![]() ![]() Shell people are basically human supercomputers, their inert bodies encased in titanium compartments where they are sustained for centuries while their brains interface with the world through various mechanical channels. The Ship Who Sang is about Helva, a woman who was born with severe physical disabilities and who has been medically treated and specially equipped from infancy to be a shell person (it is implied that she likely would not have lived past childhood without these procedures). I’d recommend it for those times when you need to decompress and read through a book in a marathon one-day session (buy it used so you can drag it to the beach or pool, or read it in the tub, without fear). My own copy of this book generally lives on the shelf with what I consider brain candy novels: it’s good enough to read more than once and “easy” to read quickly. ![]() ![]() If you’re iffy on sci-fi, this may be a good starter novel, since it is mostly focused on characters and their stories. It has just enough technical detail to believably build the far-off-future world of the story and permit the (currently) impossible. It is perhaps a bit light on the science this may be a good thing, since what science it does have is a little dated and as a result just a touch distracting. Anne McCaffrey’s The Ship Who Sang is extremely readable sci-fi. ![]() I wanted to write reviews of science fiction written by women, and I thought I’d start off with a classic. ![]()
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