The City Who Fought

Brainship

De: Anne McCaffrey

Narrado por: Constance Towers

A huge space station on the fringes of human space, SSS-900 is controlled by the brain of Simeon, a shellperson who relieves his daily monotony by replaying computer simulations of great battles. When a battered, jury-rigged ship appears to threaten the station, they rescue the people who are fleeing from the vicious Kolnari pirates. As the Kolnari take over the station, the stationers and the Bethelites from the rescued ship must devise ways to work together to fight the invaders. Luckily, Simeon's love of wargaming has unexpected uses, and he clandestinely builds his trap for the Kolnari. Will Simeon become the only thing standing between ruthless alien pirates and total destruction?

©1994 Anne McCaffrey (P)1994 Phoenix Books, Inc

Absolute perfection

Fully rounded characters. Well built universe fascinating story line and JOAT makes everything seem realistic this series will let you laugh and cry with the storyline in an enjoyable escape life as we know it .

Abridged!

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This is one of my favorite "shell person" novels, but the abridgement cut too much of the character development and other pieces that add so much to the story. I wish that there was a complete version.

This is abridged!

This book was great. This audiobook not so much. It cut out significant scenes and left a lot of things unexplained. I’m not sure I would purchase another one of these without worrying that it will be abridged and I won’t find out until halfway through the story.

too chopped up

when I bought this, I did not realize it was an abridged edition. so much is missing from the original book, it was bitterly disappointing. too much essential character development was chopped out. the original story was a favorite of mine. this was just a disappointment.

Great Concept, Awesome story.

What a great concept and storyline. Anne did an awesome job with the details, and I felt Conctance captured the charecters well. Great value at under ten bucks!