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THE SHIP WHO WON

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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

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.

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.

The brain ship concept is intriguing and I come back to it again and again, but this one wasn't worth it. The "magic" and coincidences are too hard to take. I loved the ship who searched and of course, who sang, but this fell far below her best. She should write more and collaborate less, or spend more time on it.

I love the "Ship Who Sang" series, and have read all of them (more than once). I can really say, without a doubt, that this one and the city who fought are my least favorites. I hated the way the story unfolded and I really hated the "part two" books that were written without Anne McCaffrey.

This book is only better than "the city who fought(which is really bad)," and lacks soooo much when compared to "the ship who searched," "PartnerShip," and "The Ship Who Sang."

I can not reccomend this to anyone...

Entertaining, pleasant to read but needed more meat. As much as I enjoy this series twice the length may have provided the detail that I craved. The lost colony premise was good but a more expansive treatment of the tantalizing touch of two alien races would have been welcome. If you like the brainship series you will enjoy reading it, but it probably won't give you the pleasure of some of the others in the series.

"The Ship Who Won" is an offshoot of Anne McCaffrey's "Ship Who Sang" series. McCaffrey once blended science fiction and fantasy with her "brain ships." Seriously handicapped "shellpeople" steer ships with the powers of their minds. Since the ships are usually female, their male captains (or "brawn") tend to be their platonic love interests. The captain can enter his ship--but only by so much.

"Ship Who Won" is about the ship,Carialle,and her "brawn",Keff. McCaffrey (and her putative collaborator,Jody Lynn Nye) plagiarize the Princess Bride by mentioning "Rodents of Unusual Size" and there's a cellphone named wizard villain named Nokias. It's hard to pin the lack of creativity on McCaffrey or Nye,but both obviously fail. I used to enjoy McCaffrey's works,but this one is pretty bad.

"Ship who won" has the traumatized Carialle and her Keff landing on a planet inhabited by kindly furries. Short,hairy humanoids--almost hobbits--who are enslaved by Saruman--well,Generic Evil Wizards. Keff falls for the sorceress Pennafrey (there are some laughably bad sex scenes) In the meantime, Carialle gets acquainted with sentient frogs. There is a worker's revolution, with the proletariat revolting against the bourgeoisie--culminating in a Long Discussion. Mediation solves everything. The furries unionize. Unbelievably, Pennafrey can't go into space with her lover Keff because she's got thin blood. Despite the hot mage sex with Keff,Pennafrey decides to marry Chaumel,another Good Wizard.

"Ship who won" sinks. And stinks.

an excellent book, not written in a hurry like most of her sons help..the book itself is in wonderful shape, packed well and arrives as promised.

Just not enjoy this story as much as all the other stories about "the ship who ---". Just could not get into the story.

This book was good, but I was a little disapointed after reading "The Ship Who Searched". I guess it's worth more like a 4 1/2. I think I like Mercedes Lackey better, although I've never read any other books by Jody Lynne Nye. Don't pay too much attention to us critics, though.