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  • Funnier if you know the filk source tune, which is a straight ghost story about a long-lost ship, killed by pirates, that will still sometimes show up in the backs of the spacelanes to materialize creepily and save your ass.

    Making Light: Scholarly works to avoid citing at all costs 2010

  • A short fixup that begins with a small group of people that are sick of robots ruling the spacelanes, and rigid control of human space travel.

    Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror: Alpha Centauri Or Die - Leigh Brackett Blue Tyson 2008

  • The British have also managed to conquer part of the Solar System via their use of aetherships to ply the spacelanes, using their alchemical FTL engines, between the planets.

    REVIEW: Starcross by Philip Reeve 2008

  • There goes my time sense, wandering the spacelanes again

    There goes my time sense, wandering the spacelanes again 2007

  • A short fixup that begins with a small group of people that are sick of robots ruling the spacelanes, and rigid control of human space travel.

    Archive 2008-07-01 Blue Tyson 2008

  • Starships plough the spacelanes, but they take days to get from star to star, and it's only the starspanning Dream that allows instant communication across thouands of worlds and thousands of light years.

    Spinning Universes out of Nothing sbisson 2002

  • If any one government gains control of the gateways, all the spacelanes will have to be redrawn, avoiding floating apertures and potential tolls.

    Doors Into Chaos Robert Greenberger 2001

  • Beyond Vulcan disable your tracking signal and depart charted spacelanes.

    The Pandora Principle Carolyn Clowes 1990

  • Beyond Vulcan disable your tracking signal and depart charted spacelanes.

    The Pandora Principle Carolyn Clowes 1990

  • While he had summoned more of it there than was usual, more yet was perforce based throughout the sector-working out of much smaller stations than Daedalus and Icarus held-or on sentry-go through its spacelanes.

    The Game Of Empire Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1985

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