The Ship Who Sang
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The Ship Who Sang (1969) is a short story cycle by science fiction author Anne McCaffrey.
The Ship Who Sang takes place in the distant future, when children who are born with severe physical handicaps but highly developed minds are turned into half-human, half-machine "encapsulated brains" (p.1). These children, after coming of age, are implanted into space rockets (becoming their driving mechanism) and are partnered with "Scouts" or "Brawns", human space captains.
The Ship Who Sang follows the adventures of one of these children, Helva, who when installed in her ship becomes XH-834. The stories recount a) her early infatuation with her first Brawn, Jennan, b) her period of mourning after his death, and c) her mature relationship with another Brawn, Niall.
[edit] Stories in the collection
- The Ship Who Sang, 1961
- The Ship Who Mourned, 1966
- The Ship Who Killed, 1966
- Dramatic Mission, 1969
- The Ship Who Dissembled, 1969
- PartnerShip
- The Ship Who Searched, 1992
- The City Who Fought, 1993
- The Ship Who Won, 1994
- The Ship Errant (by Jody Lynn Nye), 1996
- The Ship Avenged (by S.M. Stirling), 1997
- Brain Ships, 2003
- The Ship who Saved the Worlds, 2003
- The City and the Ship, 2004
[edit] References
- Haraway, Donna. "A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century," in Simians, Cyborgs and Women: The Reinvention of Nature. New York: Routledge, 1991: 149-181.
- Hayles, N. Katherine. "The Life Cycle of Cyborgs: Writing the Posthuman." In Cybersexualities: A Reader on Feminist Theory, Cyborgs and Cyberspace, edited by Jenny Wolmark, 157-173. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1999.
