1. Secret organization that resisted the
rule of the Prophet. It
seems to have been similar to Freemasonry. It was allied with other
underground "sects", such as the Mormons and the Catholics.
Free
Trader ship, parent of a lost ship and therefore in debt to the Sisu, which backed
the loan for the ship. Its crew was related to the Sisu's crew. (A reference
to "Gus" probably pertains to this ship.)
[mentioned in passing] One of the entities that Maureen
Johnson dealt with while trying to get the dead man removed from her bed
at the Grand
Hotel Augustus.
1. Melody from which the road engineers'
anthem was taken.
("The Roads Must Roll")
2. [mentioned in passing]
Marching song at Camp Arthur Currie.
(Starship Troopers)
caleb
An "artificially mutated symbiote derived from dog stock." Calebs had
intelligence equivalent to low-normal human, and could talk. Their rapport
with their human partners was so intense that if the human was killed, the
caleb normally had to be euthanized, and if the caleb was killed it took
months of therapy for the human to recover. [Hebrew, "dog"]
Alias under which Gwen
Novak proposed making contact with the various Taliaferros in the Golden Rule
directory, hoping to find out why one of them was wanted dead.
(The Cat Who Walks Through Walls)
Dr. Lowell Calhoun
Colonel in mathematical research at the Citadel. He was
commanding officer by default after all senior officers were killed. Having a
special commission, he accepted Whitey
Ardmore's authority, and was appointed director of research and second in
command. Already of a brittle ego and personality, as the Mota conspiracy
progressed he developed delusions of grandeur and was ultimately killed in
self-defense by Frank
Mitsui.
(The Day After Tomorrow)
Raymond Calhoun
Name to which Joe Briggs
addressed the mailing tubes containing the Nova Effect
tapes.
Boot camp in the Canadian Rockies, near Vancouver, where Juan Rico
completed his training.
(Starship Troopers)
PFC Archie Campbell
Platoon metalsmith on the Rodger
Young. He made a model of the ship for Yvette
Deladrier after her miraculous rescue of the platoon.
(Starship Troopers)
Colonel Colin ("Killer") Campbell
(a.k.a. Richard Ames)
1. A military hero who rescued the
students of Percival Lowell Academy from an unspecified danger. Gwen
Novak's oldest daughter was one of the students. He was missing a foot; he
may have lost it during this mission. While he was a resident of the space
station Golden
Rule, in the role of writer Richard Ames, he was dragged into a series of
events (by Gwen Novak, who eventually revealed that she was really Hazel Meade
Stone, sent by the Time
Corps to recruit him) that culminated in the mission to travel through
time and dimensions to save the computer Mike from being
destroyed during the deciding battle of the Lunar Revolution. After surviving
the mission he joined the Long family colony on Tellus
Tertius. One of his aliases was Richard Campbell.
John
Joseph Bonforte's personal physician; he hypnotized Larry Smith
to cure him of his phobia about Martians. He was a member of the Grand
Assembly. [An early reference to "Dr. Scortia" may be an error, Dr. Capek
being intended.]
Care and Maintenance of the Auxiliary Four-Stage
Converter
A Sacred Book, lawfully held only by the Chief Engineer. 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)
Care Free
Name of the "moon rocket" exhibited at the Bates County
Fair. D.
D. Harriman hired the ship and its pilots to take him to the moon, but the
ship ended up crashed in a river.
("Requiem")
Donald Cargraves
Art
Mueller's uncle, a noted atomic physicist. He recruited Art, Ross
Jenkins, and Morrie
Abrams to help him build a moon rocket, overcoming political opposition to
complete the project. Not only was the launch a success, but on the Moon he
and the boys discovered and defeated a secret Nazi base, returning to Earth as
heroes.
(Rocket Ship Galileo)
Cargraves (no first name)
[mentioned in passing] Attendee at the Interuniverse
Society conference. [Possibly Donald Cargraves of Rocket Ship
Galileo.]
3.Juan Rico's
boyhood best friend. He joined the Federal
Service after graduating from high school (inspiring Johnnie to do the
same), and was assigned to a Research and Development station on Pluto. He
died in a Bug
attack.
