (no first name)
Commander of the Hydra, who determined Thorby Rudbek's true identity and delivered him to Earth. He was called "Pappy" by Vice Colonel Stancke.
(Citizen of the Galaxy)

La Brise Marine
Grocery store in Heliopolis where Oscar Gordon shopped. [French, roughly "seabreak".]
(Glory Road)

BritCanBanCredNet
[mentioned in passing] British Canadian financial network.
(Friday)

British Isles
1. [mentioned in passing] It was implied that they were devastated in an atomic war and abandoned.
(Methuselah's Children)
2. The islands suffered disturbances in The Terror, widespread disorders during the 20th century that preceded the breakup of the North American republic and culminated in a world war.
(Starship Troopers)

British Yeoman
Gretchen Henderson's code name during the Battle of Britain mission.
(To Sail Beyond the Sunset)

Darius K. (Dak) Broadbent
The Honorable; upper Grand Assemblyman representing Free Travelers. He held a Ph.D. in physics, and was reserve pistol champion in the Imperial Matches. He was employed by John Joseph Bonforte as a master pilot in all classes and accelerations. He had published three volumes of verse under the nom de plume of Acey Wheelwright. He recruited Larry Smith to impersonate Bonforte after the politician's kidnapping.
(Double Star)

Broadmoor
Hotel where D. D. Harriman rented a suite for Bob Coster, the head of his Moon project.
("The Man Who Sold the Moon")

Steve Brodie
The most widely heard global news commentator, host of "Steve Brodie Says". The Venus Republic High Guard chose his program time to announce their invasion and destruction of Circum-Terra, and to declare independence for Venus.
(Between Planets)

Judge Brody (no first name)
A friend of Manuel Garcia O'Kelly, an ice driller until he lost a leg. After the accident he became a free-lance arbitrator in Luna City. He was named a Brigadier in the revolutionary forces and put in charge of the First and Second Defense Gunners.
(The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress)

Dr. Broemer (no first name)
Director of Bethesda Medical Center.
(Stranger in a Strange Land)

Hank Brofsky
Settler on New Beginnings.
(Time Enough for Love)

Broken Nose Pressure
Settlement not far from where Richard Ames crash-landed on Luna.
(The Cat Who Walks Through Walls)

Theodore Bronson
1. Name that Lazarus Long used when he traveled back to 1916. Because of his close physical resemblance to Ira and to Maureen Johnson, Ira speculated that he might be the son of Ira's late brother Edward (but privately thought he might be Ira's own son). "Bronson" assimilated himself into the Smith family by joining their church, becoming assistant scoutmaster, playing chess with the young Woodrow Smith (his younger self), teaching Brian Jr. to drive, and generally befriending the children. When the United States entered World War I, he became a corporal (promoted to sergeant and demoted again) in the U. S. army. He and Maureen became lovers before he "died" in a World War I battle (he was actually rescued at the last minute and returned to his own time).
(Time Enough for Love, To Sail Beyond the Sunset)
2. Maureen Johnson used this name for Lazarus Long after being brought to Tellus Tertius and rejuvenated.
(The Number of the Beast)

Dr. Randall Brooks
Biologist and biochemist with a special commission of major in the U.S. Army. He was drafted to work in the Citadel. One of the few surviving officers after the PanAsian invasion and the Ledbetter Effect accident, he was involved in founding the Church of Mota and as part of a counteroffensive against the invaders.
(The Day After Tomorrow)

Brotherhood
See Lodge.
("If This Goes On—")

Brotherhood of Baptism
New name that Sam suggested to revive the Church of All Worlds after the headquarters was burned down.
(Stranger in a Strange Land)

Brothers of the Apocalypse Christian Church of the One Truth
Church in which Alex Hergensheimer was an ordained minister. (Also known as Apocalypse Brethren.)
(Job: A Comedy of Justice)

Captain James Brown
Alias used by the leader of the First Lunar Expedition when he contacted the Galileo before blowing it up.
(Rocket Ship Galileo)

Mr. Brown (no first name)
Alias Betty Sorenson used for John Thomas Stuart XI when arranging transportation for him to the negotiations over Lummox in Capital.
(The Star Beast)

Brown Palace
[mentioned in passing] Posh hotel in Alex Hergensheimer's homeworld.
(Job: A Comedy of Justice)

