Resuming life on Earth, Shaeffer learns in 2654 that Carlos Wu has an agenda of his own. He has been described as a survivor but lazy, doing what needs to be done but only at the last possible moment.          Political / Social. As an albino, the Fertility Board of Earth will not grant Bey a parenthood license. „Tell Ward“ (Mandragora) wurde gegründet. He tends to be a womanizer, having formed the habit while at Nakamura Lines of making the acquaintance of the prettiest female aboard his ships during space voyages. Ausfaller, also on Fafnir, plans to take Shaeffer into custody but is killed by Ander using the same weapon that Feather shot Shaeffer with a year and a half earlier, a punchgun. This effect is regarded as a limitation based on the laws of physics. Working together, they overcome the kzinti pirates, and arrive safely at Home. Sharrol first met Beowulf Shaeffer on Earth when she picked his pocket, and was later formally introduced to him by Dianna and Elephant as a fourth for bridge. He attended college on We Made It where he presumably took courses in spaceship piloting; he related some aspects of courses he had taken to Elephant while they were exploring the antimatter protostar and planet. NOT!!! The. /* 160x600, created 12/31/07 */ Charakterprofil von Beowulf Shaeffer. He manages to get to his car and heads back toward the spaceport. In the story "Grendel" Jinxian Emil Horne estimated his weight at 160 pounds (about 73 kilograms). They examine the system the Outsiders sold them information on until Pelton’s General Products-hulled ship suddenly disintegrates. The Regional President of We Made It appears in the Beowulf Shaeffer story Neutron Star. After the events of "Procrustes" Shaeffer’s height was given as 5 feet 10 and one-half inches, and his muscles were acclimated to the gravity of Fafnir. Sharrol and Wu were married on a two-year contract arrangement; Tanya Wu was born in 2649 and Louis Wu a year later. When they arrive at Fafnir, however, Feather shoots Shaeffer and Carlos escapes with the children. A puppeteer's mouths are not only the most flexible speech organs around but also the most sensitive hands. Just before reaching the hyperdrive breakout point at Sol system the ship’s hyperdrive inexplicably disappears. See ISFDB. Sharrol suffers from Flatland Phobia, a fear of changes to a person's environment, gravity, etc. Filip finds a ship that will accommodate the group and Carlos’ special autodoc. If you remember a series the SyFy Channel used to play called "Lexx". The Heroic Myth of Lieutenant Nora Argamentine, Articles needing additional references from April 2009, All articles needing additional references, Articles that need to differentiate between fact and fiction from April 2008, All articles that need to differentiate between fact and fiction, The Incompleat Known Space Concordance— "Shaeffer, Beowulf", TIME LINE of Larry Niven’s Known Space Universe. google_ad_height = 600; From there, they would take the place of a family named Graynor, a group of two men, two women and two children. Pelton is of average height but strongly built, looking not so much overweight as solid. Beowulf Shaeffer: | |Beowulf "Bey" Shaeffer| is a |fictional character| from |Larry Niven|’s |Known Spac... World Heritage Encyclopedia, the aggregation of the largest online encyclopedias available, and the most definitive collection ever assembled. Beowulf_Shaeffer 0 points 1 point 2 points 6 years ago Actually, A similar and quite famous incident took place in Israel a few years before the M.A.S.H. It is the second in the series of Known Space stories featuring crashlander Beowulf Shaeffer. Forward takes them hostage and attempts to destroy the Hobo Kelly, but Ausfaller fires on his ships and Shaeffer manages to damage his equipment, temporarily losing control of the quantum black hole, which Forward, sensing defeat, allows himself to be drawn into. Carlos theorizes that a high gravity gradient would have caused the motor to take off at a higher level of hyperdrive. Carlos Wu appears in the Beowulf Shaeffer stories The Borderland of Sol and Procrustes, and is mentioned in the stories Grendel and Ghost. google_ad_slot = "6416241264"; They manage to stop him and Forward is killed by the quantum black hole. Shaeffer returns to Earth with Pelton and he and Sharrol move in together in Nome. This may have been done to delay Shaeffer until Ausfaller could arrive and take him into custody, but Ander did not have time to contact Ausfaller until after his initial interview with the crashlander. World Heritage Encyclopedia content is assembled from numerous content providers, Open Access Publishing, and in compliance with The Fair Access to Science and Technology Research Act (FASTR), Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., Public Library of Science, The Encyclopedia of Life, Open Book Publishers (OBP), PubMed, U.S. National Library of Medicine, National Center for Biotechnology Information, U.S. National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health (NIH), U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, and USA.gov, which sources content from all federal, state, local, tribal, and territorial government publication portals (.gov, .mil, .edu). ※ Aktivitäten, die Ranglisten betreffen, werden auf allen Welten geteilt. „Secret garden“ (Mandragora) wurde gegründet. Beowulf Shaeffer has appeared in the following books: Neutron Star (Known Space) and Juggler of Worlds (Fleet of Worlds #2) It is known he was raised in a large home on We Made It (as related in "Flatlander"), and is presumably from a wealthy family. In addition to winning the war for humanity, it allowed the re-integration of all the human colonies, which were previously separated by distance. This Pierson's Puppeteer, a native of the Fleet-of-Worlds working for General Products in Known Space, contracted with Shaeffer to pilot a spaceship in a close fly-by of newly discovered neutron star BVS-1 to discover what killed the first two explorers to make the attempt, Peter and Sonya Laskin. While invulnerable themselves, this is no guarantee that the contents are likewise protected. Article Id: //-->. 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