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• Allucquere (aka "Mary") - The Puppet Masters
  The Puppet Masters
  The Puppet Masters is a 1951 science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein in which American secret agents battle parasitic invaders from outer space...
  
  
• Security Chief Juan Alvarez - The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
  The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
  The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress is a 1966 science fiction novel by American writer Robert A. Heinlein, about a lunar colony's revolt against rule from Earth....
  
  
• Richard Ames (aka Colin Campbell) - The Cat Who Walks Through Walls
  The Cat Who Walks Through Walls
  The Cat Who Walks Through Walls: A Comedy of Manners is a science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein published in 1985. Like many of his later novels, it features Lazarus Long and Jubal Harshaw as supporting characters.-Plot summary:...
  
  
• Sam Anderson - Starman Jones
  Starman Jones
  Starman Jones is a 1953 science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein about a farm boy who wants to go to the stars. It was first published by Charles Scribner's Sons as part of the Heinlein juveniles series.-Plot summary:...
  
  
• Anne (Fair Witness) - Stranger in a Strange Land
  Stranger in a Strange Land
  Stranger in a Strange Land is a 1961 science fiction novel by American author Robert A. Heinlein. It tells the story of Valentine Michael Smith, a human who comes to Earth in early adulthood after being born on the planet Mars and raised by Martians. The novel explores his interaction with—and...
  
  
• Major Ardmore - Sixth Column
  Sixth Column
  Sixth Column, also known under the title The Day After Tomorrow, is a science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein, based on a story by editor John W. Campbell, and set in a United States that has been conquered by the PanAsians, a combination of Chinese and Japanese...
  
  
• Pallas Athene, originally Minerva
  Minerva
  Minerva was the Roman goddess whom Romans from the 2nd century BC onwards equated with the Greek goddess Athena. She was the virgin goddess of poetry, medicine, wisdom, commerce, weaving, crafts, magic...
  
   - Time Enough for Love
  Time Enough for Love
  Time Enough for Love is a science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein, first published in 1973. The work was nominated for the Nebula Award for Best Novel in 1973 and both the Hugo and Locus Awards in 1974.-Plot:...
  
  , The Cat Who Walks Through Walls
  The Cat Who Walks Through Walls
  The Cat Who Walks Through Walls: A Comedy of Manners is a science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein published in 1985. Like many of his later novels, it features Lazarus Long and Jubal Harshaw as supporting characters.-Plot summary:...
  
  

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• Dr. Hartley M. Baldwin (aka "Kettle Belly," "Mr. Two-Canes") - Gulf
  Gulf (Heinlein)
  Gulf is a novella by Robert A. Heinlein, originally published as a serial in the November and December 1949 issues of Astounding Science Fiction. It concerns a secret society of geniuses who act to protect humanity...
  
  , Friday
  Friday (novel)
  Friday is a 1982 science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein. It is the story of a female "artificial person," the titular character, genetically engineered to be stronger, faster, smarter, and generally better than normal humans...
  
  , The Cat Who Walks Through Walls
  The Cat Who Walks Through Walls
  The Cat Who Walks Through Walls: A Comedy of Manners is a science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein published in 1985. Like many of his later novels, it features Lazarus Long and Jubal Harshaw as supporting characters.-Plot summary:...
  
  
• Col. Richard Baslim aka "Baslim the Cripple" - Citizen of the Galaxy
  Citizen of the Galaxy
  Citizen of the Galaxy is a science fiction novel by American writer Robert A. Heinlein, originally serialized in Astounding Science Fiction and published in hardcover in 1957 as one of the Heinlein juveniles by Scribner's...
  
  
• Thorby Baslim aka Thor B. Rudbek "Rudbek of Rudbek" - Citizen of the Galaxy
  Citizen of the Galaxy
  Citizen of the Galaxy is a science fiction novel by American writer Robert A. Heinlein, originally serialized in Astounding Science Fiction and published in hardcover in 1957 as one of the Heinlein juveniles by Scribner's...
  
  
• Betty - The Star Beast
  The Star Beast
  The Star Beast is a 1954 science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein about a high school senior who discovers that his late father's extraterrestrial pet is more than it appears to be...
  
  
• Gillian Boardman (Jill) - Stranger in a Strange Land
  Stranger in a Strange Land
  Stranger in a Strange Land is a 1961 science fiction novel by American author Robert A. Heinlein. It tells the story of Valentine Michael Smith, a human who comes to Earth in early adulthood after being born on the planet Mars and raised by Martians. The novel explores his interaction with—and...
  
  
• Joseph Bonforte - Double Star
  Double Star
  Double Star is a science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein, first serialized in Astounding Science Fiction and published in hardcover the same year...
  
  
• Eunice Branca - I Will Fear No Evil
  I Will Fear No Evil
  I Will Fear No Evil is a science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein, originally serialised in Galaxy and published in hardcover in 1970...
  
  
• Jacob Burroughs - The Number of the Beast
  The Number of the Beast (novel)
  The Number of the Beast is a science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein published in 1980. The first edition featured a cover and interior illustrations by Richard M. Powers...
  
  , The Cat Who Walks Through Walls
  The Cat Who Walks Through Walls
  The Cat Who Walks Through Walls: A Comedy of Manners is a science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein published in 1985. Like many of his later novels, it features Lazarus Long and Jubal Harshaw as supporting characters.-Plot summary:...
  
