Bioship novel pre2000 -need help identifying

[Casilda]

Hi, I'm trying to remember a book I read when I was about preteen age.

-A group of people explores an alien vessel. I'm fairly sure it was a spaceship but it could have been some other sort of structure.
-There's a female lead who was some sort of military veteran or otherwise has some sort of loss she is recovering from
-The team sent to explore is attacked or harmed by the ship. Vaguely remember someone overheats because their spacesuit's ventilation is covered by goo, but I could be wrong
- There are no aliens per se but the ship turns out to be alive and the attacks are because it sees the team as invaders. A character makes a comment about the ship having an immune system.

Things I've ruled out:

It's not Rendezvous with Rama or Titan by Varley.
It was published before 2001.

Any help? Been obsessing about this low key for a while.

 

[zaltys13]

This could be a thousand novels, can you remember anything more specific? It bears a resemblance to Blindsight by Peter Watts but that was published in 2006.

 

[ashewyntr]

Reminiscent of Valor's Choice by Tanya Huff (pub 2000)

 

[zaltys13]

Good call, seems more like yours than mine. I don't read modern Military SF at all so I bow to your superior knowledge.

 

[Parson]

Valor's Choice is exactly where I was going!

 

[Bick]

You know what this sounds rather like... part of the plot in Revelation Space by Alistair Reynolds (published in 2000). The female lead (Khouri) does have a military background. There are no aliens, but the ship is "alive" and tries to kill them off sporadically and its does act as if it has an immune system - that phrase may even be used by the Ultras. They're not exactly sent to explore the ship though...

 

[Danny McG]

enough! ! ! -I've just this morning downloaded seven Revelation Space books in sequence and started reading the first one . no more talk of Ultras etc for a few weeks. thank you

 

[monkeypooper]

Sounds like you need to grab a book and "yuck hate to have to use the word" chillax destress man

 

[monkeypooper]

Sorry can't help only book iv'e read along those lines of going through an alien ship was the asgard run by steve vance