NMLP P-003612 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-04

Downbelow Station

C. J. Cherryh · DAW Books (New York) · 1981

The US DAW 1981 mass-market paperback original is the true first; it won the 1982 Hugo Award for Best Novel. There was no simultaneous US hardcover, so later US hardcover and book-club editions are 'first thus.' A separate first British hardcover edition (Methuen) followed and does not precede the DAW paperback.

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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-003612 for "Downbelow Station" by C. J. Cherryh (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-003612, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).