(Starship Troopers)
Carl XVI
King of Scandinavia in one of the universes through with Alex
Hergensheimer and Margrethe
Gunderson passed. His capitol was Stockholm. Margrethe was distressed to
learn that Denmark was part of Sweden.
(Job: A Comedy of Justice)
Carlotti Motors
[mentioned in passing] Company that made spaceships. The
Stone family bought their Cherub model.
Zebadiah Carter's grandfather. He had doctorates in biochemistry,
medicine, and law. He regarded anyone who couldn't read Latin, Greek, Hebrew,
French, and Latin as illiterate. Although generally misanthropic, he was
generous with service workers. He was very wealthy and became a Swiss citizen
to avoid U.S. tax policies. His will stipulated that direct male descendants
have names beginning with "Z". Female descendants inherited trust funds with
no strings attached, but sons and grandsons had to earn a sizable minimum
before a trust fund would match their income.
(The Number of the Beast)
Zamir Carter
Zebadiah Carter's uncle, from whom he inherited a complete set of Clayton
Astounding magazines, Weird Tales, and first editions of the
first six Oz
books.
Captain in the Aerospace Reserve and accomplished fencer who earned a
doctorate in education just to show how ridiculously easy it was. He married
Dejah
Thoris Burroughs and contributed his aircar Gay Deceiver
to the construction of a continua
craft, becoming part of the crew.
(The Number of the Beast)
Zebulon Edward (Ed) Carter
Zebadiah Carter's cousin, a mathematician whom Jacob
Burroughs hoped to meet to discuss their theories of multiple universes.
He died in Sumatra, presumably murdered by Black Hats.
Alias used by the female Section agent
who accompanied Andrew
Nivens to investigate the flying saucer landing. Afterwards, she
apparently adopted the name permanently, using it when she married Sam
Cavanaugh. She was born into the Whitmanites
(her original name was Allucquere) and emigrated to Venus with her
family, where the entire community had been taken over by puppet
masters and mostly kept in suspended animation until needed as hosts; Mary
spent ten years suspended. The puppet masters, and all human hosts except
Mary, died in an epidemic of nine-day
fever. Mary was found by Venus colonials
and adopted into a mining colony. Her recollection of these events under hypnosis
provided a means to destroy the infestation of puppet masters on Earth.
(The Puppet Masters)
Sam Cavanaugh (a.k.a. Elihu Nivens)
Alias for an agent of a top-secret U.S. government agency called the Section. He was
assigned to investigate reports of a flying saucer landing in Grinnell, Iowa.
With Mary
Cavanaugh and Andrew
Nivens (his boss and his father), he discovered that the saucer was
real,and that it had brought intelligent parasites to Earth to take over the
population. Although briefly taken over by a puppet
master himself, he played a major role in defeating the invasion. He
seldom used his real name, Elihu Nivens, during the mission, preferring the
alias that he adopted when he first visited the saucer landing site.
(The Puppet Masters)
Cave of the Gate
The destination of Oscar
Gordon, Star, and Rufo on Nevia, through
which they could reach Mile-High
Tower. The Gate was a means of travelling between planets and universes.
Specific Gates were connected only with certain other locations; travelers
could not use just any Gate to get to any destination.
1. Journalist and friend of Jill
Boardman. After interviewing "Valentine
Michael Smith" and raising doubts about the identity of the person he
actually saw, he was drugged and kidnapped; he was only released through Jubal
Harshaw's intervention. After some initial reluctance, he joined the Church of
All Worlds.
Native of Charity; it
resembled the mythological Earth creatures, but was marsupial. Centaurs
dominated several other species on the planet. They attacked the Asgard refugees,
capturing Max
Jones and Eldreth
Coburn and killing several others.
Capital world of the Twenty
Universes. It was Earthlike, but lacked Earth's natural disasters. It
attracted tourists from throughout the Twenty Universes.
Local sponsor that advertised on TV before the Skyway
Hour.
