title: The Ship Who Won
author:  Anne McCaffrey 
description: McCaffrey continues to develop her brainship concept, with a new collaborator this time, the one who worked with her on <i>The Death of Sleep</i> (1990). The brainship Carialle and her brawn, Keff, find a habitable planet inhabited by an apparent mix of races and cultures and dominated by an elite of apparent magicians. Appearances are deceiving, however, and by the time the explorers have discovered the planet's secrets--not to mention other intelligent races--they find themselves in a desperate battle to save it. Knowing McCaffrey's background in space adventure and Nye's in humorous fantasy, you can tell whose influence is uppermost in certain passages, but ultimately the two blend their skills effectively to produce a brisk, well-told, often amusing tale that does not strive to do more than entertain but does so admirably. Fans of either author, or both, will have fun with this book. <i>Roland Green</i>
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  Anne McCaffrey - Ship That Returned
  
  The Ship Who Sang (1970) The Partnership (with Margaret Ball) (1992) The Ship
  Who Searched (with Mercedes Lackey) (1992) The City Who Fought (with S.M.
  Stirling) (1993) The Ship Who Won (with Jody Lynn Nye) (1994)
  
  Introduction
  
  "She was bom a thing and as such would have been condemned if she failed to
  pass the encephalograph test required of all newborn babies. There was always
  the possibility that though the limbs were twisted, the mind was not; that
  though the ears would hear only dimly, the eyes see vaguely, the mind behind
  them was receptive and alert.
  
  "The electro-encephalogram was entirely favorable, unexpectedly so, and the
  news was brought to the waiting, grieving parents. There was the final, harsh
  decision: to give their child euthanasia or permit it to become an
  encapsulated 'brain,' a guiding mechanism in any one of a number of curious
  professions. As such, their offspring would suffer no pain, live a comf