A fix-up of All the Beautiful Children as "The Historian", If I Forget Thee as "The Volunteer", and an original section titled "The Dreamer". The three sections are connected by new material titled "The Mnemonist" which is in four parts before, between, and after the three novella-length sections.
- No statement of edition on the copyright page, but there is a complete number line: "1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10".
- Copyright 1980, but published in January 1981 according to the date code "0181" printed on the back flap of the dustjacket.
- The copyright page contains the complete Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data including the ISBN (0-671-25280-1), and the LCCN.
- Copyright statement: "If I Forget Thee"...originally appeared in TRIAX published by Pinnacle.
- The novel is in three parts with connective material in four sections. The three parts are "The Historian", "The Volunteer", and "The Dreamer". The four parts of the connective material are "The Mnemonist I", "...II" "...III", and "...IV".
- The section titled "The Historian" has been reported to be the previously unpublished story All the Beautiful Children which was originally sold to Harlan Ellison's unpublished anthology The Last Dangerous Visions.
- An examination of "The Volunteer" shows it to be identical to If I Forget Thee.
- "Jacket design by Anne Winslow" (over) "Illustration by Lisa Falkenstern" printed on the back flap of the dustjacket.
