The Ship Who Dared

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New from one of Science Fiction and Fantasy’s most accomplished authors, in a legacy series beloved by readers!

A 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.

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New from one of Science Fiction and Fantasy’s most accomplished authors, in a legacy series beloved by readers! A 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 ac...

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12 reviews
David Soutar
April 10, 2026
Even though Anne MacCaffrey has left us, the spirit of her worlds lives on! I loved the first novel that Mercedes Lackey co-wrote with Anne MacCaffrey and going on to continue the story was well worth the effort that she has made!
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Carl Snyder
April 16, 2026
good sequel
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About the author

Mercedes Lackey is the New York Times best-selling author of the Bardic Voices series and the Serrated Edge series (both from Baen), the Heralds of Valdemar series, and many more. She’s the coauthor of the contemporary metahero SF series The Secret World Chronicle. Among her popular Baen titles are The Fire Rose, The Lark and the Wren, and also The Shadow of the Lion and Burdens of the Dead with Eric Flint and Dave Freer. She lives in Oklahoma.

Veronica Giguere is an author and narrator whose collaboration on the meta-hero SF series The Secret World Chronicle and its companion podcast jumpstarted her audiobook career. A recovering academic, she finds solace in strong coffee, humorous stories, and tenacious characters, as well as her never-ending pile of crochet projects.

Mercedes Lackey is the New York Times best-selling author of the Bardic Voices series and the Serrated Edge series (both from Baen), the Heralds of Valdemar series, and many more. She’s the coauthor of the contemporary metahero SF series The Secret World Chronicle. Among her popular Baen titles a...

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