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4.2/5 AbeBooks Language English Originally published 1992 | 4.2/5 Goodreads Country United States Publication date 1977, 1992 Page count 456 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Publisher Fanhistorica Press (first edition), SCIFI Press (second edition) Media type Mimeographed, hardcover Pages xiv+456 (second edition) Awards Hugo Award for Best Related Work Similar Hugo Award for Best Related Work winners, History books | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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. It is a followup to Warner's All Our Yesterdays (ISBN 1-886778-13-2), 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."
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 (ISBN 0-9633099-0-0) in 1992. 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."