Sword & Laser Book Club members read all editions of the monthly picks: print, audio, ebook, even cuneiform, if such editions exist. Ok, maybe not cuneiform. The gallery on this page will be devoted to first editions of the monthly picks. What exactly is a first edition? The edition that came first? Is it the American, British or some other country's first publication? Is it the signed, numbered and/or lettered limited edition? Is it the limited edition preview? Is it the advanced reading copy (aka ARC)? Sometimes it's hard to tell, so we'll see. Feel free to replace images as needed. Other galleries focus on vintage paperbacks, fiction mags, and graphic novels.
The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman
Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
American Gods by Neil Gaiman
Neuromancer by William Gibson
Childhood's End by Arthur C. Clarke
Unshapely Things by Mark Del Franco
Watership Down by Richard Adams
Anathem by Neal Stephenson
Memoirs Found in a Bathtub by Stanslaw Lem
Memoirs Found in a Bathtub (Polish edition) by Stanslaw Lem
The Eye of the World by Robert Jordan
Dune by Frank Herbert
Daemon by Daniel Suarez
A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin
The Forever War by Joe Haldemon
The Mists of Avalon by Marion Bradley Zimmer
Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom by Cory Doctorow
The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi
Bitter Seeds by Ian Tregillis
World War Z by Max Brooks
The Blade Itself by Joe Abercrombie
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Robert Heinlein
The Once & Future King by T.H. White
The Princess Bride by William Goldman
How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe by Charles Yu
Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett
The Shadow of the Torturer by Gene Wolfe
The Claw of the Conciliator by Gene Wolfe
Shadow and Claw by Gene Wolfe
Blindsight by Peter Watts
The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms by N.K. Jemison
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
A Dance With Dragons by George R.R. Martin
Fuzzy Nation by John Scalzi
Flash Forward by Robert J. Sawyer
Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
Reamde by Neal Stephenson
Elantris by Brandon Sanderson
1Q84 by Haruki Murakami
1Q84 (Three volume Japanese edition) by Haruki Murakami
Rule 34 by Charles Stross
Empire State by Adam Christopher
The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch
The Magicians by Lev Grossman
Hyperion by Dan Simmons
Tigana by Guy Gavriel Kay
Leviathan Wakes by James S.A. Corey
Assassin's Apprentice by Robin Hobb
Foundation by Isaac Asimov
Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
The Dirty Streets of Heaven by Tad Williams
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkein
Old Man's War by John Scalzi
Bridge of Birds by Barry Hughart
Downbelow Station by C.J. Cherryh
Dragonflight by Anne McCaffrey
Wool by Hugh Howey
Among Others by Jo Walton
Redshirts by John Scalzi
Ringworld by Larry Niven
The Curse of Chalion by Lois McMaster Bujold
The Demolished Man by Alfred Bester
Boneshaker by Cherie Priest
Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie
A Natural History of Dragons by Marie Brennan
His Majesty's Dragon by Naomi Novik
The Einstein Intersection by Samuel R. Delany
A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin
Altered Carbon by Richard Morgan
The Brand by Bryan Alexander Benson
A Dance of Cloaks by David Dalglish
The Martian by Andy Weir
Promise of Blood by Brian McClellan
Dawn by Octavia Butler
The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss
Stories of Your Life by Ted Chiang
Alif the Unseen by G. WIllow Wilson
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep by Philip K. Dick
The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell
Annihilation by Jeff Vandermeer
The Goblin Emperor by Katherine Addison
Wyrd Sisters by Terry Pratchett
The Sword of Rhiannon by Leigh Brackett
City of Stairs by Robert Jackson Bennett
Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
Uprooted by Naomi Novik
A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr.
