Brain Ships

Two Top-Selling Sequels
to Anne McCaffrey’s
The Ship Who Sang
in One Volume

Two novels in one large volume, both set in the same universe as The Ship Who Sang: The Ship Who Searched: Tia, a bright and spunky seven-year old contracted an unknown neural disorder which made her lose control of her body. So she became a shell person—controlling a spaceship as if it were her body and searching for the origin of the disease that laid her low, so that no other little girl will ever suffer the fate of The Ship Who Searched. PartnerShip: Nancia is a brand new member of the elite Courier Service of the Central Worlds. She’s the “brains” of an advanced interstellar ship. The last thing she needed was a cynical “brawn” partner like Forister. But idealistic Nancia and worldly-wise Forister together just might save the galaxy. Neither of them would be satisfied to go through life in a glorified wheelchair; like Helva, The Ship Who Sang, they decided to strap on a spaceship!

“Quite entertaining . . . captures the spirit of The Ship Who Sang . . . a single, solid plot. . . .” —Locus

“Splendidly paced and filled with lively characters . . . [PartnerShip is] excellent entertainment.” —Rave Reviews

“A perfect combination of SF, adventure, and romance, this is sure to please a wide variety of readers.” —Kliatt

“[The Ship Who Searched is] superb . . . Lackey and McCaffrey have created a marvelous love story in an exciting science fictional setting and then topped it all off with an ingeniously spiffy resolution.” —Rave Reviews

Cover art by Tom Kidd

Hardcover

This is a work of fiction. All the characters and events portrayed in this book are fictional, and any resemblance to real people or incidents is purely coincidental.

First printing, November 2003

Distributed by Simon & Schuster
1230 Avenue of the Americas
New York, NY 10020

Printed in the United States of America

ISBN: 0-7434-7166-0

Copyright © 2003 by Bill Fawcett & Associates. The Ship Who Searched © 1992 by Bill Fawcett & Associates; Partnership © 1992 by Bill Fawcett & Associates.

All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book or portions thereof in any form.

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Baen Books by Anne McCaffrey

The Planet Pirate Series:

Sassinak (with Elizabeth Moon)
The Death of Sleep (with Jody Lynn Nye)
Generation Warriors (with Elizabeth Moon)

Also available in a one-volume book:

The Planet Pirates

The "Brainship" Series:

The Ship Who Searched (with Mercedes Lackey)
Partnership (with Margaret Ball)
(available in one volume as Brain Ships)
The City Who Fought (with S.M. Stirling)
The Ship Who Won (with Jody Lynn Nye)
The Ship Errant

by Jody Lynn Nye

The Ship Avenged

Baen Books by Mercedes Lackey

BARDIC VOICES

The Lark & the Wren
The Robin & the Kestrel

The Eagle & the
Nightingales

The Free Bards
(omnibus)

Four & Twenty Blackbirds

Bardic Choices:
A Cast of Corbies
(with Josepha Sherman)

The Fire Rose
Fiddler Fair
Werehunter

Wing Commander:

Freedom Flight
(with Ellen Guon)

Lammas Night
(ed. by Josepha Sherman)

URBAN FANTASIES

Bedlam's Bard
(omnibus with Ellen Guon)

Beyond World's End
(with Rosemary Edghill)

Spirits White as Lightning
(with Rosemary Edghill)

Mad Maudlin
(with Rosemary Edghill)

The SERRAted Edge:

Chrome Circle
(with Larry Dixon)

The Chrome Borne
(omnibus with Larry Dixon)

The Otherworld
(omnibus with Mark Shepherd
& Holly Lisle)

THE BARD'S TALE NOVELS

Castle of Deception
(with Josepha Sherman)

Fortress of Frost & Fire
(with Ru Emerson)

Prison of Souls
(with Mark Shepherd)