The Ship Who Sang - The Early Stories: Helva

The Early Stories: Helva

The 1960s stories feature one shell person, Helva, who becomes brainship XH-834.

• "The Ship Who Sang", The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Apr 1961
• "The Ship Who Mourned", Analog, Mar 1966
• "The Ship Who Killed", Galaxy Magazine, Oct 1966
• "Dramatic Mission", Analog, Jun 1969
• "The Ship Who Dissembled" (chapter title), published as "The Ship Who Disappeared", If, Mar 1969

All but the novella "Dramatic Mission" are novelettes, short fiction in 7500 to 17,500 words. They were incorporated in The Ship Who Sang novel (1969) as the first five chapters with a new closing chapter or short story, "The Partnered Ship".

McCaffrey wrote two more Helva novelettes:

• "Honeymoon", original to her collection Get Off the Unicorn (1977)
• "The Ship That Returned", original to Far Horizons: All New Tales from the Greatest Worlds of Science Fiction, ed. Robert Silverberg (1999)