Marine gastropods having smooth rounded shells that form short spires

Usage examples of moonshell.

And in a way he had scarcely acknowledged the fact that the planet had its politics, its business sections, its light industries, and people who were happy to see an army breach the moonshell as long as it meant extra cash for their pockets.

He continued to move carefully, using nothing but the ambient light of Mnemosyne’s moonshell and the nowfading radiance of Neilson’s Star.

The moonshell tumbled motionlessly overhead, a frozen stream of broken diamonds, pierced once by the planet’s shadow, around which were seeded concentric rings of amethyst, emerald, topaz and ruby.

Tavernor reacts in sudden fear as the hollow sphere around him becomes eggshaped, then conical, then opens into a tunnel which curves down through the egonmass, down through Mnemosyne’s moonshell, deep into the heart of the worldmind.

Looking “round him as he drove, Tavernor knew with one half of his mind that the space between Mnemosyne’s surface and the moonshell was filled with egons, an insubstantial frogspawn of racial consciousness.

Bad though the war situation was, he would have staked his life that no intruder could have penetrated the moonshell, unless after months of attrition during which entire fleets would have been lost.

See—see that moonshell area, that sort of bowl cupping the Hole—if you can see it, you can navigate it, because you are an expert pilot.

See-see that moonshell area, that sort of bowl cupping the Hole-if you can see it, you can navigate it, because you are an expert pilot.