The City Who Fought (Brainship)

by Anne McCaffrey and S M Stirling

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SHELLPERSON WITH A MISSION Simeon was bored. Not with being a shellperson -- like Helva, The Ship Who Sang, and Tia, The Ship Who Searched, he rather pitied softshells their mayfly lives and absurdly limited senses -- but with running the mining and processing station that made up his body. So when the arrival of an out-of-control refugee ship interrupted his latest wargame (Simeon's hobby) the excitement was welcome. Then the refugees told their story: attack by space barbarians. Soon, long before any help could arrive from Fleet, Station SSS-900 would be in the Fist of High-Clan Kolnar, and nobody would be bored, least of all Simeon. If anyone was to survive, somehow he must transmute his hobby into the real thing, and become --
  • ISBN10 074515400X
  • ISBN13 9780745154008
  • Publish Date 1 February 1997 (first published 1 April 1993)
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 16 June 2000
  • Publish Country GB
  • Publisher AudioGO Limited
  • Imprint Chivers Large print (Chivers, Windsor, Paragon & C
  • Edition Large type / large print edition
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 488
  • Language English