Swift, Jennlynn

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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 Saviour Church. 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).

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

Jennlynn is described in Alone Together as being a "beautiful black haired woman, about 30 years old". 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. At the end of Magic Carpet she marries Will Hoffman.

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.

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.