Pequod (Moby-Dick) Pequod (Moby-Dick) Pequod is a fictional 19th-century Nantucket whaling ship that appears in the 1851 novel "Moby-Dick" by American author Herman Melville. "Pequod" and her crew, commanded by Captain Ahab, are central to the story, which, after the initial chapters, takes place almost entirely aboard the ship during a three-year whaling expedition in the Atlantic, Indian and South Pacific oceans. Most of the characters in the novel are part of "Pequod"s crew, including the narrator Ishmael. Ishmael encounters the ship after he arrives in Nantucket and learns of three ships that are about to leave on three-year cruises. Tasked by
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