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  • Marie Sovel was a star-drive tech aboard the Earth Alliance star-craft _Laika_.

    Who Do You Say I Am 2010

  • But by applying the prin-ciples of the star-drive directly to her capsule, the Vaere would create a time anomaly; she would emerge at the age of sev-enteen, but Keithland's continuum would have advanced only days by contrast.

    Stormwarden Wurts, Janny 1989

  • The Lhari had the star-drive; maybe it belonged to them, maybe not.

    The Colors of Space Marion Zimmer Bradley 1964

  • "I don't want to be mobbed when they hear that I have the secret of the star-drive."

    The Colors of Space Marion Zimmer Bradley 1964

  • Why, we could have had a monopoly on the star-drive -- Eight Colors and Vega

    The Colors of Space Marion Zimmer Bradley 1964

  • "When we know what the eighth color is, we'll have the secret of the star-drive, too!"

    The Colors of Space Marion Zimmer Bradley 1964

  • Can you guarantee that some, at least, of your people wouldn't try to come and take the star-drive by force?

    The Colors of Space Marion Zimmer Bradley 1964

  • After all -- "he was speaking more to himself than to the girl --" it's _their_ star-drive.

    The Colors of Space Marion Zimmer Bradley 1964

  • At one moment he entertained fantasies of going on into the Lhari worlds, returning victorious with the secret of their fueling location, or of the star-drive itself.

    The Colors of Space Marion Zimmer Bradley 1964

  • The secret that humans can endure star-drive has outlived its usefulness.

    The Colors of Space Marion Zimmer Bradley 1964

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