Former Rams football player and Fosterite preacher.
(Stranger in a Strange Land)
Jackie (no other name)
"Jackie gave it to me" was the standard response to queries to Luna City children about the subversive material they handed out. Jackie, of course, did not exist.
UCLA student recruited to act as a lady's maid, under the name Shizuko, for Friday on her trip to The Realm. Her real role was a guard (effectively a warden). After her cover was blown and Friday escaped to Botany Bay, she also jumped ship and joined the colony.
2. Company in which Jerry Farnsworth owned stock.It presumably built and operated skyhook cables.
(Job: A Comedy of Justice)
Jacobstein Ray (Jake)
Director of the investigation into telepathy.
(Beyond This Horizon)
Jake (no last name)
1. Washroom attendant at the Constitution Club, whom Sam Cavanaugh infected with a puppet master. He died because "his master would not let him take time out for necessities."
(The Puppet Masters)
2. [mentioned in passing] Midshipman in David Lamb's class.
[mentioned in passing] Bird described as having eyes on the back of its head.
(Tunnel in the Sky)
Bill (Tex) Jarman
Interplanetary Patrol cadet who made friends with Matt Dodson on their first day. He arranged to be assigned to the Aes Triplex to stay with his friends, and was named watch officer when the senior crew transferred to a disabled ship to repair and return it. When he and the other cadets were sent to Venus to answer a distress call, they discovered the Astarte and helped restore and return it to the Triplex after his landing craft was damaged.
(Space Cadet)
Bodie Jarman
Tex Jarman's uncle, the black sheep of the family, about whom Tex had a wealth of tall tales.
[mentioned in passing] Author of Predators and Prey.
(Tunnel in the Sky)
Jay's Drive-In
[mentioned in passing] When captured, Kip Russell had a pencil with him stamped with their slogan; he repudiated their claim to make the "thickest shakes in town", since his were the thickest.
(Have Space Suit — Will Travel)
J.B. (no other name)
President of California Commercial Credit, which Friday persuaded to issue her a credit card after she won the California lottery.
Reporter who "discovered" the bag of diamonds that D. D. Harriman had given to Leslie LeCroix to take on the Moon flight.
("The Man Who Sold the Moon")
Dudley Jefferson
A friend of Don Harvey's parents and member of the Organization, whom Don contacted before he left Earth. He was arrested in Don's company, and Don was later told he "suffered a fatal heart attack" during interrogation. He had sent Don a ring that, though Don was unaware of it, contained information crucial to building a weapons defense and faster-than-light-travel system.
Original name of the base used for the Prophet's proctors in St. Louis. It was taken over by the Cabal and restored to this name when a temporary capital was set up there.
By inference, Sybil Farnsworth got into trouble once for making an illegal tape of their music.
(Job: A Comedy of Justice)
Jelal (no first name)
Career ship's sergeant, Juan Rico's platoon sergeant aboard the Rodger Young and de facto platoon leader after Lt. Rasczak's death. He eventually made captain, but lost his legs. Nicknamed "Jelly", and anyone who had made one combat drop could call him that to his face.
(Starship Troopers)
Señor Jellybelly (no other name)
Bernardo de la Paz's name for the Argentine delegate to the Federation commission that was considering Lunar independence. He owned a brothel in Buenos Aires, and Bernardo deliberately insulted him by asking about it.
(The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress)
Jelly's Jaguars
Name proposed for Rasczak's Roughnecks after Lt. Rasczak was killed. It was vetoed by Sgt. Jelal, who insisted on keeping the original.
(Starship Troopers)
Al Jenkins
Member of Juan Rico's first platoon, barred from a drop because he had a cold. After most of the platoon was wiped out, he joined Willie's Wildcats with Johnnie. He survived the First Battle of Klendathu and was assigned to the Rodger Young; he was later killed during a drop.
(Starship Troopers)
Albert Jenkins
Ross Jenkins' father, a retired electrical engineer.
