[mentioned in passing] Original spelling of Ronson Tolliver's surname. (In spite of the spelling, it is pronounced like "Tolliver".) One of the people with this name in Golden Rule was wanted dead.
(The Cat Who Walks Through Walls)
Talley (no first name)
[mentioned in passing] Member of Ted Bronson's World War I platoon.
Woman who complained about travelling conditions and just about everything else aboard the Bifrost. She ultimately decided not to board the Mayflower. Her husband Joseph is also mentioned.
University that offered an Advanced Survival course. One of its classes was stranded on their test planet when the tunnel connecting the planet with Earth collapsed.
1. Planet on which Ira Weatheral and Lazarus Long established a colony, mostly their own family members, after agreeing that Secundus had become too crowded and "civilized."
(Time Enough for Love)
2. Home of Lazarus Long and his group marriage. It was the site of the Interuniverse Society conference.
(The Number of the Beast)
3. Home of the Long extended family, including Maureen Johnson.
(The Cat Who Walks Through Walls, To Sail Beyond the Sunset)
Temple
Capitol of the Prophet's religious and government organization, located in New Jerusalem.
[mentioned in passing] Widespread disorders that preceded the breakup of the North American republic in the 20th century. Disturbances also occurred in Russia and the British Isles though the effects were not as severe. The Terror culminated in a world war.
One of the few survivors in the Citadel after the Ledbetter Effect disaster. Trained as a lawyer; he went into social administration and became a hobo to gather information for a thesis, then stayed one because he liked it. He was sworn into the Army after he wandered into the Citadel's secret entrance. He volunteered for intelligence work after the PanAsian invasion and was promoted from private to lieutenant for the assignment, then to captain when he took charge of Denver recruitment as a priest of Mota. Among the hoboes he was known as Gentleman Jeff.
(The Day After Tomorrow)
Dr. Thorgsen (no first name)
Inventor of an apparatus to determine the origin and destination of the galaxy.
(Beyond This Horizon)
Professor Thorwald (no first name)
Scientist who aided in the investigation of the Pathfinder's disabling. He concurred that fossils and artifacts aboard her indicated that the Asteroid Belt was a remnant of an inhabited planet that blew itself up.
[mentioned in passing] Thoroughfare in Golden Rule.
(The Cat Who Walks Through Walls)
Three Galaxies
The advanced worlds of the Lesser Magellanic Cloud, Greater Magellanic Cloud, and Milky Way comprised a quasi-political "police" force to protect themselves against "uncivilized" worlds that might develop dangerous technology and cause trouble for the more advanced worlds.
Friend and classmate of Rod Walker who, took his Advanced Survival test at the same time as Rod. He was found injured by Jackie Daudet. After his recovery they and Rod made plans to gather the surviving students into a community. He married Jackie in Cowpertown.
(Tunnel in the Sky)
Colonel Thrushbotham (no first name)
Military officer who classified as secret Hubert Twitchell's time-travel research.
Bomb officer aboard the Aes Triplex, also assigned to oversee the cadets' training. He was named executive officer and astrogator after half the crew transferred to the Pathfinder. While commanding the mission to Venus to investigate a distress call, he suffered a concussion in the landing and remained comatose until the cadets lifted the Astarte into orbit.
1.J. Darlington Smith was seen as a "time traveler" although he had not really bypassed the normal sequence of time.
(Beyond This Horizon)
2.Hubert Twitchell discovered that reversing the polarity needed to nullify gravity would send objects through time; but there was an equal chance of going backwards or forwards. In a test of whether the theory was valid, Daniel Boone Davis traveled back to the year when he entered cold sleep.
(The Door Into Summer)
3. A massive atomic explosion hurled the Farnham bomb shelter thousands of years into the future. The Chosen scientists discovered a method of sending objects back in time, but when Hugh Farnham and Barbara Wells were sent back, they discovered themselves apparently in an alternate world.
(Farnham's Freehold)
4. The Three Galaxies officials were able to send Kip Russell not only back to Earth, but back in time to just after he was kidnapped.
(Have Space Suit — Will Travel)
5.Jacob Burroughs was working on a time machine when he developed the technology that enabled travel through other universes.
