sleeth

"It is the space creature called the sleeth, Monitor Quamodian," reported the flyer.

Starchild Omnibus Pohl, Frederik & Williamson, Jack 1963

Tried to call my sleeth, but the creature was spooked, acted funny, didn't respond.

Starchild Omnibus Pohl, Frederik & Williamson, Jack 1963

There were, he reckoned, just two kinds: "one maner is dedly and sleeth them that eateth of them and be called tode stoles, the other doeth not."

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Its sensor filaments ranged the cubic miles of void, and found her at last, still on the sleeth, far ahead of the rogue and dropping toward the atmosphere of the third planet.

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A sleeth-now he recalled the stories about those space beasts, evolved for killing, powerful beyond human competition.

Starchild Omnibus Pohl, Frederik & Williamson, Jack 1963

"Not any more, boy," he rumbled, 'Time was' that sleeth would follow me like a kitten.

Starchild Omnibus Pohl, Frederik & Williamson, Jack 1963

But it sent a message through its plasma effector, shaking the thin atmosphere that the sleeth carried with it though space.

Starchild Omnibus Pohl, Frederik & Williamson, Jack 1963

The sleeth was cruelly hurt; but the creature that had evolved to kill pyropods in space was not easily killed.

Starchild Omnibus Pohl, Frederik & Williamson, Jack 1963

Mounted on the sleek black shoulders of the sleeth, veiled in its transflection fields, she was climbing away from the rogue planet's frigid skin of snow, flying toward the inner planets of that great white star toward which the planet was plunging.

Starchild Omnibus Pohl, Frederik & Williamson, Jack 1963

With one part of itself, the rogue caused the sleeth to soar after them on its transflection fields, keeping the flyer effortlessly in view.

Starchild Omnibus Pohl, Frederik & Williamson, Jack 1963