Humor and gossip sheet that circulated in the Slayton Ford
administration offices. It was devoted to ribbing the bosses, especially Ford.
Miles
Rodney's knowledge of it was taken as proof that his claim to advanced age
and the common use of rejuvenation was true.
(Methuselah's Children)
Sacred Lines
The Ship's
"scripture", oral tradition that recounted the history of the voyage.
(Orphans of the Sky)
Sadako (no first name)
[mentioned in passing] An old friend of Jubal
Harshaw; it was mentioned that she was fully tattooed.
(Stranger in a Strange Land)
Safari Jets
[mentioned in passing] Apparently an airline company.
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.
(I Will Fear No Evil)
Salomon (no first name)
A member of Juan Rico's
History and Moral Philosophy class in Officer Candidate School; during a
session he was called upon to describe the evolution of the Federation.
[mentioned in passing] Probably the former Mormon
Tabernacle Choir. Friday used a
tape to cover conversation in her Forward
stateroom with Percival
Roberts.
(Friday)
Rupe "Salty" Salter
A student at Ranchito
Alegre who tried to buy Don
Harvey's Spanish saddle and take over Lazy when Don was called back home.
He insulted Don because of his Venusian
origins.
(Between Planets)
Sam (no last name)
1. Usually called "Big Sam", a neighbor
of Joe and Eunice
Branca and a self-styled guru.
(I Will Fear No Evil)
2.a.
A roustabout with the carnival for which Valentine
Michael Smith briefly performed. b. A
member of the Church of
All Worlds inner circle (no indication whether this is the roustabout). He
managed to speak Martian with a
Bronx accent.
3. In Maureen
Johnson's time line, the
Japanese attacked San Francisco, not Pearl Harbor, on December 7, 1941.
Maureen and Brian Smith
lived here during World War II.
Cabal
member in Phoenix, Arizona, who escorted John Lyle to
Headquarters; he was a pastor's handyman.
("If This Goes On")
Sanctuary
FederationMobile
Infantry headquarters, to which troop ships came for R&R and resupply.
It was apparently a small planet.
(Starship Troopers)
Sanctuary for Defectives
Nursing home for genetically defective members of the Howard
Families. Apparently the problems of inbreeding persisted even with
advanced genetic engineering techniques.
Establishment owned by Valentine
Michael Smith through dummy ownerships. He took refuge there after his
last arrest. [French, "without concern", i.e. carefree]
(Stranger in a Strange Land)
Sans Souci Sheraton
Hotel in Hell where Alex
Hergensheimer was given a complimentary suite. [French, "without concern",
i.e. carefree]
(Job: A Comedy of Justice)
Clyde B. Sansom
Administrative Officer for Emigration Control Service. He oversaw "rescue"
operations after the Gate was reopened
to the Advanced
Survival test planet.
(Tunnel in the Sky)
Santa Barbara Field
Location of an Interplanetary
Patrol base on Earth. It was named after the patron saint of those who
work with explosives.
(Space Cadet)
"Santa Carolita"
Song that Dora offered to
sing to the Gay Deceiver
crew. It is also the nickname of Lazarus' sister Carol, for
reasons not given (but see La
Fiesta de Santa Carolita in To Sail Beyond the Sunset.)
In Alex
Hergensheimer's homeworld, a dirigible pioneer second only to Count von
Zeppelin; in one of the alternate universes, an inventor of flying machines.
Ape introduced into a puppet
master-infested chimp group to satisfy the scientists' curiosity about how
the puppet masters multiplied. He was used as a test case for nine-day
fever as a weapon against the invaders.
Sovereign of Hell and His Colonies Beyond, First of the Fallen Thrones,
Prince of Lies. He preferred the name Lucifer, and used the alias Jerry
Farnsworth when Alex
Hergensheimer first met him.
2. Colonist on the Mayflower who
was continually in trouble for "trying to live his own life, wild and free, no
matter what it did to the rest of us." He was equally troublesome after they
reached Ganymede.
[mentioned in passing] Hotel where "Joseph Gilead" (an
alias of Joe
Briggs) normally stayed in Pied-a-Terre.
After completing a mission on the Moon, Briggs passed it up in favor of the
hotel recommended by Mrs. Keithley's
agent.
("Gulf")
Savvonavong
1. Second officer in the Tricorn; he
showed Podkayne
Fries how to program a ballistic computer.
[mentioned in passing] Fictional character to whom Mike was compared, in his role as the leader of the Revolution, because he was never seen but the signs of his "presence" profoundly disturbed the Lunar Authority.
Son of Judge Schacht; a Junior Rocketeer of America who tried to imitate
his video hero while in the control room of the Flying
Dutchman; when he lunged for the controls, he sent the ship offcourse.
("Space Jockey")
Kurt Schaeffer
[mentioned in passing] Died in a lab explosion on Luna; a memorial
was set up to him and other victims.
("The Black Pits of Luna")
Schedule Bareback
First phase of Operation
Parasite. It required everyone to stay exposed to the waist to ensure that
they were free of puppet
master control.
(The Puppet Masters)
Schedule Counter Blast
Offensive against the puppet
masters that involved taking over all news media in infested areas. The
infestation was much greater than suspected, and the plan failed completely.
(The Puppet Masters)
Schedule Fever
Operation to infect people in areas infested by puppet
masters with nine-day
fever, hoping the kill the parasites and administer the antidote before
the disease killed the human hosts.
Infant born to Howard
Families members on the Planet of the Little
People, transformed by the Little People to be "more efficient". She
lacked external sense organs, had hooves in place of feet, and had more than
the normal number of fingers, with "extra" hands for micromanipulation.
(Methuselah's Children)
Oliver Schmidt
Howard
Families member who favored leaving PK3722 to return
to Earth. He was a former resident of Cincinnati, Ohio.
(Methuselah's Children)
Schmidt (no first name)
1.Johann
Sebastian Bach Smith's original surname. He changed it to "Smith" by
spelling it that way to a recruiting sergeant on December 8, 1941.
(I Will Fear No Evil)
2. [mentioned in passing]
President of Germany in Alec Graham's
universe.
(Methuselah's Children, To Sail Beyond the Sunset)
Schmidt's Corner
Grocery store near Havely Lode
where Hugh
Farnham and Barbara
Wells bought supplies after they returned to the past and before taking
refuge from the atomic bombardment.