Centerville Clarion
Town newspaper, which according to Kip Russell was only good for
wrapping salami.
Centerville High
Kip Russell's high school; it was great socially, but academically
lackluster. Its emphasis was on "preparation for life" rather than on
education. Its students frequently called it just "Center."
Physician for whom Lazarus Long
fixed a flat tire during his trip back in time. The doctor invited him home,
fed him, gave him clothes and offered him payment for his help.
(Time Enough for Love)
Nettie Chaddock
Dr. Chaddock's sister, who fixed lunch for Lazarus Long after he helped
Dr. Chaddock fix a flat tire.
(Time Enough for Love)
Dr. Chadwick (no first name)
Physician who covered Ira Johnson's
practice when needed, and vice versa.
(To Sail Beyond the Sunset)
chairman pro tem
Tradition held that the Chief Executive of the Howard
Families was only holding the chairmanship in trust for the Eldest Member,
i.e. Lazarus
Long.
Vice-President for Client Relations at California MasterCard. He would not
honor Friday's
Imperium MasterCard. (See also Chicago
Imperium.)
(Friday)
Dr. Chamleigh (no first name)
Nonsectarian minister who performed marriages with "fertility rites and
everything, but with dignity." Sam
Cavanaugh and Mary
Cavanaugh declined his services.
(The Puppet Masters)
Champion
Federation
ship launched to Mars 25 years after
the Envoy (with
World War III intervening), with an all-male crew. The crew brought Valentine
Michael Smith back with them to Earth.
(Stranger in a Strange Land)
Dr. Chan (no first name)
Member of the Federation
government Investigating Committee that debated the Lunar revolution, a
Senator from Great China; later Vice Chairman and Premier of the Federation.
(The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress)
Captain Chandar (no first name)
Duty officer at Sanctuary Officer Candidate School. He gave Juan Rico a
three-hour pass to have dinner with Carmen
Ibañez just before she shipped out.
(Starship Troopers)
Rev. Dr. Montgomery Chang, D.D.
[mentioned in passing] "Most Humble Supreme Leader of the
Way, Inc.", who lobbied for institutionalizing Buddhism and licensing Zen
teachers.
(I Will Fear No Evil)
Chang (no first name)
1. (Captain) Commander of the Fifth
Division regiment wiped out in the raid on Planet P; he was
himself killed in the battle.
Chang's Cherubs
The Fifth Division platoon that Juan Rico's
platoon relieved during the raid on Planet
P.
Attorneys who administered the Howard
Foundation during the early 20th century.
(Time Enough for
Love)
2. Lawyer who handled the Howard
Foundation interests in Kansas City.
He refused to believe Ted
Bronson's predictions about the future, and was removed as Howard trustee
when he lost his money in the stock market.
Human colony on Mars, named after
an ancient Martian city.
Located 30 degrees from the south pole, it was occupied only during the
southern summer. It was the annual migration from Charax to Copais that the
Mars
Company's representatives sought to cancel. [Persian, "fort".]
(The Red Planet)
Chargé d'Affaires
The resident cat of Maureen
Johnson's family when they moved to a farmhouse in 1929. [French term for
a low-ranking diplomatic officer.]
(To Sail Beyond the Sunset)
Charity
1. Planet on which the Asgard grounded
after going through an uncharted anomaly, the fourth of its sun's planets. The
name was bestowed by Eldreth
Coburn.
Rocket shuttle destroyed when the orbiting power station blew up.
("The Man Who Sold the Moon", To Sail Beyond the Sunset)
Mr. Charton (no first name)
Owner of Charton's Pharmacy, Kip Russell's
employer. He helped Kip sell Skyway Soap
and claim the wrappers to enter their contest for a moon trip, also to write
slogans. He encouraged Kip's ambitions to go into space, loaning him books on
biochemistry and space medicine.
Charton's Pharmacy
Kip Russell worked there mainly as a soda jerk, but he was also learning
about pharmacy.
[mentioned in passing] Ringroad
company whose trains ran past Max Jones'
farm. The trains were apparently named after throwing weapons and other sharp
objects, for example Assegai, Cleaver, Javelin.
