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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
[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.
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).
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.
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 Buenos Aires laboratory contained the fastest computer in existence,
but Manuel Garcia
O'Kelly compared it unfavorably to Mike's total
capabilities.
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.
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.
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.
[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.
[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.
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.
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.
[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)
[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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
[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.)
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.
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.
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.]
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 Martiannest, 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.
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.
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
Rocket Ship Galileo: The Galileo
Marching-and-Chowder Society library contained scientific reference
books and textbooks along with classic science-fiction novels.
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.]
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.
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.
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.
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.
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).
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.
[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.)
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.
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.
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.
The most widely heard global news commentator, host of "Steve Brodie
Says". The Venus
RepublicHigh 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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".
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".
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.
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.
(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.
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.
The Heinlein
Society was founded by Virginia Heinlein on behalf of her husband, science
fiction author Robert Anson Heinlein, to "pay forward" the legacy of Robert A. Heinlein to future generations of "Heinlein's Children."