Model of automobile owned by Eunice Branca, small enough to keep in their apartment.
(I Will Fear No Evil)
Larry Gaines
Chief engineer of the Diego-Reno Roadtown. He ended a revolt among the technicians by goading the leader into a complete breakdown. (Mrs. Gaines (no first name) is also mentioned briefly.)
("The Roads Must Roll")
Galacta
1. Language spoken on Tertius and aboard the Dora.
(The Number of the Beast)
2. Apparently the lingua franca throughout the galaxy, and definitely common on Secundus. It has similarities to Spanish, but the feminine, not masculine, pronouns are "generic".
(Time Enough for Love)
3. A lingua franca rooted in Spanglish, which it closely resembled after millennia of use, with an expanded vocabulary.
(To Sail Beyond the Sunset)
Galactic Acceptance Corporation
[mentioned in passing] Company in which Thorby Rudbek owned stock.
Name of the moon rocket built by Donald Cargraves with the help of Art Mueller, Ross Jenkins, and Morrie Abrams. It was destroyed by a Nazi ship after they landed on the moon. Other names proposed for it and rejected include Einstein, Starstruck VI, Pioneer, and Thor.
[mentioned in passing] Hero of Ayn Rand's novel Atlas Shrugged. Mike was described as the "John Galt" of the Revolution because, though he was its leader, he was never seen.
[mentioned in passing] An agricultural colony planet, also known as New Mars, whose saurian native animals could be used as draft animals but were inferior (at least in their rapport with humans) to horses.
2. Jupiter's third moon, on which a farming colony was established. Its atmosphere, with a climate suitable for human habitation, was artificially established and maintained by power stations. It had only one settlement when Bill Lermer and his family emigrated to it. Outlying farms were created one by one by crushing the native rock and seeding it with Earth topsoil and organisms. After the Colonial Commission sent colonists in excess of what the colony could support, survey teams were sent out to find other suitable locations for settlement.
5.Pierre Armand was from Ganymede, and after completing cadet training was assigned to a ship sent to patrol the colony.
(Space Cadet)
Carmen Garcia
Student teamed with Bob Baxter for the Advanced Survival test. She planned to become a medical missionary with him. They married after being stranded on the Advanced Survival planet and joining Cowpertown. They had at a child (named Hope Roberta Baxter) while there; but when the planet was recontacted they promptly returned to Earth for medical training.
2. (no first name) [Female] doctor in the Forward.
(Friday)
3. (Mrs.) Gossipy old woman in the Tricorn. Podkayne Fries overheard her insults about Marsmen in general and the Fries family in particular, and reported them to Clark Fries. Mrs. Garcia was later seen with photographic chemical stains covering her face, which were at first taken for radiation burns.
[mentioned in passing] Site in Capital, probably a popular tourist attraction.
(The Star Beast)
Mrs. Garfield (no first name)
Woman who filed suit after the explosion of the power satellite, claiming it caused the congenital crippling of her child, who was born at the moment of the explosion. D. D. Harriman adamantly opposed settling out of court, for fear of encouraging similar suits.
Nightclub that Joan Eunice Smith visited to celebrate her recovery from the brain transplant.
(I Will Fear No Evil)
Gate
1. Means of travelling between universes. Not an actual physical structure, it operated by "magic".
(Glory Road)
2. Teleportation device invented by Jesse Ramsbotham and used to travel to distant planets. The gate was originally invented as a time machine; its capability to transport objects in the present was discovered accidentally.
(Tunnel in the Sky)
Constance Gates
First child of Harry Gates and Barbara Kuiper, born aboard the Lewis & Clark the night the first of Tau Ceti's planets was discovered; Harry named the planet Constance in her honor.
(Time for the Stars)
Harry Gates
Chief planetologist in the Lewis & Clark. He married Barbara Kuiper. He was one of the few survivors of the attack by the Elysia's natives.
(Time for the Stars)
Harry Gates, Jr.
Son of Harry Gates and Barbara Kuiper, born aboard the Lewis & Clark.
(Time for the Stars)
Gateway
Entrance to Coventry, a temporary "break" in the surrounding forcefield. It can only be operated from the outside, but a signal on the inside can indicate that an exile wants to return.
