The Brainship Series · Book 5
The Ship Who Won
- Published
- 1 January 1994
- Pages
- 434
- ISBN-13
- 9780785763673
- Type
- novel

About this book
The Ship Who Won (1994) is McCaffrey's fourth and final co-authored entry, written with Jody Lynn Nye at 434 pages and introducing Carialle, whose story Nye continues alone in The Ship Errant.
Its place in The Brainship Series
The Ship Who Won is book 5 in the The Brainship Series series. It follows The City Who Fought. It is followed by 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…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780785763673