EVE General Discussion

Anyone else ever read these books and think about them when starting up in Eve? I did when I read the capsular's back story, in a way.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_McCaffrey#The_Brain_.26_Brawn_Ship_series

The Brain & Brawn Ship series
Main article: The Ship Who Sang
The Brain & Brawn Ship series comprises seven novels. Only the first was written by Anne McCaffrey alone, a fix-up of five previously published stories.[64]
The stories of this series deal with the various adventures of 'shell-people' who, as infants, due to illness or birth defects (genetic or developmental), 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 then in whatever capacity they choose once the debt is paid, as free agents.
It is generally considered impossible for a person to make the necessary adjustments to become a shell unless it is done at a very early age (under 2–3 years old). A notable exception is in The Ship Who Searched where the Shell-person was 7 at the time she became quadriplegic.
It should be noted that the Ship books are set in the same universe as the Crystal Singer books, as Brainship-Brawn pairings were characters in the second and third volumes of that series.
The Ship Who Sang (1969) (fix-up of stories from 1961, 1966, and 1969) ISBN 0-345-33431-0
PartnerShip (1992) with Margaret Ball, ISBN 0-671-72109-7
The Ship Who Searched (1992) with Mercedes Lackey, ISBN 0-671-72129-1
The City Who Fought (1993) with S.M. Stirling, ISBN 0-671-87599-X
The Ship Who Won (1994) with Jody Lynn Nye, ISBN 0-671-87657-0
This series also includes solo entries by Stirling and Nye:
The Ship Errant (1996) by Jody Lynn Nye, ISBN 0-671-87854-9
The Ship Avenged (1997) by S.M. Stirling, ISBN 0-671-87861-1
All but the first were issued in omnibus editions of two as Brain Ships (2003, McCaffrey, Ball & Lackey); The Ship Who Saved the Worlds (2003, McCaffrey & Nye); The City and the Ship (2004, McCaffrey & Stirling).[64]

I wasn't sure why they call it a fix up, but The Ship who Sang is really a collection of a couple short stories about the main character, all tied in together.