The Ship Who Searched

Written by Anne McCaffrey and Mercedes Lackey

Narrated by Constance Towers

Hypatia Cade—a headstrong, smart, and spunky 7-year-old girl—falls ill after contracting an alien virus that renders her a quadriplegic. Robbed of her mobility, Tia's only hope to be free of the prison of her body is to train to be one of the legendary star travelers, a brainship—a cyborg human being and interstellar spacecraft. Following her training, she must find the right partner to be her brawn, the human element every brainship requires. When the disease that debilitated Tia threatens thousands more, selecting a brawn who is her true soul mate may allow Tia to find the origin of the terrible plague—and perhaps even a cure.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Phoenix Books, Inc.
• Release date: Dec 1, 1999
• ISBN: 9781614673538

Anne McCaffrey

Anne McCaffrey, a multiple Hugo and Nebula Award winner, was one of the world's most beloved and bestselling science fiction and fantasy writers. She is known for her hugely successful Dragonriders of Pern books, as well as the fantasy series that she cowrote with Elizabeth A. Scarborough that began with Acorna: The Unicorn Girl.

Reviews for The Ship Who Searched

[Sara Bianca A. Dumaup · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

Abridged version cuts out many fun details from the original book, which is sad because I love this story. Narration is fine but sound editing didn't remove the actor's breaths in between and it gets very distracting.