The Martian

The census's claim that the true first is "the scarce 2011 self-published paperback (CreateSpace)" is not supported by any source consulted and is contradicted by the documentary record. No CreateSpace or other self-published PRINT edition is documented by fedpo.com, Wikipedia, ISFDB-linked listings, or dealer inventories; searches for such a paperback return nothing. The 2011 origin was a free chapter-by-chapter serial on Weir's own website, followed by a the printed price Amazon Kindle ebook (September 2012). Weir sold print rights to Crown in March 2013, and Crown issued the first print publication in any form on 11 February 2014. The first UK edition followed from Del Rey (Ebury / Penguin Random House UK) in 2014 and is separately collected — one dealer reports the UK hardcover as limited to 1,000 copies, a figure not independently corroborated here. US Crown precedes.