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  • noun Plural form of skyship.

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Examples

  • Schroeder produces his own sort-of-planetary romance, or mini planet romance, of towns surrounding artificial suns, with skyships, speeder bikes, spies and swords.

    Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror: The Space Heroes A Brief History Blue Tyson 2008

  • Schroeder produces his own sort-of-planetary romance, or mini planet romance, of towns surrounding artificial suns, with skyships, speeder bikes, spies and swords.

    Archive 2008-10-01 Blue Tyson 2008

  • The story of "Uller Uprising" is based on the Sepoy Mutiny from the history of Colonial India and has a number of great sci-fi twists including a planet with a corrosive atmosphere, non-carbon-based lifeforms, giant lizards, skyships, native levies and fissionable weapons.

    Archive 2005-06-01 MaksimSmelchak 2005

  • The story of "Uller Uprising" is based on the Sepoy Mutiny from the history of Colonial India and has a number of great sci-fi twists including a planet with a corrosive atmosphere, non-carbon-based lifeforms, giant lizards, skyships, native levies and fissionable weapons.

    NOVELS: "Uller Uprising" by H. Beam Piper! MaksimSmelchak 2005

  • While vast skyships crawl across the battlefields of a dying empire, soldiers raise the spirits of their dead in a desperate necromancy.

    More .NET neatness... sbisson 2002

  • Once we put some miles between ourselves and the wrecked skyships, though ...

    Angry Lead Skies Cook, Glen 2002

  • The rest were exactly like the odd little skyships that Evas and her henchwomen preferred.

    Angry Lead Skies Cook, Glen 2002

  • He imagined Phyrexians swarming the palace, riding on their wicked skyships or flying on wings of steel.

    Time Streams King, J. Robert 1999

  • Yet it was here, in _his_ castle, come down to him from the heav-ens in one of the humans 'skyships.

    Mission to Moulokin Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1979

  • We have skyships enough, and can evade pursuit in the trackless deeps of space.

    The High Crusade Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1960

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