ANDREW JACKSON LIBBY

Andrew Jackson " Slipstick" Libby is a fictional character featured in the " Future History" series 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" in which he helps guide an asteroid into the correct orbit after the guidance computer has failed.^[1]^[2]

In The Number of the Beast, it is revealed that his consciousness was transferred after his death into a female clone who took the name Elizabeth Andrew Jackson Libby.

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^ Slusser, George Edgar (1977). The classic years of Robert A. Heinlein. Vol. 11. Wildside Press LLC.
^ Clareson, Thomas D; Sanders, Joe (2014). The Heritage of Heinlein: A Critical Reading of the Fiction. Vol. 42. McFarland. p. 25.

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[1] Slusser, George Edgar (1977). The classic years of Robert A. Heinlein. Vol. 11. Wildside Press LLC.

[2] Clareson, Thomas D; Sanders, Joe (2014). The Heritage of Heinlein: A Critical Reading of the Fiction. Vol. 42. McFarland. p. 25.

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v t e Robert A. Heinlein's Future History
Collections	The Man Who Sold the Moon (1950) The Green Hills of Earth (1951) Revolt in 2100 (1953) Orphans of the Sky (1963) The Past Through Tomorrow (1967)
Novels	Methuselah's Children (1958) The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress (1966) Time Enough for Love (1973) The Number of the Beast (1980) The Cat Who Walks Through Walls (1985) To Sail Beyond the Sunset (1987) The Pursuit of the Pankera (2020)
Short stories	" Life-Line" "Let There Be Light" " The Roads Must Roll" " Blowups Happen" " The Man Who Sold the Moon" " Delilah and the Space Rigger" " Space Jockey" " Requiem" " The Long Watch" " Gentlemen, Be Seated!" " The Black Pits of Luna" " It's Great to Be Back!" " —We Also Walk Dogs" " Searchlight" " Ordeal in Space" " The Green Hills of Earth" " Logic of Empire" " The Menace from Earth" " 'If This Goes On—'" " Coventry" " Misfit" " Universe" " Common Sense"
Characters	Lazarus Long The Notebooks of Lazarus Long Delos D. Harriman Jubal Harshaw Competent man Maureen Johnson Andrew Jackson Libby Hazel Stone
Related	The Worlds of Robert A. Heinlein (1966) Expanded Universe (1980)

v t e Robert A. Heinlein's Future History
Collections	The Man Who Sold the Moon (1950) The Green Hills of Earth (1951) Revolt in 2100 (1953) Orphans of the Sky (1963) The Past Through Tomorrow (1967)
Novels	Methuselah's Children (1958) The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress (1966) Time Enough for Love (1973) The Number of the Beast (1980) The Cat Who Walks Through Walls (1985) To Sail Beyond the Sunset (1987) The Pursuit of the Pankera (2020)
Short stories	" Life-Line" "Let There Be Light" " The Roads Must Roll" " Blowups Happen" " The Man Who Sold the Moon" " Delilah and the Space Rigger" " Space Jockey" " Requiem" " The Long Watch" " Gentlemen, Be Seated!" " The Black Pits of Luna" " It's Great to Be Back!" " —We Also Walk Dogs" " Searchlight" " Ordeal in Space" " The Green Hills of Earth" " Logic of Empire" " The Menace from Earth" " 'If This Goes On—'" " Coventry" " Misfit" " Universe" " Common Sense"
Characters	Lazarus Long The Notebooks of Lazarus Long Delos D. Harriman Jubal Harshaw Competent man Maureen Johnson Andrew Jackson Libby Hazel Stone
Related	The Worlds of Robert A. Heinlein (1966) Expanded Universe (1980)

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