Youngest member of the group stranded during their Advanced
Survival test.
(Tunnel in the Sky)
Hyman Schoenstein
Director of the Marsopolis
Creche. He was persuaded by Tom Fries to
pay for a trip to Earth for Podkayne
and Clark
Fries after the creche's error in thawing out their younger siblings
cancelled the original planned trip.
Crew member of the Astarte. He died
of a virulent fungus infection.
(Space Cadet)
Miss Schreiber (no first name)
Chief deputy county clerk who reluctantly registered Lummox as John Thomas
Stuart's homestead property to protect him against liability for the
damage Lummox had caused.
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.
(The Cat Who Walks Through Walls)
Rev. Dr. Hendrik Hudson Schultz
1. [mentioned in passing]
Astrologer and bookie who also performed weddings in Golden Rule.
Richard
Ames found his directory listing while looking up Enrico Schultz.
(The Cat Who Walks Through Walls)
2.Time
Corps field agent who leased a tower from Earl Leofric of Mercia (husband
of Lady Godiva) in 1043 to use as a time gate for the Battle of
Britain mission. Maureen
Johnson referred to him as Father Hendrik or Father Schultz. (A descendant
of Henry Schultz, and therefore of Maureen?)
(To Sail Beyond the Sunset)
Henry Schultz
Husband of Maureen
Johnson's daughter Susan. His
family came mostly from California or Pennsylvania.
(To Sail Beyond the Sunset)
Johann Schultz
Ganymedean
colonist who worked the farm neighboring that of Bill Lermer's
family. He gave much help and useful advice to Bill, as well as hiring him
while the Lermers waited to have their farm readied for production. Johann had
the only tree in the colony, and earned the nickname "Johnny Appleseed"by
distributing seeds to everyone who would take them. He was frequently called
"Papa Schultz", and his wife was known to everyone as "Mama". Their children
included
Anna
Gretchen, about Bill Lermer's age
Hugo, a Cub Scout
Johann Jr. (called Yo), a 20-year-old who worked for the chief engineer
in Leda
Kathy, an artist who'd painted the tiles on the family stove
Howard
Families psychometrician who reported on the results of testing the effect
of ending the Masquerade.
He had recommended that members participating in the test be hypnotically
protected against revealing Family secrets, but was only partly successful in
achieving this. He was one of Zaccur
Barstow's lieutenants in the New
Frontiers. He treated Slayton Ford
after Ford's disastrous encounter with the Jockaira
"gods."
5. [mentioned in passing]
Member of Ted
Bronson's platoon.
(Time Enough for Love)
Science Foundation
Organization that controlled the rights to and interim income from the Lyle Drive,
from a trust started by its designer, Mary Jane
Lyle Smith.
(Stranger in a Strange Land)
"Science Made Simple"
[mentioned in passing] Newspaper or magazine column.
("'It's Great to Be Back!'")
Scientists
Spiritual and temporal leaders aboard the Ship. The actual
meaning of "science" was long since forgotten. Scientists tended the machinery
without really understanding the technology. They could read the ancient
manuals and technical texts but interpreted them metaphorically.
Zebadiah
Carter claimed this was his title when he attended Heidelberg,
from his fencing prowess; no one ever got through his guard to give him the
usual fencing scars.
(The Number of the Beast)
Scourge of the Spaceways
1. Videocast for which Roger Stone
wrote scripts, in consequence of a bet that he could do better than the usual
scriptwriters. When he tired of it, his mother Hazel
Stone took over the job with the help of his 4-year-old son.
(The Rolling Stones)
2.Ace Quiggle
called Kip
Russell "Commander Comet, Scourge of the Spaceways" after Kip's TV
appearance with the space suit he'd won.
Boy Scouts play a central role in Farmer in the Sky, "Nothing Ever
Happens on the Moon", and "The Black Pits of Luna" (not surprising since the
first two stories were written for the Boy Scout magazine Boys' Life).
Girl Scouts also appear in Farmer in the Sky (though only briefly,
aboard the Mayflower),
and Friday
became a Girl Scout troop mistress in Botany Bay. Hugh Farnham
included The Boy Scout Handbook in his bomb shelter library.
("The Black Pits of Luna", Farmer in the Sky, Farnham's
Freehold, Friday, "Nothing Ever Happens on the Moon")
"The Scouting Trail"
[mentioned in passing] Song sung at the first meeting of
the Mayflower
Scouts.
While Schedule
Bare Back was in effect in Zone Green,
a fake air-raid made it possible for puppet
master hosts to "recruit" fellow air-raid shelter occupants, and general
chaos resulted.
(The Puppet Masters)
Nehemiah Scudder
1. Religious demagogue whose followers
overthrew the United States government and instituted a theocracy. This
dictatorship controlled the country for several generations until it was
itself overthrown by resistance movements. His followers included Venus colonials,
but the movement apparently was dominant only in the United States. He is also
called the Prophet.
("If This Goes On"; briefly mentioned in "Logic of Empire")
2. He was elected President in 2012,
with 27 percent of the popular vote (votes were cast by 63 percent of
registered voters, who were less than half of those eligible to vote) but 81
percent of the Electoral College votes.
(Methuselah's Children. The revolution is described in "If This
Goes On ", though not by this name. It is briefly mentioned in "Coventry".)
Second Atlantic Rebellion
[mentioned in passing] War that occurred during Friday's
lifetime. No details are given.
(Friday)
Second Cetan War
[mentioned in passing] War that occurred during the reign
of Sargon
Augustus.
(Citizen of the Galaxy)
Second Defense Gunners
Laser-gun military crew in Luna City,
mostly formed from ice drillers.
(The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress)
Second Empire
Interplanetary government that Dudley
Jefferson speculated would ultimately be formed, with Pluto and Neptune
moved closer to the sun and Mercury moved farther away to make them habitable
by humans.
(Between Planets)
Second Genetic War
Historical event instigated by the gross genetic experimentation of the Empire of
the Great Khans to produce "super warriors".
(Beyond This Horizon)
Second Global War
Mentioned by Matt Dodson,
but no details were given except the name of Admiral "Bull" Kilroy. (See Kilroy Was
Here.)