(Rocket Ship Galileo)
Ed Jenkins
D. D. Harriman's personal servant, whom Harriman offered to set up in a restaurant when he decided to get rid of all his servants.
("The Man Who Sold the Moon")
Martha Jenkins
Ross Jenkins' mother, who argued in favor of Ross going to the Moon, after initial opposition.
(Rocket Ship Galileo)
Peewee Jenkins (no other first name)
Street urchin whom Jefferson Thomas and Alec Howe recruited to run errands and make necessary contacts.
A Howard Families member, related to the Schmidts, husband of Carol Smith. Originally a mathematics (topology) major in college, after World War I he switched to theater arts, eventually becoming a professional stage magician. He died in 1955 in a stage accident.
(To Sail Beyond the Sunset)
Ross Jenkins
His parents owned the land on which the Galileo Marching-and-Chowder Society tested rockets; he was the Club chemist specializing in rocket fuel. His father initially forbade him to postpone school to go to the Moon with Donald Cargraves, but did allow him to work on the rocket during the summer. After Ross' mother changed her mind, Ross was also permitted to go to the Moon.
(Rocket Ship Galileo)
Jenkins (no first name)
1. [mentioned in passing] (Mrs.) Centerville resident whom Kip Russell persuaded to buy a dozen cakes of Skyway soap, leaving him the wrappers to send in for their contest for a trip to the Moon.
(Have Space Suit — Will Travel)
2. [mentioned in passing] (Mrs.) Jonathan Hoag's cleaning lady, wife of the building's janitor.
5. Girl who babysat for Maureen Johnson's first three children. [Possibly related to Rod Jenkins?]
(To Sail Beyond the Sunset)
Bishop Jennings (no first name)
[mentioned in passing] Religious authority in Minneapolis.
("If This Goes On—")
Hannah Jensen
Alias Friday used as a "repair technician" on the fence between the Chicago Imperium and Canada, trying to cut her way through.
(Friday)
Oscar Jensen
Interplanetary Patrol candidate from Venus. He became a good friend of Matt Dodson, passed his training at the same time, and was assigned to the Aes Triplex with him. He was named chief communications officer after the senior officers were transferred to a derelict ship for repairs. He landed on Venus with Matt and Tex Jarman to investigate a distress call, took command when the senior officer was injured, and negotiated aid from the natives. After the mission was completed, he was assigned as temporary liaison to the equatorial region because of his rapport with the natives.
(Space Cadet)
Tom Jeremy
[mentioned in passing] Character in the video serial The Space Troopers.
[mentioned in passing] One of the judges of the Society for Creative Anachronism joust at the Interuniverse Society conference. He is also mentioned as covering the convention for his journal. [SF and science writer Jerry Pournelle?]
Farmwife who fed Jefferson Thomas during his reconnaissance mission. Her husband informed Jeff that registration cards were necessary.
(The Day After Tomorrow)
Simon Jester
Mike's pen name for subversive doggerel, caricatured as a little horned devil with pitchfork and tail, sometimes stabbing a fat man. He was quickly adopted by Loonies in general, and cartoons and verses that Mike had not produced appeared everywhere, becoming the Revolutionary equivalent of "Kilroy Was Here".
1. [mentioned in passing] The husband of Oscar Gordon's old girlfriend; he was away from home on business when she invited him to dinner "for old time's sake".
Small ship used to shuttle colonists from the Mayflower to Ganymede colony, and for suborbital travel around the moon. It was originally commissioned for use between Ganymede and Project Jove.
(Farmer in the Sky)
Joan (no last name)
1. Girl who sent Oscar Gordon a Dear John letter, but contacted him after he'd returned from the quest for the Egg of the Phoenix. She was clearly interested in renewing their "friendship" in spite of her marriage, but he backed out.
4. (Uncle) Possibly apocryphal relative of Richard Ames about whom Ames told Gwen Novak highly improbable stories about his sex life. He was a resident of Grinnell, Iowa.
