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This is a list of fictional spacecraft, starships and exo-atmospheric vessels that have been identified by name in notable published works of fiction. The term "spacecraft" is mainly used to refer to spacecraft that are real or conceived using present technology.
Islands in the Sky: The Space Station Theme in Science Fiction Literature. Borgo Press. ISBN 978-0-89370-307-3. {}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher ; Westfahl, Gary (2009). The Other Side of the Sky: An Annotated Bibliography of Space Stations in Science Fiction, 1869-1993. Borgo Press. ISBN 978-1-4344-5749-3. Westfahl, Gary (2022
Space Cadet by Robert A. Heinlein; The Space Merchants by Frederik Pohl and C.M. Kornbluth; The Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke; Space Opera by Jack Vance; Space Trilogy series by C. S. Lewis. namely, Out of the Silent Planet, Perelandra (a.k.a. Voyage to Venus) and That Hideous Strength; The Space Vampires by Colin Wilson; Space Viking by H ...
Artist rendition of a spaceship entering warp drive. Generic terms for engines enabling science fiction spacecraft propulsion include "space drive" and "star drive". [g] [2]: 198, 216 In 1977 The Visual Encyclopedia of Science Fiction listed the following means of space travel: anti-gravity, [h] atomic (nuclear), bloater, [i] cannon one-shot, [j] Dean drive, [k] faster-than-light (FTL ...
Early works which preceded the subgenre contained many elements of what would become space opera. They are today referred to as proto-space opera. [16] Early proto-space opera was written by several 19th century French authors, for example, Les Posthumes (1802) by Nicolas-Edme Rétif, [17] Star ou Psi de Cassiopée: Histoire Merveilleuse de l'un des Mondes de l'Espace (1854) by C. I ...
[14] [18] [19] A particularly early example of this is C. I. Defontenay's 1854 novel Star ou Psi de Cassiopée (English title: Star: Psi Cassiopeia), [14] described by science fiction editor David Pringle as "the first detailed evocation of an alien solar system", [20] which depicts various alien species inhabiting the planets orbiting the stars.
According to Ott and Broman, Aniara is an effort to "[mediate] between science and poetry, between the wish to understand and the difficulty to comprehend". [10] Martinson translates scientific imagery into the poem: for example, the "curved space" from Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity is likely an inspiration for Martinson's description of the cosmos as "a bowl of glass ...
Another common motif is the use of black holes to traverse vast distances through space quickly, often by serving as the entrance to a wormhole; [f] examples include Joe Haldeman's 1974 fix-up novel The Forever War and Joan D. Vinge's 1980 novel The Snow Queen.