“On this particular Thursday, things were moving through the ionosphere many miles above the surface of the planet. Several huge yellow slab-like somethings, huge as office blocks, silent as birds, they hung in the air exactly the same way that bricks don’t.”
Why shouldn’t a spaceship just be a cube though? There’s no air in space. CUBE.
It worked for the Vogons, right?
“On this particular Thursday, things were moving through the ionosphere many miles above the surface of the planet. Several huge yellow slab-like somethings, huge as office blocks, silent as birds, they hung in the air exactly the same way that bricks don’t.”
There’s an air in space museum