  
• Hilda Burroughs (nee Hilda Corners) - The Number of the Beast
  The Number of the Beast (novel)
  The Number of the Beast is a science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein published in 1980. The first edition featured a cover and interior illustrations by Richard M. Powers...
  
  , The Cat Who Walks Through Walls
  The Cat Who Walks Through Walls
  The Cat Who Walks Through Walls: A Comedy of Manners is a science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein published in 1985. Like many of his later novels, it features Lazarus Long and Jubal Harshaw as supporting characters.-Plot summary:...
  
  , To Sail Beyond the Sunset
  To Sail Beyond the Sunset
  To Sail Beyond the Sunset is a science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein published in 1987. It was the last novel published before he died in 1988....
  
  

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• Colonel Colin Campbell (aka Richard Ames) - The Cat Who Walks Through Walls
  The Cat Who Walks Through Walls
  The Cat Who Walks Through Walls: A Comedy of Manners is a science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein published in 1985. Like many of his later novels, it features Lazarus Long and Jubal Harshaw as supporting characters.-Plot summary:...
  
  
• Dejah Thoris "Deety" Burroughs Carter - The Number of the Beast
  The Number of the Beast (novel)
  The Number of the Beast is a science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein published in 1980. The first edition featured a cover and interior illustrations by Richard M. Powers...
  
  , The Cat Who Walks Through Walls
  The Cat Who Walks Through Walls
  The Cat Who Walks Through Walls: A Comedy of Manners is a science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein published in 1985. Like many of his later novels, it features Lazarus Long and Jubal Harshaw as supporting characters.-Plot summary:...
  
  
• Zebediah Carter - The Number of the Beast
  The Number of the Beast (novel)
  The Number of the Beast is a science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein published in 1980. The first edition featured a cover and interior illustrations by Richard M. Powers...
  
  , The Cat Who Walks Through Walls
  The Cat Who Walks Through Walls
  The Cat Who Walks Through Walls: A Comedy of Manners is a science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein published in 1985. Like many of his later novels, it features Lazarus Long and Jubal Harshaw as supporting characters.-Plot summary:...
  
  
• Ben Caxton - Stranger in a Strange Land
  Stranger in a Strange Land
  Stranger in a Strange Land is a 1961 science fiction novel by American author Robert A. Heinlein. It tells the story of Valentine Michael Smith, a human who comes to Earth in early adulthood after being born on the planet Mars and raised by Martians. The novel explores his interaction with—and...
  
  
• Eldreth Coburn - Starman Jones
  Starman Jones
  Starman Jones is a 1953 science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein about a farm boy who wants to go to the stars. It was first published by Charles Scribner's Sons as part of the Heinlein juveniles series.-Plot summary:...
  
  
• Grace Cormet - — We Also Walk Dogs
• Hilda Corners - see Hilda Burroughs
• Cynthia Craig - The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag
  The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag
  "The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag" is a novella by Robert A. Heinlein. It was originally published in the October 1942 edition of Unknown Worlds magazine under the pseudonym of "John Riverside". It also lends its title to a collection of Heinlein's short stories published in 1959...
  
  
• Cuddlepup - The Star Beast
  The Star Beast
  The Star Beast is a 1954 science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein about a high school senior who discovers that his late father's extraterrestrial pet is more than it appears to be...
  
  

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• John Ezra Dahlquist (Johnny) - The Long Watch
  The Long Watch
  "The Long Watch" is a science fiction short story by Robert A. Heinlein. It is about a military officer who faces a coup d'état by a would-be dictator....
  
  . Referred to (under the name Ezra Dahlquist) in Space Cadet
  Space Cadet
  Space Cadet is a 1948 science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein about Matt Dodson, who joins the Space Patrol to help preserve peace in the Solar System. The story translates the standard military academy story into outer space: a boy from Iowa goes to officer school, sees action and adventure,...
  
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• Daniel Boone Davis - The Door into Summer
  The Door into Summer
  The Door into Summer is a science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein, originally serialized in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction and published in hardcover in 1957. It is a fast-paced hard science fiction novel, with a key fantastic element, and romantic elements...
  
  
• Hazel Meade Davis (Sadie Lipschitz) (Gwendolyn Novak) The Cat Who Walks Through Walls
  The Cat Who Walks Through Walls
  The Cat Who Walks Through Walls: A Comedy of Manners is a science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein published in 1985. Like many of his later novels, it features Lazarus Long and Jubal Harshaw as supporting characters.-Plot summary:...
  
  
• Manuel Garcia O'Kelly Davis (Mannie) - The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
  The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
  The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress is a 1966 science fiction novel by American writer Robert A. Heinlein, about a lunar colony's revolt against rule from Earth....
  
  
• Doctor-Livingston-I-Presume (cat) - Farnham's Freehold
  Farnham's Freehold
  Farnham's Freehold is a science fiction novel set in the near future by Robert A. Heinlein. A serialised version, edited by Frederik Pohl, appeared in Worlds of If magazine . The complete version was published in novel form by G.P...
  
  
• Matt Dodson - Space Cadet
  Space Cadet
  Space Cadet is a 1948 science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein about Matt Dodson, who joins the Space Patrol to help preserve peace in the Solar System. The story translates the standard military academy story into outer space: a boy from Iowa goes to officer school, sees action and adventure,...
  
  
• Dora (computer) - Time Enough for Love
  Time Enough for Love
  Time Enough for Love is a science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein, first published in 1973. The work was nominated for the Nebula Award for Best Novel in 1973 and both the Hugo and Locus Awards in 1974.-Plot:...
  
