And those other drugs that do almost as much for us some kids go Earthside to school now.”) (That paragraph goes on to say “All those new free-fall drugs and nowadays earthworms stay three or four years and go home unchanged. Later Manny reports “Slim got Hazel to change name to Stone, two kids and she studied engineering.” So her becoming Hazel Meade Stone by name and by profession is pretty clear. It’s noted in TMiaHM that Slim Lemke Stone is courting her, prepared to “opt” her when she’s willing.

She does play an important role as captain of the Baker Street Irregulars, and she is adopted into Manny’s family. She turns up throughout the book, sometimes a bit gratuitously (Manny notices her in the crowd after their mission to Earth, for example). Her parents may both have been under sentence for subversion, but it’s not certain. Manny first notices her at the meeting where he meets Wyoming Knott she’s rolled in a ball, on a ballistic trajectory to hit the knees of one of the Warden’s police at the door to the hall when the raid happens. She was transported as an infant, and then lost her father and mother on Luna. In TMiaHM, the character Hazel Meade is a young girl, 13 at the start, living at Cradle Roll Crèche. (I should probably say that I think TMiaHM is Heinlein’s best book, and that TRS is probably the book of his that I’ve re-read the most times, which means dozens.) I have just happened to read those two books, at the same time, this last week, so I have opinions. I’ll refer to The Moon is a Harsh Mistress as ‘TMiaHM’, and The Rolling Stones as ‘TRS’, for brevity.

So, if they are the same character, Heinlein decided when he wrote TMiaHM to build things so that Hazel Meade could become Hazel Meade Stone.

TRS was published about 15 years before TMiaHM. Later on, Heinlein has said that they are, both in his later World As Myth works (which I personally don’t consider a definitive answer when he brings back old characters they never feel like themselves, which leaves me doubting everything else he says about the older works also), and in private letters to people (no, not me I never wrote to him). Heinlein’s The Moon is a Harsh Mistress could be the same as the Hazel Meade Stone who is the grandmother in The Rolling Stones. People have wondered, and debated, for decades whether the Hazel in Robert A.

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