What is "floaters"

Usage examples of "floaters".

Rather, they had resigned themselves and their budlings to less than their share of the wonders of the modern world: houses that thought, scudders and floaters, falqon-mail that flew from continent to continent where pitchens had only skimmed, communications that no longer called for nervograps, recordimals offering faithful transcriptions of the greatest thinkers and entertainers, newsimals and scentimals and haulimals, and the rest.

Their efforts would be helped in no small measure by the fact that the twin floaters stored within the two transport aircraft would land half of them in front of the fleeing human, and the other half behind.

With both floaters searching from above, Dysseen felt confident they would locate and recover the human within the time space he had specified.

He visualized wilderness, a few cities, vast numbers of floaters prowling at random through the lower skies.

They might not be provided a bountiful living the year round, but the marvellous refrigeration and cooking systems on the floaters made large accumulations possible at the harvest seasons.

Some who had been grounders bought floaters and joined the restless throngs in the sky.

Archeological records indicate that we also owe to the study of natural floaters the discovery that air is a mixture of several elements.

After all, we know that even the largest and lightest floaters we can construct, with the most powerful bellowers we can breed to drive them, can never exceed a certain altitude.

In the midst of it all, waiting calmly near the place where the caravan of floaters had come to rest, was a tall, gaunt man of late middle years, whose eyes were bright with a strange intensity and whose hard-featured face was set in the most benevolent of smiles.

Skandar, Zalzan Kavol, who was the chief of his guards, shouting and waving his four arms officiously about, and the men and women in their impressive green-and-gold uniforms emerging from their floaters and forming a living enfilade to hold back the gaping populace, and the royal musicians setting up the royal anthem, and much more like that, until at last Sleet and Tunigorn came to the royal floater and opened its royal doors to allow the Coronal and his consort to step forth into the golden warmth of the day.

And wait until morning before we try to see if the floaters will travel over water that moves as fast as this?

I recall, our plan was to spend tomorrow morning experimenting with the floaters, but to wait on this side of the river until the other half of the caravan had caught up with us before making the actual crossing into Piurifayne.

If the storm comes over us, it may destroy the floaters, or so badly disable them that they will be unable to travel on water.

For an instant he felt the wild urge to order the floaters back toward the east, in order to search for the rest of the royal party.

The royal floaters were huge vehicles, capable of holding many people and much equipment.