[The Ship Who Sang is a very moving novel which] grapples with the concept of the sustained living brain in a very compelling way. Highly recommended for all teens, SF fans or not, this may well have the same emotional appeal as Keyes' Flowers for Algernon.

Mary K. Chelton, "Fiction: 'The Ship Who Sang'," in School Library Journal, an appendix to Library Journal (reprinted from the February, 1970 issue of School Library Journal, published by R. R. Bowker Co./ A Xerox Corporation; copyright © 1970), Vol. 16, No. 6, February, 1970, p. 93.

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