What is "molts"

Usage examples of "molts".

The Molts, though not indigenous to any of the worlds they were known to occupy, formed stable equilibria wherever man had placed them.

Certainly there was no sign that the Molts had ever developed mechanical transport on their own, let alone star drive.

Whatever the Molts had been to men of the first expansion, equals or slaves, they were assuredly slaves now.

Besides, Molts can be dangerous, and you know the Southern Cross government in Buenos Aires doesn't want us to trade on the worlds it claims.

Squat, mauve-colored figures watched the Venerians from inside the fence: Molts, over a hundred of them.

Ricimer, Gregg, and about two dozen armed crewmen shepherded the cargo of Molts onto the surface so that the holds could be washed down.

Only a few of those guarding the Molts had brought rifles: cutting bars were lighter and more effective, both for use and as threats.

I'm bringing my other ships down, because they stink worse 'n sewers with the Molts we're carrying.

They'll try to run the few factories they find still operable, but they won't do the work themselves, they'll put Molts to it.

And the Molts will do only what their ancestors were taught to do a thousand years ago.

The Molts of Punta Verde used the trunks of living trees to support dwellings like giant shelf fungi.

If he'd been among the crews off to snatch Molts for the ships' holds, Gregg would have a person of importance: better equipped and more skillful than the men around him, as well as being a leader by virtue of birth.

Gregg couldn't make out a figure, but a flicker of mauve suggested the color of the Molts they'd loaded on Salute.

The flash of his bolt illuminated a pair of Molts crouching in the darkness.

And the Molts were so impressed that they want us to help them against their neighbors forty klicks away.