(Space Cadet)
Second Plutonian Expedition
[mentioned in passing] General
Services handled the outfitting; the implication is that some of the
arrangements were somewhat unorthodox.
Drama in which Larry Smith
played the hero-villain. He used the persona to subdue the driver who tried to
prevent John
Joseph Bonforte's party (with Smith masquerading as Bonforte) from
reaching the Martian
Adoption Ceremony.
(Double Star)
Section
Quasi-governmental intelligence organization for which Sam
Cavanaugh worked. It acted in the forefront of the battle against the puppet
master invasion.
(The Puppet Masters)
Secundus
Home planet of the Howard
Families after the Great
Diaspora. It was run as a benevolent dictatorship. [Latin, "second"]
(Time Enough for Love, The Number of the Beast; mentioned
briefly in To Sail Beyond the Sunset)
Security Council
[mentioned in passing] This government organization leased
space aboard Space
Station One for a secret project.
("Delilah and the Space Rigger")
Francis X. Seeney
Executive officer of the first Mars expedition, 28
years old when the expedition began. He was also a practical nurse, copilot,
astrogator, astrophysicist, and photographer. He died during the expedition.
(Stranger in a Strange Land)
Olga Kovalic Seeney
Member of the first Mars expedition, 29
years old when the expedition began. She was a cook, biochemist, and
hydroponicist. She died during the expedition.
Party name
and public persona for Mike in his role of
Chairman for the Lunar revolution. His fellow conspirators created a
background and personality for him, and Mike established him as a skilled poet
and propagandist. He was named Minister-without-Portfolio and Special Adviser
to the Prime Minister of the Free Luna
government. His death was announced after the bombing of Luna City by
Terran Federation ships.
Honorific bestowed on the oldest member of the Howard
Families.
(Time Enough for Love)
Senior Council
Governing body in the Mayflower,
chosen from the colonists. The Captain reviewed all their decisions as legal
head of the ship, but never overruled them.
(Farmer in the Sky)
Senior Watch Officer
The Scientist who
was in charge of the Convertor. Whoever held this position normally the heir
presumptive of the Chief Engineer
(Orphans of the Sky)
sensitives
1. Another name for telepaths. They were
used for communication between Cabal districts
and during the assault on New
Jerusalem.
("If This Goes On")
2. Telepathic ability was often
associated with genetic defects in the Howard
Families.
(Methuselah's Children)
3. Also called "talents". The term was
commonly used for people with psychic abilities. A sensitive was used to map
out the Bug
tunnels on Planet
P.
Sexual ritual; its exact nature was not described, except that
participants are precluded from asking personal questions. By inference, the
partners are often strangers.
"Synthetic family" organized as a group marriage and a business concern.
Adult members bought "shares" to support the family's activities. It was legal
in New Zealand, but not recognized in Canada.
1. [mentioned in passing]
A one-volume Complete Works was stocked in the Farnham bomb
shelter.
(Farnham's Freehold)
2.Lazarus Long
claimed that Will Shakespeare was a half-brother of Queen Elizabeth but dyed
his hair to hide the resemblance; and that he lived at least until Lazarus'
early lifetime.
(Time Enough for Love)
PRS Shakysides
The Interplanetary
Patrol cadets' name for the utility rocket on which they trained for
airless landings.
[mentioned in passing] Hotel in Timbuktu for which Albert
Beaumont had a reservation.
(Friday)
Mother Shaum (no other first name)
Brothel owner who sheltered Thorby
Rudbek and Richard
Baslim when they were temporarily driven out of their home under the
colosseum. She helped Thorby escape the Sargon's
guards after Baslim's death.
1. An alias of Lazarus
Long, a merchant spaceship pilot. He was using this alias before the
government campaign against the Howard
Families.
(Methuselah's Children)
2. Alias that Lazarus Long used when he
purchased Estrellita
and Jos Long, and while he lived on Landfall. His
children there also had this surname: George, who married Estrellita and Joe's
daughter Libby; Pattycake, who married their son Joseph Aaron; and Woodrow.
(Time Enough for Love)
3. Lazarus initially used this alias
when the Dora
picked up the Gay
Deceiver; he claimed the honorary rank of Commodore.
The Ship's inhabitants except for the better educated muties were
unaware that the ship was a construct. Both the original name, the Vanguard, and
the original purpose of the ship's voyage were lost to history. To the
Scientists, the Ship was the entire universe. They interpreted the
descriptions of its movement as a metaphor for spiritual development.
(Orphans of the Sky)
Ship Economy
Technical manual of the Guild of Space Stewards, Cooks, and Purser's
Clerks. Sam
Anderson acquired a copy for Max Jones to
memorize to aid his impersonation of a Guild member.
(Starman Jones)
Shipstone
1. Common power source. It involved
intensive solar collection and energy storage but was not otherwise described.
It apparently replaced almost all other sources of energy. The name also
applied to the conglomerate that apparently owned most of the corporations on
and off Earth, including Daniel Shipstone Estate, Inc.; Muriel Shipstone
Memorial Research Laboratories; Shipstone Tempe, Gobi, Aden, Sahara, Africa,
Death Valley, Karroo, Never-Never, Ell-Four, Ell-Five,
Stationary, Tycho, Ares, DeepWater, Unlimited, and Ltd.; Sears-Montgomery,
Inc.; Prometheus Foundation; Coca-Cola Holding Co.; Intraworld Transport
Corp.; Jack and the Beanstalk, Pty.; Morgan Associates; Out-Systems Colonial
Corporation; Billy Shipstone School for Handicapped Children; Wolf Creek Pass
Nature Preserve; Ao Nuevo Wild Life Refuge; and Shipstone Visual Arts Museum
and School. In effect, Shipstone controlled the entire economy. A feud among
different factions resulted in the overthrow and disruption of many Earth
governments, particularly in North America.
(Friday)
2. [mentioned in passing]
Power source used for automobiles (and probably other devices).
(To Sail Beyond the Sunset)
[Compare D. D.
Harriman's extensive holdings and economic influence in earlier stories,
and the more benevolent depiction of an unlimited power source in "Let There
Be Light".]
Daniel Thomas Shipstone
Inventor of the Shipstone power cell.
(Friday)
Muriel Shipstone
Daniel
Shipstone's wife and business advisor. Her decisions gave Shipstone
companies their pre-eminence in business and the world at large.
a. Infantry colonel who gave Sergeant
Zim his training in martial arts. b. His
son, who went through basic training with Juan Rico under
Sergeant Zim.