Brown Room
Room in Johann Sebastian Bach Smith's house where Jake Salomon stayed when visiting during Johann's recuperation from the brain transplant.
(I Will Fear No Evil)

Robert Browning
Joe-Jim Gregory had a copy of his Collected Poems, printed by L-Press (New York, London, Luna City).
(Orphans of the Sky)

Browning, King & Company
Company from which Ted Bronson bought his clothing.
(Time Enough for Love)

Dr. Bruck (no first name)
[mentioned in passing] Physicist and colleague of Curt Reisfeld.
(Have Space Suit — Will Travel)

Judge Bruder (no first name)
Chief counsel of Rudbek Associates while Jack Weemsby controlled the business. (Mrs. Bruder is also mentioned in passing.)
(Citizen of the Galaxy)

Bruehler (no first name)
Commander of the Cabal forces that invaded the Voice of God station to sabotage the Miracle of the Incarnation broadcast.
("If This Goes On—")

Bruhn (no first name)
Scoutmaster from the Mayflower, who negotiated with the Leda scouting organization to include the Mayflower Scouts in the Ganymede troops.
(Farmer in the Sky)

bruin
Californian unit of currency. [The grizzly bear, or bruin, is the California state animal.]
(Friday)

Brumby (no first name)
1. Deacon and court official in Alex Hergensheimer's hometown. He had sentenced Alex's scoutmaster to the stocks after he'd been accused by his wife of using profane language.
(Job: A Comedy of Justice)
2. Lieutenant Colonel, chief constable of the Imperial House in Windsor City. He accosted Gay Deceiver when it landed on the steps of the Imperial House.
(The Number of the Beast)
3. Acting sergeant in Silva's platoon. Juan Rico recommended his promotion to full sergeant while filling in for Silva. Brumby was killed during Operation Royalty.
(Starship Troopers)

Peewee Brunn
Cub Scout in Bill Lermer's Scout troop in the Mayflower.
(Farmer in the Sky)

Brunn (no first name)
1. (Lieutenant) Communications officer and mess officer aboard the Aes Triplex.
(Space Cadet)
2. Professor involved in Project Lebensraum.
(Time for the Stars)

Brush (no first name)
Physician on duty outside Valentine Michael Smith's suite after the television broadcast by Smith's double. He claimed the patient in the room was Rose Bankerson.
(Stranger in a Strange Land)

William Jennings Bryan
1. In Alex Hergensheimer's homeworld, he was elected U.S. President in 1896, paving the way for complete domination of the country by Christian Fundamentalists.
(Job: A Comedy of Justice)
2. Mentioned in passing as a politician in Maureen Johnson's world.
(To Sail Beyond the Sunset)

Bryan (no first name)
U.S. Army sergeant and follower of Mota assigned as Whitey Ardmore's driver during the counteroffensive against the PanAsian invaders.
(The Day After Tomorrow)

Bryan Lyceum
[mentioned in passing] Institution whose president emeritus publicly denounced the Howard Families for "withholding" the secret of long life.
(Methuselah's Children)

BuAstro
See Bureau of Astronautics.
(The Star Beast)

Cyrus Buchanan
a. A founder of the human colonies on Venus. b. Shuttle that took passengers from the Nautilus to Venus' surface (probably named after the colony founder).
(Between Planets)

Buchanan (no first name)
Federal ranger in the district where Donald Cargraves acquired the use of rocket testing ground.
(Rocket Ship Galileo)

Buchanan
Major settlement on Venus. (Probably named after Cyrus Buchanan, one of the colony founders.)
(Between Planets)

Buchanan Island
Island north of New London, where the Middle Guard and ground forces were trained. (Probably named after Cyrus Buchanan, one of the colony founders.)
(Between Planets)

Buchanan Street
Main thoroughfare of New London, capital of the Venus Republic. (Probably named after Cyrus Buchanan, one of the colony founders.)
(Between Planets)

Franklin Buck
[mentioned in passing] Author of The Romance of Modern Astrography. The residents of the ship had many books from the original crew, but had long since lost the understanding of their contents. They believed this book, like the others, was intended to be interpreted as myth and metaphor.
(Orphans of the Sky)

Buck
Pack mule owned by Clyde Leamer on New Beginnings; his breed was genetically altered to talk. Lazarus Long bought him from Leamer for Dora Brandon, and also because he had more respect for the mule than for the owner. Dora and Lazarus took him, though quite old, on their homesteading trek. He died on the trail.
(Time Enough for Love)