   , The Number of the Beast
  The Number of the Beast (novel)
  The Number of the Beast is a science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein published in 1980. The first edition featured a cover and interior illustrations by Richard M. Powers...
  
  
• Dora Smith (Adorable Dora) (Dorable) - Time Enough for Love
  Time Enough for Love
  Time Enough for Love is a science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein, first published in 1973. The work was nominated for the Nebula Award for Best Novel in 1973 and both the Hugo and Locus Awards in 1974.-Plot:...
  
  
• Dorcas - Stranger in a Strange Land
  Stranger in a Strange Land
  Stranger in a Strange Land is a 1961 science fiction novel by American author Robert A. Heinlein. It tells the story of Valentine Michael Smith, a human who comes to Earth in early adulthood after being born on the planet Mars and raised by Martians. The novel explores his interaction with—and...
  
  
• Dr. Archibald Douglas - Let There Be Light
  Let There Be Light (short story)
  “Let There Be Light” a science fiction short story by Robert A. Heinlein, originally published in Super Science Stories magazine in May 1940 under the pseudonym Lyle Monroe...
  
  

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• Duke Farnham - Farnham's Freehold
  Farnham's Freehold
  Farnham's Freehold is a science fiction novel set in the near future by Robert A. Heinlein. A serialised version, edited by Frederik Pohl, appeared in Worlds of If magazine . The complete version was published in novel form by G.P...
  
  
• Grace Farnham - Farnham's Freehold
  Farnham's Freehold
  Farnham's Freehold is a science fiction novel set in the near future by Robert A. Heinlein. A serialised version, edited by Frederik Pohl, appeared in Worlds of If magazine . The complete version was published in novel form by G.P...
  
  
• Hugh Farnham - Farnham's Freehold
  Farnham's Freehold
  Farnham's Freehold is a science fiction novel set in the near future by Robert A. Heinlein. A serialised version, edited by Frederik Pohl, appeared in Worlds of If magazine . The complete version was published in novel form by G.P...
  
  
• Karen Farnham - Farnham's Freehold
  Farnham's Freehold
  Farnham's Freehold is a science fiction novel set in the near future by Robert A. Heinlein. A serialised version, edited by Frederik Pohl, appeared in Worlds of If magazine . The complete version was published in novel form by G.P...
  
  
• Justin Foote - Methuselah's Children
  Methuselah's Children
  Methuselah's Children is a science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein, originally serialized in Astounding Science Fiction in the July, August, and September 1941 issues. It was expanded into a full-length novel in 1958....
  
  
• Justin Foote 45th - Time Enough for Love
  Time Enough for Love
  Time Enough for Love is a science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein, first published in 1973. The work was nominated for the Nebula Award for Best Novel in 1973 and both the Hugo and Locus Awards in 1974.-Plot:...
  
  
• Friday aka Marjorie Baldwin - Friday
  Friday (novel)
  Friday is a 1982 science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein. It is the story of a female "artificial person," the titular character, genetically engineered to be stronger, faster, smarter, and generally better than normal humans...
  
  
• Clark Fries - Podkayne of Mars
  Podkayne of Mars
  Podkayne of Mars is a science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein, originally serialised in Worlds of If , and published in hardcover in 1963...
  
  
• Podkayne Fries - Podkayne of Mars
  Podkayne of Mars
  Podkayne of Mars is a science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein, originally serialised in Worlds of If , and published in hardcover in 1963...
  
  

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• Larry Gaines - The Roads Must Roll
  The Roads Must Roll
  "The Roads Must Roll" is a 1940 science fiction short story by Robert A. Heinlein. In the late 1960s, it was awarded a retrospective Nebula Award by the Science Fiction Writers of America and published in The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume One, 1929-1964 in 1970.The story is set in the near...
  
  
• Galahad - Time Enough for Love
  Time Enough for Love
  Time Enough for Love is a science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein, first published in 1973. The work was nominated for the Nebula Award for Best Novel in 1973 and both the Hugo and Locus Awards in 1974.-Plot:...
  
  
• Gay Deceiver - The Number of the Beast
  The Number of the Beast (novel)
  The Number of the Beast is a science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein published in 1980. The first edition featured a cover and interior illustrations by Richard M. Powers...
  
  , To Sail Beyond the Sunset
  To Sail Beyond the Sunset
  To Sail Beyond the Sunset is a science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein published in 1987. It was the last novel published before he died in 1988....
  
  , The Cat Who Walks Through Walls
  The Cat Who Walks Through Walls
  The Cat Who Walks Through Walls: A Comedy of Manners is a science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein published in 1985. Like many of his later novels, it features Lazarus Long and Jubal Harshaw as supporting characters.-Plot summary:...
  
  
• Frederica "Ricky" Gentry - The Door Into Summer
  The Door into Summer
  The Door into Summer is a science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein, originally serialized in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction and published in hardcover in 1957. It is a fast-paced hard science fiction novel, with a key fantastic element, and romantic elements...
  
  
• Alec Graham / Alex Hergensheimer - Job: A Comedy of Justice
  Job: A Comedy of Justice
  Job: A Comedy of Justice is a novel by Robert A. Heinlein published in 1984. The title is a reference to the biblical Book of Job and James Branch Cabell's book Jurgen, A Comedy of Justice...
  
