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The Ship Who Sang ReviewThis short story collection marks the genesis of the concept of 'brainships' in McCaffrey's Central Worlds universe: infants born so damaged that they cannot survive without life support, but whose minds are sharp and alert. Given a matchless education at Central Lab Schools, they don't strap on prosthetics - some become space stations or city managers. Those with a head for starflight mathematics, like Helva, may become brainships - the 'brain' half of a brain/brawn team, a human mind installed in a spaceship.
See also "Honeymoon" in McCaffrey's _Get Off the Unicorn_ for the tale of one of Helva's missions to Beta Corvi that didn't make it into this book.
"The Ship Who Sang" - Helva is unusual in that she developed her particular hobby while quite young: moving from a passion for Shakespeare, to grand opera, to overcome the technical difficulties in learning to sing. But there's a reason shellpeople don't consider themselves handicapped in any way...
"The Ship Who Mourned" - Helva has just endured the funeral of her beloved brawn partner; only to be expected, given the difference in their lifespans, but that doesn't help the sharp edge of her grief. MedServ's usual lack of sensitivity has sent her straight back out to carry physiotherapist Theoda to treat the survivors of a plague that left the few surviving victims paralyzed. And Helva sees more mourning than her own...
"The Ship Who Killed" - MedServ has assigned Helva a 3-year mission and a new brawn (temporary, but for the duration of the mission) with an unusual twist. Nekkar's entire population has been left sterile by a radiation flare from their star, and Helva and Kira now have Assignment Stork: delivering thousands of embryos to Nekkar from worlds all over known space. Something about the mission seems to be troubling Helva's new brawn, whose service record has some interesting gaps...
"Dramatic Mission" - The Beta Corviki have a great knowledge of physics, and can give humanity the ability to build starships with a far greater range - but they want something unusual in exchange after sampling the archives of the survey ship that made first contact. Helva is to carry a company of Shakespearean actors to Beta Corvi, to perform _Romeo and Juliet_. Will the company manage to satisfy their alien audience, given the personal strife between the stars of the show? (This mission marks Helva's first face-to-face meeting with her supervisor Parollan, incidentally.)
"The Ship Who Dissembled" - Helva is fed up with her current brawn, and is finally frustrated enough to face not only the financial penalties for breaking up the partnership, but the inevitable I-told-you-so from her supervisor, the abrasive Niall Parollan. But just as Helva is about to initiate formal proceedings over an open communication channel, hijackers strike, who know the vulnerabilities of a shellperson all too well.
"The Partnered Ship" - In only ten years of service, Helva has paid off the huge debt of her early medical care and ship construction, and can now be a free agent. Central Worlds, particularly her supervisor Niall Parollan, are crafting an offer to tempt her to stay, while Broley (a fellow shellperson, though a city manager) wheels and deals to line up job offers. Who (if anybody) will get their just desserts?The Ship Who Sang Overview

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