Nine Fictional Spacecraft That Make Unsettling Journeys

A Space com feature published October 31, 2026, lists nine unsettling fictional spacecraft, spanning the video game Dead Space, the film Alien, and Arthur C. Clarke’s novel Rendezvous with Rama.

Key details

• The list includes the USG Ishimura from Dead Space and the Grendel from Jason X.
• Rama appears in Rendezvous with Rama, while the Scopuli appears in Leviathan Wakes, the first novel in The Expanse series.
• The other featured craft are the derelict from Alien, Challenge 142 from It! The Terror from Beyond Space, Icarus 1 from Sunshine, the Event Horizon from Event Horizon, and the Shenandoah from Creature.

Rama is described as a 31-mile-long hollow cylinder in Arthur C. Clarke’s Rendezvous with Rama.

Why it matters

These spacecraft show how films, novels, and games use ship design and setting to shape stories about exploration and space travel. The list also connects readers with works across several decades and formats.

What happens next

Science fiction continues to give storytellers new ways to imagine spacecraft and distant journeys. Which of these fictional ships would you most want to see on screen?