  
• Joe Green- Gulf
  Gulf (Heinlein)
  Gulf is a novella by Robert A. Heinlein, originally published as a serial in the November and December 1949 issues of Astounding Science Fiction. It concerns a secret society of geniuses who act to protect humanity...
  
  
• Oscar Gordon - Glory Road
  Glory Road
  Glory Road is a fantasy novel by Robert A. Heinlein, originally serialized in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction and published in hardcover later the same year...
  
   (also appears briefly in 'The Number of the Beast
  The Number of the Beast (novel)
  The Number of the Beast is a science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein published in 1980. The first edition featured a cover and interior illustrations by Richard M. Powers...
  
  )

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• D. D. Harriman
  D. D. Harriman
  Delos David Harriman, known as "D.D. Harriman," is a character in the fiction of noted science fiction author Robert A. Heinlein. He is an entrepreneurial businessman who masterminded the first landing on the Moon as a private business venture...
  
   - The Man Who Sold the Moon
  The Man Who Sold the Moon
  The Man Who Sold the Moon is a science fiction novella by Robert A. Heinlein written in 1949 and published in 1950. A part of his Future History and prequel to "Requiem", it covers events around a fictional first Moon landing, in 1978, and the schemes of Delos D...
  
  , Requiem (book)
  Requiem (book)
  Requiem: New Collected Works by Robert A. Heinlein and Tributes to the Grand Master is a retrospective on Robert A. Heinlein , after his death, edited by Yoji Kondo.- Table of Contents :...
  
  , To Sail Beyond the Sunset
  To Sail Beyond the Sunset
  To Sail Beyond the Sunset is a science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein published in 1987. It was the last novel published before he died in 1988....
  
  
• Jubal Harshaw
  Jubal Harshaw
  Jubal Harshaw is a fictional character featured in Stranger in a Strange Land, a novel by Robert A. Heinlein. He is described as: "Jubal E. Harshaw, LL.B., M.D., Sc.D., bon vivant, gourmet, sybarite, popular author extraordinary, neo-pessimist philosopher, devout agnostic, professional clown,...
  
   - Stranger in a Strange Land
  Stranger in a Strange Land
  Stranger in a Strange Land is a 1961 science fiction novel by American author Robert A. Heinlein. It tells the story of Valentine Michael Smith, a human who comes to Earth in early adulthood after being born on the planet Mars and raised by Martians. The novel explores his interaction with—and...
  
  , The Number of the Beast
  The Number of the Beast (novel)
  The Number of the Beast is a science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein published in 1980. The first edition featured a cover and interior illustrations by Richard M. Powers...
  
  , The Cat Who Walks Through Walls
  The Cat Who Walks Through Walls
  The Cat Who Walks Through Walls: A Comedy of Manners is a science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein published in 1985. Like many of his later novels, it features Lazarus Long and Jubal Harshaw as supporting characters.-Plot summary:...
  
  , To Sail Beyond the Sunset
  To Sail Beyond the Sunset
  To Sail Beyond the Sunset is a science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein published in 1987. It was the last novel published before he died in 1988....
  
  
• Don Harvey - Between Planets
  Between Planets
  Between Planets is a science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein, originally serialized in Blue Book magazine in 1951 as "Planets in Combat". It was published in hardcover that year by Scribner's as part of the Heinlein juveniles.-Plot summary:...
  
  
• Alex Hergensheimer / Alec Graham - Job: A Comedy of Justice
  Job: A Comedy of Justice
  Job: A Comedy of Justice is a novel by Robert A. Heinlein published in 1984. The title is a reference to the biblical Book of Job and James Branch Cabell's book Jurgen, A Comedy of Justice...
  
  
• Mycroft "Mike" Holmes (aka Adam Selene, Mychelle Holmes) - The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
  The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
  The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress is a 1966 science fiction novel by American writer Robert A. Heinlein, about a lunar colony's revolt against rule from Earth....
  
  
• Ira Howard - Methuselah's Children
  Methuselah's Children
  Methuselah's Children is a science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein, originally serialized in Astounding Science Fiction in the July, August, and September 1941 issues. It was expanded into a full-length novel in 1958....
  
  
• Jonathan Hoag - The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag
  The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag
  "The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag" is a novella by Robert A. Heinlein. It was originally published in the October 1942 edition of Unknown Worlds magazine under the pseudonym of "John Riverside". It also lends its title to a collection of Heinlein's short stories published in 1959...
  
  

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• Joseph - Farnham's Freehold
  Farnham's Freehold
  Farnham's Freehold is a science fiction novel set in the near future by Robert A. Heinlein. A serialised version, edited by Frederik Pohl, appeared in Worlds of If magazine . The complete version was published in novel form by G.P...
  
  
• Max Jones - Starman Jones
  Starman Jones
  Starman Jones is a 1953 science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein about a farm boy who wants to go to the stars. It was first published by Charles Scribner's Sons as part of the Heinlein juveniles series.-Plot summary:...
  
  
• Zebadiah Jones- If This Goes On—

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• Karen - Gulf
  Gulf (Heinlein)
  Gulf is a novella by Robert A. Heinlein, originally published as a serial in the November and December 1949 issues of Astounding Science Fiction. It concerns a secret society of geniuses who act to protect humanity...
  
  
• Wyoming Knott (Wyoh) - The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
  The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
  The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress is a 1966 science fiction novel by American writer Robert A. Heinlein, about a lunar colony's revolt against rule from Earth....
  
