THE SHIP WHO SANG

Corgi paperback, 1972. Cover artist uncredited.

"The brain was perfect, the tiny, crippled body useless.

So technology rescued the brain and put it in an environment that conditioned it to live in a different kid of body - a spaceship.

Here the human mind, more subtle, infinitely more complex than any computer ever devised, could be linked to the massive and delicate strengths, the total recall, and the incredible speeds ot space. But the brain behind the ship was entirely feminine - a complex, loving, strong, weak, gently savage - a personality, all-woman, called Helva..."

RESTOREE

Corgi paperback, 1970. Cover artist uncredited.

"There was the sudden stench of a dead sea creature.... 

There was the horror of a huge black shape closing over her.... 

There was nothing.... 

Then there was the memory....isolated fragments that were so horrible her mind refused to accept them....Intense heat and shivering cold....Excruciating pain....Dismembered pieces of the human body....Sawn bones and searing screams.... 

And when she awoke she found she was in a world that was not earth, and with a face and body that were not her face and body. 

She had become a Restoree..."

THE SHIP WHO SANG

Corgi paperback, 1977. Cover painting by Angus McKie.

"The brain was perfect, the tiny, crippled body useless. So technology rescued the brain and put it in an environment that conditioned it to live in a different kind of body - a spaceship. Here the human mind, more subtle, infinitely more complex than any computer ever devised, could be linked to the massive and delicate strengths, the total recall, and the incredible speeds of space. But the brain behind the ship was entirely feminine - a complex, loving, strong, weak, gentle savage - a personality, all-woman, called Helva..."