Seiners

In deep, starless space the herds were protected by the great harvestships of the Seiners, or Starfishers - the independent, non-Confederation people who dared to skirt the deadly boundaries of Stars' End and battle the Sangaree.

Books in the Mail (W/E 04/10/2010) RobB 2010

In deep, starless space the herds were protected by the great harvestships of the Seiners, or Starfishers - the independent, non-Confederation people who dared to skirt the deadly boundaries of Stars' End and battle the Sangaree.

Archive 2010-04-01 RobB 2010

What the hell could the screens show if the Seiners kept them switched off?

Starfishers Cook, Glen 1982

The Seiners had just moved up the Sangaree vendetta list, perhaps surpassing Jupp von Drachau.

Starfishers Cook, Glen 1982

But Kindervoort, for whom the outsiders had become a pet project, planned to make recreation day a gigantic college smoker, with floods of Seiners being exposed to landside ways.

Starfishers Cook, Glen 1982

In these two weeks he had seen nothing culturally unique to the Seiners.

Starfishers Cook, Glen 1982

Jarl Kindervoort, Amy, and a half dozen unfamiliar Seiners grinned at him.

Starfishers Cook, Glen 1982

When the earliest Seiners had located their first starfish herd the shark packs had been expanding rapidly.

Starfishers Cook, Glen 1982

Three Seiners on a flying scooter squealed round a corner and skidded to a stop at Marya's door.

Starfishers Cook, Glen 1982

The only Seiners around were those who had been sent to show the landsmen to their quarters and brief them about their job assignments.

Starfishers Cook, Glen 1982