The Shipshape Miracle

A science fiction novella written during the early 1960s. The story centers around Cheviot Sherwood, a castaway stranded on an uninhabited planet, contemplating his fate while unknowingly harboring a wealth of diamonds. The book explores themes of identity, humanity, and the merging of man and machine through its foundational premise of a sentient spaceship. In the narrative, Sherwood finds himself in a precarious situation