# Is "Dead Space" by Kali Wallace a First Edition?

> **Quick answer.** A first edition of Dead Space by Kali Wallace (Berkley, 2021) is identified by: US Berkley trade paperback original, March 2021; ISBN 9781984803726. The US Berkley paperback original of 2021 is the true first; the novel had no prior hardcover.

**Checklist — a true first has these:**
- US Berkley trade paperback original, March 2021
- ISBN 9781984803726
- Identify the first printing by a complete Berkley number line whose lowest digit is 1
- Publisher imprint reads Berkley
- Not a book-club edition (see below)

| | |
|---|---|
| Author | Kali Wallace |
| Publisher | Berkley |
| Year | 2021 |
| True first | US edition |
| Format | Hardcover (trade) |
| Key point | US Berkley trade paperback original, March 2021 |
| Book-club edition exists? | — |

## Points of issue
US Berkley trade paperback original, March 2021; ISBN 9781984803726. Identify the first printing by a complete Berkley number line whose lowest digit is 1.

## Is this the true first?
The US Berkley paperback original of 2021 is the true first; the novel had no prior hardcover. It won the 2022 Philip K. Dick Award (a special citation that year went to Lavie Tidhar's The Escapement).

## Telling it from reprints & book-club editions
Later printings and any reissues are reprints, not the first.

## Source
New Mexico Literacy Project — Is *Dead Space* by Kali Wallace a first edition? https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/dead-space
CC BY 4.0. Part of the Canonical First-Edition Points of Issue dataset (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/api/first-edition-titles.json). Last reviewed 2026-07-04.