THE SHIP THAT SINGED "The Ship That Sang" (1970) "Partnership" (with Margaret Sale, 1992) "The Inspector Ship" (with Mercedes Luckey, 1992) "The City That Fought" (in co-authored with SM Stirling, 1993) “The Ship that Conquered” (co-authored with Judy Lynn Nye, 1994) “She was born with severe physical disabilities and, if she had not passed the encephalographic examination that all newborns are required to undergo, would have been subject to immediate destruction. There is always the possibility that, although the limbs are mutilated, the brain remains perfect, and if the ears hardly hear and the eyes do not see, then the brain can work like a clock. The encephalogram turned out to be quite favorable, even more than, and this news was immediately reported to the parents, who waited for the decision with pain in their hearts and tears in their eyes. And it had to be irrevocable and very tough: either the child is prescribed euthanasia, or he is allowed to live in the form of a Brain enclosed in a metal capsule, which will later become a guiding mechanism in many very strange professions. As such, the child will not know illness, will live for many centuries in a comfortable capsule, serving the needs of the Central Worlds and performing important and interesting tasks for them. So, she remained alive and acquired the name Helva.” This is how the first novel about Helva began - "The Ship That Sang" It told the story of how Helva becomes the brains of a spaceship and how her first shipmate Jennan Zahir Selan is tragically killed as they begin a daring mission to rescue members of a small religious sect from a planet that is about to turn to ash as its sun is gone. -it will become New. The novel chronicles Helva's further journey, how she tries to overcome the deep depression that gripped her after Jennan's death, and how she searches for a new partner who would be as compatible with her as Jennan. Nial Parollan - a clever, mocking, militant nonconformist and a passionate lover of women, becomes her armor - a human appendage, the muscles of the ship - and the two of them go in search of adventures, which later become the source of new chronicles, written in collaboration with other authors