What is "malacostracans"

Usage examples of "malacostracans".

If they preferred to be called Malacostracans, which was what the translator kept offering, he wouldn't argue.

Friday had a mental image of a series of Malacostracans, decreasing in body size as they increased in authority, until he found himself addressing a Supreme Potentate the size of a flea.

You must agree to receive Level One compressed speech directly, and be able to speak for the Malacostracans to your own kind.

Scores of lumbering Malacostracans, all bigger than Two-Four, scuttled and splashed to and fro at the poolside in what seemed like random motion.

If you saw your two friends shot—their own fault, I told them not to run—then you must have seen the Malacostracans for yourself.

The Malacostracans would prefer that you, General Korin, as group leader, be that representative, but they do not insist on it since you must enforce discipline here.

Our only chance would be to talk the Malacostracans into lending us one of their ships, and it's pretty clear they aren't about to do that.

If Friday Indigo or the Malacostracans find her they're more likely to kill her than appreciate her.

And there's hordes of Malacostracans, we could never take on all of them.

That seemed to confirm what the Malacostracans had said, that the Link opened and closed under their control.

The Malacostracans had advanced technology, different from anything Chrissie had ever seen or heard about.

The one thing we can be sure of is that the Malacostracans will look for us.

Until that happens the only danger will be if the Malacostracans triangulate on our signal and it leads them to us.

According to Friday Indigo, the Malacostracans held precisely the same view: a human might direct the Mallies in making a Link transition, but stealing their ship and flying it home to the human universe was out of the question.

He had not realized that the Malacostracans would want to move so fast.