What Was The Novel 'The Ship' All About?

The novel series, 'The Ship' was written by an American author Anne Mccaffery, which had become a huge hit after her successful novel series, 'Dragonriders of Pern'. 'The Ship' is actually a fantasy and a science fiction based novel, which featured space ships and space stations and their various adventures in space. It is also a series of short stories written by the author. The first novel was written in the year of 1964 and the author's son Todd Mccaffrey publishes new novels almost every year as the author has retired from the field of writing. The novel was written in collaboration with many other authors such as Jody Lynn Nye and S.M. Sterling among many others.

The various stories of the novels are mainly based in the future where man had started living in the outer space.