What is "belters"

Usage examples of "belters".

Four other belters orbited farther back, knowing they could do nothing but also knowing how Egan felt about the kid, ever since he pulled the twins out of a lifeboat more than twelve Earth-years ago.

No other lifeboats had been launched, from what the belters later determined in examining what little remained of the wreckage.

None of the few female belters they had known had prepared them for this.

Roderick had convinced practically every listener in the chamber that Martian engineering was up to the task of creating an artificial planetoid out here in the belt, complete with gravity and atmosphere, where the belters could live between work shifts without suits, in habitations as open as those on Earth itself.

A contingent of Marsmen would join the belters and learn the procedures to handle any extra work involved.

Cass started to call out to the other belters, to disarm the delegation before those fearsome weapons could be brought into use.

He and Pol might be young compared to the other belters, but nobody could top their experience at handling themselves in this environment.

Of course, he and Pol were the only belters who had never experienced continuous gravity before.

Somehow, one of the belters had managed to get into a pressure suit and, through some freakish piece of luck, must have been blasted clear.

Marsmen from the original three ships had pinpointed the equipment, supply caches, and working areas of the belters as best they could.

True or not, there was no law against self defense so Kane had made no arrests, but asked the Belters to leave town.

Sol Belters, like our own Serpent Swarmers, were regarded by flatlanders as paranoid.

We were moving now, and by all accounts the Belters of the Serpent Swarm were moving faster.

The Swarm Belters formed it into a rough tube, spun it for gravity and honeycombed it with tunnels.

It was a mixed group, about half Swarm Belters and the rest an even mixture of Wunderlanders and Flatlanders.