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 067187599X
  • ISBN13 9780671875992
  • Publish Date 1 April 1994 (first published 1 April 1993)
  • Publish Status Out of Stock
  • Out of Print 4 August 2010
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Baen Books
  • Format Paperback
  • Pages 448
  • Language English