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Andrew Jackson (Slipstick) Libby is a fictional character featured in a number of science fiction novels by Robert A. Heinlein. He is an enormously talented and intuitive mathematician, but received little formal education. His talent was first appreciated in the short story Misfit, where he helps guide an asteroid into the correct orbit after the guidance computer has failed. Science fiction is a form of speculative fiction principally dealing with the impact of imagined science and technology, or both, upon society and persons as individuals. ...
A novel (from French nouvelle Italian novella, new) is an extended, generally fictional narrative, typically in prose. ...
Robert Anson Heinlein (July 7, 1907 – May 8, 1988) was one of the most popular, influential, and controversial authors of hard science fiction. ...
Misfit is a science fiction short story by Robert A. Heinlein about Andrew Jackson Libby, in this story called Pinky, a boy from Earth with extraordinary mathematical ability and meager education who joins a crew creating a permanent outpost in the Jovian asteroids. ...
In Methuselah's Children, it is revealed that later, Andrew joins the military, and discovers he is part of the Howard Families, an experiment designed to breed humans with very long lifespans. When the Howards are forced to flee Earth, Libby provides a way of escape by fitting a "light-pressure" drive to the New Frontiers, the starship they have stolen. When the New Frontiers is later hijacked by alien technology and moved at speeds faster than light, Libby figures out how to reproduce the effect. Methuselahs Children is a 1941 science fiction novel by Robert Heinlein. ...
The Howard Families are a fictional group created by the author Robert Heinlein. ...
When the Howards return home, Libby and Lazarus Long go into business together exploring and colonizing new planets. (Long will later comment that the two of them are single-handedly responsible for the deterioration of Earth, as the galactic diaspora they created caused all the best brains to leave the planet.) Spoiler warning: Lazarus Long is a fictional character featured in a number of science fiction novels by Robert A. Heinlein. ...
Some time between the events of Methuselah's Children and Time Enough For Love, Libby dies. Lazarus places his body in a satellite around the last planet they pioneer, intending to return and take it back to Earth for disposal in the Ozark Mountains, where Libby grew up. When Lazarus returns for the body, however, it is not there. This information is revealed by Lazarus in conversation during the first half of Time Enough for Love. Time Enough for Love is a science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein published in 1973. ...
Between the first and second half of the book, Lazarus discovers time-travel technology, and one of his first test runs was to retrieve the coffin from a point in the past, thus explaining its disappearance. However, rather than dispose of the body, Lazarus and his family decide to ressurect Libby, extracting his memory and personality and injecting it into a host body. However, during the resurrection process, they discover that Libby's personality is at least partly female, and they give him the choice of what gender he wished to be. He chooses female, and becomes "Elizabeth Libby Long."
Variable Star
The novel Variable Star was written by Spider Robinson based on an outline by Heinlein. The novel includes many aspects of Heinlein's future history, although the events of the novel diverge from Heinlein's canon. At the end of the novel, Andrew Jackson Conrad appears. While the book does not state this to be Libby, Conrad actually married into the Conrad family and changed his name, and this character invents a faster than light drive. (Other future history characters, such as Nehemiah Scudder, D. D. Harriman, and Leslie LeCroix are referenced in the book.) This article or section contains a plot summary that is overly long or excessively detailed. ...
Spider Robinson (born November 24, 1948 in New York City) is a Canadian science fiction writer. ...
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