The Brainship Series · Book 4
The City Who Fought
- Published
- 1 January 1993
- Pages
- 448
- ISBN-13
- 9780671875992
- Type
- novel
About this book
The City Who Fought (1993), co-written with S. M. Stirling, is the longest book in the series at 448 pages and introduces Simeon, the character whose story Stirling continues later, alone, in The Ship Avenged.
Its place in The Brainship Series
The City Who Fought is book 4 in the The Brainship Series series. It follows The Ship Who Searched. It is followed by The Ship Who Won. 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 9780671875992