  

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• Stuart Rene LaJoie - The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
  The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
  The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress is a 1966 science fiction novel by American writer Robert A. Heinlein, about a lunar colony's revolt against rule from Earth....
  
  
• Andrew Jackson Libby
  Andrew Jackson Libby
  Andrew Jackson "Slipstick" Libby is a fictional character featured in the so-called "Future History" series of science fiction novels by Robert A. Heinlein. He is an enormously talented and intuitive mathematician, but received little formal education...
  
   - Misfit
  Misfit (short story)
  Misfit is a science fiction short story by Robert A. Heinlein. It was first published in the November 1939 issue of Astounding Science Fiction...
  
  , Methuselah's Children
  Methuselah's Children
  Methuselah's Children is a science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein, originally serialized in Astounding Science Fiction in the July, August, and September 1941 issues. It was expanded into a full-length novel in 1958....
  
  , Time Enough for Love
  Time Enough for Love
  Time Enough for Love is a science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein, first published in 1973. The work was nominated for the Nebula Award for Best Novel in 1973 and both the Hugo and Locus Awards in 1974.-Plot:...
  
  , The Cat Who Walks Through Walls
  The Cat Who Walks Through Walls
  The Cat Who Walks Through Walls: A Comedy of Manners is a science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein published in 1985. Like many of his later novels, it features Lazarus Long and Jubal Harshaw as supporting characters.-Plot summary:...
  
  . Also known as "Slipstick" Libby, and in Misfit
  Misfit (short story)
  Misfit is a science fiction short story by Robert A. Heinlein. It was first published in the November 1939 issue of Astounding Science Fiction...
  
  , has the nickname "Pinky". The Number of the Beast
  The Number of the Beast (novel)
  The Number of the Beast is a science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein published in 1980. The first edition featured a cover and interior illustrations by Richard M. Powers...
  
   (as Elizabeth Andrew Jackson Libby Long)
• Elizabeth Andrew Jackson Libby Long - The Number of the Beast
  The Number of the Beast (novel)
  The Number of the Beast is a science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein published in 1980. The first edition featured a cover and interior illustrations by Richard M. Powers...
  
   aka Pinky, Slipstick, Elizabeth Long, Andrew Jackson Libby 23rd chromosome XXY, originally male, latterly female
• Lapis Lazuli Long - Time Enough for Love
  Time Enough for Love
  Time Enough for Love is a science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein, first published in 1973. The work was nominated for the Nebula Award for Best Novel in 1973 and both the Hugo and Locus Awards in 1974.-Plot:...
  
  , The Number of the Beast
  The Number of the Beast (novel)
  The Number of the Beast is a science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein published in 1980. The first edition featured a cover and interior illustrations by Richard M. Powers...
  
  
• Llita - Time Enough for Love
  Time Enough for Love
  Time Enough for Love is a science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein, first published in 1973. The work was nominated for the Nebula Award for Best Novel in 1973 and both the Hugo and Locus Awards in 1974.-Plot:...
  
  
• Lazarus Long
  Lazarus Long
  Lazarus Long is a fictional character featured in a number of science fiction novels by Robert A. Heinlein. Born in 1912 in the third generation of a selective breeding experiment run by the Ira Howard Foundation, Lazarus becomes unusually long-lived, living well over two thousand years with the...
  
   (aka Woodrow Wilson Smith) - Methuselah's Children
  Methuselah's Children
  Methuselah's Children is a science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein, originally serialized in Astounding Science Fiction in the July, August, and September 1941 issues. It was expanded into a full-length novel in 1958....
  
  , Time Enough for Love
  Time Enough for Love
  Time Enough for Love is a science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein, first published in 1973. The work was nominated for the Nebula Award for Best Novel in 1973 and both the Hugo and Locus Awards in 1974.-Plot:...
  
  , The Number of the Beast
  The Number of the Beast (novel)
  The Number of the Beast is a science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein published in 1980. The first edition featured a cover and interior illustrations by Richard M. Powers...
  
  , The Cat Who Walks Through Walls
  The Cat Who Walks Through Walls
  The Cat Who Walks Through Walls: A Comedy of Manners is a science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein published in 1985. Like many of his later novels, it features Lazarus Long and Jubal Harshaw as supporting characters.-Plot summary:...
  
  , To Sail Beyond the Sunset
  To Sail Beyond the Sunset
  To Sail Beyond the Sunset is a science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein published in 1987. It was the last novel published before he died in 1988....
  
  
• Lorelei Lee Long - Time Enough for Love
  Time Enough for Love
  Time Enough for Love is a science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein, first published in 1973. The work was nominated for the Nebula Award for Best Novel in 1973 and both the Hugo and Locus Awards in 1974.-Plot:...
  
  , The Number of the Beast
  The Number of the Beast (novel)
  The Number of the Beast is a science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein published in 1980. The first edition featured a cover and interior illustrations by Richard M. Powers...
  
  
• Lummox - The Star Beast
  The Star Beast
  The Star Beast is a 1954 science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein about a high school senior who discovers that his late father's extraterrestrial pet is more than it appears to be...
  
  
• John Lyle- If This Goes On—

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• Dr. Mahmoud (a.k.a. "Stinky") - Stranger in a Strange Land
  Stranger in a Strange Land
  Stranger in a Strange Land is a 1961 science fiction novel by American author Robert A. Heinlein. It tells the story of Valentine Michael Smith, a human who comes to Earth in early adulthood after being born on the planet Mars and raised by Martians. The novel explores his interaction with—and...
  
