spaceling

Their questions had been carefully phrased to tell him nothing" they had asked him a thousand times what the word spaceling meant, and punished him more then once for guessing that it meant an inhabitant of space.

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He did not find himself dwelling on the fact that he was now in the position of the spaceling under Gottling.

Starchild Omnibus Pohl, Frederik & Williamson, Jack 1963

The strange force that drove the spaceling was something far removed from a mere greenish glow.

Starchild Omnibus Pohl, Frederik & Williamson, Jack 1963

Ryeland and the girl joined hands and leaped, and they floated into the world of the spaceling.

Starchild Omnibus Pohl, Frederik & Williamson, Jack 1963

The spaceling, without direction, seeming compelled by some outside force, took them straight into those valves, and halted.

Starchild Omnibus Pohl, Frederik & Williamson, Jack 1963

The spaceling saw him and the enormous purr stopped.

Starchild Omnibus Pohl, Frederik & Williamson, Jack 1963

Ryeland's mathematician's mind fitted pieces together; the spaceling, he thought, must form a capsule which instantly shapes itself to meet the resistance-forming the perfect streamline shape for its needs, blunt teardrop at a hundred miles an hour, needle as it approached sound's speed, probably wasp-waisted area-rule profile at higher speeds.

Starchild Omnibus Pohl, Frederik & Williamson, Jack 1963

The spaceling, Chiquita, had died at last; the strange forces that allowed her to hold air about her, and them, had loosened their grasp, and they were face to face with death.

Starchild Omnibus Pohl, Frederik & Williamson, Jack 1963

The spaceling moaned and shuddered as Gann drew near, its voice a faint, inarticulate sob.

Starchild Omnibus Pohl, Frederik & Williamson, Jack 1963

But she could not take caution from the warning; will she, nill she, the spaceling was carrying her deeper and deeper into Reef Whirlpool, with the gleam of lesser reef-lets darting past them as they flew, glittering diamond fungi, luminous blue polygons, jungles of incandescent wire, glowing nightmare worldlets for which she could find no name.

Starchild Omnibus Pohl, Frederik & Williamson, Jack 1963