(The Number of the Beast)
6. The inhabitants of the Ship had the concepts of "before", "now", "after"; but not of measured times, being isolated from astronomical phenomena and lacking seasons on which such measurements are usually based.
(Orphans of the Sky)
7.Lazarus Long determined that the same method used to move the Dora through space could also be used for time travel. He used the method to travel back to Kansas City in the early 20th century, but missed his actual destination by several years.
(Time Enough for Love)
8. The teleportation Gates in common use were originally invented as time machines; they were less commonly used for that purpose, and also as stasis fields to "freeze" time.
(Tunnel in the Sky)
9. The "irrelevant" vehicles could travel through time as well as through space and into other universes. Such travel made the concept of a fixed linear time obsolete. Their invention was quickly followed by the formation of the Time Corps to control changes to history.
(The Cat Who Walks Through Walls, To Sail Beyond the Sunset)
10. "All You Zombies", a story outside the Future History canon, described the peculiar circumstances in which a time traveler became his own father — and mother.
The time lines, or alternate universes, are named after the first person to walk on the moon.
Code name John Carter. In this time line, the 1940 Democratic presidential nomination went to Paul McNutt, and the Republican nomination to Robert Taft.
The time line in which Maureen Johnson was born, code name Leslie LeCroix. In this time line, Franklin Roosevelt was nominated for a third presidential term in 1940, then died of a stroke while playing tennis, creating a constitutional crisis in the dispute over who would be President if the electoral college votes were not yet cast. (This is the only time line in which Roosevelt had not had polio.) The Japanese attacked San Francisco, not Pearl Harbor, on December 7, 1941; in reaction, 60,000 Japanese-Americans were slaughtered on the West Coast. California was placed under martial law afterwards. (Tokyo and Kobe are also mentioned, presumably as the alternate Hiroshima and Nagasaki.) This is the time line of the Interregnum of the Prophets.
Code name Neil Armstrong. It is the native time line of Hazel Stone and Jubal Harshaw — the locus of the events in The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress and Stranger in a Strange Land. Unlike in other time lines, Venus is uninhabitable and Mars an almost airless desert. As in time line two, Earth suffered the Crazy Years in the second half of the twentieth century.
Code name Fairacres, the time line in which the United States was defeated in World War II. The Japanese and German empires split America between them along the Mississippi River. (This may be the locus of the events in The Day After Tomorrow.)
A variant of time line two in which the Second American Revolution never took place, and thus the Reign of the Prophet persisted. Maureen Johnson ended up in it after the sabotage of the time bus, in the year 2184.
(To Sail Beyond the Sunset; also, indirectly, in The Cat Who Walks Through Walls)
Reporter employed by the Daily Herald. Hugo Pinero chose him as a subject for a demonstration of his "Life-Line" machine. He was killed the same day as the demonstration, as Pinero had predicted.
("Life-Line")
Professor Timoshenko
Master of ceremonies, owner, and manager of the carnival with which Valentine Michael Smith travelled. His real name was Tim Baxter.
Character encountered during the Gay Deceiver's visit to Oz.
(The Number of the Beast)
Tinker's Guild
Guild that Lazarus Long joined on Fatima, with the aid of some under-the-counter dealing with the Guildmaster. He repaired appliances and occasionally sold advanced electronics. He became the assistant to a government trade official, eventually replacing him.
(Time Enough for Love)
Tirl
Angel who advised Alex Hergensheimer on how to search for Margrethe Gunderson; he called St. Peter's office on Alex's behalf to check on her whereabouts.
Personal space yacht and travelling office of John Joseph Bonforte. Larry Smith travelled in it from Earth to Mars while learning his role for the Bonforte impersonation.
[mentioned in passing] Supreme Court decision in Alex Hergensheimer's homeworld under which community standards of the "typical" community in each state applied to all other cities.
(Job: A Comedy of Justice)
Tommy (no last name)
Howard Families member who worked communications in the Families' seat under Lake Michigan.
Captain of the SB Abel Tasman, who invited Friday to visit him while in New Zealand. She accepted the offer after her family divorced her, and he invited her to his home in Canada where she was stranded by Red Thursday. He and his family disappeared after she left to return to the Chicago Imperium, but she encountered them again on Botany Bay and joined their group marriage.
