Stories of Your Life and Others

The US Tor hardcover (2002) is the true first, confirming the census's publisher and year. The census's UK note is WRONG on two counts. First, the UK edition was not "much later": Tor (London / Pan Macmillan) published the first British edition in 2004, ISBN 1-405-04102-1. Second, the UK edition was not retitled Arrival — Arrival is a separate 2016 retitled reissue timed to the film adaptation of "Story of Your Life", and is a "first thus", not the first UK appearance. The Tor trade paperback (ISBN 0-765-30419-4) appeared in July 2003, roughly twelve months after the hardcover, so it is a subsequent issue and not a simultaneous first.