This novel is based on the short story Rusted Armor by Andre Norton. It was written by Caroline Fike in 2001 under the tutelage of Andre Norton but it was unpublished. The first chapter was published as an excerpt on the andre-norton.com website in 2015 as by "Andre Norton and Caroline Fike".
- Data from Amazon.com on 2024-09-18.
- Amazon Kindle page count 281.
- "1st edition published March 2021"
- "Cover Image 'Rusty' 'For Fun' by Jens Kuczwara" on the copyright page.
- The ISBN stated on the copyright page (979-8-7144-7621-1) is for the trade paperback edition.
- The title page shows "By Caroline Fike" over "Under the close tutelage of Andre Norton".
- "Edited by Jay P. Watts 2015"
- "Based on the short story titled Rusted Armor by Andre Norton"
- "All the text in this book by Caoline Fike under the close tutelage of Andre Norton 2001"
