 Why does everyone in the future have hyphenated names?
Illustrated by van Dongen A gun is an interesting weapon; it can be hired, of course, and naturally doesn't care who hires it. Something much the same can be said of the gunman, too.... By MACK REYNOLDS Joe Prantera called softly, "Al." The pleasurable, comfortable, warm feeling began spreading over him, the way it always did. The evening was dark, it was unlikely that the other even saw the circle of steel that was the mouth of the shotgun barrel, now resting on the car's window ledge. Joe Prantera said softly, "Big Louis sent me, Al." And at that moment, the universe caved inward upon Joseph Marie Prantera. There was a falling through all space and through all time. There was pain, horror and tumultuous fear. And he came out of it as quickly and completely as he'd gone in. He was in, he thought, a hospital and his first reaction was to think, This here California. Everything different. Then his second thought was Something went wrong. So far as he could remember, he hadn't completely pulled the trigger. With luck, the syndicate would get him off with a couple of years at Quentin. A door slid open in the wall in a way that Joe had never seen a door operate before. This here California. For the first time, Joe Prantera began to sense an alienness—a something that was awfully wrong. The other spoke precisely and slowly, the way a highly educated man speaks a language which he reads and writes fluently but has little occasion to practice vocally. Maybe the old duck was one of these foreign doctors, like. The newcomer said, "You have undoubtedly been through a most harrowing experience. For one thing, there should have been some kind of police guard. "I'm not sayin' nothin'. "My name is Lawrence Reston-Farrell. If I am not mistaken, you are Joseph Salviati-Prantera." Salviati happened to be Joe's mother's maiden name.
 In the future, they honor the maternal lineage.
 Everyone in the future is pretentious.  In the future, they honor the maternal lineage.  In the future, they have such a large population it was necessary to differentiate between citizens.  Everyone in the future uses the name of both spouses.