(Starship Troopers)
sidearm
It was an accepted custom i.e. virtually a social necessity for men to
wear weapons. Since social offenders could be challenged to a duel, with no
legal punishment, this custom allegedly served to discourage on public
rudeness and obnoxious behavior. Unarmed males were treated as social
inferiors but were also exempt from challenges unless their behavior was
extremely offensive. Women rarely went armed, and were often belittled when
they did.
Company to which Belle
Darkin's Hired Girl
stock had been assigned. They sold it over the counter.
(The Door Into Summer)
Sikes (no first name)
Roadworker who accused Harvey of being a
company stooge.
("The Roads Must Roll")
Sikmaa (no first name)
Personal representative of the First Citizen of The Realm. He held
the rank of Ambassador Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary. He hired Friday to
transport a fertilized ovum to the First Citizen.
(Friday)
Dr. Silard (no first name)
Psychiatrist in charge of the workers' mental health at the Paradise,
Arizona, power planet. He eventually broke down himself from job stress.
First lieutenant, commander of the first platoon of D Company aboard the
Tours. He was
hospitalized with an illness and Juan Rico was
put in charge of his platoon while assigned to the ship for officer training.
(Starship Troopers)
Dom Pedro Silva
Mentioned in a Lazarus Long
anecdote. A resident of Novo Brasil, where serial bigamy was practiced, he was
careful always to have one beautiful and one ugly wife.
(Time Enough for Love)
Simes (no first name)
Assistant astrogator in the Asgard, jealous
of his position and resentful of Max Jones'
elevation to astrogation trainee. After Captain Blaine's
death he tried to take command of the ship and had his neck broken by Sam
Anderson.
(Starman Jones)
Arthur Simmons
Maureen
Johnson's lover in Albuquerque,
a widowed CPA. She was rescued by Gay Deceiver
from being killed in a traffic accident while on her way to an assignation
with him.
(To Sail Beyond the Sunset)
Simmons (no first name)
1. Missionary who shared a compartment
with Josephine and
Allan MacRae on the trip back to Earth. His infant daughter Gloria had no
difficulty adjusting to free fall, but was distressed by full Earth gravity.
("'It's Great to Be Back!'")
2. Veterinarian to whom Alex
Hergensheimer took his pets as a boy. Koshchei
assumed his appearance when Alex met him.
1. Earth name used by the Venerian dragon
that Don
Harvey met at Gary
Station; he followed the Venerian custom of adopting the name of an
admired human. Sir Isaac could trace his decent to the Original
Egg, and was highly honored among both Venerians and humans. His influence
helped keep Don from being sent back to Earth after the Venus occupation
of Circum-Terra,
and later effected Don's inclusion in the Little David
crew so Don could be reunited with his parents on Mars.
Alex
Hergensheimer's fellow passenger on the Konge Knut and
at the firewalking demonstration. He bet that Alex would not complete a
firewalk.
(Job: A Comedy of Justice)
Ski (no other name)
One of two police officers who stopped Sam
Cavanaugh and Mary
Cavanaugh after they returned from their "vacation", and stripped them to
search for puppet
masters. They provided a car to take Sam and Mary to their destination
because of the bandages on Mary's back.
(The Puppet Masters)
Skinnies
Natives of a planet hit by Rasczak's
Roughnecks. Originally allies of the Bugs, after the
attack they traded sides to fight for the Federation.
Steamship that ferried Rachel's
Raiders upriver into the Chicago
Imperium. She was blown up by persons unknown; Friday was
apparently the only survivor.
Company that sponsored a contest with the first prize of a trip to the
Moon. Kip
Russell sent in numerous entries, but managed only to win a used space
suit. The winners were announced on the Skyway Hour TV show, and Kip later
appeared on a local version, the Skyway Jubilee, with the spacesuit. "Skyway
Kwikbrite Armor Polish" was featured in the nightmare Kip had after being
kidnapped with Peewee
Reisfeld.
(Have Space Suit Will Travel)
Skyways group
Apparently an umbrella organization for the transportation-related
companies owned by Harriman
& Strong; it made a profit because of a uranium strike in Australia.
("The Man Who Sold the Moon")
G. Washington Slappey
Scientist who died in a lab explosion on Luna. A memorial
was set up to him and other victims.
Officer of the Missouri
Savings Bank. Maureen
Johnson dealt with him she opened her account there. When she closed the
account in 1907, he tried to delay giving her the money. His behavior roused
Maureen's suspicions of an imminent economic panic.
A politician mentioned in passing. [Alfred Emanuel Smith Jr., "The Happy
Warrior," 18731944, twice governor of New York state and unsuccessful U.S.
presidential candidate in 1928.]
Eleventh child of Maureen
Johnson and Brian Smith,
born 1924. He enlisted in the Marines the day after the bombing of San
Francisco by the Japanese in 1941.
1.Lazarus
Long's father, owner of a mining engineering firm, and an Army captain
during World War I.
(Time Enough for Love)
2.Maureen
Johnson's first husband; the son of Mr. and Mrs. John Adams Smith of
Cincinnati, Ohio, and a graduate from the School of Mines of the University of
Missouri. They married in 1898 after he served in the Army for the
Spanish-American War and received his engineering degree from Rolla Institute.
After working for the engineering firm of Davis and
Fones, he started his own business in 1906. In 1929 he replaced Arthur
Chapman as a trustee for the Howard
Foundation, after saving the foundation from bankruptcy in the October
crash (having advance knowledge from Ted
Bronson). In the 1930s he formed an investment firm with Justin
Weatheral, and passed the bar exam in 1938. He and Maureen moved to
Chicago around 1940, then moved to San Francisco when he "adjusted" his age in
his military records so he could re-enlist during World War II. In 1946, he
divorced Maureen to marry their former daughter-in-law, Marian
Hardy Smith. He and Marian were divorced in 1966. When he died in 1998 at
the age of 119, his "public" age was 82.
(To Sail Beyond the Sunset; also mentioned briefly in Number of
the Beast)
1.Lazarus
Long's older brother (third in the family). He became rich while still
young.
