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Another entry in the Brain/Brawn series created by Anne McCaffrey, and a direct sequel to the paperback The City Who Fought (McCaffrey and Stirling); ``brains'' are humans wired directly and immovably into their spaceships, ``brawns'' their mobil human partners. Planet Bethel bigwig Amos ben Sierra Nueva and his daughter Soamosa are kidnapped by the evil mutant, Belazair of Kolnar, in revenge for a previous defeat; Belazair plans to infect Amos with a contagious brain-destroying virus and then send him back to Bethel. So, after some arm-twisting by secret agent Bros Sperin, spaceship Wyal (brain: Rand; brawn: Joat Simeon-Hap) speeds to the rescue, though Joat and Rand don't yet know about the virus. But then Belazair's kindly son, Karak, refuses to torture Soamosa; instead he falls in love and escapes with her. Joat, meanwhile, discovers that one of Belazair's key associates is the drug-ruined uncle who, when she was a small girl, sold her into slavery in settlement of a gambling debt. Not to worry, though: In McCaffrey universes, the good guys always win in the end. Pretty good ersatz McCaffrey, despite the feebly unconvincing love story. -- Copyright ©1996, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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"... Stirling proves that the space-opera appeal of the Ship books continues.... Clever technological toys, cute Al programs and really nasty biochemical poisons abound..".

-- Publishers Weekly

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3.0 out of 5 stars The Ship Avenged (although not really a brainship), May 24 2004

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Pauline "dilly41" (Annapolis, MO United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Ship Avenged (Hardcover) (Hardcover)

This is NOT a brain ship story.

If you like McCaffrey, you'll read and like it well enough. However, when I first read it, I thought it was a CHEAT.

All the previous brainships were human minds and the stories related to the ship as protagonist. This ship is simply an artificial intelligence used to fake a brain brawn story with Joat, a character introduced in an earlier book.

Joat is the main character and the story is ok, but I'd have liked it better if this had been about some way of getting Joat into a real brain/brawn relationship in spite of impossible odds.

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3.0 out of 5 stars Not a bad read, but..., April 3 2003

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Kenvee B "kenvee" (Dallas, Texas) - See all my reviews

This review is from: SHIP AVENGED (Mass Market Paperback)

I really enjoyed "The City Who Fought", especially the character of Joat, so I was thrilled when I finally found out there was a sequel. Well...it was all right. Not bad, not great, certainly not what it could have been. All the right moves were made in the beginning to set up a truly fascinating read, but it just never came together. The end of the book is riddled with plotholes and dangling plot lines that the author tried to tie up neatly at the end, but just...didn't. It wasn't just that the romance felt horribly contrived, but ALL the character relationships towards the end started feeling like actors reading lines that didn't quite add up. And unfortunately, some of the most important action of all was glossed over by an "overview" last chapter that left me screaming. The book would've benefitted from an extra fifty pages or so to tie up all the complications that were brought in at the last minute.

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2.0 out of 5 stars Not a brainship, not avenged, Sep 24 2002

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This review is from: SHIP AVENGED (Mass Market Paperback)

Set in McCaffrey's "Brainship Universe" the book starts off well, bringing onstage the now 23 year old, smart and pretty, blonde JOAT with her ship WYAL (not a brainship but with a likable AI). The first three quarters of the book move right along, not too many characters, neatly divided between the good and the bad, and a clear if somewhat simple plot. Then, when the story is set for a nice (if perhaps unimaginative) finish, suddenly a lot of complications are thrown in as if the writer forgot his 101 writing class (open story: main character suddenly in trouble and has to do something to get out of trouble, take it from there till main character is out of trouble). From then on there is to much trouble for JOAT to do anything about it, nothing makes sense, everybody does just the opposite of what they promised to do and JOAT is thrown back and forth like a rag dol, boom, fortunately she lands in the black, somehow (how?). End of book.

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5.0 out of 5 stars This is worth reading!
Oh, cease your idiotic propagandized drivel, you people who have no understanding of a well-written novel. So what if S.M. Stirling can't write a convincing romance? Read more

Published on Oct 28 2001

3.0 out of 5 stars Okay but not along the same lines as others
This is a good read, but not great. It's actually a divergence from the brainships theme, set in the same space (in fact brain-anything is hardly mentioned). Read more

Published on Dec 8 2000 by Joe