(The Cat Who Walks Through Walls)
Jockaira
1. Inhabitants of an Earthlike planet orbiting star ZD9817. They were 7-8 feet tall, with large limpid eyes but loose toothless mouths and bifurcated upper lips. Although roughly humanoid in appearance, they were very different socially and mentally. They contacted the Howard Families telepathically and welcomed them to their planet, even providing a city for them. Jockairan food was suitable for humans, and the Jockaira were intensely eager to fill human needs; but many human concepts, such as privacy, baffled them. The humans usually shortened their name to "Jocks". They turned out to be "domestic animals" under the control of unseen higher beings, who removed the humans from their planet ("flying" them back into the ship) when Slayton Ford became psychotic after contact with them and they decided humans could not be domesticated. (A reference to "Jockaria" is obviously a typographical error.)
(Methuselah's Children)
2.Lazarus Long claimed to have returned to the planet (which had been deliberately miscatalogued to keep humans away from it), and massacred the "gods". His "twin sisters" called the race "Jabberwockies".
(Time Enough for Love)
Jodrell Bank
[mentioned in passing] Institute that authorized the Manned Pluto Probe, but lost touch with it.
(I Will Fear No Evil)
Joe (no last name)
1. a. Terran soldier who invaded the Two Worlds Dining Room, taking Don Harvey prisoner and killing Old Charlie. b. One of the soldiers hunting Don after his escape from the detention camp.
Treaty negotiated at the end of World War III. By inference, it banned the construction of nuclear weapons.
("If This Goes On—")
Anna Johansen
Classified documents clerk who retrieved The Only Deadly Weapon from Friday; she had assisted in Friday's rescue from her kidnappers.
(Friday)
Johansen (no first name)
[mentioned in passing] Astrogator in the Thule. Kelly asked Max Jones briefly about him because Max had claimed to have tried for chartsman aboard that ship.
In the United States where Alex Hergensheimer ended up after the Mazatlán earthquake, he was His Most Christian Majesty, Hereditary President of the United States and Canada, Duke of Hyannisport, Comte de Quebec, Defender of the Faith, Protector of the Poor, and Marshal in Chief of the Peace Force. [Inferring from Hyannisport, he could be John Kennedy or a descendant.]
(Job: A Comedy of Justice)
John Henry Drilling, Welding and Rigging Contractors
Also known as Old John, a hermit in the Adirondacks where Sam Cavanaugh had his cabin. He was possibly the source of the puppet master that infected Sam's cat.
(The Puppet Masters)
Adele Pfeiffer Johnson
1.Lazarus Long's maternal grandmother. She lived in St. Louis after leaving her husband, but refused to divorce him.
(Time Enough for Love)
2.
Maureen Johnson's mother, born 1854. Although Maureen respected her, they did not get on well because of significant personality differences. Unlike her husband, Adele was completely conventional in her opinions and morals. Whereas Maureen could — and did — discuss anything, particularly sexuality, with her father, she took pains to hide her more "progressive" opinions and behavior from her mother. She was quite surprised to realize that, like all Howard Families brides, her mother conceived her first-born child before marriage.
[mentioned in passing] Howard Families member, grandmother of Edmund Hardy. [It's unclear whether this is the Alice Irene Johnson mentioned in To Sail Beyond the Sunset.]
(Methuselah's Children)
Alice Irene Johnson
[mentioned in passing] Ira Johnson's sister (1840–?). The family lost track of her after she married "back east". [It's unclear whether this is the Alice Johnson mentioned in Methuselah's Children.]
Ira Johnson's father (1813–1918), the oldest in his family, born in Illinois. He served in the [1840s] war with Mexico as a sergeant in the Illinois militia. He volunteered to fight in the Civil War, but was turned down.
(To Sail Beyond the Sunset)
Audrey Adele Johnson
Maureen Johnson's older sister, born 1878. She married Jerome Bixby in 1896.
(To Sail Beyond the Sunset)
Aurora Johnson
Ira Johnson's sister (1850–?). She married several times; when last heard from in 1930, she was in California.