(Time Enough for Love)
2. Third child and eldest son of Maureen
Johnson and Brian Smith,
born March 12, 1905. He was wounded during World War II and became an
executive officer in the training command.
(To Sail Beyond the Sunset)
Carol Smith
1.Lazarus
Long's older sister, second in the family.
(Time Enough for Love)
2. Second child of Maureen
Johnson and Brian Smith,
born January 1, 1902, and named for Maureen's aunt Carole Pelletier Johnson.
She married Roderick Schmidt Jenkins of the Schmidt family in 1920 and acted
as his on-stage assistant when he became a professional magician. She took
over the act when Rod died with the stage name "Carolita." A family
celebration of her first sexual experience somehow evolved into the midsummer
fertility rite for all human planets: Carol's Day, Carolmas, Carolita's
Birthday (although it wasn't her birthday), or la
Fiesta de Santa Carolita, all celebrated on June 26.
(To Sail Beyond the Sunset)
Donald Smith
Sixteenth child of Maureen
Johnson and Brian Smith,
born 1936. Brian got custody of him and his sister Priscilla
when Brian and Maureen divorced, but they moved back with Maureen in 1952. He
and Priscilla ran away to return to Brian when Maureen intervened in their
incestuous relationship.
Man discovered inside the Adirondack
Stasis Field. He revived the ancient game of "feetball", and served Hamilton
Felix as a translator of ancient (i.e. 20th century) documents.
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.
Juan
Rico's fellow recruit at Camp
Sergeant Spooky Smith. He joined Willie's Wildcats with Juan; he died in
the collision between the Valley Forge and the Ypres.
(Starship Troopers)
Lawrence (Larry) Smith
Actor who was hired to impersonate the politician John
Joseph Bonforte when Bonforte was kidnapped to prevent his appearing for
his Martian
Adoption Ceremony. Larry affected the name Lorenzo Smythe, or Lorenzo the
Great. He had a highly inflated opinion of himself, but he was a consummate
actor who succeeded completely in the masquerade. After Bonforte was rescued
but was permanently damaged from drugs, he was persuaded to continue the role,
and completely assumed the identity after Bonforte's death. He married Penelope
Russell.
Wife of Richard
Smith, Maureen
Johnson's son; and later of Brian Smith.
She moved in with Maureen (Brian being in the Army) when Richard enlisted. She
and Maureen moved to Texas to be with Brian after Richard was killed. She used
the alias Maureen J. Smith (and Maureen became her "widowed mother") because
she became pregnant by Brian after Richard's death. She lived with Maureen and
Brian through World War II. In 1946, Brian asked Maureen for a divorce so he
could marry Marian. Brian and Marian were divorced in 1966.
Valentine
Michael Smith's mother and designer of the Lyle spacedrive. A member of
the first Mars
expedition, 26 years old when the expedition began, she was an atomics
engineer and the ship's electronics and power technician. She died during the
expedition.
2. Oldest child of Maureen
Johnson and Brian Smith, born December 1, 1899. Her "official" birth date
was January 5, 1900, to hide the fact that she was conceived before Maureen
and Brian were married. During World War II, she helped organize the WAAC.
Seventeenth child of Maureen
Johnson and Brian Smith,
born 1938. Her brother Donald
called her Slugger. Brian got custody of her and Donald when Brian and Maureen
divorced, but she moved back with Maureen in 1952. She and Donald ran away to
return to Brian when Maureen intervened in their incestuous relationship. They
came back to Maureen, but continued to give her trouble. Priscilla was
hospitalized briefly to be treated for syphilis and gonorrhea, and also used
cocaine. Ultimately, Maureen insisted that Brian take them back because she
could not control them.
2. Seventh child of Maureen
Johnson and Brian Smith,
born in 1914. He enlisted in the Marines, sworn in by Nelson
Johnson, after the bombing of San Francisco by the Japanese in 1941. He
was killed on Iwo Jima. His widow lived with Maureen and Brian, had a child by
Brian, and later married him.
(To Sail Beyond the Sunset)
Richard Brian Smith
Son of Marian
Hardy Smith. Although Marian was the widow of Maureen's son Richard, Brian Smith
was Richard Brian's father; she became pregnant after Richard was killed in
World War II.
(To Sail Beyond the Sunset)
Roberta Smith
Johann
Sebastian Bach Smith's daughter, alienated from him by his ex-wife, but
"reconciled" with him because of his money.
Fifteenth child of Maureen
Johnson and Brian Smith,
born between 1933 and 1935 (her brother Patrick was born in 1932, and Donald
in 1936). She married Henry
Schultz on August 2, 1952.
Human found on Mars, the sole
survivor of the first Mars expedition and the son of two crew members, Mary Jane
Lyle Smith and Michael
Brant (their adultery caused a crisis that led to the deaths of the entire
crew). He possessed supernatural powers taught to him by the Martians who
raised him, but was completely naive about other humans. Mike was brought to
Earth by the second expedition. By the Larkin
Decision, he was sole [human] owner of Mars. Kept in "protective custody"
by the Federation,
he was rescued by Jill
Boardman and with Jubal
Harshaw's aid was protected from political opportunism and recognized as
the representative of the Martian race.
After spending several years learning to be human, he founded the Church of
All Worlds, based on Martian language and philosophy. He was stoned to
death as a heretic by a mob probably made up mostly of Fosterites.
During his travels, he used several aliases, including Dr. Apollo as a stage
magician, and Private Jones while in the Army. The suggestion is made that he
was also the Archangel
Michael.
(Stranger in a Strange Land)
Dr. Ward Smith
Member of the first Mars expedition, 45
years old when the expedition began. He was a surgeon and the expedition's
biologist. Married to Mary Jane
Lyle Smith, he was Valentine
Michael Smith's legal but not biological father. He died during the
expedition.
1. Real name of Lazarus
Long, which he preferred not to use. As a child, he was called "Woodie" by
his family.
(Methuselah's Children)
2. As Bill Smith (Dora called him
Woodrow), he married Dora Brandon
and went homesteading with her, so all their children were surnamed Smith:
Andy, their second child; Elf (presumably a daughter); Gibbie (probably after
his original New
Beginnings alias Ernest Gibbons); Helen, their third, who married neighbor
Ole Hanson; Iseult; Ivar; Lurton; Marje; Persephone, who died in infancy;
Undine; Virginia (Ginny); and Zack, their oldest son, who married Hilda
Hanson.
