The City and The Ship - Brainship Author:Anne McCaffrey, S. M. Stirling Two novels (The City Who Fought/The Ship Avenged) in one large volume, both set in the same universe as "The Ship Who Sang" — The City Who Fought — Simeon was bored with running the mining and processing station that made up his "body." Then the invaders came. If anyone was to survive, somehow he must transform his wargaming hobby into the ... more »real tying and become The City Who Fought.
The Ship Avenged
Ten years later, Joat, the eleven year old techno-demon heroine of the first novel is now an adult herself. She and her ship are on the trail of the Kolnari space raiders, trying to stop them before they can spread an infectious, mind-destroying disease among the inhabited stars and destroy civilisation throughout the galaxy.« less