  
• Margrethe - Job: A Comedy of Justice
  Job: A Comedy of Justice
  Job: A Comedy of Justice is a novel by Robert A. Heinlein published in 1984. The title is a reference to the biblical Book of Job and James Branch Cabell's book Jurgen, A Comedy of Justice...
  
  
• Dr. Mary Lou Martin - Let There Be Light
  Let There Be Light (short story)
  “Let There Be Light” a science fiction short story by Robert A. Heinlein, originally published in Super Science Stories magazine in May 1940 under the pseudonym Lyle Monroe...
  
  
• Mary (aka "Allucquere") - The Puppet Masters
  The Puppet Masters
  The Puppet Masters is a 1951 science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein in which American secret agents battle parasitic invaders from outer space...
  
  
• Helen Mayberry - Time Enough for Love
  Time Enough for Love
  Time Enough for Love is a science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein, first published in 1973. The work was nominated for the Nebula Award for Best Novel in 1973 and both the Hugo and Locus Awards in 1974.-Plot:...
  
  
• Gloria McNye - Delilah and the Space Rigger
  Delilah and the Space Rigger
  "Delilah and the Space Rigger", a science fiction short story by Robert A. Heinlein, is one of his most explicitly feminist-themed short stories...
  
  
• Memtok - Farnham's Freehold
  Farnham's Freehold
  Farnham's Freehold is a science fiction novel set in the near future by Robert A. Heinlein. A serialised version, edited by Frederik Pohl, appeared in Worlds of If magazine . The complete version was published in novel form by G.P...
  
  
• Minerva
  Minerva (disambiguation)
  Minerva is the Roman goddess of crafts and wisdom, but the name may also refer to:-People:* Josephine Blatt aka Minerva , strongwoman* Minerva Urecal , American film and television actress...
  
  - Time Enough for Love
  Time Enough for Love
  Time Enough for Love is a science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein, first published in 1973. The work was nominated for the Nebula Award for Best Novel in 1973 and both the Hugo and Locus Awards in 1974.-Plot:...
  
  , The Cat Who Walks Through Walls
  The Cat Who Walks Through Walls
  The Cat Who Walks Through Walls: A Comedy of Manners is a science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein published in 1985. Like many of his later novels, it features Lazarus Long and Jubal Harshaw as supporting characters.-Plot summary:...
  
  
• Miriam - Stranger in a Strange Land
  Stranger in a Strange Land
  Stranger in a Strange Land is a 1961 science fiction novel by American author Robert A. Heinlein. It tells the story of Valentine Michael Smith, a human who comes to Earth in early adulthood after being born on the planet Mars and raised by Martians. The novel explores his interaction with—and...
  
  
• Frank Mitsui - Sixth Column
  Sixth Column
  Sixth Column, also known under the title The Day After Tomorrow, is a science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein, based on a story by editor John W. Campbell, and set in a United States that has been conquered by the PanAsians, a combination of Chinese and Japanese...
  
  
• Mort the Wart - The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
  The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
  The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress is a 1966 science fiction novel by American writer Robert A. Heinlein, about a lunar colony's revolt against rule from Earth....
  
  
• Mycroft - The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
  The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
  The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress is a 1966 science fiction novel by American writer Robert A. Heinlein, about a lunar colony's revolt against rule from Earth....
  
  
• Mother Thing - Have Space Suit—Will Travel

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• Andrew Nivens, aka "The Old Man" - The Puppet Masters
  The Puppet Masters
  The Puppet Masters is a 1951 science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein in which American secret agents battle parasitic invaders from outer space...
  
   (his name is not mentioned, only inferred - the President calls him Andrew and his son's last name is Nivens)
• Elihu Nivens, aka Sam Cavanaugh - The Puppet Masters
  The Puppet Masters
  The Puppet Masters is a 1951 science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein in which American secret agents battle parasitic invaders from outer space...
  
  
• Gwen Novak - The Cat Who Walks Through Walls
  The Cat Who Walks Through Walls
  The Cat Who Walks Through Walls: A Comedy of Manners is a science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein published in 1985. Like many of his later novels, it features Lazarus Long and Jubal Harshaw as supporting characters.-Plot summary:...
  
  

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• Bernardo de la Paz (Prof) - The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
  The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
  The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress is a 1966 science fiction novel by American writer Robert A. Heinlein, about a lunar colony's revolt against rule from Earth....
  
  
• Patty Paiwonski - Stranger in a Strange Land
  Stranger in a Strange Land
  Stranger in a Strange Land is a 1961 science fiction novel by American author Robert A. Heinlein. It tells the story of Valentine Michael Smith, a human who comes to Earth in early adulthood after being born on the planet Mars and raised by Martians. The novel explores his interaction with—and...
  
  
• Penny - Double Star
  Double Star
  Double Star is a science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein, first serialized in Astounding Science Fiction and published in hardcover the same year...
  
  
• Pete (cat) - The Door into Summer
  The Door into Summer
  The Door into Summer is a science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein, originally serialized in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction and published in hardcover in 1957. It is a fast-paced hard science fiction novel, with a key fantastic element, and romantic elements...
  