When he traveled back in time, Lazarus Long met his younger self, and
decided he was a complete brat.
(Time Enough for Love)
3. Sixth child of Maureen
Johnson and Brian Smith,
born November 11, 1912. He was named for President Wilson, having been born
just six days after his election. During World War II he apparently joined the
Air Force, spending some time in Pensacola, Florida, training fighter pilots.
He may have been involved in a major sea-and-air battle, but he seldom told
the same story twice. After the war he got a job flying rocket ships,
eventually working for Harriman
Industries; he was backup pilot for the first moonship. Throughout most of
his adult life after this period, he used the name Lazarus Long.
2. Student at Lowell
Academy who made quite a profit repainting respiratory masks after the
headmaster forbade individual designs. Jim Marlowe
and Frank
Sutton paid him to hide their guns so they would not be confiscated, and
sold as much of their property as they could to him to raise money for tickets
home when they "escaped" from the school. Smythe joined the colonists in their
fight against Mars
Company.
Member of the Marston
expedition into Sumatra; he was presumed dead after other members' bodies were
found
(The Number of the Beast)
Betty Smythe-Carstairs
Wife of the Governor of Windsor
City. He'd taken the post on Mars because the
lower gravity was good for her "medical condition (alcoholism). See also Betty.
(The Number of the Beast)
Herbert Evelyn James Smythe-Carstairs
His Excellency Lieutenant General, the Right Honorable. KG, VC, CBE,
Governor General of the Imperial Realms Beyond the Sky; Governor of the
British colony on Barsoom. He was
usually called Bertie by his
friends. He recruited the Gay Deceiver
to reconnoiter the rival Russian settlements.
(The Number of the Beast)
snel-frockey
Unspecified unpleasantness; Podkayne
Fries used it as a curse.
(Podkayne of Mars)
Snob (no other name)
Contractor at the Interuniverse
Society conference, in charge of seeing to the guests' needs and making
all other arrangements. The waiters and bartenders were his doppelgangers.
The cabin, mostly underground, that Jacob
Burroughs built on wilderness land he leased from the government. It was
equipped with all amenities and with formidable security devices. It was also
the location of his time machine.
A splinter political party; it had almost no members under age 65.
(I Will Fear No Evil)
La Socit Astronautique Internationale
Sponsor of the drone probe Zombie, sent to Mars orbit and back
to Earth six years after the Envoy's
disappearance. [French, "International Astronautical Society"]
(Stranger in a Strange Land)
Societian
[mentioned in passing] Political persuasion of some members
of the Organization.
A group invited to participate in the Interuniverse
Society conference. They organized a jousting tournament, among other
things.
(The Number of the Beast)
Society for the Preservation of the Status
Quo
Isolationist organization that protested interactions between Earth and
other planets, particularly planets inhabited by nonhuman peoples.
(The Star Beast)
Solar System Federation
Interplanetary political organization, probably analogous to the United
Nations. General
Services was hired to create artificial environments (including gravity
and atmospheric pressure) congenial to natives of all planets so that Earth
could host SSF conferences.
[mentioned in passing] Song that Dora offered to
sing for the Gay Deceiver
crew.
(The Number of the Beast)
sollies
[mentioned in passing] Entertainment equivalent to motion
pictures or TV shows. The exact technology was not specified.
(Podkayne of Mars)
Solo
Final test for Advanced
Survival courses. Students are sent to uninhabited planets, and any who
are still alive at pickup two to ten days later pass the course. Only those
items that the students can choose for themselves and carry with them are
provided to help them stay alive.
(Tunnel in the Sky)
"Some Implications of a Six-Dimensional
Non-Newtonian Continuum"
"Some Notes on the Practical Applications of the
Horst-Milne Equations"
Scientific treatise that was smuggled to Venus in the ring
that Dudley
Jefferson gave to Don
Harvey (its intended destination was Mars). The
information provided in it made possible the development of force fields and
faster-than-light travel. (See Horst-Milne-Conrad
Drive.)
(Between Planets)
"Some Verified Experimental Factors in Space
Flight"
Paper that Donald
Cargraves intended to write after the moon flight.
Creatures originally included in Earth's reality by its creator, but
"painted over". Instead of being eliminated, they remained in the background
fomenting evil. They believed they were created by the embodiment of evil,
which they called The Bird. They were destroyed by Jonathan
Hoag after they kidnapped Ted and
Cynthia Randall and tried to stop Hoag's mission on Earth.
Animal resembling a rat; its planet of origin was not given.
(Citizen of the Galaxy)
Betty Sorenson
A Free
Child and friend of John Thomas
Stuart. She acted as his counsel during Lummox's trial,
offered help when John Thomas decided to run away, and helped him reach Capital to
participate in negotiations about Lummox. She married him so that they could
travel to Hroshijud and Lummox could continue "raising John Thomases". John
Thomas called her "Slugger".
(The Star Beast)
Sorkin's Super Stellar Soap
[mentioned in passing] Product advertised on the train Matt Dodson
took to Terra
Base.
(Space Cadet)
Sornia
Apparently a crustacean race; mentioned by Dr. Ftaeml.
(The Star Beast)
Mrs. Percy B. S. Souchek
[mentioned in passing] Woman who sued the Los Angeles
City-County Commissioners over the death of her poodle during a stationary
inversion.
(Stranger in a Strange Land)
South Colony
Human settlement on Mars, erected just
north of the ancient city of Charax, between
the legs of the double canal Strymon. It was
inhabited only during the Southern Hemisphere's summer, as the winters were
intolerable even with special life-support precautions.
Company that operated between Earth and Luna. Holly Jones'
father worked for them.
("The Menace from Earth")
Space Precautionary Act
1. Legislation that regulated space
travel and safety measures. The Captain of the Falcon quoted it
to deny "Noisy"
Rhysling a ride, to no avail.
("The Green Hills of Earth")
2. The Act prohibited D. D.
Harriman from going into space because of his physical disability (heart
disease).
("Requiem")
3. Regulation implemented by Spaceways
Ltd. that controlled who could go into space. The Act was used to prohibit
D. D.
Harriman from traveling to the moon.
(To Sail Beyond the Sunset)
Space Rangers Against the Galaxy
[mentioned in passing] Book that Ace was reading
aboard the Rodger
Young.