[mentioned in passing] Newspaper that published vehement
criticisms of England during the early 20th century; according to Lazarus Long
it hedged its bets after the U.S. declaration of war.
Army camp where the infantry trained during the Spanish-American War.
(To Sail Beyond the Sunset)
chief officer
Position held by the Captain's wife in Free Trader
ships. The chief officer was the de facto leader of the
ship, though the Captain was officially in command.
Independent government that included Illinois, Arkansas, and surrounding
areas. It was one site of Hartley
Baldwin's operations. The government was disrupted by the assassinations
of Red
Thursday.
Ruling elite of the Noonday
Region. They were descended from Africans who survived the all-out war
among Northern powers in the 20th century. Few details of their society are
given, but descent was reckoned through women although power was held by men
(brothers of inheriting females). They kept the surviving whites completely
enslaved, and based their religion and aspects of society on a somewhat
rewritten Koran.
Hereditary disease running in The Realm's First
Family, a rare form of hemophilia. Its exact nature is not described. Friday was hired
to carry a royal embryo that had been created and received genetic treatments
on Earth to The Realm.
(Friday)
Chubby (no other name)
Man involved in a gangbang with Winifred
Gerston the night of her graduation from nursing school. She remembered
him because he left her coffee, food, and hangover remedy the next morning.
(I Will Fear No Evil)
Chucklehead
Saurian native lifeform of Gamma Leonis
VI(b), for a while used as draft animals by the colonists; they were found
less suitable than horses.
Religion founded by Valentine
Michael Smith. It involved acquiring new philosophical and psychological
concepts, as well as certain psychic powers, through learning the Martian
language and customs.
(Stranger in a Strange Land)
Church of the Divine Inseminator
Religious institution in the time line
where Maureen
Johnson found herself after the explosion on the irrelevant
bus. It was also called the Church of Your Choice, an ironic name because
it was the only permitted church. They maintained total control of the
society, including strict sexual repression except on the Feast of
Santa Carolita.
(To Sail Beyond the Sunset)
Church of the Divine Orgasm
Eden,
Kansas, community church, to which Alex
Hergensheimer's family belonged. It apparently was nondenominational.
(Job: A Comedy of Justice)
Church of the Holy Democrat
Minor sect on Secundus, left
alone by the government as long as they didn't meddle in politics.
(Time Enough for Love)
Church of the New Revelation
Cult that was founded by Ben Foster. It
was also called the Fosterite Church after its founder. The church services
had the atmosphere of a sales convention or football rally, its theology was a
mix of conventional wisdom and pop psychology, and its membership was large
enough and active enough to be extremely influential in politics.
Churches United for Decency
Organization of which Alex
Hergensheimer was executive secretary, deputy director, and fundraiser. It
lobbied for a number of political issues, including making abortion a capital
crime and tobacco a prescription drug, prohibiting contraception, attacking
the tax-free status of non-Christian private schools, and impeding
astronomical research.
Route on Sanctuary from the Mobile
Infantry base to the civilian city, lined with "enterprises intended to
separate painlessly a man from money". The main customers were troopers on
leave.
Geostationary space station that served as a starting point for
interplanetary flights; it also served as a military base policing all of
Earth. It was destroyed by the Venus High Force in the opening move of the
revolt against Earth domination. [circum terra, Latin "around Earth".]
(Between Planets)
Aunt Cissy (no last name)
[mentioned in passing] Allegedly the youngest wife of Richard
Ames' Uncle Jock; according to Ames she was still in high school.
(The Cat Who Walks Through Walls)
Citadel
Secret Army headquarters in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado. The only
surviving military base after the PanAsian
invasion, its officers founded an ultimately successful counteroffensive
against the invaders. (See Mota.)
(The Day After Tomorrow)
City Engineering Central
Location of subsidiary computers that controlled the life support and
other functions in Luna City.
A team was organized in every warren after the initial days of the Lunar
revolt, to prepare for attack by Earth. They trained to repair ruptured seals,
airlocks, etc., in case of bombs. Members were mostly recruited from the
stilyagi.
