starship n.

Before they quarrelled, the two scientists invented a wonderful projectile, capable of travelling through the millions of miles of ether that separated Ikon and the world, swearing a solemn vow that neither would use it except in the interests of the earthmen. But crazy, planning diabolical schemes of world rulership, Swarfsmidt travelled, aboard his starship, to Ikon, where he obtained supreme power.

I absolutely forbid you to publish the details concerning the ultra-violet ray which will be the propulsive power of the star-ship.

In each solar system there are a handful of Vramen who keep constant check, by means of super-radiolocator devices, over every star-ship that arrives at or departs from that system.

A lifeboat in the middle of the Pacific and a starship between galaxies are not in it for loneliness.

We have, in the course of a season and a half, established that Star Fleet includes 12 ships of the starship class.

But he hadn’t been prepared to be cut off from the mainstream of Earth—no starships, no contact or communication with the rest of the Galaxy, perhaps for generations, perhaps forever.

On his first day Ender Wiggin was taught about the ansible and what it meant to warfare. It meant that even though the starships of today’s battles were launched a hundred years ago, the commanders of the starships were men of today, who used the ansible to send messages to the computers and the few men on each ship. The ansible sent words as they were spoken, orders as they were made. Battleplans as they were fought. Light was a pedestrian.

You know, and I knew before I had been here a tenday, that Russ Montray is no more fit to be Legate…than I am to pilot a starship!

The two enemy starships that were left had slowed their fire now.

Sam Tenance was a starship pilot who stopped at Garth every five years or so, one of Megan’s three spacer husbands.

A country run by mysticism might launch Armageddon against an alien starship if they believed it held the Antichrist.

Although a starship has never been found, circumstantial evidence suggests that it was dismantled and that the Cooties did not leave our Solar System again.

Starship? They called these things starships. The word evoked night skies filled with stars, warm jungle air around him, and birds chirping in nearby trees. Some poetry, then, to these people.

Radio and starships were beyond the scope of these aliens' lives.

With Nigel’s blessing, CST had started practical design work on the starship three days earlier.

I’d seen views of it from orbit on the news services: a glitter-mass of silver and gold rising from the darker ruddy plateau on which the city had been built, the needle-flash of starships arcing to and from the spaceport.