Brainship is a 12-book series with 10 released primary works first released in 1969 with contributions by Anne McCaffrey, Mercedes Lackey, S.M. Stirling, Jody Lynn Nye, C. J. Cherryh, Arthur C. Clarke, David Drake, Robert A. Heinlein, M.J. Engh, A.E. van Vogt and 10 others.