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| Battle Sphere | ||
| An armored space ship using the simplest geometric shape. |
| "Battle sphere rapidly overhauling us from sunward, sir," said the man. "Approaching us against the glare of sunlight until it was so close when we discovered it that escape is now impossible. I'd say it is one of the new 4-Q heavies of the Interplanetary Council patrol fleet."
 ('The Space Rover' by Edwin K. Sloat) Winford hurried to the telescope. As his anxious eye took in the spherical outline of the battle craft, showing as a silvery crescent to the rear and starboard of them, he recognized it as one of the heavily armored spheres of the Interplanetary Council's fleet with the new long range K-ray disintegrator guns. |
| Technovelgy from The Space Rover,
by Edwin K. Sloat. Published by Astounding Stories in 1932 Additional resources -
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Compare to the Transparent Spherical Ship from Schachner and Zagat's 1931 novel The Emperor of the Stars.
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