Captain Ahab Captain Ahab Captain Ahab is a fictional character and the main protagonist in Herman Melville's "Moby-Dick" (1851). He is the monomaniacal captain of the whaling ship "Pequod". On a previous voyage, the white whale Moby Dick bit off Ahab's leg, and he now wears a prosthetic leg made out of whalebone. The whaling voyage of the "Pequod" ends up as a hunt for revenge on the whale, as Ahab forces the crew members to support his fanatical mission. When Moby Dick is finally sighted, Ahab's hatred robs him of all caution, and the whale drags Ahab to the bottom of
The Ship Who Searched series representing science fiction and modern convention in general. Einstein observes that 40 years later we have The essay serves as a call for reader-submitted stories that incorporate its values. Einstein concludes, The Ship Who Searched The Ship Who Searched is a science fiction novel by American writers Anne McCaffrey and Mercedes Lackey. It is the third of seven books in "The Ship Who Sang" series by McCaffrey and four other authors, and the only one by Lackey. It was first published as a serial in the monthly "Amazing Stories", June to September, and as a paperback original by Baen