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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 continuation of Tia and Alex's story, started by Anne McCaffrey in her Brain Ship series. When I saw that Mercedes Lackey had written The Ship Who Dared I did have a fleeting worry that I wouldn't enjoy it as much as The Ship Who Searched.

I thoroughly enjoyed the story, it was full of adventures and the development of the heroes character's fit in well with their original story. Once started I couldn't stop listening. I do hope there will be further brain Ship books.

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