Questions tagged [spaceship]
For questions about the specific functions or layouts (etc.) of spaceship or spacecraft in a work. Always use this tag in conjunction with the correct tags for that work.
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How does inter-system travel work in the Dune Universe?
We see House Atreides moving en masse to Arrakis in a single large ship, but what about travelers who aren't uber-wealthy or powerful nobles that would be able to afford their own ships- do multiple ...
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YA Sci-Fi book from the nineties with a boy travelling alone on a spaceship with a sentient computer
All I can remember is a boy is traveling alone on a spaceship, the ship’s computer is sentient and he bonds with it. I believe it dies in the end and the boy may also die. The cover I think was blue ...
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Short story about an abandoned probe that hunts a man for its collection
This was a short sci-fi story I read in middle school. The story starts with officers on a spaceship talking about a probe that was accidentally left on the third planet of a system they were passing ...
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Mechanic girl becomes a captain of a spaceship after its AI goes rogue
I remember some contents of a book and would like to read it again but I have forgotten the name of the book and can't find it anywhere.
It is about a girl who is a mechanic on a spaceship with an AI. ...
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Woman looking for a sperm donor gets stuck on planet with induced multiple pregnancies
It's been years, but was trying to find this book.
Main character was female, she was from an upper class society that did life prolonging treatments, she was a space ship pilot (much to the chagrin ...
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Book about a woman on a star ship where everyone is psychic
I read this book maybe 25 years ago. I believe it was first published in the 80s or 90s, and I think the author was a woman.
Essentially, the main character is crew on a star ship, and there is some ...
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In this 80s/90s movie (or an episode of a series) an alien takes over a member of a spaceship's crew
I'm looking for a movie that an acquaintance of mine is looking for. This person is always looking for movies that somehow almost no one has seen. So I'll be very surprised if it's found. But it won't ...
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Ecchi harem anime that starts on an Earth-like planet, with a ditzy girl teleporting between spaceships
I vaguely remember an anime I watched when I was younger. I watched it in the early 2010s, but I can't remember enough details to make a Google search viable. It was an ecchi harem anime (I believe) ...
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Book about a colony ship that ends up at a cold dying star by accident and encounter aliens
I read a book 25 years ago about a colony ship that traveled by turning into a wave and traveling at light speed in a random direction until a star's mass would pull it back into being made of ...
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Story crab like aliens in large ship
A large spaceship captures a smaller one. The larger ship is inhabited by crab-like creatures that are impervious to regular bullets but can be harmed by armor-piercing rounds. These creatures are ...
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First instance of the use of immersion in a breathable liquid for high g-force flight?
This answer to I saw this article online that mentioned animal testing for immersion in water for applications in astronauts. What plans might require this? in Space Exploration SE includes:
I don't ...
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Sci-fi book series with fisherman finding AI-crewed spaceship
Looking for a sci-fi book series with a fisherman down on his luck who goes diving and finds an underwater cave with a spaceship trapped for centuries with an active AI aboard. This starts a series of ...
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Book involving a massive alien spaceship under the arctic, horror/thriller
I'm trying to find a book that I read several years ago as a digital book from Amazon's free Kindle program.
The premise is a bunch of scientists/military types travel to the Arctic or Antarctica and ...
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