What is "quaddies"

Usage examples of "quaddies".

So that the quaddies may never get the idea that the abnormal is somehow expected of them.

Yei, watching Leo laugh when the young quaddies swarmed around him afterwards, seemed to purr with contentment.

Kline Station has cancelled its construction contract with GalacTech, the first one we were going to send the quaddies out on.

Yei was not usually easy to track down, it being her habit to circulate often among the quaddies, observing behavior, taking notes, making suggestions.

You never appreciated what a dangerous legal edge the quaddies are balanced on here.

Although I suppose this artificial gravity thing would have killed the project whoever was in charge, we are very, very lucky that she didn't order the quaddies exterminated.

The histories of previous Utopian social experiments in isolation were not encouraging, but the quaddies were exceptional in every way.

The quaddies, he reflected, didn't seem to have a very clear idea of private property.

One of the pusher crew quaddies, trailing him, gave Leo a significant look.

But they're almost never the same things they think quaddies have to do.

The airseal doors to the raucous gym were crowded with quaddies, and she had to restrain herself from forcibly elbowing them out of her way.

Claire felt a twinge of real guilt, that it had been judged too dangerous to their secrecy to warn the younger quaddies in advance of the great changes about to sweep over them.

Its employees were regular Union downsiders and did not normally have contact with Rodeo, nor with the quaddies once destined to replace them.

His voice cracked with urgency, But they're trying to kill my quaddies, Ivy!

One of the quaddies flashed a lower palm in acknowledgement and touched his control box.