# Is "Slow Bullets" by Alastair Reynolds a First Edition?

> **Quick answer.** A first edition of Slow Bullets by Alastair Reynolds (Tachyon Publications, 2015) is identified by: Tachyon Publications (San Francisco) US trade paperback original, first printing, published June 2015, ISBN 978-1-61696-193-0. The Tachyon US trade paperback original of June 2015 is the true first: it preceded the WSFA Press signed limited hardcover (also 2015) by about four months, and there was no earlier UK print edition.

**Checklist — a true first has these:**
- Tachyon Publications (San Francisco) US trade paperback original, first printing, published June 2015, ISBN 978-1-61696-193-0
- As a paperback original its cover should retain the printed price
- Publisher imprint reads Tachyon Publications
- Not a book-club edition (see below)

| | |
|---|---|
| Author | Alastair Reynolds |
| Publisher | Tachyon Publications |
| Year | 2015 |
| True first | US edition |
| Format | Hardcover (trade) |
| Key point | Tachyon Publications (San Francisco) US trade paperback original, first printing, published June 2015, ISBN 978-1-61696-193-0 |
| Book-club edition exists? | No |

## Points of issue
Novella. Tachyon Publications (San Francisco) US trade paperback original, first printing, published June 2015, ISBN 978-1-61696-193-0. As a paperback original its cover should retain the printed price.

## Is this the true first?
The Tachyon US trade paperback original of June 2015 is the true first: it preceded the WSFA Press signed limited hardcover (also 2015) by about four months, and there was no earlier UK print edition. The WSFA Press hardcover is a later, separate limited issue, not the first.

## Telling it from reprints & book-club editions
No book-club edition; the only hardcover of the year is the WSFA Press signed limited, which is a later state than the Tachyon paperback.

## Source
New Mexico Literacy Project — Is *Slow Bullets* by Alastair Reynolds a first edition? https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/slow-bullets
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.