The Ship Who Sang
- 248
- Pages
- about 4.5 h
- Reading time
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Our view
Anne McCaffrey’s “The Ship Who Sang” is a humane, thoughtful novel about a woman whose brain is wired into a starship. McCaffrey assembled it from five stories written between 1961 and 1969, which gives it the shape of a chain of episodes. Some readers find the joins abrupt and the treatment of women dated. Anyone drawn to classic science fiction that asks what makes a person human will find plenty here.
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About the book
The Ship Who Sang (1969) is a science fiction novel by American writer Anne McCaffrey, a fix-up of five stories published 1961 to 1969. It is also the title of the 1961 novelette which is the first of these stories. The series started by the book, The Brain & Brawn Ship, is sometimes called The Ship Who Sang series.
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Where the score comes from
The sources average 7.2 across 93 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 39% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Science fiction average of 7.8. That is how 7.5 comes out.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Library | 8.5 | 11 | 12% |
| Hardcover | 7.0 | 82 | 88% |
Frequently asked
How long is The Ship Who Sang?
It has 248 pages — shorter than 87% of the ranked books in Science fiction.
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