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  Pierson's Puppeteer - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Pierson's Puppeteer   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Pierson accordingly described the alien he had met as a Puppeteer, given some resemblance of the head and neck with Cecil.
In a later Known Space story, the Puppeteers explain that their cowardice is partly a result of a science experiment (the details of which are not given) that proves the Puppeteers have nothing equivalent to an immortal soul, and therefore death is, for their species, absolute and eternal.
Since Puppeteers are concerned with their own safety and the survival of their species foremost, the most important Puppeteer is considered to be behind every other member of the species, or protected by them.
www.encyclopedia-glossary.com /en/Piersons-Puppeteer.html   (1743 words)

  
 Pierson's Puppeteer: Encyclopedia topic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Pierson's Puppeteers, often known just as Puppeteers, are a fictional alien race from Larry Niven (Larry Niven: more facts about this subject) 's Known Space (Known Space: known space is the fictional setting of many of larry nivens science fiction stories....
Physically, Puppeteers resemble a centaur (centaur: (classical mythology) a mythical being that is half man and half horse) with three legs ending in hooved feet (hooved feet: a claw is a curved pointed growth found at the end of a toe or finger, or in arthropods,...
Biologically, Puppeteers are highly intelligent herbivore (herbivore: Any animal that feeds chiefly on grass and other plants) s; a herd animal (animal: A living organism characterized by voluntary movement), Puppeteers prefer the company (and smell) of their own kind.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /reference/piersons_puppeteer   (2012 words)

  
 Nessus (Pierson's Puppeteer) - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Nessus (Pierson's Puppeteer)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Nessus is a male character in Larry Niven's Known Space universe, of the species Pierson's Puppeteer, a herbivorous species noted for two heads whose mouths act as capable hands.
Pierson's Puppeteers are technically advanced in most of the physical sciences.
Niven states that the species has three reproductive partners, and implies that there are three genders, two sentient "males" and a non-sentient "female." The "female" may not actually be of the same species, as "she" acts as only a receptacle for genetic material contributed by the two males.
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 The LONG SHOT
The Long Shot was the result of centuries of development by the Firm of General Products, a company wholly owned by the Piersons Puppeteer species, who wanted to develop a hyper drive that would go faster than the then standard 1.1 lightyear a day which was the maximum that the Outsider hyper drive produced.
Yet by all other accounts, the prototype was a huge failure: It filled the largest hull that the Puppeteers General Products company made to the brim, leaving barely enough space for a life support system wich would house one man, and four fusion drives, needed to lift the huge ship out of a gravity well.
No one knew why they had left, except for Beowulf: 30,000 light years to the Core was quite a distance, and quite some time for the radiation of the nova front of the Core Explosion to reach Known Space, but when it did it would wipe out all life in its path.
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 puppeteer - OneLook Dictionary Search
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puppeteer : The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language [home, info]
Phrases that include puppeteer: american puppeteer, piersons puppeteer, the puppeteer
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 The Pierson's Puppeteer Home Page
This website is designed to give you a thorough insight into the Puppeteer species, created by Larry Niven and featured in several of his stories from the Known Space series.
This RingSurf Net Ring site is owned by The Pierson's Puppeteers' Home Page
Pierson's Puppeteers, extracts from Ringworld, © Larry Niven 1965
www.larryniven.org /puppeteer   (102 words)

  
 Books : Ringworld Engineers
As an offshoot of another of his series "Tales of Known Space" it succeeds in grasping the reader in its rich history of Alien life and lore as well as the fate of humanity.
This story, continued from "Ringworld", recounts the further adventures of Louis Wu and his Kzin friend who are once again employed by a radical Piersons Puppeteer to solve the problems of the Ringworld.
Various questions left un- answered from the first book are finally answered in this eagerly awaited sequel.
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