NMLP P-044006 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-19
Old Man's War
John Scalzi · Tor Books / Tom Doherty Associates (New York) · 2005
US first, and unambiguous: Tor Books, New York, January 2005. The census claim is correct. No UK edition preceded it — the sources consulted turn up no Tor UK / Macmillan London hardcover of this title, and the earliest UK availability was the US printing and later paperbacks. The 'first thus' traps are all format reissues: Tor's own trade paperback and the January 2007 mass-market paperback, the later series omnibus printings, and the recent Tor reissues. Only the January 2005 Tor hardcover is the first edition.
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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-044006 for "Old Man's War" by John Scalzi (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-044006, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).