Intraprendete un viaggio dove la coscienza incontra la tecnologia all'avanguardia nella vastità dello spazio. Questa serie racconta le avventure di esseri unici le cui menti sono fuse con navi stellari avanzate. Esplorate galassie inesplorate, affrontate minacce pericolose e addentratevi in profonde domande sull'identità e l'esistenza. È un'emozionante space opera che spinge i confini della senzienza e dell'esplorazione.
So technology rescued the brain and put it in an environment that conditioned it to live in a different kind of body - a spaceship. Here the human mind, more subtle, infinitely more complex than any computer ever devised, could be linked to the massive and delicate strengths, the total recall, and the incredible speeds of space.
Anne McCaffrey ist eine der ganz großen Erzählerinnen der Fantasy und Science Fiction. Ihr Buch Ein Raumschiff namens Helva wurde für den HUGO Award nominiert. Ihre neue große Serie erzählt von aufregende Geschichten von >menschlichen< Raumschiffen. Nancia ist ein junges, schüchternes Mädchen - und ein Gehirnschiff: Die Steuereinheit eines großen interstellaren Raumschiffes. Zusammen mit ihrem Partner Forister soll sie ein paar junge Leute zu den Zentralwelten bringen. Doch Nancias Geduld wird auf eine harte Probe gestell. Denn die Leute an Bord haben ganz andere Pläne als ihre Kommandantin... Nancia stehen allergrößte Schwierigkeiten bevor.
In this special 20th Anniversary Edition, a young woman faces paralysis and transforms into a brainship, a unique fusion of human and ship. Her journey involves finding her Brawn, a human soulmate, as they navigate the challenges of space and seek a cure for her condition. This romantic space adventure, part of Anne McCaffrey's beloved Brainship series, explores themes of resilience, connection, and the quest for healing. The new introduction by Mercedes Lackey adds fresh insights into this classic tale.
SSS-900, a huge space station controlled by the brain of Simeon--a shellperson who relieves his daily monotony by replaying computer simulations of great battles--becomes the only thing standing between ruthless alien pirates and total destruction.
Like Helva, the Ship Who Sang, (and Nancia from PartnerShip, Tia from The Ship Who Searched, and Simeon, who runs The City Who Fought) Carialle was born so physically disadvantaged that her only chance for life was as a shellperson. And again like those others, Carialle decided she would strap on a spaceship. Her brawn is a guy named Keff. Their mission: to search the galaxy for intelligent beings, to travel where no shellperson and her brawn have gone before... Alas, intelligent life is thin on the galactic ground, so when Carialle and Keff arrive on a very nice little world with very nice little aliens, fuzzy and polite and eager to please, they are overjoyed. But their joy does not last: their fuzzy friends turn out to be virtual slaves to a race of sorcerers, sorcerers who really do seem to possess magical powers of frightening potency, and who are neither fuzzy, polite, nor the least bit eager to please.
Carialle and Keff are now serving as couriers for the "globe-frogs", the beings they helped to discover. They must transit a sector where Carialle suffered an intense trauma years ago, and the evidence is pointing to the globe-frogs as the guilty party for Carialles pain.
Hoping to settle old scores with the Kolnari who destroyed her home and with an unscrupulous uncle, Joat is challenged to overcome a "breakout" disease that destroys its victims' minds and is threatening the entire universe.
Two top-selling sequels to McCaffrey's "The Ship Who Sang" are now collected into one action-packed volume.