A Wealth of Fable
| File:A Wealth of Fable.jpg First editions, three volumes | |
| Author | Harry Warner, Jr. |
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| Cover artist | Ross Chamberlain |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Science fiction fandom, history |
| Publisher | Fanhistorica Press (first edition) SCIFI Press (second edition) |
Publication date | 1977, 1992 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Mimeographed, hardcover |
| Pages | xiv+456 (second edition) |
| ISBN | Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value). (second edition)[1] |
| OCLC | 30380163 |
| Preceded by | All Our Yesterdays by Harry Warner, Jr., 1969 |
A Wealth of Fable by Harry Warner, Jr., is a Hugo Award-winning history of science fiction fandom of the 1950s, an essential reference work in the field.[2] It is a follow-up to Warner's All Our Yesterdays (Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).), which covered the 1940s, and helped to earn Warner a Hugo Award in 1969.
According to science fiction fan and author Mike Resnick, "It's not even a sequel, but rather a continuation, of All Our Yesterdays, heavily illustrated, obviously written by the same hand, chock full of the anecdotes that almost instantly become fannish legend."[3]
It was originally published by Joe Siclari in a three-volume, mimeographed Fanhistorica Press edition in 1977. SCIFI Press brought out an expanded hardcover edition (Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).) in 1992.[3] The members of the World Science Fiction Society voted that version the Hugo Award for Best Related Book.
Warner also wrote a related series of historical columns called "All Our Yesterdays."
External links
[edit | edit source]- Publisher's information on A Wealth of Fable Archived 2009-08-03 at the Wayback Machine
- Publisher's information on All Our Yesterdays Archived 2009-08-26 at the Wayback Machine
- All Our Yesterdays columns
Footnotes and references
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