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  • It watched her carefully, but without interfering, as she darted, secure in the sleeth's shimmering transflection fields, into the ionized border layers of the third planet's atmosphere and dropped swiftly toward the cities on its surface.

    Starchild Omnibus Pohl, Frederik & Williamson, Jack 1963

  • "I was in transflection transit from Exion Four to Earth," Quamodian said.

    Starchild Omnibus Pohl, Frederik & Williamson, Jack 1963

  • It flashed with transflection speed across the void, faster than the rogue could move to evade it.

    Starchild Omnibus Pohl, Frederik & Williamson, Jack 1963

  • It reached to overtake her, pierced effortlessly the sleeth's transflection shield, shook her small sphere of air with an effector.

    Starchild Omnibus Pohl, Frederik & Williamson, Jack 1963

  • He touched the gun, almost caught it, dropped it and sent it skittering across the tipped floor of the flyer; and the sleeth hung there, staring blindly down through the faint shimmer of its transflection field, just touching a fallen tree with one horrendous claw ...

    Starchild Omnibus Pohl, Frederik & Williamson, Jack 1963

  • In the opening of the cave mouth the sleeth moved restlessly, the shimmer of its transflection field rippling light across its night-black hide.

    Starchild Omnibus Pohl, Frederik & Williamson, Jack 1963

  • The robot bobbed silently in its transflection field, as though it were considering what to do.

    Starchild Omnibus Pohl, Frederik & Williamson, Jack 1963

  • "Somebody was setting up a transflection terminal ..."

    Starchild Omnibus Pohl, Frederik & Williamson, Jack 1963

  • In one of these galleries, in a vault that the men had enlarged and bound about with steel and transflection energies, there was a region of great pressure and heat.

    Starchild Omnibus Pohl, Frederik & Williamson, Jack 1963

  • It was perched over her, the bright, broad eyes staring blindly across the valley. jt was graceful as a cat, but curiously awkward as it floated in its transflection field, clutching at the rubble with claws that were meant for killing.

    Starchild Omnibus Pohl, Frederik & Williamson, Jack 1963

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