This page displays some of the aliens from Known Space in general andThe Ringworld in particular.
Click on the thumbnails to view larger images. Artists' names are all given, with email
addresses and personal web page url's where possible. If you have any
images you'd like to contribute, please email
the webmasters.
These illustrations date from
1975. The puppeteer is taken from the inside front cover of the Ballantine
paperback edition of Ringworld, while the puppeteer skeleton
was printed on the inside back cover. Steve
Sloan II, who identified these pictures, thinks that the grog picture
came from Neutron Star. The kzin and kzin skeleton were
from the inside covers of the Ballantine edition of Tales of Known
Space. For more pictures of the Kzin, see the Kzin
Home Page which has its own image gallery.
These images were created by Paul
Marquis, a science fiction artist, who has his own website at
Pmarq.com
Other works of Paul Marquis can be found on the Ships and
Vehicles page.
The images were produced using an Apple Mac
in Angus' first attempt to use Extreme 3D to construct objects for
use in Bryce. Nessus, the puppeteer from "Ringworld"
and "The Soft Weapon" was the inspiration for this artwork.
Technically, each of Nessus's heads should
have only one eye ("Ringworld" refers to 'a pair of silly-looking
one-eyed pythons' when describing Nessus's appearance on the display
of Louis Wu's videophone), still Peter Jones (artist of one of the
Neutron Star covers) depicted Nessus with two eye's per head as
well. Angus suspects that Nessus's coloration is probably
also all wrong.
The first two images are a combination
of two people's work, John C. Atkeson, who provided the basic 3d model
and Mark Woolrich who used
the 3d model of the puppeteer to produce the first image. More images
of puppeteers can be found on the Pierson's
Puppeteers' Home Page. The last image was scanned by Chester
Cat from Barlowe's Guide to Extraterrestrials.
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| The first image of the Thrint,
was taken from Barlowe's Guide to Extra Terrestrials and scanned by
Steve Sloan II. The next image
of the Outsider was produced by John C. Atkeson.
The above image was produced by John C. Atkeson, and this is his attempt at a Bandersnatch. He would like
to point out however, that this image is still a work in progress.
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