The Ship That Sang (1970) The Partnership (co-authored with Margaret Sale, 1992) The Inspection Ship (co-authored with Mercedes Lucky, 1992) The City That Warred (co-authored with SM. Stirlin-gom, 1993)"The ship that won" (co-authored with Judy Lynn Nye, 1994)"She was born with severe physical disabilities and, if she did not pass the encephalographic examination that all newborns are required to undergo, was subject to immediate destruction. There is always the possibility that, although the members are mutilated, the brain remains perfect, and if the ears can hardly hear and the eyes can not see, then the brain can work like a clock. The encephalogram turned out to be quite favorable, even more than that, and this news was immediately reported to parents who were waiting for a decision with pain in their heart and tears in their eyes. And it had to be irrevocable and very rigid: either the child is prescribed euthanasia, or he is allowed to live in the form of a prisoner in a metal capsule of the Brain, which will later become the guiding mechanism in a variety of very strange professions. As such, the child will not know diseases, will for many centuries live in a comfortable capsule, serving the needs of the Central Worlds and performing important and interesting tasks for them. So she stayed alive and found the name Helva.". Thus began the first Helva novel, The Ship That Singed. It tells the story of ,. How Helva becomes the brain of a spaceship and how her first ship partner, Jennan Zahir Selan, tragically dies when they launch a daring operation to rescue members of a small religious sect from the planet which should turn into ashes, The sun is about to become a new one.... The novel tells of Helva's further journey, how she tries to overcome the deep depression that gripped her after Jennan's death, and how she seeks a new partner who would be as compatible with her as Jennan. Niall Parollan - clever , The Mockingbird , militant nonconformist and passionate lover of women , becomes its armor - a human appendage, Muscles of the Ship , - and the two of them go in search of adventure , which later become a source of new chronicles , written in collaboration with other authors