"The Controversy About Dion" and "The Ship Who Sang" are the first works of Anne McCaffrey published in Russian that do not belong to the Perinite cycle. These novels give an idea of other facets of McCaffrey’s work than the multi-volume epic about horsemen and dragons published in our country earlier. The first novel (The Debate About Dion) tells the story of the development of a new beautiful world by the Earth colonists, about their meeting with mysterious aliens from the planet Hrub, about what ways the two star nations finally come to an understanding. The second novel ("The Ship That Sang") is recognized as one of the best works of Anne McCaffrey; it is a poetic story of a girl with an unusual fate - for some reason she becomes the mind of a spaceship, participating in many expeditions. But the girl grows up, grows up, becomes a girl, and new problems appear in front of her...