Singing the Dogstar Blues is a 1998 young adult science fiction novel by Alison Goodman.

[1] Singing the Dogstar Blues was first published in Australia on 28 August 1998 by HarperCollins in trade paperback format.

[3] Singing the Dogstar Blues won the 1999 Aurealis Award for best young-adult novel and was a short-list nominee for Aurealis Award for best science fiction novel of the same year.

She gradually realises that she is expected to link with him, as she is the most open of all the students.

They travel back in time to find out why and discover it was because the time-travelling Mavkel accidentally contaminated her as a pre-implantation embryo.