โ Scribed by Anne McCaffrey
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SUMMARY: Combines the texts of two sequels to the best-selling The Ship Who Sang in a single volume, following the adventures of Tia and Nancia, who overcome paralysis by becoming starship-controlling "brains" that respectively protect other young people from suffering a similar fate and preserve
SUMMARY: Combines the texts of two sequels to the best-selling The Ship Who Sang in a single volume, following the adventures of Tia and Nancia, who overcome paralysis by becoming starship-controlling "brains" that respectively protect other young people from suffering a similar fate and preserve
The two novels continue the empowerment theme begun in The Ship Who Sang: through technological advances, children born with severe physical handicaps can be placed in mechanical shells, educated, and eventually implanted into the body of interstellar spaceships. Like Helva in the McCaffrey classic,
### From Kirkus Reviews Another entry in the Brain/Brawn series created by Anne McCaffrey, and a direct sequel to the paperback The City Who Fought (McCaffrey and Stirling); `brains'' are humans wired directly and immovably into their spaceships,`brawns'' their mobil human partners. Planet Bethel b
### From Booklist McCaffrey continues to develop her brainship concept, with a new collaborator this time, the one who worked with her on _The Death of Sleep_ (1990). The brainship Carialle and her brawn, Keff, find a habitable planet inhabited by an apparent mix of races and cultures and dominated
Accompanying her exo-archeologist parents on an EsKay dig, seven-year-old Tia becomes afflicted with a strange neural disorder that leaves her totally dependent on a mechanical life support system