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The Ship Who Searched

By: Anne McCaffrey, Mercedes Lackey
Narrated by: Constance Towers
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While on an archaeological dig, 7-year-old Tia falls mysteriously ill. Her sickness may have been caused by the EsKays, a race whose artifacts are scattered throughout the galaxy. The young shellperson goes in search of the EsKays, whose fate remains an enigma, to try to find answers. This heartwarming tale is narrated by television and stage actress Constance Towers.
©1992 by Bill Fawcett and Associates, Abridgment Approved by the Authors (P)1994 by Dove Audio, Inc.

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Ann McCaffrey leads the way

Love this book and the series, just wish they had "The Ship That Sang." Wonderful read.

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McCaffrey is Magical

Anne McCaffrey is a genius at creating new worlds for my mind to explore! Her characters comes alive in vivid detail! I strongly recommend this author… You will love her work!🥰

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More then a love story

The story started out simple but build into science fiction. mystery , and action story.

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I do not understand why they abridge Anne McCaffrey!

I wish I had read the reviews before I bought this book. This is one of my favorite stories, but I felt let down by this. It left too much out. I thought they were supposed to tell you when the book is abridged! Other than that, the reader did well.

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WAY to abridged

I love this book...in the original. Whoever abridged it needs a new line of work. There is so much cut out of the story that it's almost unrecognizable. Shame in you for ruining an awesome adventure.

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not satisfied

I really love these stories. Anne McCaffrey is a great writer and the narrator was quite good but there was a good chunk of this book missing. Tia was supposed to tell off Tomas about pressure suit safety before going into her shell, you never hear the conversations and Tia's opinions of her other brawn candidates and many others. overall there's 9 chapters in this book yet only 4 in the audio.

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Abridged without notice

Love the story but hate that the performance was abridged without any indication that is want I was buying

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Not the best book from this author

The book is so confusing - behaviour not appropriate for the age of the protagonist, devoted but neglectful parents - very little makes sense. I've enjoyed other Brainship books and was disappointed in this one. Perhaps some of the problem is the poor editing - why abridge it?

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My trust in the quality of audiobooks on amazon is greatly diminished

This audiobook with Constance Towers as the narrator is just terrible. Instead of “abridged”, it should say is hacked and slashed. Both parts that gave the story it's special something and parts that connected the different scene changes were haphazardly skipped. It was common for there to not even be a 1 second pause between one scene and the next, leaving you confusion as to how things had just progressed.

This book is my favorite of the Brain Ship series, so i am upset that this book has been so mangled by the “editing.” If i did not know the original work, i may have become too confused to be able to follow this glitchy version of the story.

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Heavily edited

I love this book. I’ve read it at least a dozen times. I was so excited to listen to it but immediately realized that they heavily edited this story and cut out a ton of what made it so magical to me. All of the extra characters were cut out. I still enjoyed listening to it but i was incredibly disappointed that this was not unabridged.

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