(To Sail Beyond the Sunset)
Axel Johnson
Member of the Howard Families. He was nominated for chairman of the emergency meeting after the suspension of the Covenant, but withdrew in favor of Lazarus Long.
Nightwalker (undocumented laborer) who intercepted Gwen Novak and Richard Ames as they were moving out of her apartment. He was ineptly disguised as a proctor.
Alfred McNeil's great-niece, and his telepathic partner, only a little girl when the Lewis & Clark's voyage began. Tom Bartlett learned to communicate with her.
1. (Referred to only as Edward Johnson.) Lazarus Long's great-uncle, a railroad engineer who had been killed on the job. Ira Johnson speculated that Ted Bronson might be his bastard son, to account for Ted's resemblance to various Johnsons.
(Time Enough for Love)
2.Ira Johnson's brother (1844–1884). He fought in the Civil War. He was killed in a train wreck.
(To Sail Beyond the Sunset)
Eleanor Johnson
Young, widowed Howard Families member, mother of a new baby when the New Frontiers left Earth. She spoiled her son dreadfully during the voyage, and followed him back to the New Frontiers when the Families decided to return to Earth, even though she had not wanted to go.
(Methuselah's Children)
Elizabeth Louise (Betty Lou) Barstow Johnson
Nelson Johnson's wife, from Massachusetts; they met while she was a student at Kansas University.
Ira Johnson's grandfather (1795–1897), born in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. He served in the War of 1812. After he married Amanda Fredericks, they moved to Illinois, then moved again to Minnesota after the War with Mexico. He died in a Minneapolis nursing home.
1. Medical student and one of the first members of the Howard Foundation project.
(Methuselah's Children)
2.Lazarus Long's grandfather, also Ira Weatheral's ancestor. He was approximately 80 years old when Lazarus left home. The Howard Families records report that he was killed during the World War II bombings in London. When Lazarus returned to 1916 Kansas City, he made Ira's acquaintance and was accepted as a possible nephew.
(Time Enough for Love)
3.Maureen Johnson's father (1852–1941), a physician in Lyle County, Missouri. He was born August 2, 1852, in Freeborn County, Minnesota, the youngest of four boys and three girls. When he was 12, he ran away to enlist as a drummer boy for the Civil War, but was fetched home after three weeks. He served as an Army physician during the Spanish-American War, then re-enlisted after Maureen was married, serving in Cuba, in the Philippines, and in China during the Boxer Rebellion. He left the Army in 1912 and moved to Kansas City,where Maureen lived. After being refused for activity duty during World War I, he was accepted into the Missouri militia. He volunteered for medical service with the AFS (American Friends Service?) in 1940 and was reported missing in the Battle of Britain during World War II. One purpose for the Time Corps' mission to the Battle of Britain was to rescue Ira before he was killed.
(To Sail Beyond the Sunset)
Jack Johnson
[mentioned in passing] Lazarus Long's cousin, who married Meg Hardy after she divorced Lazarus.
(Time Enough for Love)
James Ewing Johnson
Ira Johnson's brother (1833–1884). He died while attempting to ford the Osage River during spring flood. Maureen Johnson's aunt Carole Pelletier Johnson was his widow. He fought in the Civil War
1.Lazarus Long's mother, with whom he fell in love when he traveled back in time to his childhood home. Although he did not tell her his true identity, he did reveal that he was a time traveler.
(Time Enough for Love)
2. After returning to his "present", Lazarus made plans to return to the moment of his mother's death, to rescue her and bring her to Tertius for rejuvenation. The plan succeeded with the help of the Gay Deceiver crew.
