![]() Subsequently, she named the first story her best story and her personal favorite work. In 1994 she named it as the book she is most proud of. McCaffrey dedicated the book "to the memory of the Colonel, my father, George Herbert McCaffrey, citizen soldier patriot for whom the first ship sang". The five older stories are revised under their original titles as the first five chapters of the book and the sixth chapter is entirely new. The protagonist of the 1969 novel and all the early stories is a cyborg, Helva, a human being and a spaceship, or " brainship". Finally, the entire "Brain & Brawn Ship series" (or Brainship or Ship series), written by McCaffrey and others, is sometimes called the "Ship Who Sang series" by bibliographers, merchants, or fans. ![]() By an alternate reckoning, "The Ship Who Sang" is the earliest of the stories, a novelette, which became the first chapter of 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. ![]()
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