wooden/organic spaceships, affair with superior's wife/daughter, ambush on home base

[jdot]

I believe it'd be from the 70s/80s, and I did up a quick (terrible) version of what I remember the cover to be like.

 

[K. Riehl]

Re: wooden/organic spaceships, affair with superior's wife/daughter, ambush on home b

I remember wooden space ships from the Darkwar Trilogy by Glen Cook. The titles are:
Doomstalker, Warlock, Ceremony

Witchlike Silth, powering wooden "darkships". Main character's name is Marika.

Warlock has a couple of characters standing on a carved wooden cross style ship. In the middle of a starfield.

Close?

 

[Omphalos]

Re: wooden/organic spaceships, affair with superior's wife/daughter, ambush on home b

Yep. That's terrible. Bob Shaw I think had something called "Wooden Spaceships" a number of years ago (I think the 80's). I think it was an interplanetary romance kind of thing, with two planets and a common atmosphere.

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