ponics

Beyond lies the Deadways, where the ponics plants lie thick and hunting for game is necessary to keep the tribe alive.

Wertzone Classics: Non-Stop by Brian W. Aldiss Adam Whitehead 2009

She was not used to the ponics, danger might be lurking there, Gregg might well play them false, she was a woman ...

Starship Aldiss, Brian 1959

The hardest job in the task of clearing ponics was breaking up the interlacing root structure, which lay like a steel mesh under the grit, its lower tendrils biting deep.

Starship Aldiss, Brian 1959

We-everything: ponics, Deadways, the Forwards people, the whole shoot-are in a sort of container called a ship, moving from one bit of the world to another.

Starship Aldiss, Brian 1959

From one direction came the sound of voices; in the opposite direction, not many paces away, were-ponics.

Starship Aldiss, Brian 1959

As Roffery in the lead swung his hatchet at the ponics, he wielded it frequently around his head, in a dangerous attempt to rid himself of this irritation.

Starship Aldiss, Brian 1959

In the corridor, the ponics, most of their light source gone, were dying rapidly.

Starship Aldiss, Brian 1959

A solitary hunter on his own ground might creep among ponics without cutting them, by keeping close to the wall.

Starship Aldiss, Brian 1959

With room for once to reach something like their full stature, the ponics on the lower level had grown up into thin trees, arching overhead.

Starship Aldiss, Brian 1959

They might be gathering outside the door now, as menacingly as that silent figure had faded into the ponics.

Starship Aldiss, Brian 1959