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.
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.
Daily Herald
Newspaper for which Luke Timons worked.
Ed and Betty Hartley
Couple who consulted Hugo
Pinero for the dates of their deaths. Despite his efforts to delay them,
they were killed in a traffic accident just outside his office while hurrying
to meet their friend Ellen.
Inventor of a method of accurately predicting the exact day of any
person's death. After the Science Academy's attempts to discredit him failed
and his service threatened to ruin the insurance companies, he was murdered by
an unknown assailant and his machinery was destroyed.
Chief of Police in the town where Hugo
Pinero set up business.
Sands of Time, Inc.
Hugo
Pinero's corporation under which he operated to predict deaths.
Shepard (no first name)
Physician who opposed Hugo
Pinero's suggestion to test every member of the Academy for his date of
death.
Albert M. Swanson
Notary Public who notarized Hugo
Pinero's bonds that guaranteed his predictions were accurate.
Luke Timons
Reporter employed by the Daily Herald. Hugo
Pinero chose him as a subject for a demonstration of his "Life-Line"
machine. He was killed the same day as the demonstration, as Pinero had
predicted.
United Life Insurance
Company nearly driven out of business by Hugo
Pinero's invention.
Dr. Van Rhein-Smitt
University president at the Academy conference who supported Hugo
Pinero's right to speak.
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."