The Brain & Brawn Ship series is set in the future of our universe and in McCaffrey's Federated Sentient Planets.

They share a fictional premise but feature different cyborg characters. By 1997 there were seven novels, one old and six more recent. ĭuring the 1990s McCaffrey made The Ship Who Sang the first book of a series by writing four novels in collaboration with four co-authors, two of whom each later completed another novel in the series alone. Subsequently, she named the first story her best story and her personal favorite work. In 1994 she named it as the book she is most proud of. McCaffrey dedicated the book 'to the memory of the Colonel, my father, George Herbert McCaffrey, citizen soldier patriot for whom the first ship sang'. The five older stories are revised under their original titles as the first five chapters of the book and the sixth chapter is entirely new. The protagonist of the 1969 novel and all the early stories is a cyborg, Helva, a human being and a spaceship, or ' brainship'. Finally, the entire 'Brain & Brawn Ship series' (or Brainship or Ship series), written by McCaffrey and others, is sometimes called the 'Ship Who Sang series' by bibliographers, merchants, or fans. By an alternate reckoning, 'The Ship Who Sang' is the earliest of the stories, a novelette, which became the first chapter of the book. She died in 2011.The Ship Who Sang (1969) is a science fiction novel by American writer Anne McCaffrey, a fix-up of five stories published 1961 to 1969. Born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1926, McCaffrey relocated to Ireland in the 1970s, where she lived in a house of her own design, named Dragonhold-Underhill. Edwards Award for Lifetime Literary Achievement in Young Adult Fiction, was inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame, and was named a Science Fiction Writers of America Grand Master. She was also given the American Library Associations Margaret A.

She was the first woman to win the two top prizes for science fiction writing, the Hugo and Nebula awards. Then one day she fell in love! About the Author Anne McCaffrey, one of the worlds most popular authors, is best known for her Dragonriders of Pern(R) series. Gifted with the voice of an angel and being virtually indestructable, Helva XH-834 antipitated a sublime immortality. resplendent with daring adventures and endless excitement, beyond the wildest dreams of mere mortals. But first she had to choose a human partner-male or female-to share her exhilirating excapades in space! Her life was to be rich and rewarding. Book Synopsis Helva had been born human, but only her brain had been saved-saved to be schooled, programmed, and implanted into the sleek titanium body of an intergalactic scout ship.

The Ship Who Sang by Anne McCaffrey