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Andrew Jackson " Slipstick" Libby is a
fictional character In fiction, a character (or speaker, in poetry) is a person or other being in a narrative (such as a novel, Play (theatre), play, Radio series, radio or television series, music, film, or video game). The character may be entirely fictional or b ...
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Robert A. Heinlein Robert Anson Heinlein (; July 7, 1907 – May 8, 1988) was an American science fiction author, aeronautical engineer, and naval officer. Sometimes called the "dean of science fiction writers", he was among the first to emphasize scientific accu ...
. He is an enormously talented and intuitive mathematician, but received little formal education. His talent was first appreciated in the short story "
Misfit Misfit may refer to: Film, books, and television * "Misfit" (short story), a 1939 short story by Robert A. Heinlein * The Misfit, a character in Flannery O'Connor's short story " A Good Man Is Hard to Find" * ''Misfit'' (1965 film), a 1965 Amer ...
", where he helps guide an asteroid into the correct orbit after the guidance computer has failed. p. 25. In later stories, his consciousness is transferred into a clone body, called Elizabeth Andrew Jackson Libby, (it was discovered that Libby was a hermaphrodite and he was given the choice to be male or female when he woke up).


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