Code name of a regional headquarters of the Cabal, real location not given.
("If This Goes On—")
Gathering of the People
Reunion among all the Free Trader ships. It is time for celebration, but also for funerals, memorial services for lost ships, transfers between ships, business meetings, and weddings. It is usually held near Hekate so the Free Traders could also conduct business for new ships, weapons systems, repairs, etc.
(Citizen of the Galaxy)
Gay Deceiver
Zebadiah Carter's aircar, which he had refitted for stratospheric flight; specifically the computer in the car. Jacob Burroughs' continua device was installed in her and she was promoted to spacefaring vehicle, with a crew of Zeb, Jacob, Deety Burroughs, and Hilda Burroughs. She was programmed to execute complicated commands triggered by short phrases. With some additional programming by Deety Burroughs she developed self-awareness, having already displayed it during trips to Oz.
(The Number of the Beast; also a brief appearance in The Cat Who Walks Through Walls)
Geary Manufacturing
[mentioned in passing] Company to which Hired Girl was licensed.
Company that provided any sort of service the client requires, provided it is legal and physically possible. They specialized in solutions to unique problems, but also provided all sorts of mundane tasks: Their motto was, "We Also Walk Dogs."
[mentioned in passing] A division of Smith Enterprises that was particularly profitable.
(I Will Fear No Evil)
Genetic Planning Council
Government agency that oversaw genetic "improvement" of humans; their role included maintaining a group of control naturals against which the genetic changes could be compared.
(Beyond This Horizon)
Genetics Investigations
Scientific organization that was collecting data on twins. It was a front for finding telepathic twins to recruit for Project Lebensraum.
Stepdaughter of Miles Gentry, Daniel Boone Davis' "best girl". (She had apparently assumed Miles' surname; her original surname was probably Heinicke, the same as her grandmother's.) She was about 11 years old when Dan was put into cryonic suspension. When he travelled back to 1970, he signed his Hired Girl stock over to her. Shortly afterward, she went to live with her grandmother, changing her last name to Heinicke. When she turned 21, she went into cryonic suspension with orders to be revived the same time as Dan. When both awoke (Dan for the second time) in the 21st century, they were married.
(The Door Into Summer)
Miles Gentry
Army buddy of Daniel Boone Davis, with whom he started Hired Girl, Inc.; Miles became president and general manager. With Belle Darkin, he swindled Dan out of control of the company. He also married Belle although she was engaged to Dan. Miles died in 1972, probably in suspicious circumstances. Belle called him "Chubby".
(The Door Into Summer)
George (no last name)
1. Company representative in Cynia Station who also acted as waiter and cashier in the Station lunchroom.
(The Red Planet)
2. Name for the most junior officer in a ship, in his capacity of taking on all the "extra" jobs; as in, "Let George do it."
(Starship Troopers)
3.Vicky Bartlett's boyfriend. Tom Bartlett had no use for him, sight unseen, and Vicky admitted he needed improvement.
[mentioned in passing] Slayton Ford's assistant before Ford resigned as United States Administrator.
(Methuselah's Children)
Winifred (Winnie) Gerston
1.Joan Eunice Smith's private-duty nurse after Joan Eunice's brain transplant. Joan Eunice hired her as a "lady's maid" after she was fully recovered. Winnie married Dr. Roberto Garcia and accompanied Joan Eunice on her ocean voyage.
[mentioned in passing] When she was chosen Miss Universe, she announced her intentions to be the first starship commander, inspiring a sharp rejoinder from the space pilots' union.
National park where Monroe-Alpha Clifford fled after the abortive Survivors Club revolt, and where he encountered Hartnett Marion for the second time.
(Beyond This Horizon)
Humphrey Gibbs
One of the South Colonists who attended the meeting to discuss the Mars Company's refusal to provide vehicles for the annual migration. He suggested legal action to enforce the right to migrate.
Woman who lived with Eunice and Joe Branca's neighbor Big Sam. She modeled for Joe, and married him after Eunice's death, doing her best to manage their finances. She and Joe accompanied Joan Eunice Smith through part of her ocean voyage.