Newspaper that Joe Briggs
tried unsuccessfully to call from the Savoy hotel.
("Gulf")
Champ Clark
[mentioned in passing] A Missouri politician, Speaker of
the House of Representatives in 1912 and a "favorite son" for the Democratic
nomination for President.
Jacob
Burroughs described him as "a great man — too bad he was liquidated in the
Purge." The continua
craft was a "godchild" of Clarke's law, "Study what the most respected
authorities agree cannot be done-then do it."
Guernsey cow owned by the Johnson family during Maureen
Johnson's childhood.
(To Sail Beyond the Sunset)
Eldreth (Ellie) Coburn
Teenaged passenger aboard the Asgard, owner of
the spiderpuppyMr. Chips.
The daughter of Ambassador John Coburn, she was being sent home after being
expelled from several finishing schools on Earth. She and Max Jones
became friends. On Charity she was
captured with him by centaurs. They were rescued by Sam Anderson
after Mr. Chips made it back to the ship and managed to convey their
"message". It appeared that she was romantically interested in Max, but after
the Asgard
returned to known space she continued her trip home and eventually married her
childhood sweetheart.
Unpleasant denizens of the Nevia Valley. They
are described as looking like "…a man who had been drowned for a week."
(Glory Road)
William Cole
Chief communications officer and relief pilot of the Valkyrie. He
suffered severe acrophobia after being left adrift in space for several hours
while attempting to repair equipment on the outside of the craft. Refusing to
work groundside in spacing jobs, he found manual labor under the alias of
William Saunders. While visiting a fellow worker, he rescued a kitten from a
window ledge some 35 stories up, overcoming his acrophobia during the effort
and resolving to return to space.
("Ordeal in Space")
Colin (no other name)
[mentioned in passing] Party name of a
member of Manuel
Garcia O'Kelly's cell. His real name is not given.
(The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress)
Collapse of the Golden Hegemony
[mentioned in passing] Classic book on military history
that Juan
Rico used for assigned research.
Hamilton
Felix's sidearm of choice, a .45 caliber model recreated from a model in
the Smithsonian Institution. It was considered highly unusual, since most
weapons used energy beams, not projectiles.
(Beyond This Horizon)
Combat Pioneers
Mentioned in passing by Johann
Braun, but not described. Presumably it was a military branch of the
planetary exploration systems.
Popular book or video series mentioned by S_HC.htm#schachtjunior">Schacht
Junior. While trying to emulate its hero, Commodore Cartwright, he
tampered with the ship's control panel and threw it out of its trajectory.
("Space Jockey")
Commander Comet, Scourge of the
Spaceways
Ace
Quiggle's jeering name for Kip Russell
after Kip's TV appearance with the space suit he'd won.
(Have Space Suit — Will Travel)
Commerce Commission
Government bureau charged with licensing ships and setting transportation
rates and other regulations for Earth-Moon flights.
("It's Great to Be Back!", "Space Jockey")
Commercial Arithmetic and Introduction to
Bookkeeping
[mentioned in passing] Textbook from which Maureen
Johnson learned accounting; it had belonged to her brother Edward
Johnson.
(To Sail Beyond the Sunset)
Commission for Emigration and Trade
Organization that oversaw interplanetary traffic through the teleportation
Gates.
(Tunnel in the Sky)
Committee for Aesthetic Deletions
Secret society dedicated to executing "scoundrels whose removal will
improve the human breed". A member telephoned Maureen
Johnson to apologize for the inconvenience after she found a corpse in her
bed. Other members rescued her when she was imprisoned for sacrilege, then
expected her to join them as an assassin. They also called themselves the Dead
Men (though several of them were women).
Kansas
City bank where Lazarus Long
(as Ted
Bronson) kept a lockbox filled with gold coins and other valuables. He
withdrew all its contents after reading of the U.S. declaration of war.
(Time Enough for Love)
Commonwealth Shared Risk
Bank in Luna
City. Mike
worked numerous embezzlement schemes there to finance the revolution.
