Nostromo

[ no-stroh-moh ]

noun

1. a novel (1904) by Joseph Conrad.

Example Sentences

Weaver is among the crew members of the commercial spaceship Nostromo, headed back home when a creature starts killing her colleagues.

From New York Times

Whether you’re the head of a band of scrappy interstellar pirates, a smuggler trying to make the Kessel Run in under 12 parsecs or piloting the Nostromo to a sketchy distress call, you and your fictional comrades all have one thing in common: Your days begin when the ship’s computer, and not the sun, tells you it’s time to wake up.

From Seattle Times

Instead, the dimly lit corridors of The Nostromo were just sets built at a studio near London.

From Fox News

Neil Burger’s sci-fi flick “Voyagers” feels like the product of a brainstorming session that started with the concept “Nostromo for teens.”

From Los Angeles Times

Mr. Kotto played the engineer Parker, traveling on the spaceship Nostromo with an otherwise all-White crew that included Sigourney Weaver and John Hurt, who becomes the host for a parasitic alien.

From Washington Post