The Ship Who Searched

This is a book that I have read a couple of times, and since I just finished reading it again, here is my review of it.

Obviously I like the book! I certainly wouldn't put myself through the torture of reading it again if I didn't like it. It is very much a sci-fi book though. If you don't like sci-fi, you probably won't like this book.

This book kind of goes along with a couple of other books that Anne McCaffrey wrote. The only one I have read besides this one is "The Ship Who Sang." A good book as well. Anyway the series for these books is called the "Brain and Brawn Ship series." For a comprehensive list for all of Anne McCaffrey's books you can go Here.

I really enjoy the style in which this book is written. It is sci-fi, but you don't have to use every brain cell in order to follow and understand the book.

The books in this series deal with "brain ships" which are ships that have an actual human encased into the ship. Sounds bizarre I know, but it is really cool to read about. The jist that I got from it, is that the minds of people who have bodies that would leave them unable to do anything physical are placed into these ships. The books explain HOW they are able to do this, much better than I ever could.

In this book a girl gets into the a special program after an alien virus leaves her as a quadriplegic. Since she is very gifted mentally, she does well and chooses to get installed into a brainship. Her main goal is to find out more about the source of the virus that attacked her. While on this search she also gets involved in finding a pirate ship escapade and forged artifacts. Almost sounds swashbuckling doesn't it? Like "Pirates of the Carribean" in SPACE! Except, no dead/alive guys and no curses.

I also enjoy reading the dialogue and relationships that take place in this book, although, if there is anything that I didn't like, it was how nonchalant the girl's parents are at the beginning of the book. They wait until the very last moment to get pregnant, and then when they have a child they just leave it with a computer/android to take care of it? It always strikes me as somewhat odd, but I guess it could be likened to longing for a baby and then once you get one, leaving it with a nanny for long periods of time.

Even with that, I still give it 4 and a half pens. :)