The Brainship Series · Book 6
The Ship Errant
- Published
- 1 January 1996
- Pages
- 401
- ISBN-13
- 9780671854805
- Type
- novel
About this book
The Ship Errant (1996) is the first Brainship book without McCaffrey's name attached -- Jody Lynn Nye writing solo at 401 pages, continuing her character Carialle directly from The Ship Who Won.
Its place in The Brainship Series
The Ship Errant is book 6 in the The Brainship Series series. It follows The Ship Who Won. It is followed by The Ship Avenged. 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 9780671854805