Anne McCaffrey - The Ship Who Sang

Pros: Good 60s science fiction, with a great heroine

Cons: None! Still great after 40 years.

The Bottom Line: This is science fiction that girls will love.

Review: She was born a thing and as such would be 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, and though the ears would hear...

Pros: well written characterisations, interesting plot, unique concept presentation, well imagined world

Cons: none

The Bottom Line: A profoundly disabled child grows up to become a living space craft, exploring the universe and her own being

Review: ~~~Background on Author~~~ Anne McCaffrey was born in Massachusetts and educated in Virginia and new jersey, before attending university in Cambridge. In 1947, she graduated cum laude from Radcliffe College in Cambridge, Massachusetts, having majored in ...

Pros: Well-written, stimulating sci-fi adventure stories with personal focus.

Cons: Cons? What cons?

Review: I am a longtime SF reader, but somehow I had bypassed this fine short-story collection until a few years ago. It was the first book a new girlfriend recommended when we started dating. This wasn't just because it was a good book, however; she felt it...

Pros: A rare and magical book.

Cons: Don't read it on a work night.

Review: This is one of 'those' books that keeps you up late at night until dots dance in front of your eyes and somewhere in the back of your mind you know you will be worthless at work in a few hours, but it doesn't matter because right now you are truly...

Pros: "The Ship Who Sang" is immensely enjoyable and entertaining!

Cons: The only drawback to "The Ship Who Sang" is that it isn't longer!

Review: Having a choice, to live physically disadvantaged and pitied, or to live with adventure and daring? Helga's choice is to become the only brain-ship who sings. Her choice of brawns may leave you wondering...until you read on.
Another McCaffrey...

Pros: Detailed , well-written

Cons: more of a novelette

Review: "The Ship Who Sang "


To those of you who have never read Ann McCaffrey - but who love fantasy -you are in for a treat . Her ability to get the reader to suspend disbelief" and to accept the parameters of what she...

Pros: It digs deep into its hero's emotions.

Cons: It only superficially roused mine.

The Bottom Line: The characters are great, but the episodic stories didn't coalesce into a meaningful whole for me.

Review: As a kid I spent summers at my grandparents, long days alone, playing in irrigation ditches and the hedges and apple orchard behind their house, or lying on the living room couch, sunlight warming me through the drapes, a Dragonriders of Pern novel in my ...