spaceships

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Other spaceships are destroyed in the sky by the shower of meteorites.

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  • Almost all the devices for detecting the presence of other spaceships were based on the increase of mass with velocity. —  AUGUST, 1953 VOL
  • The clash was between the new cult which spends hours on hilltops watching for Walter Howard Path's mythical spaceships, and a detachment of the Georgia State Police. —  MacDonald, John D. - Wine of the Dreamers (v1.0) (html)
  • Gaggles of players take on other groups in science-fiction-dominated games of robots, spaceships, and time travel. —  Omni: September 1993
  • Le Guin points out that much sf uses robots, spaceships, aliens, etc. as icons more than as productions of real science. —  F ;SF; - vol 086 issue 04 - April 1994
  • I was the only science fiction writer there, but the group spanned most sciences, including people like Theodore Taylor, the inventor of the Project Orion idea -- spaceships driven by nuclear warhead explosions -- in the 1950s. —  F ;SF; - vol 086 issue 04 - April 1994
 

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