The Brainship Series · Book 7

The Ship Avenged

by S. M. Stirling

Published
1 January 1997
Pages
364
ISBN-13
9780671877668
Type
novel

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Cover of The Ship Avenged

About this book

The Ship Avenged (1997) closes the series at 364 pages, S. M. Stirling writing solo and continuing his character Simeon directly from The City Who Fought.

Its place in The Brainship Series

The Ship Avenged is book 7 in the The Brainship Series series. It follows The Ship Errant. 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…

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