''All Our Yesterdays'' by Harry Warner, Jr., is a history of

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of the 1940s, an essential reference work in the field. It was originally published by

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in 1969; the members of the

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voted its author the

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for Best Fan Writer that year.

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produced a new edition () with additional photographs, in 2004, after Warner's death. Warner also wrote a related series of historical columns called "All Our Yesterdays." He later published a sequel, '' A Wealth of Fable,'' covering the 1950s, originally produced in a three-volume

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ed edition, the first volume issued in 1976, and later expanded into

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form () by SCIFI Press in 1992.

Reception

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praised Warner's work as "that calm, reasoned, and, I suppose, sometimes slightly prejudiced 'fan history' that the microcosm needs as a counterweight" to

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's earlier '' The Immortal Storm''."Galaxy Bookshelf",

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, September 1969, pp.91-94 Science fiction fan and author

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called the book "a fabulous, informal history, covering all the high points, reporting on (for example) the initial meeting after the war between DAW (Wollheim) and SaM (the man who barred him from the first Worldcon), filled with well over 100 photos, even indexed. It's a true treasure of fannish history and anecdotes."

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