Federation troop transport to which Juan Rico was assigned during his officer training.
(Starship Troopers)
Jack Towers
[mentioned in passing] Insurance underwriter whom Johann Sebastian Bach Smith suggested to fill out an insurance policy on him with Eunice Branca as the beneficiary.
When Valentine Michael Smith read the play, he did not understand why Romeo "discorporated too soon", and wanted Jubal Harshaw to ask Romeo why.
(Stranger in a Strange Land)
Trailblazer
Ship on which John Thomas Stuart VIII made three exploration voyages. On the second voyage he acquired Lummox, and the ship did not return from the third.
(The Star Beast)
Alec Train
Attorney who prosecuted the suit that challenged Johann Sebastian Bach Smith's identity after his brain transplant.
The treaty that ended the war between the Chinese Hegemony and the Russo-Anglo-American Alliance at the end of the 20th century. Its failure to deal with the exchange of POWs contributed to the worldwide collapse of organized governments.
(Starship Troopers)
treaty towns
The only places on Mars where indigenous Martians and humans mingled, and there only under strict conditions.
(The Rolling Stones)
Triangle Line
Company that provided commercial spaceship travel among Earth, Venus, and Mars. Its ships included Triad, Triangulum, Trice, Tricolor, and Tricorn.
Hero of an Arthurian legend, featured in the nightmare that Kip Russell had after being kidnapped with Peewee Reisfeld.
(Have Space Suit — Will Travel)
Tri-University Life Engineering Laboratory
Facility in Detroit, Michigan, where Friday was "designed". [The Detroit and southeastern Michigan area has several major universities, including Wayne State University in Detroit, University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Oakland University in Rochester, University of Detroit, and Michigan State University in Lansing.]
Ejection capsule in which troopers are dropped from their ship to a planet's surface. It was designed with several layers, each of which protects the trooper against re-entry but also peels off in chunks to create radar "noise" to mask the drop. The inmost "egg" holds the trooper immobile through the drop and is discarded at the trooper's command.
[mentioned in passing] Little girl mentioned as a resident of Oz.
(The Number of the Beast)
Orson Trowbridge
Dak Broadbent told Larry Smith that this actor was a second choice for the John Joseph Bonforte impersonation. Smith described him as an unforgivable ham, so Broadbent's statement may have been a ploy to get Smith to agree to participate in the plan.
(Double Star)
Sarah Trowbridge
[mentioned in passing] Young woman of Maureen Johnson's acquaintance who disappeared while traveling from her father's farm to nearby Rich Hill.
(To Sail Beyond the Sunset)
Sergei Trujillo
[mentioned in passing] Janitor to whom Mike issued a paycheck for $10,000,000,000,000,185.15 — the last five digits being the correct amount. Knowing he couldn't cash it, Trujillo sold it to a collector.
In Maureen Johnson's time line he was never a U.S. senator and did not become President. Brian Smith knew a Captain Harry Truman in France, who was a haberdasher.
Domain that extends through various dimensions, encompassing a number of worlds within the dimensions. It is not explicitly described, but it is ruled by an "emperor" (see Star) who cybernetically absorbs the memories and experiences of all previous emperors. The capital world, Center, is a cosmopolitan crossroads for the many species that inhabit the Twenty Universes.
(Glory Road)
Dr. Hubert Twitchell
Physicist who discovered a means of time travel, only to have it classified secret by the Army. Daniel Boone Davis persuaded him to demonstrate his machine by sending Dan back to 1970. Afterwards, Dan resolved to write a book on the man.
Restaurant to which Johnny Ling took Don Harvey. When Ling stuck him with the check, Don got a job there washing dishes and also got a room in the back to sleep in.
Friend of Hugh Hoyland who wanted to be a scientist. He was eventually assigned to the Ship's Convertor as senior watch officer and married Edris Baxter after Hugh's disappearance. He testified against Hugh in his heresy trial. He was killed by Alan Mahoney during Hugh's rescue from execution.
(Orphans of the Sky)
Tyrannosaurus Ceti
Scientific name given to a lizardlike predator found on Constance.
