Singing the Dogstar Blues

Singing the Dogstar Blues is a 1998 young adult science fiction novel by Alison Goodman. It follows the story of Joss who is a student of time travel and has been given the task of being the study partner of the alien student Mavkel.[1]

Singing the Dogstar Blues
Singing the Dogstar Blues first edition cover.
AuthorAlison Goodman
Cover artistGrant Gittus
CountryAustralia
LanguageEnglish
GenreYoung adult, science fiction
PublisherHarperCollins
Publication date
28 August 1998
Media typePrint (hardback & paperback)
Pages199 (first edition)
ISBN0-7322-5967-3

Background

Singing the Dogstar Blues was first published in Australia on 28 August 1998 by HarperCollins in trade paperback format.[2] In 1999 it was released as an audiobook by Louis Braille Books and has been released in the United States and United Kingdom in 2003 and 2004 respectively.[1][3] Singing the Dogstar Blues was released in Germany under the title of Galaxy Blues in 2003 and in the Netherlands as Blues voor Sirius in 2008.[3] Singing the Dogstar Blues won the 1999 Aurealis Award for best young-adult novel and was a short-list nominee for Aurealis Award for best science fiction novel of the same year.[4]

Synopsis

Joss gets partnered with an alien, Mavkel, who has somehow survived the usually fatal loss of his linked partner Kelmav. She gradually realises that she is expected to link with him, as she is the most open of all the students. They travel back in time to find out why and discover it was because the time-travelling Mavkel accidentally contaminated her as a pre-implantation embryo.

gollark: Greetings, "le bunker de corona" members. I am gollark, otherwise known as osmarks, a human. As someone who is totally a human, I exist, and do human things such as (not limited to): consuming food; consuming water; sleeping; not sleeping; sitting in chairs; motion; social interaction; thought.I enjoy things such as authorship of highly accursed code in a wide range of programming languages, computational gaming, reading scifi/fantasy, and sometimes (when I am not horribly distracted) reading about various maths topics.If you are reading this, it is already too late.Feel free to DM me iff Riemann hypothesis!I have harvested some insightful quotes:“You know what they say, speak softly but carry a tungsten slug accelerated to a measurable fraction of C.” “I mean, we could use it to destroy the Universe, but we'd have to add a lot of antimatter. Which pretty much goes for all other matter.”“The laws of Australia prevail in Australia, I can assure you of that. The laws of mathematics are very commendable, but the only law that applies in Australia is the law of Australia.”"World domination is such an ugly phrase. I prefer to call it world optimisation."“The Earth is built to last. It is a 4,550,000,000-year-old, 5,973,600,000,000,000,000,000-tonne ball of iron. It has taken more devastating asteroid hits in its lifetime than you've had hot dinners, and lo, it still orbits merrily. So my first piece of advice to you, dear would-be Earth-destroyer, is: do NOT think this will be easy.”“Eventually all the people who hate this kind of thing are going to be dead, and the ones who use it are going to be in control.” - a linguist“All problems in computer science can be solved by another level of indirection.” “Ignorance of insecurity does not get you security.” “I don't always believe in things, but when I do, I believe in them alphabetically.” “If you're trying to stop me, I outnumber you 1 to 6.”
gollark: Does it? I thought you only needed to look after and before a bit up to a digit which would require carrying. Or something like that.
gollark: No, but you can use accursed streaming base conversion algorithms™ probably.
gollark: I had a paper on generating digits of things like that using a generalized base conversion algorithm on infinite lazy streams, 'twas very weird.
gollark: The Wikipedia article explains how you can attain things from that.

References
  1. "Singing the Dogstar Blues by Alison Goodman". Fantastic Fiction. Retrieved 28 January 2010.
  2. "Bibliography: Singing the Dogstar Blues". ISFDB. Retrieved 28 January 2010.
  3. Formats and Editions of Singing the Dogstar blues. WorldCat. OCLC 50447976.
  4. "The Locus Index to SF Awards: 1999 Aurealis Awards". Locus Online. Retrieved 28 January 2010.


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