polyceramic

But she was the last of the war machines, a three-legged oblate teardrop as big as a main battle tank, two big grabs and one fine manipulator folded like a spider’s palps beneath the turreted head that finished her pointed end, her polyceramic armor spiderwebbed like shatterproof glass.

2008 Hugo Awards Countdown: The Sites and Blogs Behind the Fiction – Short Stories | Spontaneous ∂erivation 2008

But she was the last of the war machines, a three-legged oblate teardrop as big as a main battle tank, two big grabs and one fine manipulator folded like a spider’s palps beneath the turreted head that finished her pointed end, her polyceramic armor spiderwebbed like shatterproof glass.

2008 Hugo and Campbell Award Winners! | Spontaneous ∂erivation 2008