Company that Bill Johnson's forged papers stated had owned his indenture.
Beth Lou (no last name)
[mentioned in passing] Girl whom Richard Ames claimed his mother knew, who unwittingly married her mother's brother, about whom he wrote a True Confessions story. He actually got the story from The Ring Cycle.
Settlement not far from where Richard Ames crash-landed on Luna.
Gloria Meade Calhoun
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.
Colonel Colin ("Killer") Campbell (a.k.a. Richard Ames)
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.
Code name that reminded Richard Ames of an unspecified debt. The Walker Evans Memorial Society, also known as Friends of Walker Evans, consisted of six men and a woman, otherwise undescribed, who had the right to call in the debt. They were apparently military comrades of Ames.
family
In most of Heinlein's early books, families are similar to the U.S. middle-class 20th-century nuclear family: father, mother, and children living together but not sharing their dwelling except possibly with a grandparent. The roles of family members also seem portrayed as traditional: breadwinner father, housekeeping mother, children being raised to and expecting to assume the same roles in adulthood.
The interrelated novels Time Enough for Love, Number of the Beast, The Cat Who Walks Through Walls, and To Sail Beyond the Sunset all feature the group marriage of the Long clan, within which sexual pairings are indiscriminate (though apparently exclusively heterosexual) and children are the joint responsibility of all adult members.
Evelyn Fingerhut
[mentioned in passing] Editor who bought romance stories from Richard Ames. He warned Ames that knowing something about his subject matter is a handicap in selling stories.
Name by which Hendrik Schultz claimed he was once known; he immediately afterward reversed himself.
Mungerson Fitts
Assistant Deputy Administrator for Superrogatory Statistics in Golden Rule. He offered to handle Richard Ames' problem when Ames asked to see the Manager.
Alias by which Richard Ames addressed Gwen Novak while interrogating the nightwalker who intercepted them as they tried to leave her apartment. [If this story takes place in the same universe as "The Menace From Earth" (see Jeff Hardesty), the surname may be common in Luna.]
[mentioned in passing] Owner of Ingrid's Swap Shop, a general store. She was Jinx Henderson's wife, and a direct descendant of Hazel Stone.
Jinx Henderson
Salvage operator who rescued Richard Ames and Gwen Novak after their crash landing on Luna. He was owner of Happy Chance Salvage Service, Dry Bones Ice Company, Henderson's Overland Cartage Company, and John Henry Drilling, Welding and Rigging Contractors. He took Ingrid Henderson's surname when he married her; he was born John Black Eagle.
(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.
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.
[mentioned in passing] Business establishment in Golden Rule.
Manager (or Managing Partner)
Since Golden Rule was privately owned and not chartered by any government, the Manager was the ultimate and only authority. Decisions were arbitrary and utterly final.
marriage
In Golden Rule it is possible only through church ceremonies, since there is no legal institution of marriage.
Colin Campbell was recruited to help the Time Corps rescue the sentient computer, Mike, from destruction during the final battle of the Lunar Revolution. The book's ending leaves his fate unknown.
Richard Ames' name for the man who approached him in Rainbow's End about having someone killed. He himself was killed after showing Ames his I.D. but before explaining anything further. At the time the killer was unidentified, but later Gwen Novak admitted to having done the deed.
nightwalkers
[mentioned in passing] Richard Ames' name for illegal inhabitants of orbiting habitats; lacking the documentation to support themselves by legal means, they inevitably became criminals. He suspected that they were spaced when caught by Golden Rule management.
[mentioned in passing] Dancer who starred as Titania in the Halifax Ballet Theater's performance of A Midsummer Night's Dream that Richard Ames attended the night Herr Nameless approached him about killing someone.
A cat that was able to "walk through walls". He accompanied Gwen Novak and Colin Campbell on the mission to rescue Mike from being "killed" during the final battle of the Lunar Revolution.
A hotel room that Colin Campbell rented displayed a plaque proclaiming it the room where the Revolution was declared. Campbell was skeptical, comparing it to "Washington Slept Here."
Name on the Golden Rule identity pass of the man killed while talking to Richard Ames in Rainbow's End. The pass described him as an accountant and citizen of Belize. His wallet contained money and the pass but nothing else.
Rev. Dr. Hendrik Hudson Schultz
[mentioned in passing] Astrologer and bookie who also performed weddings in Golden Rule. Richard Ames found his directory listing while looking up Enrico Schultz.
Under the name of Gwen Novak, she was having dinner with Richard Ames (whose real name was Colin Campbell) when he was interrupted by Herr Nameless. She married Campbell in the first chapter and accompanied him on his adventures. She was referred to as "Mrs. Ames" throughout most of the book, until she and Campbell encountered the Gay Deceiver.
[mentioned in passing] Apparently a soap opera broadcast within the Lunar colonies.
Taliaferro
[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.
[mentioned in passing] Thoroughfare in Golden Rule.
time
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.
Time Police for the Circle of Ouroboros (Time Corps)
Organization that patrolled the various time lines and prevented undue interference in them. They sent Hazel Meade Stone to recruit Richard Ames to help rescue Mike from destruction at the end of the Lunar revolution.
