SciFi and Fantasy eBook Club discussion

That's definitely a good one, no doubt. Hard to beat the MF!!!

But. Hmmm. There are sooo many cool spaceships out there.

The one that most recently stirred my imagination, however, was the bigger-than-planet-sized intergalactic cruiser in Marrow. It would literally take lifetimes to explore the thing :-)

Although, yeah, I dunno if it's got the MF's cool factor. Still pretty cool though.

This sounds like one of those fantasy garage sort of questions. You'd want one car for the weekend, an off-roader, a limo ...

So I reckon my "garage" would be:

An X-wing for track days.
The Millennium Falcon as a tinker toy/ hot rod.
A Star Destroyer for long journeys.
A Death Star for camping holidays
NCC 1701 for commuting to work
The Nostromo for taking rubbish to the recycling centre

Oh, and an Iron Man suit for general hooning about.

Just get a Tardis....it covers it all.
;)

The Rocinante from The Expanse

Will wrote: "...Oh, and an Iron Man suit for general hooning about."

Yay, rocket-powered hooning!!!!

:-D

I'd like one of Anne McCaffrey's Brain & Brawn ships :)

Tardis, definitely. Aside from that, Serenity from Firefly, or the Rampion from the Lunar Chronicles :)

Heart of Gold from Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Kevin wrote: "Heart of Gold from Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"

yeah, the improbability drive is pretty hard to beat.

Not sure if this is my favourite, but the spaceship in Vast is certainly one of the freakiest!!!!

Ooh, too many. There's the Tardis, then there's Serenity from firefly, the millennium falcon and let's not forget the Heart of Gold from Hitchhiker's Guide.

Just read up and saw Kevin didn't forget it.

Then of course there's Hal from Space Odyssey. There are probably others that'll come to me later on.

Great thread btw.

J.R. wrote: "Ooh, too many. There's the Tardis, then there's Serenity from firefly, the millennium falcon and let's not forget the Heart of Gold from Hitchhiker's Guide.

Just read up and saw Kevin didn't forge..."

DISCOVERY was the spaceship. HAL was the computer. TARDIS is my favorite, btw.

I think I'd go for Heart of Gold. Isn't it the unpredictable one? Mystery tour and then some; I love that idea.

I wish I could pick one from a book, but my favorite ship is tied somewhere between Serenity and the Tempest from Eve.

The most realistic spaceships I recall reading about came from A Mote in God's Eye.

As far as television and movies go I always thought the most dramatic space ship intro was the never ending ship going by on the screen was in the first minutes of the original Star Wars.

As for Star Trek, Next Generation had a nice looking ship but the thing always broke down.... the warp drive was always off line. The writers couldn't seem to think of anything else to have go wrong. Part of the story line was that they had eliminated money... so maybe if they had paid the people who built it? I guess you get what you pay for.

Dahak from Mutineers' Moon (Dahak series by David Weber)

you beat me to it, Igor! I was just about to say Dahak.

Just talking about physical appearance here, but I loved most of the ships from Babylon V.

Hard to pick a favorite.

I'm going to have to go with Normandy II, of Mass Effect.

I don't need a big ship. I need a fast ship with big guns. Sort of the Millennium Falcon line of thinking.

Normandy is a good pick. I feel like I've lived in that ship for years already, it feels like home.

The Profit, from the Profit Logbook series by Bruce Davis.

UNSC Pillar of Autumn (from the Halo universe).

Edit: Or possibly the Rodger Young from Starship Troopers.

"Shines the name, shines the name of Roger Young."

Forbidden Planet. Always loved the saucers of Harryhausen as well. Something nice about simple, clean shapes.

Been a while since anyone posted here, but lets see if the thread has some life left.

I don't see anyone who went with Moira from Farscape. To me, a biomechanoid ship that can Starburst to other systems, plus has a weapon powerful enough at the end of the series to destroy the entire universe, that is pretty darn cool. :)

I remember reading Farscape some years ago and definitely developed an affinity for Moira ... an interesting storyline.

I'd definitely have to go with Moira from Farscape as well. There's something comforting about a ship that wants to stay alive as much as you do.

I've gone from old school... USS Enterprise (refit), a big, stately ship... to Serenity, a ship I figure I'd have a more likely chance to fly in as a blue-collar bum.

I'm another fan of the Normandy from Mass Effect.