Singing the Dogstar Blues

Singing the Dogstar Blues by Goodman, Alison. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780142416426.

Alison Goodmans first novel - in a very special new edition! Seventeen-year-old Joss is a rebel, and a student of time travel at the prestigious Centre for Neo-Historical Studies. This year, for the first time, the Centre has an alien student: Mavkel, from the planet Choria. And Mavkel has chosen Joss, of all people, as his roommate and study partner. Then Mavkel gets sick. Joss quickly realizes that his will to live is draining away. The only way she can help Mavkel is by breaking the Centres strictest rules - and that means going back in time to change history. This new Firebird edition of Alison Goodmans acclaimed first genre-bending adventure features a short story about Joss and Mavs after-book adventures, originally published in Firebirds Rising.