One of my other favorites, which isn't mentioned here, is the Michael, from Niven and Pournelle's novel 'Footfall'. A giant, nuclear-pulse powered battleship that takes the fight for Earth straight back to the Aliens (no borrowed alien tech or USB drive required! )
Popping a-bombs out of the back and detonating them to provide propulsion is quite the concept!
Quote from: tea monster on 12/28/2017 07:02 amOne of my other favorites, which isn't mentioned here, is the Michael, from Niven and Pournelle's novel 'Footfall'. A giant, nuclear-pulse powered battleship that takes the fight for Earth straight back to the Aliens (no borrowed alien tech or USB drive required! )Never saw illustrations of Michael, thanks for posting. - I was very intrigued by the design of that beast when I read the book. Popping a-bombs out of the back and detonating them to provide propulsion is quite the concept!
My choices are going to be the previously mentioned Millennium Falcon and the Discovery. One of my other favorites, which isn't mentioned here, is the Michael, from Niven and Pournelle's novel 'Footfall'. A giant, nuclear-pulse powered battleship that takes the fight for Earth straight back to the Aliens (no borrowed alien tech or USB drive required! )
Probably no pictures of this one but "New York" from "Cities in Flight" by James Blish.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cities_in_FlightSecond place, Rama from "Rendezvous with Rama" by Arthur C Clarke.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rendezvous_with_RamaI just like spaceships with some room to roam!
I think this one is obvious, with all due respect to the past four pages..."When Worlds Collide" had a fine rail launch system, and an awesome vehicle to be sure.Indeed, I'm pretty sure the same vehicle was in 20 MILLION Miles to Earth, another Must-See sci-fi...
Quote from: Oersted on 12/28/2017 08:02 pmQuote from: tea monster on 12/28/2017 07:02 amOne of my other favorites, which isn't mentioned here, is the Michael, from Niven and Pournelle's novel 'Footfall'. A giant, nuclear-pulse powered battleship that takes the fight for Earth straight back to the Aliens (no borrowed alien tech or USB drive required! )Never saw illustrations of Michael, thanks for posting. - I was very intrigued by the design of that beast when I read the book. Popping a-bombs out of the back and detonating them to provide propulsion is quite the concept!I really like how they used the pulse units for the main drive to do double-duty in pumping X-ray lasers for the main heavy weapons on that ship.
I actually liked the simplicity of the Interceptors from the 70s series “ UFO”, along with the SkyDiver.(Look em up on Google images). One missile and they’re done. If nothing else, that series should get the thumbs up for the best theme song intro for a fantasy sci-fi series.