(I Will Fear No Evil)
Ray Gilberti
Crew member of the Leif Ericsson. He married Sumire Watanabe during the journey.
[mentioned in passing] Shopping complex where Joan Eunice Smith enjoyed a spree on her first day out after her brain transplant.
(I Will Fear No Evil)
Carlton Gimmidge
Name that his mother gave to John Thomas Stuart VIII after his father (JTS VII) was deported to a penal colony and she returned to Earth. He changed it back when he came of age, and worked long years to clear his father's name.
(The Star Beast)
Ginsberg (no first name)
Scoutmaster from the Mayflower. He negotiated with the Ganymede organization to bring the Mayflower Scouts into the Ganymede troops.
(Farmer in the Sky)
Albert Ginwallah
Persona invented by Mike as Adam Selene's confidential assistant. It was used to catch Party members who would violate instructions to give information only to Adam. Ginwallah would suggest that the Party member give "him" the information because Adam was unavailable; anyone who did so was no longer trusted with dangerous information.
(The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress)
Dario Giomi
Professor and colleague of Curt Reisfeld. He was involved in the research on the information and items brought back from outer space by Peewee Reisfeld and Kip Russell.
(Have Space Suit — Will Travel)
Hal Giordano
Chief ship's steward in the Asgard, Max Jones' boss when he worked in the stables. (Also known as Mr. Gee, or The Belly.)
(Starman Jones)
"Girls Are Like Boys, Only More So"
[mentioned in passing] Boy-meets-girl story dictated by Jubal Harshaw.
The crew of the Gay Deceiver visited her palace when they arrived in Oz. Besides offering them aid and advice, she outfitted Gay Deceiver with rest stations (which apparently remained in Oz no matter where the ship went, since they were much too large to be "inside" Gay, and the sun was always shining into the windows) and gave them a never-empty picnic basket. She taught Hilda Burroughs how to recognize Black Hats from a distance and invited the crew to visit Oz again anytime.
(The Number of the Beast)
Global Association of Atomic Scientists
Organization to which Donald Cargraves belonged, which enabled him to acquire atomic fuel for experimentation (actually to load into the moon rocket).
Manufacturer of the spacesuit won by Kip Russell. When Kip wrote asking for parts, they supplied the parts to him free of charge, and provided extra information on refurbishing.
(Have Space Suit — Will Travel)
Oscar Gordon
1. Born Evelyn Cyril Gordon, a college football hero with fencing skills who was drafted for the Vietnam "police action", and discharged after receiving a facial scar in battle. While living in Europe, he answered an ad for "a brave man" and was recruited by Star to help her retrieve the Egg of the Phoenix. He and Star were married during the journey; he learned only later her true status and identity. He lived with her for a while in her capital; but after realizing he had no useful function there he returned to Earth. Finding life on Earth equally unsatisfactory he managed to contact his other companion on the quest, Star's grandson Rufo, and returned to the adventuring life. With a name like Evelyn Cyril, he acquired several nicknames: "Easy" from E.C., and for his easy style of running; "Flash", from his college football career, which he disdained; "Scar" after his injury, "Oscar" being Star's version of this.
(no first name) A member of the President's political party, he tried to propose impeachment during the hearing on the puppet masters. He was revealed as a puppet master host.
(The Puppet Masters)
The Governor (no other name)
The head of the fugitive colony to which Humphrey Wingate fled from his contract labor.
Alex Hergensheimer took over his identity after Alex found himself in a new universe following his firewalk. He used the name through most of his subsequent ordeal, though he thought Hergensheimer had a much nobler sound. The original Alec Graham was apparently involved in a shady deal involving one million dollars that Alex found in "his" lockbox. Graham was actually a manifestation of Loki, who set up the situation into which Alex would be thrown.
(Job: A Comedy of Justice)
Edward Graham
One of the few survivors in the Citadel, a private first class assigned to the commissary department. His civilian occupation was artist and interior decorator; he helped design the Temple of Mota.
(The Day After Tomorrow)
Elise Graham
Alex Hergensheimer and Margrethe Gunderson's daughter in Eden, Kansas, a Novice Ecdysiast (stripper). She spoke of having a religious vocation, but Alex believed she'd marry right out of high school.
