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sleeper ship

spacecraft with passengers put into suspended animation for long duration travel
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sleeper ship

Summary

sleeper ship is a fictional technology[1]. It has Wikipedia articles in 12 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[2]

Key Facts

  • sleeper ship's instance of is recorded as fictional technology[3].
  • sleeper ship's instance of is recorded as proposed technology[4].
  • sleeper ship is a type of starship[5].
  • sleeper ship is a type of fictional spacecraft[6].
  • sleeper ship is a type of interstellar ark[7].
  • sleeper ship's described by source is recorded as Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction[8].
  • sleeper ship's different from is recorded as generation ship[9].
  • sleeper ship's different from is recorded as embryo space colonization[10].
  • sleeper ship's uses is recorded as suspended animation[11].

Why It Matters

sleeper ship has Wikipedia articles in 12 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[2] It is known by 3 alternative names across languages and contexts.[12]

Related Entities

Avalon embryo space colonization generation ship interstellar ark Passengers SS Botany Bay starship Starship

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . sfdictionary.com. Retrieved . sfdictionary.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  2. [12] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 18d ago · JhealdBatch bot · 2026-06-16 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Tv tropes id → Main/SleeperStarship
    Freebase id → —
    Subclass of → —
    Different from → —
    + 16 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/36807|batch #36807]]: tag for concrete/abstract disjunction anomaly"
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