(The Number of the Beast)
3. Mother of Lazarus Long. Born in Thebes, Lyle County, in southern Missouri on July 4, 1882 (Gregorian), the daughter of physician Ira Johnson and Adele Pfeiffer Johnson. She married Brian Smith in 1898 and moved with him to Kansas City. While raising numerous children, she also helped him start his mining consulting business. They moved to Chicago in 1940, to an apartment building owned by the Howard Foundation through a dummy, then moved again to San Francisco where Brian served in the Army during World War II. After World War II, they lived with their widowed daughter-in-law, Marian Hardy Smith, in Texas until 1946, when Brian asked for a divorce to marry Marian. She moved back to Kansas City in 1946, attending Rockhurst College 1946–1952 and acquiring multiple degrees. Acquiring a million-dollar share in Harriman Industries, she became a director and used her "inside knowledge" of the future to encourage investments in major technology. She wrote a newspaper column under the name Prudence Penny with the ultimate aim of promoting the idea of an expedition to the moon; in 1965 she moved to Colorado Springs to be near the site of the first moon launch. She was eased off the Harriman board of directors when Daniel Dixon took control. She moved to Albuquerque in 1972, and was initiated as a witch (Wicca rite) that same year. She would have died in 1982 in a traffic accident, except that the crew of the Gay Deceiver rescued her at the last minute. She trained as a rejuvenator, then became a Time Corps agent.
(To Sail Beyond the Sunset)
Nelson Johnson
Maureen's cousin and occasional sex partner. His parents were James Ewing Johnson and Carole Pelletier Johnson; he was determined to be eligible for Howard Foundation benefits. He earned a master's degree in agronomy at Kansas State University. He became a partner in Brian Smith's mining consulting firm; he and his wife lived with the Smiths for the first few years of the partnership. He joined the Marines when the U.S. entered World War I and lost a foot in Belleau Wood in 1918. He re-enlisted for limited duty during World War II.
(To Sail Beyond the Sunset)
Peter Johnson
Son of Mrs. Peter Van Hogbein Johnson [see next entry]; he broke his hip playing polo just before an important dinner party his mother was hosting.
("—We Also Walk Dogs")
Mrs. Peter Van Hogbein Johnson (no other first name)
Society matron who requested General Services' help so that she could both be at her son's hospital bedside and act as hostess for an important dinner party. They arranged a two-way video broadcast between the party and her son's hospital room.
Maureen Johnson's older brother, born 1881. He enlisted in the Army in 1898 to fight in the Spanish-American War.
(To Sail Beyond the Sunset)
Timothy Johnson
One of Kip Russell's captors. He was imprisoned with Kip after his usefulness was over, and disappeared after several days — possibly eaten by Wormface. Kip called him "Fatty" even after learning his real name.
1. Former real estate salesman suggested to be a priest of Mota. He turned out to be a spy and collaborator for the PanAsians, and was killed by Jefferson Thomas.
(The Day After Tomorrow)
2. [mentioned in passing] Family living near Joe Branca's mother; they had twins, one a dropout and one on parole.
[mentioned in passing] A point in Singapore the farthest distance from the docks; Oscar Gordon narrowly avoided being taken there "by mistake" by a cabdriver.
[mentioned in passing] Food technician first class with the Mars Expedition settlement. He died of "homesickness" and was "cherished" by the MartianOld Ones.
(Stranger in a Strange Land)
Caspol Jones
[mentioned in passing] L. Ron O'Leemy claimed to have a warrant for his arrest.
(The Number of the Beast)
Chang Jones
Lunar Congressman who proposed a grain embargo against Earth.
Max Jones' late uncle. A member of the Astrogators' Guild, he gave Max his astrogation books and promised to register him as his heir with the Guild but was unable to do so before his untimely death.
1. Associate technician tending Lazarus Long. Dubbed "Galahad" by Ishtar Hardy, he preferred it over his real name, Obadiah. He was a student of ancient cultures before becoming a rejuvenation technician. He joined the Lazarus Long's group marriage in the Tertius colony.
A member of Bill Lermer's scout troop on Earth, who emigrated in the Mayflower. Although the two did not get along well on Earth, they slowly became good friends during the voyage.
(Farmer in the Sky)
Holly Jones
1. Third-generation Lunarite, a 15-year-old student at Tech High who worked as a tourist guide but planned to become a spaceship designer with her friend Jeff Hardesty.
