I am looking for a sci fi novel from the 70s or 80s, it is set aboard a living ship piloted by an insect-like alien and a small crew of humans in an attached metal structure. I remember reading it in the early 90s but the copy was quite old so I believe it would have been published in the late 70s or early-mid 80s judging by the style of cover.
What I remember of the general plot is that the ship was captured as a baby and enslaved by an alien race of insect-like creatures that lived inside the ships and controlled them by stabbing them with chemicals and had something of a telepathic bond.
There was a separate human crew who communicated with the pilot and were on the way to a new planet(?) after the earth was no longer habitable? The humans had adapted to life in space and one human ended up becoming the new pilot/bonded to the bioship, when the alien pilot was killed by the bioship after a conflict where it tried to jettison the humans?
I do not believe this is any of the books in the B&B “Ship who Sang” series by Anne McCaffrey or her co-writers.
The cover that I remember was painted, had black starry space (maybe a planet as well) in the background while in the foreground was a pink spaceship that looked like a man o’ war jellyfish or lionfish.
I have been searching online over the past few years but have had very little luck so any help would be hugely appreciated. Thanks for your time.
What I remember of the general plot is that the ship was captured as a baby and enslaved by an alien race of insect-like creatures that lived inside the ships and controlled them by stabbing them with chemicals and had something of a telepathic bond.
There was a separate human crew who communicated with the pilot and were on the way to a new planet(?) after the earth was no longer habitable? The humans had adapted to life in space and one human ended up becoming the new pilot/bonded to the bioship, when the alien pilot was killed by the bioship after a conflict where it tried to jettison the humans?
I do not believe this is any of the books in the B&B “Ship who Sang” series by Anne McCaffrey or her co-writers.
The cover that I remember was painted, had black starry space (maybe a planet as well) in the background while in the foreground was a pink spaceship that looked like a man o’ war jellyfish or lionfish.
I have been searching online over the past few years but have had very little luck so any help would be hugely appreciated. Thanks for your time.