[mentioned in passing] Stocked in the Farnham bomb
shelter.
(Farnham's Freehold)
Complex
Usual name for the Lunar
Authority headquarters in Luna City. It
contained government offices, the Warden's
home, and Guard barracks. It was apparently separate from other sections of
Luna City.
(The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress)
Concerning Function: A Treatise on the Natural
Order
The "bible" of the Functionalist revolution, written in 1930 by Paul
Decker. The striking road technicians mostly followed its preachings.
Treaty with the Martian nests
pushed through by John
Joseph Bonforte. The repercussions of the treaty lost him a vote of
confidence and put the Humanity
Party into office.
(Double Star)
Congregation of the One Faith
[mentioned in passing] Name under which Sam proposed that
the Church of
All Worlds could be re-founded after its headquarters was burned down.
Musical comedy that Friday saw on the
Forward. [The
name may have been inspired by Mark Twain's novel A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's
Court.]
(Friday)
connotation index
A tool used to measure the emotional impact of a word or phrase: a
"complex variable function depending on context, age and sex and occupation of
the listener, the locale and a dozen other things." Psychologists used the
index to gauge the effectiveness of propaganda.
The first of Tau Ceti's
planets to be discovered, named after Harry Gates'
infant daughter. It was determined habitable in spite of an epidemic that
killed a large part of the crew.
(Time for the Stars)
Constitution Club
The membership "read like Who's Who in Finance, Government, and Industry."
Sam
Cavanaugh infected a member with a puppet
master and with his aid infiltrated the Club to "recruit" more members.
(The Puppet Masters)
Constitutional Liberation Rally
[mentioned in passing] Extreme left-wing political party in
the United States.
(I Will Fear No Evil)
continua craft
Jacob
Burroughs' name for the mechanism he invented for traveling through time
and between universes (or possibly, the name for any vessel in which the
device was installed).
(The Number of the Beast)
control natural
People who were conceived without the intervention of genetic selection.
They were used as controls to determine how far genetic engineers had
manipulated human development from the "original" state. They were subject to
such ills as caries, allergies, and degenerative diseases. In compensation
they received special government subsidies, but they were sometimes treated as
social inferiors.
Company that offered tourist excursions to the Moon. With Skyway Soap,
they sponsored a contest for which the first prize was a trip to the Moon.
(Have Space Suit — Will Travel)
Cooper
[mentioned in passing] One of the Howard
Families. (The name may have died out, since no individual members are
mentioned in Methuselah's Children or Time Enough for Love.)
Human colony on Mars, in the far
northern hemisphere, named after an ancient Martian city
and occupied only during the northern summer months. It was the annual
migration from Charax to Copais
that the Mars
Company's representatives sought to cancel.
Employee of General
Services and wife of employee Saunders
Francis. Although she worked as a receptionist, she was apparently a
special agent with wide-ranging responsibilities, talents, and authority. She
was assigned to the task of providing artificial environments, including
lighter-than-Earth gravity if necessary, for all envoys to an interplanetary
conference on Earth.
("—We Also Walk Dogs")
Coronets
[mentioned in passing] Brand of cigarettes advertised on TV
before the announcement of the Skyway Soap
contest winner.
Interplanetary military organization to which Helen Walker
belonged.
(Tunnel in the Sky)
Bill Corpsman
John
Joseph Bonforte's press secretary. He attempted to get himself nominated
to a "safe" district in the Grand Assembly. When Larry Smith,
masquerading as Bonforte, vetoed the nomination, he resigned and tried to
reveal the masquerade during a press conference; but no one believed him.
Government work project aimed at youths, mostly for those whose jobs were
made obsolete or who were juvenile delinquents or unemployable. Andrew
Jackson Libby was a member.
("Misfit"; also mentioned in Methuselah's Children.)
I.T.&T.
clerk who filed Don
Harvey's message and befriended him when she learned his situation. She
and her father were agents of the Organization;
even ignorant of this, he entrusted to her the ring that Dudley
Jefferson had given him and that Federation
agents had apparently been trying to get. Don lost contact with her when the
Federation forces invaded Venus, but she
turned up at Sir Isaac
Newton's house when Don arrived there after his stint as a guerrilla
soldier. There is a clear hint at the end of the book that she and Don would
eventually marry.