Ozark farmboy who ran away from home after his stepmother remarried and sold the farm. After learning that his uncle had not fulfilled his promise to get him into the Astrogators' Guild, he used forged papers to get menial work aboard the starship Asgard. He rapidly went from tending animals to training as a chartsman After the ship was lost through an uncharted anomaly and all others with astrogation skills died, he successfully piloted the ship back to known space, and was accepted as an apprentice astrogator by the Guild.
(Starman Jones)
Mei-Ling Jones
One of the telepaths aboard the Lewis & Clark (Chinese-Peruvian, she pronounced her surname "Hone-Ace"). She married Chet Travers; their baby died in the plague.
Reserve officer and wealthy friend of Humphrey Wingate. He signed up with Wingate as a contract laborer on Venus and was sent to the South Pole, but managed to buy his and Wingate's contracts and free them from indenture.
("Logic of Empire")
Susan Jones
[mentioned in passing] Alias under which Joan Eunice Smith planned to set up an account for shopping.
(I Will Fear No Evil)
Zebadiah Jones
John Lyle's roommate, who joined the Cabal with John, working for Psych and Propaganda with the rank of major; he very shortly became a colonel and acting head of Propaganda.
("If This Goes On—")
Jones (no first name)
1. (Mrs.) Holly Jones' mother, a mathematical chemist for General Synthetics of Luna, who encouraged her daughter's plan to become a spaceship designer.
("The Menace from Earth")
2. Alias under which Joan Eunice Smith reserved a nightclub table to celebrate her recovery from the brain transplant.
1. [mentioned in passing] Builder of the New Frontiers.
(Methuselah's Children)
2. Organization that sponsored the Proxima Centauri Expedition. After many generations, dim memories and tradition on the Ship transformed this into Jordan, the deity that guided the Ship's spiritual progress. (Is there a connection with Methuselah's Children?)
(Orphans of the Sky)
Jordan's Plan
The original ship's itinerary, interpreted metaphorically by the Scientists as a guide for moral behavior and Key to Spiritual Enlightenment.
(Orphans of the Sky)
Jorgensen (no first name)
Captain of the Tours, who tutored Juan Rico in math when she learned he had orders to improve his skills.
2. The Farnhams' African American houseboy, an accounting student. He survived the nuclear war and was hurled forward in time with them in their bomb shelter. Hugh Farnham made him his second in command. After the group was found by the Chosen, he was taken on as a protégé by Ponse, repudiating his earlier relationship to the Farnhams but doing what he could to make their lot easier.
(Farnham's Freehold)
3.Star's uncle; she claimed that Count Cagliostro was one of his aliases.
Battalion formed from inhabitants of the pariah reservations and volunteers from other nations, to battle the Prophet. The members were presumably Jewish.
Chief planet of the Nine Worlds and site of the capital. Thorby Rudbek was brought here to be sold at slave auction, and Richard Baslim had volunteered for an undercover assignment there to report on the slave trade.
Young Holy Virgin appointed to serve the Prophet. John Lyle fell in love with her, and when she was traumatized to learn what "service" was required, he joined the Cabal to help rescue her from her fate. She was smuggled into Mexico, but instead of being reunited with John after he went underground, she married a man she met in Mexico.
("If This Goes On—")
Julia (no last name)
Edith Jameson's sister-in-law, who called attention to the stain under Jonathan Hoag's fingernails and tried to guess his profession.
("The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag")
Dr. Julian (no first name)
[mentioned in passing] Foremost theoretician on gravitation. Unfortunately for the purposes of General Services, he was deceased.
Code name Kip Russell used to test Oscar's [his space suit's] radio circuit. When Peewee Reisfeld heard his broadcast "Junebug to Peewee" she thought he was trying to contact her.
Mike's name for the auxiliary computer used for launching ballistic loads.
(The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress)
Junior Council
Representative body in the Mayflower, chosen from emigrants under 18 years old. They had little influence on decisions aboard the ship, although they actively lobbied the Senior Council.
