DAW, New York, 1980, 2nd pr.  ISBN 0-87997-579-2.  DAW’s SF Books No.411.  MMPB, 160 pages.  Wraps show some edge and cover wear, colour chipping; some colour transfer on rear wrap; light scrapes on lower page block; binding tight with a slight bow to book.  Interior clean and unmarked with tanning pages; black & white frontis.  ‘Ascelius was an academic world, whose primary business was teaching the knowledge of the thousands of worlds, and housing great universities and colleges, populated by students and scholars from all over the galaxy.  Such a world was surely the place to learn of the legendary planet called Earth.  Dumarest went to Ascelius, and, indeed, he found that there had once been a study group for Earth lore.  To find the remnants of it, to seek out the discarded files of their discussions, was not easy.  Not when the dreaded Cyber already had a toe-hold on Ascelius, and genetic engineering of man and monster was the latest fad.’ (from rear wrap)