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The sobriquet "Pierson's" comes from the name of the human who made first contact in the early 26th century in the Known Space timeline. According to the Niven story The Soft Weapon, Pierson was a crewman aboard a spaceship at a time when there was a camp revival of the ancient Time for Beany TV show featuring Cecil the Seasick Sea Serpent, an animated character based on a hand puppet; Pierson ...
Most of the book revisits earlier stories (the Beowulf Shaeffer stories in Crashlander and Neutron Star from the points of view of Sigmund Ausfaller and several Pierson's Puppeteers; "The Soft Weapon", another story in Neutron Star; and parts of the previous novel in the series, Fleet of Worlds, from the point of view of Nessus).
Nessus is a member of the technologically advanced alien race known to humans as Pierson's Puppeteers, and amongst themselves as Citizens. Nessus, like almost all Puppeteers ever met by humans, is insane by Puppeteer standards. Sane Puppeteers are far too cautious (cowardly from the human perspective) to go off-world or interact with non ...
Beowulf Shaeffer, a native of the planet We Made It and unemployed for the last eight months due to a stock market crash, is contracted by a Pierson's Puppeteer, the Regional President of General Products on We Made It, to pilot a General Products-hulled starship in a close approach about neutron star BVS-1. The Puppeteers want to determine why ...
Hearth is the homeworld of the Pierson's Puppeteers. With a population of around one trillion, it is covered by arcologies, most over one mile tall. Its industries and population generate so much waste heat it no longer requires a star for warmth (the four other "farmworlds", simply named "Nature Preserves" or NP1, NP2, etc., use artificial ...
How ‘Water for Elephants’ Composers PigPen Used Their Background as Puppeteers to Bring the Circus Show’s Theatrics to Life. Lexi Carson. April 25, 2024 at 7:15 PM.
During Kristie and Bobby Mihelich's wedding ceremony on April 22, 2022, their then-2-year-old son, Pierson, had the sweetest reaction to seeing his mom as the bride. A viral video of the toddler's ...
Pierson's Puppeteers: Characters: Nessus, Hindmost, Chiron: Fleet of Worlds is a science fiction novel by American writers Larry Niven and Edward M. Lerner, part of ...