spacelings

That Boysie Gann was a creature who had been born on Polaris Station, a man who lived with undead Reef rats and queer creatures called spacelings and pyropods.

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And even if not, they have no way of tracing the spacelings 'jetless drive" "

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As destination and pursuer were alike invisible to Ryeland, there were only the shrouded stars as reference points, and their great distance was not affected by the tiny crawl of the spacelings.

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A message from space, about things called reefs and spacelings and fusorians.

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The two spacelings swam among them, apparently unheeding, but the jetless drive their bodies produced was moving them all at a tangent to the rocket's line of flight, diverging from it slowly.

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Machine when he returned, riding one of Quarla Snow's spacelings-as she was even now teaching him to do--; bringing word of the community of Freehaven and its precious crop of several thousand splendid candidates for tissue salvage at the Body Bank!

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They worked for three hard days, while the spacelings fluttered and mewed restlessly-because, Quiveras said without emotion, the Plan cruiser was still somewhere about.

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"You promised to iet me ride one of your spacelings," he said, squeezing her hand and grinning.

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Why had they expected him to know anything about a call from Dan Horrock, or about fuso-rians and pyropods and spacelings or about how to design a reactionless drive?

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It was Donderevo who first told my father something about the spacelings and the reefs, and convinced him that the Machine should try to develop a jetless drive.

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