Swift, Jennlynn

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Jennlynn Swift was a senior research engineer, pilot, and part-time prostitute. She was the protagonist of the book Magic Carpet.

Contents 1 Names and Aliases 2 Appearance 3 Biography 4 Timeline 5 Personal Life 6 Background

Names and Aliases

While commonly referred to as Jennlynn, it has now been revealed (by Wes) that a future book reveals this to be a contraction of Jennifer Lynn. Only her parents still use this form of address (for example at the end of Magic Carpet).

She used the name Rebecca Ann or just Rebecca early in her prostitution career.^MC1 She was known as Skyhooker because of her company, Skyhook Aviation, and intentionally referring to her occupation.^MC23 She also became well known as Learjet Jenn, the fastest woman in the state of Nevada, "fastest" being an intentional double entendre.^MC25

Appearance

In 1990, she was a "tall, slender, shapely girl with the black hair down past her waist".^MC20 Jennlynn is described in Alone Together as being a "beautiful black haired woman, about 30 years old".

Biography

Jennlynn Swift was born in 1969 and raised in Bradford, Michigan, by conservative parents, her father being Reverend Archibald Swift, leader of the Disciples of the Savior Church. Her mother was Rebecca Ann Swift.^MC1

After graduating from Bradford High School (class of 1988) as valedictorian, she attended Caltech to earn her Electrical Engineering degree, with a minor in Aviation. As told in the story Magic Carpet, when her parents threw her out of their home after hearing of her sexual activities at school, she subsequently found work as a legal prostitute in Nevada to pay for Caltech and make payments on the bank loan she used to buy her Cessna 150 airplane, Magic Carpet. Jennlyn graduated Summa Cum Laude from Caltech and started working full-time for Lambdatron, while working towards her doctorate.^MC12 She got a PhD in Electrical Engineering in 1996.^MC26

Her main job is as an Engineer for Lambdatron where she is considered both brilliant and competent. In Alone Together she owns and flies her own aircraft (Cessna 310 and later a '67 Learjet which she bought in 1998) and in her spare time she works as a prostitute at the Redlite Ranch, a legal brothel in Antelope Valley, Nevada. She loved flying, and her delivery and passenger services for Lambdatron evolved from a hobby to a small air-charter company, Skyhook Aviation. Her income from engineering (and part ownership of Lambdatron), prostitution, air service and investments for 1996 was almost $300,000, and her net worth over a million dollars.^MC21

Timeline

• 1969 (July?) Jennlynn is born in Bradford, Michigan
• 1988 (May) graduates from high school as valedictorian
• 1988 (September) starts at Caltech
• 1990 (?) buys Magic Carpet
• 1990 (May) gets thrown out by parents, starts working at Mustang Ranch^MC1
• 1991 (January, February) parties with Sam Trott, as a result gets an offer to intern at Lambdatron next summer^MC6MC7
• 1992 (May) graduates from Caltech with BSEE Summa Cum Laude, starts working full time at Lambdatron, stops prostitution to avoid embarrassing the company^MC10MC12
• 1993 (January) returns to part-time prostitution^MC10
• 1996 Receives PhD in Electrical Engineering^MC26
• 1998 (June) meets Louise Buck and Al Buck at Canyon Tours
• 1998 (June) meets Tanisha Blythe and Jon Chladek as interns at Lambdatron^MC22AT8
• 1998 (September) buys a Learjet Skyhook^MC24
• 1998 (October) visits her high-school 10-year reunion^MC26
• 2002 (February) helps foil a hijacking attempt; flies and lands the airliner gaining fame and notoriety^MC31GT1
• 2002 (November) buys Magic Carpet back^MC36
• 2002 (November) visits Bradford to reconcile with parents^MC37
• 2002 (December) marries Will Hoffman

Personal Life

Jennlynn's relationship with her parents range from terrible to strained.

At the end of Magic Carpet she marries Will Hoffman. She considers his grandmother, Shirley, one of her best friends, and likes her entire family.

She is a good friend to Jon and Tanisha Chladek. In Hat Trick she is reunited with Dayna Berkshire. She also has been a customer of Al Buck's Canyon Tours on a tour run by Louise Buck.

Her boss, and fellow shareholder in Lamdatron, Stan Warshawski became her friend as well.

Background

First introduced in Alone Together, she is the main character in Magic Carpet which begins chronologically earlier than Alone Together but was published later than it.

Wes has stated that the character was created for Alone Together as an extreme example of the type of people employed at Lambdatron but because she became such an interesting character he subsequently wrote Magic Carpet around her.