The Ship Who Sang

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.