Pode ser um dos romances da série Anne McCaffery Brainship .
The concept brainship in science fiction literature refers to an interstellar starship that is created by inserting the disembodied brain and nervous system of a human being into a life-support system, and connecting it surgically to a series of computers via delicate synaptic connections (a brain-computer interface.) The brain "feels" the ship (or any other connected peripherals) as part of its own body. Flying, taking off, landing, and controlling all the other features of the ship are as natural as moving, breathing and talking are to an ordinary human. Being wired into a computer speeds their reactions, but still allows their human brains to make intelligent decisions based on calculations.
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The Brain & Brawn Ship series comprises seven novels, only the first of which (a fix-up of five previously published stories) was written by McCaffrey alone.[49] The stories in this series deal with the adventures of "shell-people" or "Brains", who as infants (due to illness or birth defects) have had to be hard-wired into a life-support system. With sensory input and motor nerves tied into a computer they serve as starship pilots (or colony administrators), seeing and feeling the colony or ship as an extension of their own body. They perform this job to pay off their debt for education and hardware, and continue as free agents once the debt is paid. To compensate for the Brains' inability to move within human habitats they are paired with partners known as "Brawns", who are trained in a wide array of skills (including the protection of their Brain counterparts). It was considered impossible for a person to adjust to being a shell after the age of two or three. An exception, in The Ship Who Searched, was a shell-person who was seven when she became quadriplegic.
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Lista de romances da série -
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O Navio que Cantou (1969) (conserto de histórias de 1961, 1966 e 1969)
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PartnerShip (1992) com Margaret Ball
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O Navio que Procurou (1992) com Mercedes Lackey
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A cidade que lutou (1993) com S.M. Stirling
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O Navio Que Ganhou (1994) com Jody Lynn Nye
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Esta série também inclui entradas solo de Stirling e Nye
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The Ship Errant (1996) por Jody Lynn Nye
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O navio vingado (1997) por S.M. Stirling
Um link para a série sobre boas leituras - link
