The Ship That Found Herself

Kipling, Rudyard. "The Ship That Found Herself." The Day's Work. 1898. Coll. The Science Fiction Stories of Rudyard Kipling.

Relatively mainstream techno-fantasy featuring a many-voiced dialog among the various parts of a ship on her maiden voyage. The ship must "find herself": i.e., get all the parts working together. (RDE, 09/07/95)