Ruler of Russia in Alec Graham's world, a constitutional monarch who no longer claimed suzerain over other Slavic states. In Alex Hergensheimer's world there was a Russian Emperor who is absolute monarch of vast territories.
(Job: A Comedy of Justice)
Grand Eidouranion
Apparatus conceived by Dr. Thorgsen to determine the origin and destination of the galaxy. [Greek, "shape of heaven"]
Hostelry in which Maureen Johnson woke up with an unknown dead man in her bed. In time line two, it had been the Harriman Hilton, built on the site of Maureen's farmhouse.
Only name used for Fjalar Krausa's mother, the Chief Officer of the Sisu. She was de facto commander of the ship, although the Captain held the official command. She died on Woolamurra before the ship reached the Gathering of the People, and was succeeded by Fjalar's wife.
(Citizen of the Galaxy)
Grandson of Heaven (no other name)
Prince of the PanAsian Imperial family, and head of the occupation forces in North America.
(The Day After Tomorrow)
Granny the Snake (no other name)
Beggar in Jubbulpore who knew how to dislocate her joints, thus creating more sympathy and collecting more alms.
Dispersal of the human race throughout the galaxy following the invention of faster-than-light spacedrive. One effect of the Diaspora was that nearly all talented and ambitious people left Earth, leaving the dregs of humanity on the homeworld.
Pharmacist in Thebes, Missouri, who sold condoms (but only to customers who were married or over 21).
(To Sail Beyond the Sunset)
"The Green Hills of Earth"
1."Noisy" Rhysling's most famous song. It evolved through many versions over 20 or so years, the final version being recorded aboard the Falcon just before Rhysling's death.
("The Green Hills of Earth")
2. Song sung at the first meeting of the Mayflower Scouts. When Bill Lermer later played it for his family, it made him too homesick to finish.
(Farmer in the Sky)
3. Song played, probably at Lazarus Long's instigation, during the meeting to decide whether the Howard Families would return to Earth.
(Methuselah's Children)
4. [mentioned in passing] Song that Dora offered to sing to the crew of the Gay Deceiver [Referred to as "Green Hills," but very likely "The Green Hills of Earth".]
Real estate agent who rented a loft to Sam Cavanaugh. Sam infected him with a puppet master and recruited him to help infect others.
(The Puppet Masters)
Sergei Greenberg
Chief of System Trade Intelligence under the Department of Spatial Affairs. He was sent as a representative to Lummox's hearing, and ordered Lummox's destruction after Lummox caved in the front of the courthouse looking for John Thomas Stuart. Sergei continued working on the case after the destruction order was overridden, helping John Thomas get to Capital when it was suspected that Lummox was the missing Hroshii heir. He was appointed brevet ambassador extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary to negotiate with the Hroshii.
Company that had offices in Luna CityOld Dome. If Adam Selene's offices had existed, they would have been next door.
(The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress)
Gail Greene
1.Joe Briggs' teacher in New Men thinking methods and language. She joined him in thwarting Mrs. Keithley's blackmail scheme, and was killed stopping the Nova Effect. Her original surname is not given; since she and Joe "married" each other in their last minutes of life, she is known by the surname that he used in Hartley Baldwin's organization.
("Gulf")
2. Part of Friday's genetic makeup came from her. [The same person as in "Gulf".]
(Friday)
Joe Greene (a.k.a. Joe Briggs)
1. Name that Joe Briggs used in Hartley Baldwin's organization; this name is listed on the monument to him and his wife Gail Greene at the site where they died stopping the Nova Effect.
("Gulf")
2. Part of Friday's genetic makeup comes from him. [The same person as in "Gulf".]
(Friday)
"Red" Greene (no other first name)
Assistant section leader in Juan Rico's platoon, Johnnie's squad leader.
(Starship Troopers)
Greene (no first name)
Pilot who put the first power station satellite into orbit.
("Blowups Happen")
Greenies
1.Venus colonials' name for the invading Federation troops, after their uniform's color.
