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For Linda SPHERE BOOKS LTD Published by the Penguin Group 27 Wrights Lane, London W8 5TZ, England Viking Penguin Inc., 40 West 23rd Street, New York, New York 10010, USA Penguin Books Australia Ltd., Ringwood, Victoria, Australia Penguin Books Canada Ltd., 2801 John Street, Markham, Ontario, Canada L3R 1B4 Penguin Books (NZ) Ltd., 182-190 Wairau Road, Auckland 10, New Zealand Penguin Books Ltd, Registered Offices: Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England First published in the United States of America by Ballantine Books 1988 First published in Great Britain by Sphere Books 1989 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2 Copyright (C) Charles Sheffield 1979 How to Build a Beanstalk copyright (C) Charles Sheffield 1988 All rights reserved Printed and Bound in Great Britain by Richard Clay Ltd, Bungay, Suffolk

Note that "First published in Great Britain by Sphere Books 1989" means that the date of the first Sphere publication in Great Britain was in 1989. It does not mean that Sphere were the company that first published it in Great Britain. A clearer statement of who first published it in Great Britain is on this Arrow edition.