Ishmael (Moby-Dick) morning Ishmael and Queequeg head for Nantucket. Ishmael signs up for a voyage on the whaler "Pequod", under Captain Ahab. Ahab is obsessed by the white whale, Moby Dick, who on a previous voyage has severed his leg. In his quest for revenge Ahab has lost all sense of responsibility, and when the whale sinks the ship, all crewmembers drown, with the exception of Ishmael: “And I only am escaped alone to tell thee” (Job) says the epigraph. Ishmael keeps himself afloat on a coffin until he is picked up by another whaling ship, the "Rachel". The name Ishmael is
The Ship Who Sang in the series, "The Ship Who Searched" (1992) by McCaffrey and Mercedes Lackey, Einstein observes that in fact we have The 1960s stories feature one shell person, Helva, who becomes brainship XH-834. All but the novella "Dramatic Mission" are novelettes, short fiction in 7500 to 17,500 words. They were incorporated in "The Ship Who Sang" novel (1969) as the first five chapters with a new closing chapter or short story, "The Partnered Ship". McCaffrey wrote two more Helva novelettes: The Ship series comprises the Helva stories and six novels published in the 1990s by Baen Books. More than twenty years