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. 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.
