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THE SHIP WHO WON [Import] [Hardcover]

McCaffrey Anne (Author)
3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)


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  • Hardcover: 336 pages
  • Publisher: Orbit; hardcover edition (1995)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1857233158
  • ISBN-13: 978-1857233155
  • Product Dimensions: 8.6 x 5.7 x 1.3 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
  • Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,282,854 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars This particular story lacked mystery & overall excitment., July 30, 1997
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While the story brings you into the realm of brain/brawn books, it lacks the mystery and overall excitment that Anne's other "Ship Who Sang" books have. I was bored with the Brain and bored with the Brawn. Dialogue for both was predictable and at times drawn out. The beginning and wrap up of the story was good, but the meat of it, left me lacking in curiosity. I am a big fan of the Ship Who Sang series, so I am disappointed in this collaboration
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Science fiction with a little fantasy thrown in., October 13, 2000
From the same universe as Nancia (Partnership), Tia (The Ship Who Searched), Simeon (The City Who Fought), and Helva (The Ship Who Sang), comes Carialle. Because she was deformed at birth, Carialle underwent surgery and is enclosed inside a shell. As a "shellperson", Carialle is placed inside a spaceship which she controls entirely with her mind. Her and her partner (a "brawn" named Keff) then blast off on a dangerous mission to find intelligent life in the universe.

She and Keff find other sentient beings on an uncharted planet, but something strange is going on. The inhabitants, who appear to be human, demonstrate awesome magical powers! Ruling over a lower caste of slaves, these people are colorful and passionate, and constantly waging magical wars with one another.

Carialle and Keff discover the secrets this world holds, and find that nothing on Orza is what it appears to be. The magicians themselves don't even know the true mysteries behind their powers. A wonderful novel, I heartily recommend it.

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Not the best in the series, but a good read, December 31, 2001
I am a reader who likes to follow all the books in a series in order to get a good feel for the world the author is trying to create. I have just completed my second read-thru of the "Ship" series and I tend to think of this book as the weakest one. I found the story line exciting as it tries to unravel a few mysteries, but I didn't find myself as connected to the characters as I have in previous books. In other books in the series you have more insight into the feelings of the "brains" or the "brawns" or sometimes both. This books tends to be more of a description of events.

I was also disappointed that both this book and "The City Who Fought" seemed to leave some loose ends that Anne McCaffery didn't follow-up on herself. The sequels were authored solely by the contributing authors and require reading if you really want to finish up those stories. For instance, if you want to find out what really happened to Carialle in this book while she was drifting in space and on the brink of insanity (which was a primary point in this book) you will have to read "The Ship Errant" by Jody Lynn Nye.

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