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The Ship Who Dared

By: Mercedes Lackey, Veronica Giguere
Narrated by: Veronica Giguere
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New entry in the beloved series that started with Anne McCaffrey's The Ship Who Sang!

Hoping to upgrade their capabilities on a shoestring budget, Brainship Tia and her Brawn Alex accept a contract to test a prototype singularity drive from the military. There’s a catch, of course: the drive “might” occasionally commit a starship to “random” jumps. With some trepidation and the new drive installed, the pair resume their courier duties. The drive works flawlessly, at first. Just as they start to relax, the drive places them in orbit around a partially abandoned research site. Partially, because the corporation that set it up abandoned the researchers there. Brain and Brawn rescue the researchers, but what is the reward for a ship who saves an abandoned station? Well, if you’re working for the Central Worlds, it’s a long, dull, and not very profitable courier route. One that results in more—not less—crises and danger for our intrepid Brainship as the random jumps continue. Crises and danger that will only resolve when Tia and Alex discover the reason why all is not as it should be with their new singularity drive.

©2026 Mercedes Lackey, Veronica Giguere, and the Anne McCaffrey Trust (P)2026 Audible, Inc. Adventure Science Fiction Space Opera Military
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The ship who searched was always my favourite of the Brain/Brawn series so was great to see a sequel even if written by different authors. I really enjoyed this installment. Tia was a little less sure of herself than in the first book, but generally the characterization was great. hope there is more to come. and really wish someone would do unabridged audio books of all the Brain/Brain series.

Great sequel

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