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.
(I Will Fear No Evil)
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.