Buckaroo
Mule that Lazarus Long took homesteading with him on New Beginnings; probably an offspring of Buck and Beulah.
(Time Enough for Love)

Buck's River
River flowing through Lazarus Long's homestead on New Beginnings. (Named after the mule.)
(Time Enough for Love)

Bud
1. Mata Kingsolver's name for her brother.
(Citizen of the Galaxy)
2. Mary Cavanaugh called Sam Cavanaugh this while they were in character as brother and sister.
(The Puppet Masters)

Buda-Pesth
[mentioned in passing] Restaurant favored by Jonathan Hoag.
("The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag")

BuEcon
See Bureau of Economics.
(The Star Beast)

BuEng
See Bureau of Engineering.
(The Star Beast)

Buenos Aires, Argentina
1. Arthur Bookman's destination (see Albert Beaumont).
(Friday)
2. It was destroyed in the initial attack on Earth by Bugs.
(Starship Troopers)
3. Part of the Estados Unidos de Sud. It was destroyed in a war with the Afro-European Federation.
(Time for the Stars)

Bug War
Historians were unsure whether to call it the Third (or Fourth) Space War, or the First Interstellar War. (See Bugs, next item.)
(Starship Troopers)

Bugs
Aliens that waged war against the Terran Federation, probably because both factions wanted to expand into the same territory. There are intimations of border conflicts before war officially broke out, but the "beginning" of the war, for most of Earth, was the destruction of Buenos Aires in an unexpected attack. The aliens resembled giant spiders, but the social organization was more like that of intelligent ants or bees. Humans occasionally called them Arachnids.
(Starship Troopers)

Builder Bill
[mentioned in passing] Machine marketed by Aladdin Autoengineering Corporation, probably designed by Daniel Boone Davis.
(The Door Into Summer)

Bessie and Clyde Bulkey
Couple in Winslow, Arizona, who gave Alex Hergensheimer and Margrethe Gunderson a ride as far as Gallup, New Mexico, and bought them lunch when Alex and Margrethe were once again stranded in a new universe.
(Job: A Comedy of Justice)

Howard J. Bullfinch
Alias for one of Friday's "guards" in the Forward. He was formerly a quasi-military agent hired out to Muriel Shipstone Laboratories, and one of Friday's kidnappers. See also Percival Roberts.
(Friday)

bullock
Unit of currency for the Chosen, also called "corn of the Chosen".
(Farnham's Freehold)

"Bumboat"
[mentioned in passing] Jacob Burroughs' name for the song whose cadence was used to activate Gay Deceiver's locks.
(The Number of the Beast)

Mrs. Bunch (no first name)
[mentioned in passing] Member of the Kansas City Ladies' Aid Society.
(To Sail Beyond the Sunset)

Bureau for Security (BuSec)
Government bureau that operated under the jurisdiction of the Department of Spatial Affairs
(The Star Beast)

Bureau of Astronautics (BuAstro)
[mentioned in passing] Government bureau administered under the jurisdiction of the Department of Spatial Affairs.
(The Star Beast)

Bureau of Economic Statistics
Department headed by Monroe-Alpha Clifford.
(Beyond This Horizon)

Bureau of Economics (BuEcon)
Some of its decisions fell under the jurisdiction of the Department of Spatial Affairs.
(The Star Beast)

Bureau of Engineering (BuEng)
Some of its decisions fell under the jurisdiction of the Department of Spatial Affairs
(The Star Beast)

Bureau of Planetary Engineering
[mentioned in passing] Podkayne Fries' mother held a desk job there while she was having babies.
(Podkayne of Mars)

Dick Burke
Teller University student stranded during the Advanced Survival test. He joined Cowpertown.
(Tunnel in the Sky)

Girard Burke
Interplanetary Patrol candidate and son of the chairman of the board of Reactors, Ltd. He resigned from the Patrol at the same time that Matt Dodson passed his training, and joined his father's business. Matt and his fellow cadets encountered him on Venus, where he had been taken prisoner by natives after trying to coerce them into granting mineral rights in a taboo area. The cadets rescued him, but also placed him under arrest. He was called "Stinky" by other cadets.
(Space Cadet)

Burkhardts (no first names)
[mentioned in passing] Tourists on Mars staying at the Casa Mañana. The Stones were offered their rooms after they left.
(The Rolling Stones)