(Starship Troopers)
Space Station Alpha
[mentioned in passing] Presumed to be free of puppet
master infestation.
(The Puppet Masters)
Space Station Beta
[mentioned in passing] It was presumed to be free of puppet
master infestation.
2. Company whose stock D. D.
Harriman ordered sold to pay for his trip to the Moon.
("Requiem")
Spanglish
1. Language spoken in San Diego,
California.
(Friday)
2. Language used for trade and
engineering purposes in the 20th-century Americas; it used English/Spanish
vocabulary with simplified Hispanic grammar. It was adopted as the official
language for space pilots at the time of the Space
Precautionary Act in the mid-20th century.
Undescribed conflict that occurred during Zebadiah
Carter's lifetime.
(The Number of the Beast)
Spatial Senser
A "special talent", something like a dowser. Spatial sensers were used in
the raid on Planet P to
detect Bug
tunnels.
(Starship Troopers)
Special File Zebra
The Warden's
computer file on the resistance movement, and the code words used to access
it. The file listed all the Warden's spies in antigovernment groups.
(The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress)
Speedtalk
Scientifically-formulated language used by the New Men.
("Gulf")
"spelling bee"
Short R&R excursions in the caverns surrounding the Cabal's general
headquarters.
("If This Goes On")
Arthur Sperling
Howard
Families member arrested and questioned after the suspension of the Covenant. He
was related to the Foote family.
(Methuselah's Children)
Mary Sperling
1. A senior member of the Howard
Families who escaped from proctors with Lazarus Long
after the suspension of the Covenant. One
of Zaccur
Barstow's lieutenants aboard the New
Frontiers, she also volunteered to help with longevity research. She
developed a morbid fear of death that she resolved by "joining" the Little
People, surrendering her individuality to them but achieving a sort of
immortality in their group mind and memories.
(Methuselah's Children)
2. Lazarus Long consulted with "her" on
the Planet of the Little
People to confirm the theory of time travel
developed by Dora.
[mentioned in passing] Fifth/seventh cousin of Lazarus Long
who married Laura
Foote-Hedrick after she divorced Lazarus. Sperling may have
expected to share in a sizable property settlement.
(Time Enough for Love)
Tamara Sperling
1.Ishtar
Hardy's mother, a courtesan on Secundus who
trained as a rejuvenator after joining the Tertius
colony.
Native of Hespera. It had
orange, green, and white fur; eight legs; and an endearing manner. It could be
domesticated by humans, and could speak and understand a rudimentary
vocabulary.
[mentioned in passing] Author of a book on space medicine
loaned to Kip
Russell by Mr. Charton.
(Have Space Suit Will Travel)
Star
1. Name most commonly used by the
Empress of the Twenty
Universes. The Egg of the
Phoenix, which contained the memories of all her predecessors, was stolen
just before her reign. She recruited Oscar Gordon
for the quest to retrieve it; they were married during the quest. After
retrieving the Egg, she returned to the task of absorbing the memories of all
her predecessors and making decisions for the worlds within the realm. Her
official title is Her Wisdom CCIV, and her given name has numerous variations,
including Aster, Esther, Estrellita, Ettarre. The Doral
called her Ettyboo and various other nicknames; Oscar usually called her
Princess.
(Glory Road)
2. A visitor to the Interuniverse
Society; it is mentioned that her realm included 83 universes. (The same
person as in Glory Road.)
1. Interstellar ship that was under
construction when Bill Lermer
emigrated to Ganymede. It
was actually the Star Rover III. The first was lost; the second was obsolete
before it was finished and so was converted to a colony ship, the Mayflower.
Former engineer at the Paradise,
Arizona atomic plant, who suffering a blanking of his mathematical
abilities and was rehabilitated as an office worker. He regained his skills
while reacting to an emergency.
("Blowups Happen")
Steinwitz (no first name)
Member of the Survivors
Club conspiracy, assigned to the Power Center during the coup attempt.
1. Teamster who gave Alex
Hergensheimer and Margrethe
Gunderson a lift towards Kansas, bought them steak dinners, and gave Alex
money. Alex found him in Heaven after the Rapture; he credited Alex with
converting him.
(Job: A Comedy of Justice)
2. [mentioned in passing]
Midshipman in David Lamb's
class.
Institution in Dubuque, Iowa, where Jonathan
Hoag claimed to have been treated for total amnesia. Ted
Randall's investigation showed that it never existed.
Members of the Advanced
Survival test group were warned against them in the instruction sheet.
They didn't actually exist; they were invented by the instructors to keep
students on guard.
Service manager for the Luna City
Community Association. She reserved Allan and Josephine
MacRae's apartment for them when they returned to Earth, confident that
they'd come back.
1. Twins, teenaged geniuses who with
their family purchased a space ship and began a travel and trading venture
throughout the solar system. They were just barely successful selling bicycles
on Mars, but did
good business with miners in the Asteroid
Belt. Castor was the elder by 20 minutes, and was called "Grandpa" by
Pollux.
1. Mother of Castor and
Pollux Stone, physician and sculptor who joined her family on a travel and
trade venture through the outer solar system. Her medical services were much
in demand, first to treat an epidemic on the ship War God en route
to Mars, and
then for routine and emergency treatment throughout the Asteroid
Belt.
Number-two husband in the Davis family,
preacher in an obscure sect that believed sundown Tuesday to sundown Wednesday
was the Sabbath. He was recruited for the Revolution by Wyoming
Knott, and used Calvin as his Party name.
(The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress)
Hazel Meade Stone (a.k.a. Gwen Novak)
1. Twelve-year-old member of the Young
Comrades Auxiliary of the old Revolutionary Organization.
She was recruited by Sidris Davis
for the new Party and became
captain of the Baker
Street Irregulars. She had been transported to Luna as an infant.
Both parents died within a few years and she was raised in a creche, where she
worked (without pay) until she was adopted into
the Davis family. She eventually married Moses Lemke
Stone, had two children, and studied engineering.
(The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress)
2. Mother of Roger Stone,
a moving force behind the family's decision to travel through the outer solar
system. She was a founder of the lunar colony and an engineer who had also
made a living as a blackjack dealer. She apparently lived on Earth for a
while. She took over writing Scourge
of the Spaceways after her son tired of it.
