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“ignition! blast off!!! the vessel needs a new name! something more appropriate to a starship.
apollo? gemini? enterprise. already taken.
millennium falcon. trademarked. all rights reserved.
no! wait, i have it! dragin star! thats it! dragon star!”
― Margaret Weis, Elven Star

“I thought you hated them,â€� Nine Hibiscus said, dryly. “Was all of that complaining about ecosystem disruption for show, then?â€�
Twenty Cicada looked up at her, and dismissed most of his work holos with the hand that wasn’t petting the small void on his knee. “I do hate them,� he said, smiling. “But this one likes me, and what am I going to do with the things, space them? It’s not their fault they exist.�
She came to sit next to him, knee to knee. There always seemed to be more oxygen in one of Twenty Cicada’s garden rooms. (Not seemed: there was. Plant respiration. She’d checked the readouts once. It was a fractional difference, but real.) The Kauraanian pet lifted its head and opened yellow eyes. It made a noise like a badly tuned stringed instrument, stood, paced in a tight circle on Twenty Cicada’s lap, and settled down again. “I didn’t think you’d space them, Swarm,� she said. “But this is cuddling.�
“It yowls if I don’t,â€� Twenty Cicada said, perfectly bland, and Nine Hibiscus laughed.”
― Arkady Martine, A Desolation Called Peace

“Wang-mu fell silent, but not because she was embarrassed. She simply had nothing to say, and therefore said nothing.”
― Orson Scott Card, Children of the Mind

“On the flagship Weight of the Wheel:
“You’d have to ask medical,� said Two Foam.
“Someone ask medical,â€� said Mahit. “I can’t talk to anyone. I’m not a citizen.â€� And she smiled, terrifying and far too beautiful with all those teeth exposed, gesturing to her entire lack of cloudhook.”
― Arkady Martine, A Desolation Called Peace

“Isn’t antimatter what fuels the U.S.S.
Enterprise?”
― Dan Brown, Angels & Demons

“Now he sat alone; on a disabled starship about fifty years from anywhere on conversion drive â€� assuming he still had that. Insurance was a good thing â€� a very good thing - but it wasn’t going to help him much out here. The highlight of his afternoon was going to be staring at the blinking bridge instrumentation â€� which just happened to be running on the emergency batteries and actually blinking, like for real. Moreover, since his mutinous crew had made off with the Short Shit, the ships only shuttle, he was facing quite a problem”
― Christina Engela, Blachart

“It was good to be loved, good to love another human being â€� even in the belly of a starship arrowing for unmapped space.”
― Alastair Reynolds, Poseidon's Wake

“So, what’s the status?â€� said Ira as he pulled himself down to his couch.
“Will is turning into a starship,â€� Hugo replied, clearly only half in jest. “We’re about to watch history in the making.”
― Alex Lamb, Roboteer

“She’d never been on board a ship like this one. A real starship worthy of the name, where everything from the reinforced hull to the sophisticated instrumentation created a sense of presence, of consequentiality. When a vessel of this ilk cut a swath through the void, the void noticed.

But Nicolette Hinotori had once commanded a generation ship, which meant buried in Nika’s core operating system was knowledge about the operation of such vessels.

She stood in the center of the bridge, closed her eyes and asked herself a question. Results flooded her mind, and she hurriedly initiated a sort-and-prioritize algorithm to impose order on them.

Then she gazed around the bridge with new eyes.”
― G.S. Jennsen, Of A Darker Void

“It was a starship, and it was all that word implied. Off-dirt, the void, distant worlds whose names he couldn't spell.”
― Dan Abnett, Ravenor