| The Ship Who Sang |
 ISBN: 0345297687 Del Rey (1981), Mass Market Paperback LibraryThing | This book is good science fiction, in the sense that it explores something which we are not ready to address as a society -- in this case, would profoundly disabled people prefer that we could replace their disabled bodies? What if the replacement wasn't humanoid? The book is pretty old though, and that shows in some of the elements of the story. I don't feel it detracts though. The book is also composed of a series of independantish by related short stories, which was a common publishing technique for science fiction in the 1960s.
One story -- "Dramatic Mission" -- did throw me a little. Its just too out there conceptually, and actually kind of dull until about the last three pages, where the controller poses some interesting questions of Helva. I feel that perhaps the lead up could have been better though. Tags for this post: book anne_mccaffrey space_travel disability cybernetics music brainship nebula award Related posts: The Accidental Time Machine ; Rendezvous With Rama; Red Mars; Ender's Game; Foundation's Edge ; Battlefields Beyond Tomorrow ; Mona Lisa Overdrive; The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress; Forever Peace; The Diamond Age ; Count Zero; Robot Dreams ; The Forever War; Buying Time; Speaker For The Dead; Burning Chrome; Lyonesse ; Friday ; Dragonflight ; Neuromancer; The Apocalypse Troll |
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