CV (novel)
 CV is a 1985 science fiction novel by Damon Knight. It is the first novel in the Sea Venture Trilogy and was followed by The Observers (1988) and A Reasonable World (1991).The name of novel derives from The Sea Venture (CV for short) an enormous ocean-going habitat. During one its first trips the Sea Venture takes on a parasite an alien symbiont that can pass from one person to another leaving them changed in subtle but consequential ways.