Brainship is a 17-book series with 8 released primary works first released in 1969 with contributions by Anne McCaffrey, Mercedes Lackey, S.M. Stirling, Jody Lynn Nye, Veronica Giguere, C. J. Cherryh, Arthur C. Clarke, David Drake, Robert A. Heinlein, M.J. Engh and 11 others.