Governing body under the Covenant. The
Council decided to use "full expediency" to wrest the "secret of immortality"
from the Howard
Families, even to the extent of violating the Covenant.
(Methuselah's Children)
Council for Survival
Terrorist group that claimed responsibility for Red
Thursday; it was actually a faction of Shipstone.
The equivalent of a constitution, instituted by the United States after
the overthrow of the Prophet. Its
underlying principle is to prevent interference with individual freedom while
providing restraints against actions that would harm others. Even acts
specifically prohibited would not be prosecuted if only the person committing
the act was harmed. The Covenant protects against individuals passing judgment
on others and acting on those judgments (obviously a reaction to the tyranny
of the Interregnum).
It rejects the concept of "justice" and is based instead on observable effects
of actions. The only responses to violation of the Covenant are either
"reorientation" (psychological treatment to retrain antisocial tendencies) or
banishment to Coventry. No
"punishment" is permitted; the government is no more allowed to pass judgment
and impose harm than are individuals. In Methuselah's Children, the
government's lust to obtain the "secret of immortality" led to the suspension
of the Covenant's guarantees of individual freedom in order to confine the Howard
Families until the secret was obtained from them.
("Coventry," Methuselah's Children; also briefly mentioned in
Beyond This Horizon)
Exile imposed on those who act to harm others, to a "reservation" where
the Covenant
is not observed. Coventry is surrounded by a heavily guarded force shield to
prevent the exiles from leaving without permission. The concept behind this
treatment is that the government has no right to "punish" its members, but an
individual who is unwilling to abide by society's agreements may be ejected
from the society. Exiles may re-enter the Covenant if they are willing to
submit to psychological reorientation. Most of those entering Coventry
expected a complete anarchy, but at least three separate governments had
developed inside: New America,
nominally a democracy but run as a political machine and dictatorship; Free State, a
totalitarian state; and The Angels, the
remnants of the Prophet's
theocratic reign.
("Coventry," Methuselah's Children)
Covered Wagon
[mentioned in passing] Colony transport ship, under
construction when Bill Lermer
and his family traveled to Ganymede.
Manager in the restaurant in Nogales,
Arizona, where Alex
Hergensheimer got work as a dishwasher. He had to explain the basics of
taxes, Social Security and other payroll deductions to Alex.
Teller
University student elected "mayor" of the groups of students stranded
during the Advanced
Survival test, largely on his rhetorical skills. Although Rod Walker
resented his "taking over" from Rod's ad hoc leadership, Rod worked as
his assistant and generally supported his actions. Grant was killed during the
animal migration stampede.
(Tunnel in the Sky)
Cowpertown
Name given, after Grant Cowper's death, to the community organized by the
students stranded during the Survival test.
(Tunnel in the Sky)
Cradle Roll Creche
Childhood home and place of employment for Hazel
Meade. The manager claimed unsuccessfully that she still owed them for
room and board when she was adopted by the
Davis family.
One of Johann
Sebastian Bach Smith's granddaughters (either Marla or Elinor); she was
involved in the suit to have him declared dead so they could inherit his
wealth.
(I Will Fear No Evil)
Crazy Years
1. Described in passing as a time of
pandemic neuroses.
("Blowups Happen")
2. Period during the World Wars (1969 in
particular is mentioned).
(Methuselah's Children)
3. Years of violence and social upheaval
that culminated in the takeover of the United States government by religious
fanatics who established a repressive theocracy.
(To Sail Beyond the Sunset)
creche
On Mars,
couples normally had their children in rapid succession while still young,
then had them stored cryogenically to be raised when it was socially and
financially more convenient. Some parents left their recently revived children
at the creche for a few months to spare the mother those months of intensive
work.
Organization that was proposed by the Federation to
aid lunar "colonists" to return to Earth if they so wished, ignoring the fact
that most Lunarites were born there, and virtually all could not physically
tolerate Earth gravity and living conditions.