(Between Planets)
2. Rude name usually used for Chicago Imperium law enforcement officers.
Satyr-like biped native to Venus. Humans gave them the scientific name fauna gregarious veneris smythii. They are called "move-overs" by the colonists for their chronic habit of crowding against each other and any humans, and otherwise displaying an insatiable appetite for physical affection. They are about as bright as an Earth goat, but friendlier. Don Harvey was appalled to be served baked baby gregarian at an exclusive Earth restaurant. After escaping from Federation detention during the invasion of Venus, he hid among a herd of gregarians.
(Between Planets)
Gregory (no last name)
Member of Pat Bartlett's family, perhaps a son-in-law.
Two-headed leader among the muties, with a separate consciousness in each head; he frequently argued between himself. "Jim" was nastier than "Joe", but also more eager for adventure. He lacked the drive to organize the muties, being by nature an observer and intellectual. Taught to read by captured Scientists, he owned a vast collection of (stolen) books but was unable to distinguish fiction from fact. After Hugh Hoyland's capture, Joe-Jim took him as a personal slave and showed him the Outside. He agreed to let Hugh return to the Scientists to convince others of the true nature of the Ship, but was killed while helping Hugh escape his co-conspirators' treachery.
The pleasantest of the elderly widows on the Tricorn. She befriended Podkayne and Clark Fries but turned out to be a Terran agent and political enemy of Tom Fries. She kidnapped and threatened to torture Podkayne and Clark to persuade Tom to vote according to Terran interests. She was killed by Clark when he and Podkayne escaped. She was sometimes called "Madame Grew."
(Podkayne of Mars)
Benny Grey
Dramatic character performed by Larry Smith: "the colorless handyman who does the murders in The House With No Doors". Smith made himself up as Grey to be completely inconspicuous in leaving the Eisenhower Hotel. That persona also enabled Smith to help Dak Broadbent dismember the MartianRrringriil to hide all evidence of the fight in the hotel suite.
President of the Moka-Coka company, cola drink manufacturers. D. D. Harriman visited him to get support for the Moonflight project.
("The Man Who Sold the Moon")
Mrs. Grigsby (no first name)
Emigrant brought before the Captain's Mast just after the Mayflower's liftoff, for disobeying ship's rules. She was sentenced to wash dishes for the entire trip.
The human transliteration of a Martian concept that has no exact translation. It roughly means "to be identically equal", i.e. to completely understand and "cherish" a thing or experience. One literal but misleading translation is "to drink".
[mentioned in passing] When Joan Eunice Smith used this name to connote "conventional morality", Eunice Branca countered that she was Eunice's fourth-grade teacher, who had an affair with the principal.
(I Will Fear No Evil)
Guardian Mother
Closest English translation to the Mother Thing's official title.
(Have Space Suit — Will Travel)
Guardian of Morals
Security officer in the Palace, who operated under the jurisdiction of the Inquisition.
Sow owned by the Johnson family during Maureen Johnson's childhood.
(To Sail Beyond the Sunset)
Mary Gumm
Recruiting sergeant for Rachel's Raiders, who signed Friday up with her squad, and made subtle passes at her. She was killed in the explosion of the Skip to M'Lou, though Friday tried to save her.
(Friday)
gumpersaggle
Alex Hergensheimer's proposed name for the flying machine (airplane) that he and Margrethe Gunderson saw after being marooned by the iceberg collision. Neither he nor Margrethe had ever seen one before, and they weren't certain what it was.
(Job: A Comedy of Justice)
Margrethe Svensdatter Gunderson
Stewardess on the SS Konge Knut who became Alec Graham's mistress, then Alex Hergensheimer's wife. A schoolteacher on one-year leave, she had studied English language and history and knew four other languages. When Alex Hergensheimer "became" Alec Graham, he fell in love with her, and she accompanied him through his ordeal of passing through strange universes. She was "born again" in the last minutes before the Rapture, but was not taken into Heaven. Their separation was the result of Loki's conniving with Yahweh to test Alex's faith, so as recompense she and Alex were given a life together with all their wishes granted, and the memory of their ordeal erased.
(Job: A Comedy of Justice)
Ole Gunderson
[mentioned in passing] Runner who literally went into orbit around Phobos from a running jump.
(The Rolling Stones)
Guns (no other name)
Nickname for the school armorer who provided requested weapons for the Advanced Survival test.
