Shakespeare blinked in surprise and looked carefully at the moravec. ❋ Simmons, Dan (1981)
“A lot of moravec observers think that it backfired precisely because it did work,” said Orphu. ❋ Simmons, Dan (1981)
It might be good enough, thought the little moravec. ❋ Simmons, Dan (1981)
Meanwhile, the more advanced Five Moons moravec scientists and engineers would divert cutting-edge technology from their interstellar program to the building of a quantum-tunneler and wormhole stabilizer of their own. ❋ Simmons, Dan (1981)
What had been the moravec spacecraft hit the thickened Martian atmosphere very much as Mahnmut had described to Orphu — as a meteor storm with the larger fragments massing several metric tons and stretching tens of meters across. ❋ Simmons, Dan (1981)
All my manipulators and flagella have gone to that big moravec heaven in the sky. ❋ Simmons, Dan (1981)
Even while he was cutting he realized how odd this would look to any divinity turning into this hallway — no moravec in sight, but a twenty-centimeter red beam floating by itself, slowly burning a circle into the lock mechanism of the huge door. ❋ Simmons, Dan (1981)
The deep-space moravec was tethered in the center of the enlarged gondola, strapped down by many meters of line and set into a frame Mahnmut had hammered together. ❋ Simmons, Dan (1981)
If they had been approaching — say — Europa, the displays would have shown radio, gravitonic, microwave, and a host of other technology-related emissions coming from the moravec-inhabited moon. ❋ Simmons, Dan (1981)
He tugged, shoved, thrust, and generally moravec-hauled the huge Ionian into the almost-empty payload bay. ❋ Simmons, Dan (1981)
Thanks, he said to Orphu as the six-meter horseshoe-crab-shaped moravec settled into his hull-crèche. ❋ Simmons, Dan (1981)
Mahnmut thought that the huge moravec had either no sense of irony or a wickedly sharp one. ❋ Simmons, Dan (1981)
Paris has been ordered to stay behind in Ilium, tasked by his older brother with the heavy responsibility of protecting their homes and loved ones in the ancient city — domed now by the moravec forcefield, but more securely protected, Hector has said, by bronze spearpoints and human courage. ❋ Simmons, Dan (1981)
When he was finished — knowing that it had been a cursory multiple reading, but eager to start the dialogue — he contacted Orphu on tightbeam since the Ionian moravec was out of his crèche, checking the boron-sail cables again, lashed firmly to lifelines this time because of the increasing deceleration. ❋ Simmons, Dan (1981)
“Uruk Sulcus,” said Koros III on the common band and for a moment Mahnmut thought the command-moravec was choking or cursing before he noted the slightly sentimental tone to his usually cool voice and realized that Koros must have been referring to some region on Ganymede itself — a half-glimpsed grooved and dirty snowball flashing past — that must be home to the Ganymedan. ❋ Simmons, Dan (1981)
“What possible use is that to a moravec now that the human race may be extinct?” ❋ Simmons, Dan (1981)
Orphu of Io eight-ton, six-meter-long, crab-shaped, heavily armored hard-vac moravec who works in the sulfur-torus of Io; Proust enthusiast ❋ Simmons, Dan (1981)
Hinted at now only by their periscopes and the tops of their black-metal sails, three Belt moravec ballistic missile submarines cruise through the Martian sea. ❋ Simmons, Dan (1981)
A heavy-use moravec of ancient design, built to withstand plasma torus and sulfur geysers, the Io-based entity was at least three meters tall and six meters long, shaped rather like a terrestrial horseshoe crab — heavily armored, with an untidy myriad of morphable appendages, thrusters, lenses, flagella, whip antennae, broad-spectrum sensors and facilitators. ❋ Simmons, Dan (1981)
The moravec was not designed for walking — his role was mostly to sit in an exploration submersible, sometimes to swim — and when he grew tired of being a biped, he altered the workings of his joints and spine and padded along like a dog for a while. ❋ Simmons, Dan (1981)
