Rogue Moon

Gregg Press (1977) and Gollancz (1978) are hardcover reprints, not firsts, and are routinely miscatalogued as first editions because they are the earliest hardcovers. Budrys's own preferred title was The Death Machine, and the edition under that title (Unifont, Poughkeepsie, New York, 2001) is a later 'first thus', restoring his preferred title. A shorter version preceded the novel in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction. Reports that the 1960 Gold Medal text was itself cut by the publisher and later restored appear in circulation but were NOT confirmed in the sources consulted and should not be repeated as fact.