Oolite Bulletins

OK, a few clues. These are the initials of the story in which a ship appeared, not necessarily that of the ship itself ATC - (comics) CotG - (Novel) And these are the initials of the ship where the name of the story is too much of a giveaway ET - (TV) MF - (film) Plenty more out there! Later - forgo...

Mainly Cargo Freighter I believe, Serenity from Serenity... Another good one, Serenity from the TV series Firefly and the film Serenity . For some reason that wasn't on my list of fictional freighters and it really should have been, so have an MBP for spotting something I missed. They carried lots ...

Space Truckers definitely qualifies, and was another one I thought of when I set the question, so have a MBP. The cargo in that case was killer robots, so no more of those please.

Two to go!

And today was the 18th anniversary of the other Shuttle disaster, Columbia in 2003

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Shu ... a_disaster

The ship's design is as a freighter, for certain - they get mentioned at several points in Known Space stories. This one's individual history isn't discussed much - up until it's destruction. Which, for a supposedly indestructible hull, is a significant point. Niven must have regretted inventing in...

Alien , set aboard the M-Class Lockmart CM 88B Bison starfreighter USCSS Nostromo . There are acres of fascinating facts about the Nostromo in this article from the website Typeset in the Future , not least that the Captain's jacket has the ship's name written across the back in Pump Demi, ‘recentl...

Pandorum movie, freight = ~60k humans OK, I didn't explicitly rule out human freight (which I should have done, since that's a liner / colonisation ship rather than a freighter) so I'll accept that. Have a meaningless bonus point for an answer I hadn't anticipated. Four to go, but no more human car...

Curses! OK, let's try something different. A while ago I asked for five SF works involving space liners - this time I want five SF works where substantial parts of the plot are set aboard space FREIGHTERS. For the purposes of this question a freighter is a ship designed primarily to transport cargo,...

Can I have a different Marie Curie? "SLNS Marie Curie was a Scientist-class superdreadnought of the Solarian League Navy's Battle Fleet" in the Honor Harrington universe. https://honorverse.fandom.com/wiki/SLNS_Marie_Curie Annoyingly the first two ships I thought of in the Harringtonverse turned out...

The TFCT Rodger Young, in Heinlein's novel Starship Troopers (not sure it's named in the films), named for a war hero

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodger_Young

...was the Challenger disaster. Can't believe it's been that long, possibly because shuttles stayed in service until 2011.

And it was the anniversary of the 1967 Apollo 1 launch pad fire yesterday.

Re Leela - I remember running a Dr. Who tabletop RPG at an SF con many years ago. Leela was played by SF author Mary Gentle, who really channeled her inner barbarian for the role. At one point the characters were captured inside a bunker belonging to the president of a post-apocalyptic alternate wor...

Piter? Yes, that's the henchman Leto killed, my mind went blank on the name https://dune.fandom.com/wiki/Piter_de_Vries/XD Another one - an unnamed hit-man who attacks the superhero Ozymandias in The Watchmen . Spoiler - select text below to make it more visible: It appears that Ozymandias overcome...

Duke Leto Atreides in Dune (1965) - Doctor Yueh is forced to capture him by Baron Harkonnen, but Yueh gives him an opportunity to take revenge by fitting a poison capsule into his teeth. Leto tries to use it to kill Harkonnen and himself, but only succeeds in taking out one of Harkonnen's henchmen a...

I think you may need to set another question.