  
• Peewee - Have Space Suit—Will Travel
• Longcourt Phyllis - Beyond This Horizon
  Beyond This Horizon
  Beyond This Horizon is a science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein. It was originally published as a two-part serial in Astounding Science Fiction and then eventually as a single volume by Fantasy Press in 1948.-Overview:The novel depicts a world where genetic selection for increased health,...
  
  
• Hugo Pinero - Life-Line
  Life-Line
  "Life-Line" is a short story by American author Robert A. Heinlein. Published in 1939, it was Heinlein's first published short story.The protagonist, Professor Pinero, builds a machine that will predict how long a person will live. It does this by sending a signal along the world line of a...
  
  
• Pixel (cat) - The Cat Who Walks Through Walls
  The Cat Who Walks Through Walls
  The Cat Who Walks Through Walls: A Comedy of Manners is a science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein published in 1985. Like many of his later novels, it features Lazarus Long and Jubal Harshaw as supporting characters.-Plot summary:...
  
  , To Sail Beyond the Sunset
  To Sail Beyond the Sunset
  To Sail Beyond the Sunset is a science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein published in 1987. It was the last novel published before he died in 1988....
  
  
• Ponse, The Lord Protector - Farnham's Freehold
  Farnham's Freehold
  Farnham's Freehold is a science fiction novel set in the near future by Robert A. Heinlein. A serialised version, edited by Frederik Pohl, appeared in Worlds of If magazine . The complete version was published in novel form by G.P...
  
  
• Pug - Glory Road
  Glory Road
  Glory Road is a fantasy novel by Robert A. Heinlein, originally serialized in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction and published in hardcover later the same year...
  
  

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• Rhysling, "Blind singer of the spaceways" - The Green Hills of Earth
  The Green Hills of Earth
  "The Green Hills of Earth" is a science fiction short story by Robert A. Heinlein, and the title of a song, "The Green Hills of Earth", mentioned in several of his novels...
  
  
• Juan Rico
  Juan Rico
  Juan "Johnnie" or "Johnny" Rico is the protagonist of Robert A. Heinlein's 1958 science-fiction novel Starship Troopers. He also appears in the films Starship Troopers and Starship Troopers 3: Marauder , and in the television series Roughnecks: Starship Troopers Chronicles.-Biography:In Starship...
  
   - Starship Troopers
  Starship Troopers
  Starship Troopers is a military science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein, first published as a serial in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction and published hardcover in December, 1959.The first-person narrative is about a young soldier from the Philippines named Juan "Johnnie" Rico and his...
  
  
• Rufo - Glory Road
  Glory Road
  Glory Road is a fantasy novel by Robert A. Heinlein, originally serialized in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction and published in hardcover later the same year...
  
  
• Clifford "Kip" Russell - Have Space Suit—Will Travel

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• Nehemiah Scudder - If This Goes On—
• Johann Sebastian Bach Smith (later Joan Eunice Smith Solomon) - I Will Fear No Evil
  I Will Fear No Evil
  I Will Fear No Evil is a science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein, originally serialised in Galaxy and published in hardcover in 1970...
  
  
• Sister Maggie - If This Goes On—
• Maureen Johnson
  Maureen Johnson
  Maureen Johnson is an American author of young adult fiction. She has published eight young adult novels to date, including the Suite Scarlett series and The Last Little Blue Envelope. Johnson is also the founder of the political networking site .-Early life:Maureen Johnson is a graduate of the...
  
   Smith - Time Enough for Love
  Time Enough for Love
  Time Enough for Love is a science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein, first published in 1973. The work was nominated for the Nebula Award for Best Novel in 1973 and both the Hugo and Locus Awards in 1974.-Plot:...
  
  , The Cat Who Walks Through Walls
  The Cat Who Walks Through Walls
  The Cat Who Walks Through Walls: A Comedy of Manners is a science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein published in 1985. Like many of his later novels, it features Lazarus Long and Jubal Harshaw as supporting characters.-Plot summary:...
  
  , To Sail Beyond the Sunset
  To Sail Beyond the Sunset
  To Sail Beyond the Sunset is a science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein published in 1987. It was the last novel published before he died in 1988....
  
   , The Number of the Beast
  The Number of the Beast (novel)
  The Number of the Beast is a science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein published in 1980. The first edition featured a cover and interior illustrations by Richard M. Powers...
  
  
• Valentine Michael Smith
  Stranger in a Strange Land
  Stranger in a Strange Land is a 1961 science fiction novel by American author Robert A. Heinlein. It tells the story of Valentine Michael Smith, a human who comes to Earth in early adulthood after being born on the planet Mars and raised by Martians. The novel explores his interaction with—and...
  
   - Stranger in a Strange Land
  Stranger in a Strange Land
  Stranger in a Strange Land is a 1961 science fiction novel by American author Robert A. Heinlein. It tells the story of Valentine Michael Smith, a human who comes to Earth in early adulthood after being born on the planet Mars and raised by Martians. The novel explores his interaction with—and...
  
  
• Woodrow Wilson Smith - birthname of Lazarus Long (see above)
• Lawrence Smythe (The Great Lorenzo) - Double Star
  Double Star
  Double Star is a science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein, first serialized in Astounding Science Fiction and published in hardcover the same year...
  
  
• Jacob Moshe Solomon - I Will Fear No Evil
  I Will Fear No Evil
  I Will Fear No Evil is a science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein, originally serialised in Galaxy and published in hardcover in 1970...
  