The Traitor Baru Cormorant by Seth Dickinson
Time and Again by Jack Finney
Arrows of the Queen by Mercedes Lackey
Radiance by Catherine M. Valente
The Sword of Shannara by Terry Brooks
All the Birds in the Sky by Charlie Jane Anders
The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemison
A Darker Shade of Magic by V.E. Schwab
Aurora by Kim Stanley Robinson
Updraft by Fran Wilde
The Time Traders by Andre Norton
The Last Wish by Andrzej Sapkowski
The Last Wish (Polish edition) by Andrzej Sapkowski
A Fire Upon the Deep by Vernor Vinge
The Golem and the Jinni by Helene Wecker
Futuristic Violence and Fancy Suits by David Wong
The Rook by Daniel O'Malley
The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu
The Three-Body Problem (Chinese edition) by Cixin Liu
The Salt Roads by Nalo Hopkinson
Gateway by Frederik Pohl
The Invisible Library by Genevieve Cogman
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers
The Hum and the Shiver by Alex Bledsoe
The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. LeGuin
The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger by Stephen King
Helliconia Spring by Brian W. Aldiss
The Strange Case of the Alchemist's Daughter by Theodora Goss
Doomsday Book by Connie Willis
California Bones by Greg Van Eeekhout
Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
A Wrinkle in Time by Madelaine L'Engle
An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon
We Are Legion (We Are Bob) by Dennis E. Taylor
Soulless by Gail Carriger
Night's Master by Tanith Lee
Circe by Madeline Miller
Mortal Engines by Philip Reeve
Jade City by Fonda Lee
Slan by A.E. Van Vogt
Lovecraft Country by Matt Ruff
Zer0es by Chuck Wendig
Ka: Dar Oakley in the Ruin of Ymr by John Crowley
Ninefox Gambit by Yoon Ha Lee
The Calculating Stars by Mary Robinette Kowal
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling
The Crown Conspiracy by Michael J. Sullivan
Avempartha by Michael J. Sullivan
Theft of Swords by Michael J. Sullivan
The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury
The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle
Vessel by Lisa A. Nichols
The Poppy War by R.F. Kuang
Trail of Lightning by Rebecca Roanhorse
Seven Blades in Black by Sam Sykes
The Snow Queen by Joan D. Vinge
Hogfather by Terry Pratchett
In the Company of Others by Julie E. Czerneda
Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir
The Light Brigade by Kameron Hurley
This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone
Magician: Apprentice by Raymond E. Feist
Magician by Raymond E. Feist
A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine
Black Leopard, Red Wolf by Marlon James
Elysium by Jennifer Marie Brissett
The Ten Thousand Doors of January
Finder by Suzanne Palmer
Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones
Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler
Finding Baba Yaga: A Short Novel in Verse by Jane Yolen
The Marrow Thieves by Cherie Dimaline
The Fold by Peter Clines
Elatsoe by Darcie Little Badger
The House in the Cerulean Sea by T.J. Klune
Network Effect by Martha Wells
Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
Consider Phlebas by Iain M. Banks
The Ruthless Lady's Guide to Wizardry by C.M. Waggoner
Terra Nullius by Claire G. Coleman
NOS4A2 by Joe Hill
The Prefect by Alastair Reynolds
Aurora Rising by Alastair Reynolds
The Inheritance of Orquídea Divina by Zoraida Córdova
Light From Uncommon Stars by Ryka Aoki
The Empress of Salt and Fortune by Nghi Vo
Pandora's Star by Peter F. Hamilton
A Master of Djinn by P. Djèlí Clark
Machinehood by S.B. Divya
Hunt the Stars by Jessie Mihalik
Hunt the Stars by Jessie Mihalik (reversible dust jacket)
Rivers of London by Ben Aaronovitch
Midnight Riot by Ben Aaronovitch (US edition)
How High We Go in the Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu
The Jasmine Throne by Tasha Suri
Six Wakes by Mur Lafferty
Elric of Melniboné by Michael Moorcock
Brightness Falls From the Air by James Tiptree, Jr.
Nettle and Bone by T. Kingfisher
Under Fortunate Stars by Ren Hutchings
Legends & Lattes by Travis Baldree
Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky
Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros
Planetfall by Emma Newman
Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo
China Mountain Zhang by Maureen F. McHugh
The Library at Mount Char by Scott Hawkins
The Mimicking of Known Successes by Malka Older
Kings of the Wyld by Nicholas Eames
The Shining Girls by Lauren Beukes
The Shadow of the Gods by John Gwynne
Iron Widow by Xiran Jay Zhao
Shards of Honor by Lois McMaster Bujold, collected in Cordelia's Honor
Barrayar by Lois McMaster Bujold, collected in Cordelia's Honor
Cordelia's Honor by Lois McMaster Bujold
Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries by Heather Fawcett
The Sword of Kaigen by M.L. Wang
Cursed Bunny by Bora Chung
Cursed Bunny (Korean edition) by Bora Chung
The Spear Cuts Through Water by Simon Jimenez
Some Desperate Glory by Emily Tesh
A Night in the Lonesome October by Roger Zelazny
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
Akata Witch by Nnedi Okorafor