Which military sci-fi trade paperback? Why, the bestselling A Sword Into Darkness, of course! I’m closing in on 5000 sales since launch (I’ll probably hit it by this evening, and I’m feeling magnanimous). So I’ll make it easy since I have laundry and writing to do:

The astrodynamic destroyer USS Sword of Liberty (DA-1) and her sister-ships are pretty dang cool, but I’m prepared to allow that they may not be the coolest ships to ever sail the spaceways. So, in 140 characters or less (approximately), what is the coolest spaceship to ever grace science fiction and why?

Post your answer on Twitter, Facebook, Google+, or here on the blog by Monday, and I will send the winning answer and maybe a runner-up or two a signed trade paperback copy of A Sword Into Darkness anywhere here on planet Earth, so long as you have an address. Postage is on me.

So, what’s gonna win? The Millennium Falcon? The Enterprise, and which variant? Serenity? Or some bad-ass mama-jama I ain’t never heard of before? Well, they’re all in the running! Don’t forget to justify your answers!