The Ship Who Searched
By (Author) Anne McCaffrey
By (author) Mercedes Lackey
Little, Brown Book Group
Orbit
1st September 1994
United Kingdom
General
Fiction
Fantasy
813.54
Paperback
320
Width 108mm, Height 178mm
A tale of courage and adventure, set in the same universe as The Ship Who Sang . A precocious seven-year-old girl has been afflicted by a paralyzing alien virus, and cannot survive outside a mechanical support system. She straps on a spaceship and sets out to find what it was that laid her low.
Anne McCaffrey was one of the world's leading science fiction writers, and won both the Hugo and Nebula awards. She was brought up in the US and lived in Ireland for many years. She co-authored books with Elizabeth Moon, Jody Lynn Nye, Margaret Ball, Mercedes Lackey and S.M. Stirling. She died in November 2011 at the age of 85.