"Book Club Edition" printed at the bottom of the front flap of the dustjacket. Selection of the Science Fiction Book Club for April 1979. Reprints the Dial Press first edition. Expansion of the Hugo, Nebula and Locus Poll Award winning novella, which first appeared in Analog, March 1977. The Robinsons went on to create a trilogy with the sequels, Starseed (1991) and Starmind (1994).