The Ship Who Sang: Fantasy

Anne McCaffrey

Jul 2012 · Brain and Brawn Ship Book 1 · Random House

About this ebook

The brain was perfect, the tiny, crippled body useless. So technology rescued the brain and put it in an environment that conditioned it to live in a different kind of body - a spaceship. Here the human mind, more subtle, infinitely more complex than any computer ever devised, could be linked to the massive and delicate strengths, the total recall, and the incredible speeds of space. But the brain behind the ship was entirely feminine - a complex, loving, strong, weak, gentle savage - a personality, all-woman, called Helva...

Ratings and reviews

One of the best books I have ever had the opportunity to read. Charectors very well rounded except for some of the brawns.

After reading this, I look forward to more of her books. A joy to read, I would recommend this to anyone who enjoys fantasy books.

Read this when first published just re read it and found it even better. It seems that some stories improve with age. 😎

About the author

Anne McCaffrey was one of the world's leading science-fiction writers, and won both the Hugo and Nebula awards as well as the Margaret A. Edwards' Lifetime Literary Achievement Award. She was deeply honoured to have been made a Grand Master of Science Fiction in 2005, and was inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame in 2006. Born and raised in the US and of Irish extraction, she moved to Ireland in 1970 where she lived in the 'Garden of Ireland', County Wicklow, until her death in 2011 at the age of eighty-five. She is the creator of the Dragonriders of Pern® series. Her website is www.pernhome.com.