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PartnerShip

Brainship

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PartnerShip

By: Anne McCaffrey, Margaret Ball
Narrated by: Constance Towers
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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 is now a brand-new member of the elite Courier Service of the Central Worlds, the “brainship” of the most advanced interstellar ships around. But her innocent vision of human nature is shattered on her first voyage. Nevertheless, the idealistic Nancia and her worldly-wise new “brawn” partners must band together to save the galaxy.

©1992 Anne McCaffrey and Margaret Ball (P)2022 Phoenix Books Adventure Science Fiction Space Opera Fiction Interstellar
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Great conspiracy plot and how things wrapped up so well. Can't wait to read more of this series.

Excellent Listen

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I have read the paperback version of this book and I have it on Kindle. Excellent story. This version however is missing parts all over the place. I think in some places, whole pages just might be missing, and in others, paragraphs.

Good book, incomplete audiobook, edited.

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I remember reading this book years ago and not liking it as much as the other books in the series. Due to scenes with sexual and emotional abuse, and occasional racist and sexist remarks, I couldn’t read through it without either pitying or raging against the characters. This recording edits out most of those scenes without removing plot points, and actually makes the book more enjoyable, in my opinion. Surprisingly, with all the cringeworthy and controversial stuff cut out, it turned out to be a fairly good detective/spy thriller set in space.

Abridgment was actually an improvement...

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A little slow to begin with but then it weaves youall the way into the story.

McCaffrey. love her

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I really enjoy this book (Kindle), and try to purchase / re-listen to as many excellent audiobooks as possible, however this book is Abridged (which I didn’t see in description, or on cover photo) and very poorly done at that.

So far every single book I’ve tried from Phoenix Books is also poorly transferred to audiobook format. I wish Audible a) specifically listed Un/Abridged status in description, & b) included Publisher (of Audiobook) to help us pre screen purchases.

Requesting refund!

POORLY ABRIDGED - Phoenix Books Strikes Again!

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I only buy books I know I love and will want to read over and over. It is horribly disappointing when I end up with a butchered version.

abrided

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i hated the abridged version. it left out way, way too much of the story.

the story is well written with great characters

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If you are going to cut sections out of a book, mark that it is abridged, so I can skip it. I want the full book.

Sadly, they butchered the book and cut out a lot

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Wonderful writing by Anne and recording by Constance (love her voice) but lost and demeaned by editing. I have read all Anne McCaffreys' works, she will be missed, and so I am biased against this recorded edition.

Lost to editing and bridged recordings

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I love the 'Brainship" series! The Abridged versions are awful & too much of the story is lost. Anne McCaffrey's books are well read & well loved over most of the world. How about offering us the Unabridged versions for a change???

Overedited!

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