Known Space Get Well Cards

Directions for use:

1. View the card /images by clicking on the links
2. Download the card image to your computer. If using Windows, right-click on the image and select "Save picture as..." or "Save Image As..."
3. Insert or paste the image into your word processor or graphics program
4. Set the print margins to 1/2 inch on all four sides (left, right, top, bottom)
5. Print out using 8 1/2" x 11" paper (the size of U.S. standard typing paper)
6. Fold twice (into quarters) to form a greeting card

Kzin #1 (B&W)

Art by Lisa A. Free, copyright ©1983
  1. Kzin #1-- (male) Nurse Dinner "Get well soon, monkeyboy!
    INSIDE: "We want to invite your nurse to dinner!"
    FRONT: "Get well soon, monkeyboy!"
  2. Kzin #1-- (female) Nurse Dinner
    FRONT: "Get well soon, monkeygirl!"
    INSIDE: "We want to invite your nurse to dinner!"
  3. Kzin #1-- (male) Scream and Leap
    FRONT: "Get well soon, monkeyboy!"
    INSIDE: "Remember: when you can scream and leap at your nurse, you are ready to go home."
  4. Kzin #1-- (female) Scream and Leap
    FRONT: "Get well soon, monkeygirl!"
    INSIDE: "Remember: when you can scream and leap at your nurse, you are ready to go home."

Kzin #2 (B&W)

Art by Bonnie Dalzell, copyright © 1975
  1. Kzin #2-- (male) Nurse Dinner
    FRONT: "Get well soon, monkeyboy!"
    INSIDE: "We want to invite your nurse to dinner!"
  2. Kzin #2-- (female) Nurse Dinner
    FRONT: "Get well soon, monkeygirl!"
    INSIDE: "We want to invite your nurse to dinner!"
  3. Kzin #2-- (male) Scream and Leap
    FRONT: "Get well soon, monkeyboy!"
    INSIDE: "Remember: when you can scream and leap at your nurse, you are ready to go home."
  4. . Kzin #2-- (female) Scream and Leap
    FRONT: "Get well soon, monkeygirl!"
    INSIDE: "Remember: when you can scream and leap at your nurse, you are ready to go home."

Kzin #2 (B&W)

Art by Kzin #3 (color)Art by Arndt Drechsler, copyright © 2001
  1. Kzin #3-- (male) Nurse Dinner
    FRONT: "Get well soon, monkeyboy!"
    INSIDE: "We want to invite your nurse to dinner!"
  2. Kzin #3-- (female) Nurse Dinner
    FRONT: "Get well soon, monkeygirl!"
    INSIDE: "We want to invite your nurse to dinner!"
  3. Kzin #3-- (male) Scream and Leap
    FRONT: "Get well soon, monkeyboy!"
    INSIDE: "Remember: when you can scream and leap at your nurse, you are ready to go home."
  4. Kzin #3-- (female) Scream and Leap
    FRONT: "Get well soon, monkeygirl!"
    INSIDE: "Remember: when you can scream and leap at your nurse, you are ready to go home."

Puppeteer #1 (B&W)

Art by Lisa A. Free, copyright © 1983
  1. Puppeteer #1-- Flatlander
    FRONT: "Get well soon, flatlander!"
    INSIDE: "The herd needs you. (Please provide the names of your doctors, so we can blackmail them to improve your medical care.)"
  2. Puppeteer #1-- Human
    FRONT: "Get well soon, human!"
    INSIDE: "The herd needs you. (Please provide the names of your doctors, so we can blackmail them to improve your medical care.)"

Puppeteer #2 (color)

Art by John C. Atkeson & Mark Woolrich
  1. Puppeteer #2-- Flatlander
    FRONT: "Get well soon, flatlander!"
    INSIDE: "The herd needs you. (Please provide the names of your doctors, so we can blackmail them to improve your medical care.)"
  2. Puppeteer #2-- Human
    FRONT: "Get well soon, human!"
    INSIDE: "The herd needs you. (Please provide the names of your doctors, so we can blackmail them to improve your medical care.)"

Thrint #1 (B&W)

Art by Bonnie Dalzell, copyright © 1975
  1. Thrint #1
    Front: "GET WELL NOW"
    Inside: "STOP IGNORING MY ORDERS!"

Thrint #2 (color)

Art by Wayne Douglas Barlowe, copyright © 1979
  1. Thrint #2
    Front: "GET WELL NOW"
    Inside: "STOP IGNORING MY ORDERS!"

Protector #1 (B&W)

Art by Virgil Finley, copyright © 1965 by Galaxy Publishing Corp.
  1. Protector #1-- Gene Pool
    FRONT: "Get well soon!"
    INSIDE: "You are a superior breeder, and the gene pool needs you."
  2. Protector #1-- Not Eating
    FRONT: "Get well soon!"
    INSIDE: "We need you! I don't even feel like eating when you're gone."

Protector #2 (color)

Art by H.R. Van Dongen, copyright © 1981
  1. Protector #2-- Gene Pool
    FRONT: "Get well soon!"
    INSIDE: "You are a superior breeder, and the gene pool needs you."
  2. Protector #2-- Not Eating
    FRONT: "Get well soon!"
    INSIDE: "We need you! I don't even feel like eating when you're gone."

Bandersnatch

Art by Bonnie Dalzell, copyright © 1975
  1. Bandersnatch-- Overweight
    FRONT: "Greetings from Jinx: Get well soon!"
    INSIDE: "We would visit in person, but your hospital has some silly objection to visitors weighing over ten tons."
  2. . Bandersnatch-- Treaty Violation
    FRONT: "Greetings from Jinx: Get well soon!"
    INSIDE: "Your illness is in violation of the Treaty of Sirius Mater. We will take no more instrument readings for the Institute of Knowledge until they research your cure."

Grog

Art by Bonnie Dalzell, copyright © 1975
  1. Grog
    FRONT: "You will get well soon."
    INSIDE: "You know this with crystalline certainty."

Outsider

  1. Outsider
    FRONT: "greetings from nereid: get well soon!"
    INSIDE: "the harmonic balance of the galaxy is disturbed by your absence. [the reason for this will cost you one trillion stars.]"

Kdatlyno

Art by Bonnie Dalzell, copyright © 1975
  1. Kdatlyno
    FRONT: "Get well soon!"
    INSIDE: "How can you stand being cooped up in a room so small? That would drive me crazy!"

Dolphin

  1. Dolphin
    FRONT: "Greetingss fffrom the oceanss of Down: Get well sssoon, walkerr!"
    INSIDE: "When you get bored, here are some ways to pass the time:" [A list of practical jokes follows.]

Motie*

Art by Ames, copyright © 1976 by UPD Publ. Corp.
  1. Motie
    FRONT: "Get well soon, fyunch[click]!
    INSIDE: "We would send a Motie doctor to attend you, but you wouldn't BELIEVE the CoDominium restrictions on visiting your world!"

    * Moties aren't from Known Space. They're visiting from a couple of universes over.

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