The inhabitants of the Ship, who had long
since forgotten the original meaning of the word "crew" and have come to think
of it as meaning "people" or "humans".
Lawyer whom Alex
Hergensheimer visited when he and Margrethe
Gunderson were returned to Alec Graham's
world. He was obviously involved in some shady deal with the $1 million that
Alex had found in Graham's lockbox aboard the Konge Knut. In
reality he was a manifestation of Loki, who was
behind the universe shifts.
[mentioned in passing] Area of Venus settled by
humans.
Cui Cui Town
[mentioned in passing] Human settlement
(Between Planets)
Cuisine, Incorporated
Food trust subsidiary of the Harriman corporations.
("The Man Who Sold the Moon")
Roderick Lyman Culverson III
Sybil
Farnsworth's date and dinner guest at the Farnsworth ranch while Alex
Hergensheimer and Margrethe
Gunderson were there. He behaved obnoxiously; in reality he was one of Lucifer's
minions, real name Israfel, who was acting deliberately to shake Alex out of
some of his preconceptions.
(Job: A Comedy of Justice)
Charles Cummings
The mechanic and engineer of the Care Free. He
was blackballed from space flight for smuggling, but hired by D. D. Harriman
to take him to the Moon.
("Requiem")
Mark Cummings
Junior Congressional Whip, whom the President had to order to remove his
shirt during a session of Congress to comply with Schedule
Bareback.
Son of Venus
Corporation's Chairman of the Board. He took an interest in Podkayne
Fries, perhaps at his father's instigation, and escorted her all over Venusberg.
(Podkayne of Mars)
Kurt Cunha
Chairman of the Board of Venus
Corporation. He tried to persuade Tom Fries to
vote according to Venus' interests
in the upcoming triplanetary conference.
(Podkayne of Mars)
Cunha (no first name)
Trooper aboard the Tours assigned to
checking out power suits.
Memtok's
term for dwarves, congenital defectives, etc., kept by the Chosen for their
amusement value. He decided it was best to think of Hugh Farnham
as a Curiosity, since he didn't fit any other category.
(Farnham's Freehold)
Curly (no other name)
One of the Federation
soldiers hunting Don
Harvey after Don's escape from the detention camp.
(Between Planets)
Curtis (no first name)
General manager of Hired Girl in
the year 2000. He offered Daniel
Boone Davis a position of "Research Engineer Emeritus" — i.e., public
relations glitter with no significant duties.
Ship on which Max Jones had
worked as a spacer — according to his forged papers.
(Starman Jones)
Cygnus Decision
Earth judicial decision that "Beings possessed of speech and manipulation
must be presumed to be sentient and therefore to have innate human rights,
unless conclusively proved otherwise." The Department
of Spatial Affairs was uncertain whether it applied to Lummox because he
possessed speech, but had no arms.
Settlement on the Strymon canal
along the route from Charax to Syrtis
Major, located near the ancient Martian city of
Cynia where the Strymon joins the canal Oeroe. It
consisted of merely a lunchroom, a bunkhouse, and a row of prefabricated
warehouses.
(The Red Planet)
Cyrano
Code name for the composite time lines in
which President Franklin Roosevelt died during his fourth term and was
succeeded by Harry Truman. [Possibly a reference to Cyrano de Bergerac,
but the reason for this name is not clear.]
(To Sail Beyond the Sunset)
Cyril (no last name)
Member of a restaurant party disturbed by an accident of Monroe-Alpha
Clifford's. The altercation culminated in an exchange of gunfire; the
other party was astonished that Clifford used a projectile, not an
energy-beam, weapon.
(Beyond This Horizon)
Cyrus Buchanan
Shuttle that carried Don
Harvey from the Nautilus to the
surface of Venus. [Probably
named after the co-founder of the human colonies on Venus.]
(Between Planets)
Cyrus Vance Parker Memorial Methodist Episcopal
Church
The church that Maureen
Johnson's family attended during her youth.
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."