  
• Mary Sperling - Methuselah's Children
  Methuselah's Children
  Methuselah's Children is a science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein, originally serialized in Astounding Science Fiction in the July, August, and September 1941 issues. It was expanded into a full-length novel in 1958....
  
  
• Star, aka Her Wisdom - Glory Road
  Glory Road
  Glory Road is a fantasy novel by Robert A. Heinlein, originally serialized in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction and published in hardcover later the same year...
  
  , The Cat Who Walks Through Walls
  The Cat Who Walks Through Walls
  The Cat Who Walks Through Walls: A Comedy of Manners is a science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein published in 1985. Like many of his later novels, it features Lazarus Long and Jubal Harshaw as supporting characters.-Plot summary:...
  
  
• Lowell "Buster" Stone - The Rolling Stones
  The Rolling Stones (novel)
  The Rolling Stones is a 1952 science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein....
  
  
• Castor Stone - The Rolling Stones
  The Rolling Stones (novel)
  The Rolling Stones is a 1952 science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein....
  
  , The Number of the Beast
  The Number of the Beast (novel)
  The Number of the Beast is a science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein published in 1980. The first edition featured a cover and interior illustrations by Richard M. Powers...
  
  , The Cat Who Walks Through Walls
  The Cat Who Walks Through Walls
  The Cat Who Walks Through Walls: A Comedy of Manners is a science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein published in 1985. Like many of his later novels, it features Lazarus Long and Jubal Harshaw as supporting characters.-Plot summary:...
  
  
• Edith Stone - The Rolling Stones
  The Rolling Stones (novel)
  The Rolling Stones is a 1952 science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein....
  
  
• Hazel Meade Stone
  Hazel Stone (Heinlein)
  Hazel Stone is a fictional character created by Robert A. Heinlein and featured in The Rolling Stones, The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress, The Cat Who Walks Through Walls, and other novels.-The Rolling Stones:...
  
   - The Rolling Stones
  The Rolling Stones (novel)
  The Rolling Stones is a 1952 science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein....
  
  , The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
  The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
  The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress is a 1966 science fiction novel by American writer Robert A. Heinlein, about a lunar colony's revolt against rule from Earth....
  
  , The Number of the Beast
  The Number of the Beast (novel)
  The Number of the Beast is a science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein published in 1980. The first edition featured a cover and interior illustrations by Richard M. Powers...
  
  , The Cat Who Walks Through Walls
  The Cat Who Walks Through Walls
  The Cat Who Walks Through Walls: A Comedy of Manners is a science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein published in 1985. Like many of his later novels, it features Lazarus Long and Jubal Harshaw as supporting characters.-Plot summary:...
  
  
• Pollux Stone - The Rolling Stones
  The Rolling Stones (novel)
  The Rolling Stones is a 1952 science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein....
  
  , The Number of the Beast
  The Number of the Beast (novel)
  The Number of the Beast is a science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein published in 1980. The first edition featured a cover and interior illustrations by Richard M. Powers...
  
  , The Cat Who Walks Through Walls
  The Cat Who Walks Through Walls
  The Cat Who Walks Through Walls: A Comedy of Manners is a science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein published in 1985. Like many of his later novels, it features Lazarus Long and Jubal Harshaw as supporting characters.-Plot summary:...
  
  
• John Thomas Stuart - The Star Beast
  The Star Beast
  The Star Beast is a 1954 science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein about a high school senior who discovers that his late father's extraterrestrial pet is more than it appears to be...
  
  

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• John Thomas - The Star Beast
  The Star Beast
  The Star Beast is a 1954 science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein about a high school senior who discovers that his late father's extraterrestrial pet is more than it appears to be...
  
  
• Dejah Thoris - see Dejah Carter, above
• Colonel Towers - The Long Watch
  The Long Watch
  "The Long Watch" is a science fiction short story by Robert A. Heinlein. It is about a military officer who faces a coup d'état by a would-be dictator....
  
  

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• Becky Vesey (aka Madame Alexandra Vesant) - Stranger in a Strange Land
  Stranger in a Strange Land
  Stranger in a Strange Land is a 1961 science fiction novel by American author Robert A. Heinlein. It tells the story of Valentine Michael Smith, a human who comes to Earth in early adulthood after being born on the planet Mars and raised by Martians. The novel explores his interaction with—and...
  
  
• "Shorty" Van Kleeck - The Roads Must Roll
  The Roads Must Roll
  "The Roads Must Roll" is a 1940 science fiction short story by Robert A. Heinlein. In the late 1960s, it was awarded a retrospective Nebula Award by the Science Fiction Writers of America and published in The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume One, 1929-1964 in 1970.The story is set in the near...
  
  

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• Rod Walker - Tunnel in the Sky
  Tunnel in the Sky
  Tunnel in the Sky is a science fiction book written by Robert A. Heinlein and published in 1955 by Scribner's as one of the Heinlein juveniles. The story describes a group of students sent on a survival test to an uninhabited planet...
  
  
• Ira Weatheral - Time Enough for Love
  Time Enough for Love
  Time Enough for Love is a science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein, first published in 1973. The work was nominated for the Nebula Award for Best Novel in 1973 and both the Hugo and Locus Awards in 1974.-Plot:...
  
  
• Barbara Wells - Farnham's Freehold
  Farnham's Freehold
  Farnham's Freehold is a science fiction novel set in the near future by Robert A. Heinlein. A serialised version, edited by Frederik Pohl, appeared in Worlds of If magazine . The complete version was published in novel form by G.P...