Burlingame, California
[mentioned in passing] Destroyed in a bombardment to eliminate a puppet master saucer and infestation.
(The Puppet Masters)

Dejah Thoris (Deety) Burroughs
Self-described Beautiful Daughter of a Mad Scientist; mathematician and computer software specialist. She married Zebadiah John Carter about an hour after meeting him, and became a crew member of the Gay Deceiver after her father fitted it for transuniversal travel. She was a voracious reader of old pulp magazines and the Oz books. She was almost named "Doris Anne" at birth, but her father prevailed. Zeb's first impression of her name was "Deedee".
(The Number of the Beast)

Hilda Mae Burroughs
1. First seen as Hilda Corners, the hostess at whose party Deety Burroughs and Zebadiah Carter met. She married Jacob Burroughs after Deety and Zeb announced their intention to wed. She became a crew member of the Gay Deceiver after it was fitted for transuniversal travel, and was eventually named permanent commander. Though she had never obtained a college degree, she was very widely read and was an excellent biologist. She was nicknamed "Sharp" Corners (or Sharpie). Zeb called her "Nanny Goat" and Deety called her "Aunt Nanny Goat".
(The Number of the Beast)
2. A co-wife of Maureen Johnson; she was general director of the Interuniverse Society conference.
(To Sail Beyond the Sunset)

Dr. Jacob (Jake) Burroughs
Mathematician and inventor of a "time machine" and transuniverse travel device. He married Hilda Corners (see previous post). After becoming convinced that Black Hats were trying to kill him to suppress the knowledge of transuniversal travel, he embarked with Hilda, his daughter Deety Burroughs, and his son-in-law Zebadiah Carter on a trek across universes in Zeb's aircar Gay Deceiver, fitted with Jake's continua device.
(The Number of the Beast)

Jane Culver Burroughs
Jacob Burroughs' late wife, Deety's mother. She was the best friend and college roommate of Hilda Corners Burroughs. Jake believed she still communicated with him, though whether this was his imagination or actual contact is unclear.
Jane Culver Burroughs Memorial Hospital
Medical facility in Beulahland used by the Time Corps for extreme cases. (Obviously named for Jacob Burroughs' late wife.)
(The Number of the Beast)

    Burroughs
    [mentioned in passing] Manufacturer of "irrelevant buses". (Probably owned by Hilda Burroughs m— or possibly Burroughs & Long, Ltd.)
    (To Sail Beyond the Sunset)

    Burroughs & Long, Ltd.
    Partnership proposed to Lazarus Long by Hilda Burroughs to manufacture ships containing the continua-crossing device.
    (The Number of the Beast)

    Burroughs-Carter-Libby Gate
    Time gate used by the Time Corps. (Named for Hilda Burroughs, Zebadiah Carter, and Elizabeth [Andrew Jackson] Libby.)
    (To Sail Beyond the Sunset)

    Burt (no last name)
    An employee of Hartley Baldwin's organization; he married Anna Johansen in Las Vegas after the organization was disbanded.
    (Friday)

    Busby (no first name)
    (Lieutenant) Commanding officer of the Venus Republic soldier who found Don Harvey after Don's escape from Federation detention. He had been on detached duty at the time of the occupation, and so avoided arrest. He organized all soldiers he came across into a guerrilla fighting unit, and was awarded brevet promotion to wing colonel.
    (Between Planets)

    BuSec
    See Bureau for Security.
    (The Star Beast)

    Butler, Missouri
    1. Town that hosted the Bates County Fair.
    ("Requiem")
    2. Town near Thebes, Missouri, where Maureen Johnson often went to shop.
    (To Sail Beyond the Sunset)

    Butler Academy
    School that Thomas Jefferson Johnson attended before he enlisted in the Army to fight in the Spanish-American War.
    (To Sail Beyond the Sunset)

    Butler State Bank
    Financial institution where Ira Johnson had an account.
    (To Sail Beyond the Sunset)

    Byer's Planet
    [mentioned in passing] World scheduled for "pacification", with Helen Walker's platoon participating.
    (Tunnel in the Sky)

    Byrd (no first name)
    Juan Rico's fellow Officer Candidate School cadet. Given an assignment to the Moskva the day Johnnie was assigned to the Tours. His nickname was "Birdie". He was killed in action.
    (Starship Troopers)

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