What is "bioforms"

Usage examples of "bioforms".

Julia turned Blackie around the last corner, and there the houses were, two in a long row of bioforms, pumpkins, beanstalks, squash, a Chinese lantern, a puffball, the layer of plastic that strengthened its inflated skin glinting slickly in the rain.

To either side of the original, central building were more modern wings of glass and concrete and beyond those, clusters of hollowed bioforms, pumpkins and squashes rearing their tumorous hulks against the green backdrop of parkland beyond.

The houses that lined the roads changed from stone and concrete high-rises to small brick and wood bungalows to bioforms such as the Cross family owned.

The curbs were largely free of parked bioforms, for most people put their vehicles in stables, their own or public, at night.

None of the residences were bioforms, for that technology was not yet mature enough to carry the necessary weight of tradition.

Yet that could not be all the story, for no one seemed to use bioforms of any sort, even, Tom was willing to bet, within the privacy of their homes.

All were as mechanical as could be, as dependent on machines, as rejecting of bioforms as any Engineer could wish.

The bioforms had been developed to fill all the roles they could, to replace mechanical devices wherever that was possible and thus to ease the strain on energy and mineral resources.

Innovation had followed the bioforms and left spaceplanes and their kin much as they had been a century before.

Certainly bioforms were not suited to the harsh environment of space, airless, subject to extremes of heat and cold and solar radiation.

Sam accepted the gauntlet and asked how the bioforms could possibly process information.

I have for some time been de-veloping a powerful new suite of bioforms designed specifi-cally to counter the threat of the Jeedai.

Images cut, shifted, jumped, blurred, and blended across the screen, linking the Hreshi and the Dedelphi while Arron talked about the immeasurable wealth new bioforms could provide in terms of nanotech advances and how corporate execs would go to any lengths to recoup their outlays.