All Our Yesterdays (book)

All Our Yesterdays by Harry Warner, Jr., is a history of science fiction fandom of the 1940s, an essential^{[according to whom?]} reference work in the field.^[2]

All Our Yesterdays

First edition cover
Author	Harry Warner, Jr.
Language	English
Genre	Science fiction fandom, history
Publisher	Advent (first edition), NESFA Press (second edition)
Publication date	1969, 2004
Publication place	United States
Media type	paperback, hardcover
Pages	370 (second edition)
ISBN	1-886778-13-2 (second edition)[1]
OCLC	64027304
Preceded by	Up to Now by Jack Speer, 1939
Followed by	A Wealth of Fable by Harry Warner, Jr., 1976

It was originally published by Advent in 1969; the members of the World Science Fiction Society voted its author the Hugo Award for Best Fan Writer that year.^[3] NESFA Press produced a new edition (ISBN 1-886778-13-2) 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 mimeographed edition, the first volume issued in 1976, and later expanded into hardcover form (ISBN 0-9633099-0-0) by SCIFI Press in 1992.^[4]

Reception

Algis Budrys praised Warner's work as "that calm, reasoned, and, I suppose, sometimes slightly prejudiced 'fan history' that the microcosm needs as a counterweight" to Sam Moskowitz's earlier The Immortal Storm.^[5]

Science fiction fan and author Mike Resnick 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."^[4]