4. 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.
[In spite of contradictions, it is explicit that the Hazel Meade Stone in
the different novels are all the same person.]
Lowell (Buster) Stone
Roger
and Edith
Stone's youngest child, precocious chess player and possibly a telepath.
With his grandmother, he wrote scripts for the video series Scourge
of the Spaceways.
(The Rolling Stones)
Meade Stone
Daughter of Roger and Edith Stone.
She accompanied the family on their space travels.
Father of Castor and
Pollux Stone, retired mayor of Luna City and
engineer, as well as writer for Scourge
of the Spaceways. He allowed himself to be persuaded to purchase a
spaceship for travel and trade through the outer solar system, with himself as
Captain.
Slang for being sworn in as a "member of the ancient and honorable
fraternity of thieves, cutthroats and pickpockets". The patrons of Mother
Johnston's demanded the oath from David
MacKinnon.
This story got two votes for Favorite Universe among the crew of the Gay
Deceiver. Zebadiah
Carter's reaction was, "My God, the things some writers will do for
money."
(The Number of the Beast)
George Strong
1.D. D.
Harriman's partner, who supported even Harriman's wildest ventures because
they were invariably profitable.
("The Man Who Sold the Moon")
2. One of the owners of Harriman
& Strong, who was also involved in real estate. A bachelor, he was Maureen
Johnson's lover. She frequently advised him on business decisions, basing
her recommendations on her "insider information" from Lazarus
Long. He died in 1971.
Double canal located in the Southern Hemisphere of Mars, near the
ancient city of Charax. The name
was originally bestowed by Percival Lowell, and was adopted by the human
colonists.
(The Red Planet)
John Thomas Stuart
John Thomas Stuart XI was the descendant of a line of explorers and
adventurers, and the current owner/companion of the alien beast Lummox. After the
Department
of Spatial Affairs became involved in a trial over Lummox's "dangerous"
behavior, the beast was discovered to be an important member of the Hroshii race,
and John Thomas accompanied her to her home planet along with a contingent of
Earth scientists and diplomats. His girlfriend (and eventual wife) Betty
Sorenson called him "Knothead".
Revolutionary general and first Governor of Mars after the Revolution
spent the end of his life in the Triton penal colony for reasons
unspecified but perhaps unjustified
Had his name changed by his mother when she returned to Earth but
resumed the Stuart name upon reaching adulthood, becoming an interstellar
explorer and bringing Lummox to Earth
Resigned from the Space Service to avoid court martial, may have been
protecting his commanding officer
Also an explorer, apparently never returned from his last
expedition.
(The Star Beast)
Marie Brandley Stuart
John
Thomas Stuart XI's mother, who favored getting rid of Lummox and
refused to consider her son's following the family tradition by going to
space. Betty
Sorenson called her "the Duchess" for her demanding ways.
(The Star Beast)
Stubbins (no first name)
Jonathan
Hoag's fellow guest at Mrs. Edith
Jameson's dinner party. Hoag misremembered his name as "Snuggins" or
"Sudkins".
2. The closest "Noisy"
Rhysling ever came to returning to Earth.
("The Green Hills of Earth")
3. Space station at the Earth end of the
Luna route, the
transfer point from rocket to shuttle.
("Space Jockey")
Supreme
World against which Secundus
maintained an embargo; no reasons are given, but they apparently practiced
slavery. Lazarus Long
purchased a rejuvenation
there.
(Time Enough for Love)
Supreme Lord Proprietor
Owner of the Noonday
Region. His personal name was not given.
(Farnham's Freehold)
"A Survey of the Minor Flora of Clay County, Missouri"
[mentioned in passing] Master's thesis of Julius Farping in
Jubal
Harshaw's story, "Uncle Tobias".
[mentioned in passing] Air Force manual stocked in the Farnham bomb
shelter.
(Farnham's Freehold)
Survivors Club
Club that met in the Hall of the
Wolf; McFee
Norbert was a member. Superficially a drinking club, it was actually a
revolutionary cabal. Hamilton
Felix was recruited but agreed to act as a double agent for the
government. Monroe-Alpha
Clifford was duped into joining, but was "rescued" by Felix. The Club
attempted a coup d'tat and was presumably wiped out.
Friend of Jim Marlowe
who accompanied him to Lowell
Academy. When Willis was
confiscated by the headmaster and the two learned about the Mars Company's
intentions for the colony, they fled the school and returned home to mobilize
the colony to resist.
A soul that Alex
Hergensheimer met on the bus in Heaven. A lacemaker from Flanders, she
opened a lacemaking school in Heaven. Her request for Alex's blessing caused
his sainthood to become manifest.
(Job: A Comedy of Justice)
SV
Stereovision, a common entertainment medium.
(Starman Jones)
Sverlani (no last name)
Guest at a party Oscar Gordon
and Star
attended on Center. A student
food designer and mathematico-sybarite, she was disappointed when Oscar turned
down her proposition but delighted by the sandwich he'd made himself. She was
particularly entranced by Lady
Vivamus.
Notary Public who notarized Hugo Pinero's
bonds that guaranteed his predictions were accurate.
("Life-Line")
Swanson (no first name)
State Patrol sergeant who worked crowd control at the moon rocket launch.
He was sympathetic to the Galileo crew;
when a process server attempted to stop the launch, he took the man into
custody.
[mentioned in passing] German beer parlor near Lazarus
Long's childhood home (it acquired the name during World War I, presumably
to avoid anti-German bias).
Couple mentioned in a conversation overhead by Oscar Gordon
on a bus; cited as an example of everything he no longer understood about
Earth culture.
(Glory Road)
Sylvia's Other Husband
[mentioned in passing] Apparently a soap opera broadcast
within the Lunar
colonies.
(The Cat Who Walks Through Walls)
Syndon IV
One of the Nine Worlds.
Its people have long, hairy, pointed ears and formidable reputations. The
auctioneer who sold Thorby
Rudbek inadvertently insulted one by suggesting that the roundness of
Thorby's ears indicated the purity of his human blood.
The Heinlein
Society was founded by Virginia Heinlein on behalf of her husband, science
fiction author Robert Anson Heinlein, to "pay forward" the legacy of Robert A. Heinlein to future generations of "Heinlein's Children."