[mentioned in passing] City, apparently under the jurisdiction of China, where a Morale Corps sergeant gave birth by Caesarean to a two-headed boy. The event was recorded for television broadcast.
ancestry
Johann Sebastian Bach Smith was German-American, having changed his name from Schmidt probably because of World War I prejudices.
Long Beach, California, minister who broadcast the show Equal Time for God, and claimed that the world had ended on December 31, 1999.
Matthew Barnes
Bureaucrat who processed applications for migration to Luna. Joan Eunice Smith took him to task for wasting her time.
Mrs. Baum (no first name)
[mentioned in passing] Woman who ran a notions shop in Johann Sebastian Bach Smith's childhood neighborhood. She had one son who was killed in World War I, and another who made a name for himself in electronics.
Betsy
Eunice Branca's pet name for her automated stenodesk.
[mentioned in passing] Owner of a pawnshop from whom Jake Salomon got a certified check, at Johann Sebastian Bach Smith's insistence, with which to pay for a life insurance policy with Eunice Branca as the beneficiary.
Expensive women's clothing store in Gimbel's Compound. [French, "shop"]
Lindsay Boyle
Australian surgeon who performed successful brain transplants on chimpanzees. He was banned from practicing medicine in Australia because of controversy over his research and results; he moved to South America, then ultimately became a citizen of China. He transplanted Johann Sebastian Bach Smith's brain into Eunice Branca's body.
Angela Branca
[mentioned in passing] Joe Branca's sister, unwed mother of three children.
Annamaria Branca
[mentioned in passing] Joe Branca's sister, an unwed mother.
Eunice Evans Branca
Johann Sebastian Bach Smith's personal secretary. A beauty contest winner at 18, she rejected the chance of a video career for a degree in secretarial electronics with a minor in computer language and cybernetics. Married and childless (except for a child she bore but gave up for adoption at 16), she was killed at age 28 and her body donated for Smith's brain transplant; they shared a rare blood type. The transplant was a success, but Eunice's personality remained in the body and she regularly communicated with Smith.
Blanca
Mispronunciation of Eunice Branca's surname in a sensational newscast about Johann Sebastian Bach Smith's identity hearing.
Jose (Joe) Branca
Eunice Branca's husband, a gifted artist although illiterate. After Eunice's death he remarried; he and his wife briefly joined Joan Eunice Smith on her ocean voyage.
Mrs. Branca (no first name)
Joe Branca's mother, an alcoholic dependent on welfare and on her son and daughter-in-law's charity. She lived in another city, to the couple's relief.
[mentioned in passing] Club in Kansas City circa 1934, remembered by Joan Eunice Smith as featuring nude waitresses.
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.
[mentioned in passing] Extreme left-wing political party in the United States.
Mrs. Crampton
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.
[mentioned in passing] Company that presumably operated on Luna or between Earth and Luna.
Dr. Lyndon Doyle
[mentioned in passing] Name under which a warrant was issued for Lindsay Boyle after he performed Johann Sebastian Bach Smith's brain transplant; Boyle was out of jurisdiction before it was issued.
[mentioned in passing] Name of a Food Cave in the Lunar colonies.
Winifred (Winnie) Gerston
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.
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.
[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.
Marian H (full surname not given)
[mentioned in passing] Woman with whom Jake Salomon had had an affair; he called her "Maid Marian".
Handy (no first name)
Senile Supreme Court Justice who overturned standards for lunar immigration. The Lunar colonies ignored him because he lacked jurisdiction.
Hank (no last name)
Son of Fred and Della; he accompanied Joan Eunice Smith on her ocean voyage.
One of Johann Sebastian Bach Smith's granddaughters (either Marla or Elinor), involved in the suit to declare him legally dead after the brain transplant.
Colonization organization. It was operated the Interstellar Advisory Subcommittee that made the first attempt at interstellar flight, choosing Tau Ceti over Alpha Centauri for the destination.
Machine Tools Division
[mentioned in passing] Division of Smith Enterprises interested in acquiring control of Homecrafts, Ltd.
Miss MacIntosh (no first name)
Johann Sebastian Bach Smith's private-duty nurse. She threatened to quit when Johann her authority and called her "Miss Bedpan". He immediately apologized and raised her salary.
[mentioned in passing] Employees of the laboratory found artifacts of an extinct human-equivalent intelligence. Chinese members of the expedition denied they were artificially produced.
Judge who had Johann Sebastian Bach Smith declared a ward of the court after his brain transplant, with Jake Salomon as his guardian, mostly to protect him from his granddaughters. He later presided over the identity hearing. He was Johann's lodge brother. He was called "Mac" by his friends.
Norma McCampbell
[mentioned in passing] Judge McCampbell's wife.
Mrs. McIntyre (no first name)
Alias used by Joan Eunice Smith when she went to a medical clinic for her pregnancy test.
[mentioned in passing] It was occupied by the People's Agrarian Emergency Government (what their political philosophy or agenda was is not described, nor their purpose in occupying the state house).
[mentioned in passing] Site of perpetual peace negotiations.
Parkinson (no first name)
Member of the board of directors of Smith Enterprises, who moved that Johann Sebastian Bach Smith be invited to retire; he got no support from the other members. Wealthy through his mother-in-law (possibly one of Johann's daughters), he was fired from the board when his voting stock dropped below 5% of the total.
Chief counsel for Johann Sebastian Bach Smith and for Smith Enterprises. He had an affair with Eunice Branca, and after her death he authorized Johann's brain transplant into her bodied. He married "Joan Eunice Smith" but died of a heart attack several months afterward. Both Eunice and Joan Eunice called him Jock.
Sam (no last name)
Usually called "Big Sam", a neighbor of Joe and Eunice Branca and a self-styled guru.
Incredibly wealthy but old to decrepitude and kept alive by machines, he arranged to have his brain transplanted into a young body (secretly hoping he would die in the attempt). The transplant into the body of his secretary Eunice Branca, however, was successful; he retained his memory and personality but Eunice was in the "background" of his mind. He took the name Joan Eunice Smith, weathered an attempt by his granddaughters to have Johann Smith declared dead, and had "herself" impregnated with "his" sperm. Joan Eunice married Jacob Salomon, emigrated to Luna, and died in childbirth, possibly of delayed rejection syndrome.
Roberta Smith
Johann Sebastian Bach Smith's daughter, alienated from him by his ex-wife, but "reconciled" with him because of his money.
[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.
Alec Train
Attorney who prosecuted the suit that challenged Johann Sebastian Bach Smith's identity after his brain transplant.
Although it included 54 states, it was rapidly descending into chaos. The traditional political parties (Democratic, Republican) were fringe groups, and most cities were armed camps.
