Brainship is a 14-book series with 12 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, P.J. Beese, Cordwainer Smith, Greg Bear, Fredric Brown, Fritz Leiber, Ursula K. Le Guin, Todd Hamilton, and Judith R. Conly.