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Margaret Ball and Anne McCaffrey: Partnership
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Victim of a catastrophic prenatal accident that left nothing but her brain
functioning, Helva thought her life would amount to nothing. But Helva wanted
to be more than a body in a box, drifting through life like a ghost in a machine.
If she couldn't be somebody, she'd be something. So instead of spending her days
in a glorified wheelchair, she strapped on a spaceship. She became Helva. The Ship
Who Sang. And captured the hearts of a generation of science fiction readers.
Now, The Ship Who Sang is not alone. Nancia is her name, NX-928 her designation. A brand-new member of the elite Courier Service of the Central Worlds, she's the "brains" within one of the most advanced interstellar ships around. But Nancia's services will not always be utilised by people of her own high moral integrity. Her innocent vision of human nature shattered on her first voyage, the last thing she needed was a "brawn" partner like Forister; they invented the word "cynical" just to describe him. But idealistic Nancia and worldly-wise Forister just might save the galaxy from the machinations Nancia overheard on her very first assignment... |
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