Anne McCaffrey

Born a hopeless cripple, Helga's parents gave her excellent brain to Central Control for the specialized training and adaptation that turned her into one of a special class of sentient spaceship. Her passion for music and her superb, though artificial voice, was a source of solace, pleasure and even protection in her journey among the stars. As number 834, Helga was known as the ship who sang.

A shellperson named Tia searches for the EsKays, a star-faring race whose fate is a mystery and to seek out whatever it was on the EsKay planet that caused her neural disorder. Then she plans to eliminate it so that no other child will ever suffer her fate.

Nancia is her name, NX-928 her designation. Enter a future world in which brains are connected to computers to help run cities and ships; brainless bodies or brawn do the physical work. In the second book of the Brainship series, a new "shellperson"-someone born with grave physical disabilities that required her human body to be encased in a massive titanium column-is provided a direct link between her mind and the computer of her ship, XN-935. Nancia...

While on a test flight in a new craft, spaceship designer Nimisha Rondymense is sucked into a wormhole. She emerges light years away in another part of space and meets other victims of the hole. They are people from various civilizations and together they set about building a new civilization of their own. By the author of Freedom's Challenge.

Afra has submerged his romantic feelings for the great telepath, Rowan, and has even dedicated his life to helping raise her family, but trouble brews for Afra when Rowan's talented daughter, Damia, begins to fall for him.

The planet Pern, where riders mount huge dragons to fend off deadly threadlike spores that fall from the sky, continues to be one of SF's most popular settings. Here, for the first time in one volume, are three novels featuring Menolly and Piemur, two young Pernese with extraordinary musical talent. In Dragonsong, Menolly's yearning to sing is threatened by a stern father who believes it a disgrace -- leaving her no choice but to run away. Dragonsinger...

A deadly epidemic is spreading over the land of Pern and Nerilka secretly leaves home to take supplies and medicine where they are needed.

Acorna's rebellious daughter risks everything in order to protect the universe from a mysterious plague-spreading enemy, an effort that is compromised by threats closer to home.

Accompanied by her android "brother," Khorii, the rebellious daughter of the legendary Acorna and her lifemate, Aari, searches for the cause of a mysterious and deadly plague before those responsible use it to cripple an entire star system.