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The Ship Who Searched

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The Ship Who Searched

By: Anne McCaffrey, Mercedes Lackey
Narrated by: Constance Towers
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Hypatia Cade—a headstrong, smart, and spunky 7-year-old girl—falls ill after contracting an alien virus that renders her a quadriplegic. Robbed of her mobility, Tia's only hope to be free of the prison of her body is to train to be one of the legendary star travelers, a brainship—a cyborg human being and interstellar spacecraft. Following her training, she must find the right partner to be her brawn, the human element every brainship requires.

When the disease that debilitated Tia threatens thousands more, selecting a brawn who is her true soul mate may allow Tia to find the origin of the terrible plague—and perhaps even a cure.

©2013 Anne McCaffrey and Mercedes Lackey (P)2022 Phoenix Books Adventure Science Fiction Space Opera Fiction Interstellar

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The abridgement sucks, it's missing a lot of... Character, a lot of the flavour that the full paper version has.

Chapter breaks are very abrupt, almost cut off.

Weirdly Abridged

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I love the book but miss the extra stuff in the book that was missing.

Wish it had

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I love this tale but it is so sad to listen to this very badly done shortening of the story. If I had not read the original earlier I doubt I would had been able to understand it. Indeed a very bad job done!

Such a sad way to treat a good story!

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I love the ship books Ann McCarthy is one of my favourite author I read them all time

great book

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Such a shame it’s been so severely cut down, loses so much 🙁, and I really love these books, the stories are brilliant, and this was my favourite, don’t think I’ll bother with the rest

Abridged and chopped so much it loses its heart

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The abridging meant she didn't have to search very far....!!! Really disjointed.... Disapointing. Its a shame they didn't feel the need to give a full copy of the book - was looking forward to listening, real shame.

Abridging terrible...!!!

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