Hothouse

CENSUS CORRECTED. The claim 'UK first' fails on strict chronological precedence. The first book publication of this material is the abridged American paperback original, The Long Afternoon of Earth (Signet / New American Library, New York, 1962): L.W. Currey and John W. Knott, Jr. — both ABAA, and Currey is the standard authority for SF bibliography — independently state that it was 'issued earlier in the U.S. in a shorter version'. The Faber Hothouse (1962) is therefore the first British edition, the first hardcover, and the first complete/unabridged text, but not the first book publication. The full text did not reach the United States until 1976. Both are collected on different grounds: the Signet has chronological precedence, the Faber has textual authority. Separately, the 1962 Hugo for Best Short Fiction attaches to the five Hothouse novelettes as they appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction in 1961, not to either book edition — do not describe either book as 'the Hugo winner'.