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 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