Author's notes say that Rocheworld 1990 is based on his 1981 150,000 word manuscript.
The Analog series was about 60,000 words of it.
The Timescape 1984 edition of "Flight of the DragonFly" was about 100,000 words of it.
The Baen 1985 edition of "Flight of the DragonFly" was about 110,000 words of it.
The 1990 version is about 155,000 words and marked "At Last The Complete Story!".
• "A Baen Books Original"
• "First printing, April 1990"; no number line.
• Cover art is credited to Mattingly on the copyright page; no signature on the artwork
• $5.95 in Canada
• A considerably longer edition than the one published as The Flight of the Dragonfly, by almost 50,000 words. At Last The Complete Story! is on the cover.
• The novel ends on page 423, followed by "Hearing", Forward's way of introducing/explaining the physics behind the novel, to page 461, followed by "Casting".
