Title: We Are Holding Our Own Title Record # 3083505
Author: John Steinbeck
Date: 1955-11-00
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: short story
Language: English User Rating: None. Including variants and translations: 8.00 (1 vote) Your vote: Not cast VOTE
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Year Title 1957ⓘFirst published in Playboy [April 1957] according to Acknowledgements in Penguin Science Fiction, although R. S. Hughes, Beyond the Red Pony: A Reader's Companion to Steinbeck's Complete Short Stories cites an earlier appearance under the title 'We Are Holding Our Own' in Lilliput, November 1955. The Short-Short Story of Mankind	Year Language Title 1976ⓘTranslated by Hans Kemming Dutch De uiterst korte geschiedenis van de mensheid 1982ⓘTranslated by Zoran Milović Croatian Vrlo kratka priča o čovječanstvu?Vrlo kratka prica o covjecanstvu Vrlo kratka pricha o chovjechanstvu

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Title	Date	Author/Editor	Publisher/Pub. Series	ISBN/Catalog ID	Price	Pages	Format	Type	Cover Artist	Verif
Lilliput, November 1955	1955-11-00	ed. Editors of Lilliput					unknown?The publication record was created from a secondary source and the publication format is unknown.	mag
SF:'59: The Year's Greatest Science-Fiction and Fantasy	1959-06-00	ed. Judith Merril	Gnome Press		$3.50?$: US dollar	256	hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	anth	W. I. Van der Poel
SF: The Year's Greatest Science Fiction and Fantasy: 4th Annual Volume	1959-06-00	ed. Judith Merril	Dell	B129	$0.35?$: US dollar	256	pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	anth	Richard Powers
Penguin Science Fiction	1961-10-00	ed. Brian W. Aldiss	Penguin Books	1638	3/6?Prior to decimilisation (1968-1971), UK books were priced in shillings, or shillings and pence, where 20 shillings equals one pound and 12 old pence equals one shilling. Shillings were indicated with a variety of suffixes, e.g. 3s, 3', 3", 3/ all mean 3 shillings. Any number after that is additional pence, usually 6 (half a shilling) but sometimes 3 or 9 (a quarter of a shilling or three-quarters of a shilling).	236	pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	anth	Brian Keogh
Penguin Science Fiction	1961-12-00	ed. Brian W. Aldiss	Penguin Books	1638	3/6?Prior to decimilisation (1968-1971), UK books were priced in shillings, or shillings and pence, where 20 shillings equals one pound and 12 old pence equals one shilling. Shillings were indicated with a variety of suffixes, e.g. 3s, 3', 3", 3/ all mean 3 shillings. Any number after that is additional pence, usually 6 (half a shilling) but sometimes 3 or 9 (a quarter of a shilling or three-quarters of a shilling).	236	pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	anth	Brian Keogh
Penguin Science Fiction	1962-00-00	ed. Brian W. Aldiss	Penguin Books	1638	3/6?Prior to decimilisation (1968-1971), UK books were priced in shillings, or shillings and pence, where 20 shillings equals one pound and 12 old pence equals one shilling. Shillings were indicated with a variety of suffixes, e.g. 3s, 3', 3", 3/ all mean 3 shillings. Any number after that is additional pence, usually 6 (half a shilling) but sometimes 3 or 9 (a quarter of a shilling or three-quarters of a shilling).	236	pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	anth	Brian Keogh
Penguin Science Fiction	1963-00-00	ed. Brian W. Aldiss	Penguin Books	1638	3/6?Prior to decimilisation (1968-1971), UK books were priced in shillings, or shillings and pence, where 20 shillings equals one pound and 12 old pence equals one shilling. Shillings were indicated with a variety of suffixes, e.g. 3s, 3', 3", 3/ all mean 3 shillings. Any number after that is additional pence, usually 6 (half a shilling) but sometimes 3 or 9 (a quarter of a shilling or three-quarters of a shilling).	236	pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	anth	Brian Keogh
Penguin Science Fiction	1965-00-00	ed. Brian W. Aldiss	Penguin Books	1638	3/6?Prior to decimilisation (1968-1971), UK books were priced in shillings, or shillings and pence, where 20 shillings equals one pound and 12 old pence equals one shilling. Shillings were indicated with a variety of suffixes, e.g. 3s, 3', 3", 3/ all mean 3 shillings. Any number after that is additional pence, usually 6 (half a shilling) but sometimes 3 or 9 (a quarter of a shilling or three-quarters of a shilling).	236	pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	anth	Oscar Dominguez
Penguin Science Fiction	1966-00-00	ed. Brian W. Aldiss	Penguin Books	1638	3/6?Prior to decimilisation (1968-1971), UK books were priced in shillings, or shillings and pence, where 20 shillings equals one pound and 12 old pence equals one shilling. Shillings were indicated with a variety of suffixes, e.g. 3s, 3', 3", 3/ all mean 3 shillings. Any number after that is additional pence, usually 6 (half a shilling) but sometimes 3 or 9 (a quarter of a shilling or three-quarters of a shilling).	236	pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	anth	Oscar Dominguez
The Penguin Science Fiction Omnibus	1973-06-00	ed. Brian Aldiss	Penguin Books	0-14-003145-6	£0.60?£: UK pound	616	pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	anth	David Pelham
The Penguin Science Fiction Omnibus	1974-00-00	ed. Brian Aldiss	Penguin Books	0-14-003145-6	£0.60?£: UK pound	616	pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	anth	David Pelham
The Penguin Science Fiction Omnibus	1976-00-00	ed. Brian Aldiss	Penguin Books	0-14-003145-6	£1.25?£: UK pound	616	pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	anth	David Pelham
The Penguin Science Fiction Omnibus	1980-00-00	ed. Brian W. Aldiss	Penguin Books	0-14-003145-6	£1.95?£: UK pound	616	pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	anth	Tom Stimpson
The Penguin Science Fiction Omnibus	1985-00-00	ed. Brian W. Aldiss	Penguin Books	0-14-003145-6	£3.50?£: UK pound	616	pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	anth	Peter Jones
The Penguin Science Fiction Omnibus	1986-00-00	ed. Brian Aldiss	Penguin Books	0-14-003145-6		616	pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	anth	Peter Jones
A Science Fiction Omnibus	2007-11-29	ed. Brian Aldiss	Penguin Books (Penguin Modern Classics)	978-0-14-118892-8	£9.99?£: UK pound	592	tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	anth	Jim Burns
A Science Fiction Omnibus	2007-11-29	ed. Brian Aldiss	Penguin Books (Penguin Modern Classics)	978-0-14-191343-8	£7.99?£: UK pound		ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.	anth

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