The Brainship Series · Book 2
PartnerShip
- Published
- 1 January 1992
- Pages
- 323
- ISBN-13
- 9780671721091
- Type
- novel
About this book
PartnerShip (1992) picked the concept back up more than two decades after The Ship Who Sang, co-written with Margaret Ball at 323 pages -- the first of four McCaffrey-co-authored sequels, each introducing a new shellperson protagonist with a different collaborator.
Its place in The Brainship Series
PartnerShip is book 2 in the The Brainship Series series. It follows The Ship Who Sang. It is followed by The Ship Who Searched. See the full The Brainship Series reading order.
Anne McCaffrey's Brainship books begin with a striking premise: severely disabled infants who would otherwise not survive can instead be surgically integrated into starship or city hulls as their permanent "brain," becoming the sentient core of a vast mechanical "brawn" — freed of a failing body but never physically independent again. The Ship Who Sang (1969) introduces Helva, raised from birth as a shellperson and paired with a series of human "brawn" partners for missions across the galaxy, in a fix-up novel…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780671721091