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A

• Al-Borak Undertaking: Islamic Kaliphate's effort to launch a spaceship to the Moon and to build a Lunar military base. [MC]

B

• Burvanny, Prince: the leader of the old nobility, participant in the revolt against Hradzka. [FFT]

C

• Cavor Project: Ibero-American Confederation's effort to launch a spaceship to the Moon and to build a Lunar military base. [MC]
• Children of the Mist: novel written by Allan Hartley, before he was killed in the Third World War. [TTA]
• Conqueror's Road: novel written by Allan Hartley, before he was killed in the Third World War. [TTA]

D

• Deadly Radiations: Mythical atomic particles which in the distant past were deadly for the humans of Hradzka the Tyrant's time. Radioactivity. [FFT]

E

• Edwards, Birdy: member of the Irregulars, the Toon's unit for young men; informal second-in-command to Murray Hughes; a member of the Team team sent into Pittsburgh. [RT]

F

• Fourth Komintern: a trans-national power-bloc; contrast with Western Union, Islamic Kaliphate, and Ibero-American Confederation. [MC]

G

• Gutchall, Frank: Williamsport lay preacher; the teen Allan Hartley thwarts his plan to kill his wife. [TTA]

H

• Hartley, Allan: U.S. Army Captain, G5--Scientific Warfare, General Staff, killed in 1975 during the siege of Buffalo, in the Third World War, graduated from Penn State in 1954; subsequently a teen-ager in 1945 who worked with his father, Blake Hartley, to avert the Third World War. [TTA] Head of Associated Enterprises. [MC]
• Hartley, Blake: widowed father of Allan Hartley; beginning in 1945 worked with his son to avert the Third World War. [TTA] President of the United States, former president of Associated Enterprises. [MC]
• Hilquist, Karen: member of the MacLeod Research Team, metallurgist, wife of Duncan MacLeod, had been born in the Swedish university town of Upsala. [MC]

I

• Ibero-American Confederation: a trans-national power-bloc; contrast with Western Union, Fourth Komintern, and Islamic Kaliphate. [MC]
• Islamic Kaliphate: a trans-national power-bloc; contrast with Western Union, Fourth Komintern, and Ibero-American Confederation. [MC]

J

• Jennie: Mrs. Stauber's sister, in Nippenose. [TTA]

K

• Khouroglu, Farida: secretary of the MacLeod Research Team, in love with Kato Sugihara, Turkish. [MC]

L

• Lowiewski, Adam: member of the MacLeod Research Team, physicist, Polish. [MC]

M

• Morton, Larry: boyhood friend of Allan Hartley; originally killed in a plane crash in 1968. [TTA]
• MacLeod, Duncan: leader of the MacLeod Research Team, husband of Karen Hilquist, had grown up in the Transvaal. [MC]

N

• Nayland, Brigadier General Daniel: U.S. military commander of the Tonto Basin Research Establishment. [MC]

O

• Olaf Olafsson: [NABC]

P

• Philadelphia Project: Western Union's effort to launch a spaceship to the Moon and to build a Lunar military base. [MC]

R

• Red Triumph Five-Year Plan: Fourth Komintern's effort to launch a spaceship to the Moon and to build a Lunar military base. [MC]
• Rose of Death: novel written by Allan Hartley, before he was killed in the Third World War. [TTA]

S

• Stauber, Mrs.: Blake Hartley's housekeeper when Allan was a boy; German immigrant. [TTA]

T

• Tonto Basin Research Establishment: site of the Western Union's Philadelphia Project. [MC]

U

• Unpronounceable, Alex: MacLeod Research Team guard, a "wiry little Greek" called "Unpronounceable" by his non-Greek-speaking colleagues. [MC]

V

• Voronoff, Dr. Dimitri O.: noted Soviet rocket expert, designer of the Union of East European Soviet Republics guided missile Marxist Victory, who vanished from the Josef Vissarionovitch Djugashvli Reaction-Propulsion Laboratories at Molotovgorod; co-designer, with Dr. Bao Hu-Shin, of the Afghan guided missile Sword of Islam.

W

• Western Union: a trans-national power-bloc; contrast with Fourth Komintern, Islamic Kaliphate, and Ibero-American Confederation; the United States participates in the Western Union on a treaty basis; Japan is allied with the Western Union. [MC]

X

• Xanx: a territorial region on Freya. [WC]

Y

• Yee Ho Li: United Peoples' Republics of East Asia scientist, defected to Afghanistan. [ORSVP]

Z

• Zarvas Pol, General: Army Commander, head of the revolt against Hradzka. [FFT]

Source codes:

• FFT = "Flight from Tomorrow," H. Beam Piper, Future combined with Science Fiction Stories, September/October 1950, . . .
• MC = "The Mercenaries," H. Beam Piper, Astounding Science Fiction, March 1950, . . . .
• ORSVP = "Operation R.S.V.P.," H. Beam Piper, Amazing Stories, January 1951. . . .
• RT = "The Return," H. Beam Piper and John J. McGuire, The Science-Fictional Sherlock Holmes, Council of Four, 1960. . . .
• TTA = "Time and Time Again," H. Beam Piper, Astounding Science Fiction, April 1947, . . . .