What is "craker"

Usage examples of "craker".

The stuffed heads were still there-Bonsey the elk, Craker the lynx, Snapper the great white bear from the north.

It must be near the seashore, a few miles north of the Craker encampment.

Or it might be that the Crakers have disobeyed orders and have come looking for him, and have built a signal fire to guide him home.

If he were a Craker he’d have to apologize to it – I’m sorry I stepped on you, Child of Oryx, please forgive my clumsiness.

The Crakers gathered around him, gazing at him with quiet wonder: they’d never seen textiles before.

The Crakers stood amazed, staring, but – it appeared – not frightened.

He was worried about contagion – could the Crakers get this thing, or was their genetic material too different?

Like the Crakers she had no clothes on, and like the Crakers she was beautiful, so from a distance she didn’t stand out.

That way she could appear and disappear in the homeland of the Crakers without raising awkward questions in their minds.

The talk was of the Crakers – this is what Oryx called them – and of how they were doing.

She’d just come from being with the Crakers, teaching them a few more leaves and grasses, so she was damp from the shower.

Inside Paradice proper, the Crakers were munching up the leaves and grasses faster than they could regenerate, and one of these days the solar would fail, and the backup would fail too, and Jimmy had no idea about how to fix those things.

Then the air circulation would stop and the doorlock would freeze, and both he and the Crakers would be trapped inside, and they’d all suffocate.

He’s tired, he wants to sleep, but he’ll have to reassure the Crakers – demonstrate his safe return, explain why he’s been away so long, deliver his message from Crake.

His foot hurts like shit, it’s red around the wound again, his ankle’s swollen: whatever’s in there has overcome the cocktail from Paradice and the treatment of the Crakers as well.