Blake stared open-mouthed as the huge, blunt end of the vast cylinder of apparently brainless flesh split.

The Nevian anchor rods had not broken; they had simply pulled up the vast cylinders of solid rock that had formed their anchorages.

What if our precipice isn't a straight wall but a vast ... um..." "A vast cylinder," said Bounce.

The vast cylinder of Victorian iron, which was the borough's most famous landmark, spread before him.

Twice, as he went past fallen ships, and once under a vast cylinder which had fallen across another, he heard batterings.

After perhaps an hour, her meanderings took her coreward, to the vast cylinder of zero-gee space that ran down Vanguard's entire long axis.

Honshu's citizens lived on the inside of the vast cylinder, on the three land sectors, under a gravitational pull of 1G induced by the cylinder's slow and carefully regulated rotation rate.

To any newcomer, the scene would have been breathtaking--a vast domed cylinder, at least a kilometer across and several in length, with a clear latticework canopy vaulting high overhead, open to the stars.

He had been provided with adequate clothing: a vast cylinder of cloth with holes cut 346 CHARLES SHEFFIELD through for his arms and head.

They hurriedly passed through and then into the holes, again made by themselves, beneath the vast cylinder of rubbish, and so into the heap itself, gnawing, eating anything that could be chewed.