The Brainship Series · Book 3
The Ship Who Searched
- Published
- 1 January 1992
- Pages
- 320
- ISBN-13
- 9780671721299
- Type
- novel
About this book
The Ship Who Searched, also from 1992, is Mercedes Lackey's sole contribution to the Brainship universe -- a 320-page collaboration with McCaffrey introducing its own shellperson lead among the four largely-independent middle entries.
Its place in The Brainship Series
The Ship Who Searched is book 3 in the The Brainship Series series. It follows PartnerShip. It is followed by The City Who Fought. 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 9780671721299