Top 10 spaceships in fiction
Given by The Guardian
10 Works 60,788 Books 2,981 Reviews 4.1
Some of my earliest memories are of watching Star Trek in the early 1970s, on my grandparents’ black and white TV, and then getting caught up as a schoolboy in all the hype surrounding the show more release of Star Wars in 1977. But while movie and TV spaceships such as the USS Enterprise and Millennium Falcon – and even the Red Dwarf – are firmly established as part of our shared cultural vocabulary, the worlds of printed fiction contain many other ships that are every bit as iconic.
In science fiction, spaceships are more than vehicles. They’re often characters in their own right, whether they can think for themselves or not. [...]
Over the years, spaceships in fiction have come in many forms and guises. These are some of my favourites:
Gareth L Powell – LT author page show less
In science fiction, spaceships are more than vehicles. They’re often characters in their own right, whether they can think for themselves or not. [...]
Over the years, spaceships in fiction have come in many forms and guises. These are some of my favourites:
Gareth L Powell – LT author page show less
Work | Order Label |
---|---|
From the Earth to the Moon (1865) by Jules Verne | 1 |
Non-Stop (1958) by Brian Aldiss | 2 |
Nova (1968) by Samuel R. Delany | 3 |
Ancillary Justice (2013) by Ann Leckie | 4 |
Children of Time (2015) by Adrian Tchaikovsky | 5 |
Consider Phlebas (1987) by Iain M. Banks | 6 |
A Fire upon the Deep (1992) by Vernor Vinge | 7 |
The Martian (2012) by Andy Weir | 8 |
Leviathan Wakes (2015) by James S. A. Corey | 9 |
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet (2018) by Becky Chambers | 10 |
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