star cruiser n.

Though the globe-men have gravity-screen ships, like our own old-fashioned ones, in which they can travel from planet to planet, they have no such star-cruisers as this one of ours.

Its forces would be preparing to meet that attack, and from the central sun of Canopus the alarm would be flashing out across our universe from star to star…. And even while that warning flashed, the great star-cruisers of the Interstellar Patrol would be gathering in answer.

The intricate propulsive mechanisms of the interstellar craft…could hurl the star cruiser across the hyper-dimensional shortcuts of space, traversing light-years of distance in months’ time.

A star cruiser on operations was never dull and there were books to read and reports to write…. The star cruiser worked efficiently and effectively in support of Administration units in the Sirius area, sliding through the blackness of space like some leviathan of the deep.

As far as the world was concerned, she had gone out to check on the loading of the star cruiser.

Well, my little friend, you’ve got something jammed in here real good…were you on a star-cruiser or a…. [ellipses in orig.]

A million sleek and horribly beweaponed star cruisers [were] poised to unleash electric death at his single word of command.

I don’t get this feeling from most of the American sf and fantasy I read—after all a collapsium-plated star -cruiser is a collapsium-plated star-cruiser in Poughkeepsie or in Peckham. Sf is, like rock music, a common frame of reference between the USA and the UK.

Our ancestors may have been sinners, in coming to breed on this taboo planet, but they flew a mighty star-cruiser dodging Institute patrols and dangerous Zang and Izmunuti’s carbon storms to get here. Sinners or not, they must have been awfully brave and skilled to do all that.

Owning a strangelet was akin to owning a pet black hole, and just as useful for various purposes, such as powering star cruisers.

If you do not reply, I will dispatch several Planetpulverizer-class star cruisers to your world so my tentacle-picked captains can receive your answer in person.

I was back in space, a disembodied consciousness observing the battle from somewhere in high orbit, the all-powerful Imperial fleet drifting beneath me, an army of giants being nipped at by underpowered rebel star cruisers and their swarming fighters.