Notes
Some of the material in this novel originally appeared in different form in Amazing Stories and Fantastic Science Fiction: "Kingdoms of the Stars" Amazing Stories, September 1964; "The Shores of Infinity" Amazing Stories, April 1965; "The Broken Stars" Fantastic, December 1968; and "The Horror from the Magellanic" Amazing Stories, May 1969.
Per Tuck, the third and fourth stories were written at the request of the publisher for the French Retour aux étoiles and had not appeared in English at that time.
Publications (7)
| Date | Publication | Publisher | Type | Page |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1969 | Return to the Stars | Lancer Books | Novel | |
| April 1986 | Chronicles of the Star Kings | Arrow Books | Omnibus | |
| August 2005 | Stark and the Star Kings | Haffner Press | Omnibus | 417 |
| August 2005 | Stark and the Star Kings | Haffner Press | Omnibus | 417 |
| February 2008 | Return to the Stars | Baen Books | Novel | |
| February 2008 | The Eric John Stark Saga | Baen Books | Omnibus | |
| October 2013 | Return to the Stars | Gateway / Orion | Novel |