 The first English language stand-alone edition was published as an E-book by Gollancz's SF Gateway imprint on September 29, 2011 as part of a general release of de Camp's works in electronic form.The novel has also been translated into German.As with all of the "Krishna" novels and novellas, the title of "The Virgin of Zesh" has a "Z" in it, a practice de Camp claimed to have devised to keep track of them.