stavanzer

It was probably only his fevered imagination, distorted in his memory by fear and terror, but the last stavanzer had looked big enough to swallow the entire ship and use the mainmast for a toothpick.

Mission to Moulokin Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1979

Ethan thought of a stavanzer tusk and what a good local art-ist might make of one.

Mission to Moulokin Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1979

You know how the stavanzer travels by push-ing itself across the ice.

Mission to Moulokin Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1979

They were racing down a broad avenue of clear ice cut by the stavanzer.

Mission to Moulokin Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1979

"Go and kill a stavanzer and I will help you do the looking inside."

Mission to Moulokin Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1979

Soon it seemed as big as a stavanzer, though it was not nearly so.

Icerigger Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1974

Eating air and excreting thunder, the stavanzer was moving.

Icerigger Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1974

If they'd been attacked by a rampaging stavanzer, now!

Icerigger Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1974

Many big logs, like those used in the stavanzer-fighting lightnings, had been tied together with heavy crossbeams.

Icerigger Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1974

"A stavanzer, " Hunnar continued as they descended yet another stairwell, -could destroy the great harbor more completely than any Horde and would do so without thought or compassion for life.

Icerigger Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1974