Welcome to the Puppeteer Image Gallery. Click on the separate images to view the larger images.

Picture submissions:  If you have a good Puppeteer related art, we would love to hear from you, email the webmasters to get your picture added to the gallery.

Puppeteer in Flight

Cover art of Neutron Star. Scanned for Nesssus by A. Pick from Nesssus's own dog-eared copy found in a bargain bookstore and published by Orbit in 1980.

Puppeteer Internal Skeleton

A picture of a Puppeteer's internal body structure.

Puppetier

By Erwin Broman -- Holland.

 Black and White Puppeteer Image

Black and White Puppeteer.

3D Rear View of Puppeteer

Side and Rear Views of a 3D Puppeteer.

3D View of Puppeteer Kick Reflex

Puppeteer kick reflex suitably demonstrated

3D Render of an Outsider

A 3D render of an Outsider. The Outsiders provided the Puppeteers with some of their most impressive technology, for a "modest" fee.

All images on this row by John C. Atkeson.

Fully rendered picture of a Puppeteer on the surface of the Ringworld, perhaps with Fist-of-God in the distant background.

This image was created by Mark Woolrich using the digital 3d image was created by John C. Atkeson

Nessus in a puppeteer pressure suit as featured in "The Soft Weapon".

Illustrated by Sci Fi artist Paul Marquis. Visit his website www.pmarq.com for more of his SF Illustrations.

Steve Sloan is also a master in 3D imaging.  Steve's finished 3D model of the puppeteer designed using the 3D modelling software POV-ray.  Steve also has modelled other Known Space technology, have a look at Chmeee's POV model's page.

Puppeteer Planetary System

The Puppeteer Fleet of Worlds as depicted by Schuyler Horn. The Fleet of Worlds are moving at near lightspeed on their way out of the Galaxy. The Fleet consists of the Puppeteer Homeworld and also four farm planets which are lit by orbiting satellites. The puppeteer planet glows by its own light, from continents of solid cities.

The starscape is distorted and compressed from travel at relativistic speeds, and red shifted on the trailing edge of the visible spectrum, blue-shifted on the leading edge.

Other works from Schuyler can be found at the Known Space Image Gallery.


Images appearing in "Barlowe's Guide to Extraterrestrials"

A Puppeteer's Mouth
A Puppeteer Curled up in Fear Puppeteer Standing Sketches of the Puppeteer form in various poses

Image scan from the Green Lantern Comics

provided by Edwin A. Scribner

Example of some fan art of a puppeteer (which was a failed practical joke - and I alone fell for it!!! - does this mean I'm completely gullible????).

by Andrew S. Duncan

Cover of "The Ringworld Engineers" featuring a puppeteer.

A Puppeteer built ship the "Lying Bastard" (aptly named by Louis Wu, not the Puppeteers) approaching the Ringworld.

The Shape of Space cover art

provided to Known Space by Dan Dykstra

close up of the puppeteer from that picture.


Puppeteer Models

The Manager of the Larry Niven Mailing List, Jonathan Andrew Sheen was not idle this past holiday period, instead he put the spare time to good use and has created a model puppeteer which he manufactured from Barbie's horses' legs, modelling clay among other varied construction items.

If you browse this page you can see the puppeteer in its various stages of construction.

Puppeteer by Marilyn Pride and Lewis Morley, it was made for Larry Niven's GoH at Natcon in 1979. (Photo by Joyce Scrivner)

© Fanac.org

Although this looks like a piece of artwork, the puppeteer depicted here is actually a 6" tall unpainted sculpture by John Ottinger. Click on the image for a larger view.