The Ship Who Sang
1969 • 248 pages
Ratings29
Average rating3.6
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Ratings29
Average rating3.6
Follows Helva through her adventures in space after having been born human, but only her brain was saved and implanted into the titanium body of an intergalactic space ship.
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6 primary books11 released booksBrainship is a 10-book series with 6 primary works first released in 1969 with contributions by Anne McCaffrey, Mercedes Lackey, and 16 others.
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This is a weird one to review. On the one hand, it's foundational to my love of science fiction, one of the first I ever read. For its time, it has some incredibly progressive points on feminism and disability. McCaffrey created an ahead of its time book on what it means to be a human, and what a life without a body could be.
On the other hand, it's still rooted in some deeply problematic misogyny and throws around the R-word as a casual insult, so judging it by modern standards, lots of issues. And also by those modern standards, the ending just doesn't super hold up.
So I'm going with a 4 because it's a legendary book by a legendary author, but like most legends, we need to look at them through the lens of the present and proceed accordingly.
