There are certain “classic” books that I have just never read.\u00a0 I found a copy of this one in a library book sale in New York this past summer and read it this week.\u00a0 I hadn’t realized that this “origin” story was actually a collection of six shorter works.\u00a0 This universe posits a time when severely disabled humans, if they qualify, can live a life as the human “brains” for spaceships. (The world also posits a city-controller human brain as well.)<\/p>\n
This was an entertaining read and it’s aged fairly well. Except for some references to navigational “tapes” the other technology aspects still read well.<\/p>\n
Apparently there are two more short stories featuring the protagonist Helva, and then a follow-on series in the universe.\u00a0 I don’t feel compelled to seek them out, but if they happen to come into my hands I’d read them. Overall, this is a good book to pass on to the Heinlein for Heroes<\/a> program as as a really good standalone read.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" There are certain “classic” books that I have just never read.\u00a0 I found a copy of this one in a library book sale in New York this past summer and read it this week.\u00a0 I hadn’t realized that this “origin” story was actually a collection of six shorter works.\u00a0 This universe posits a time when … Continue reading “The Ship Who Sang<\/i> by Anne McCaffrey (1969)”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":533,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[30,40],"class_list":["post-531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-short-take","tag-book","tag-sf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johntilden.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johntilden.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johntilden.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johntilden.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johntilden.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=531"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/johntilden.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":535,"href":"https:\/\/johntilden.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531\/revisions\/535"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johntilden.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johntilden.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johntilden.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johntilden.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}