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One Life, Furnished in Early Poverty

Harlan Ellison

First published December 1970
Type Short Fiction
Length Short Story

An adult travels back to his childhood to try and befriend himself as a lonely, bullied child.

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
December 1970 Cover Orbit 8 G. P. Putnam's Sons Anthology 27
March 1971 Cover Orbit 8 Berkley Medallion Anthology 27
March 1971 Cover Orbit 8 Berkley Medallion Anthology 27
May 1972 Cover The 1972 Annual World's Best SF DAW Books Anthology 266
May 1972 Cover The 1972 Annual World's Best SF DAW Books Anthology 266
July 1972 Cover The 1972 Annual World's Best SF DAW Books / SFBC Anthology 259
1973 Cover The 1972 Annual World's Best SF Book Club Associates Anthology 265
November 1973 Cover The 1972 Annual World's Best SF DAW Books Anthology 266
June 1974 Cover Orbit 8 Rapp & Whiting / Andre Deutsch Anthology
December 1974 Cover Approaching Oblivion: Road Signs on the Treadmill Toward Tomorrow Walker & Co. Collection 8
December 1974 Cover Approaching Oblivion: Road Signs on the Treadmill Toward Tomorrow Walker & Co. / SFBC Collection 122
June 1975 Cover Best Stories from Orbit, Volumes 1-10 Berkley/Putnam Anthology 273
1976 Cover Approaching Oblivion: Road Signs on the Treadmill Toward Tomorrow Millington Collection 108
January 1976 Cover Approaching Oblivion: Road Signs on the Treadmill Toward Tomorrow Signet / New American Library Collection 108
January 1976 Cover Approaching Oblivion: Road Signs on the Treadmill Toward Tomorrow Signet / New American Library of Canada Collection 108
July 1976 Cover The Best from Orbit Volumes 1-10 Berkley Medallion Anthology 298
October 1977 Cover Approaching Oblivion Pan Books Collection 108
December 1977 Cover Wollheim's World's Best SF: Vol. I DAW Books Anthology 266
December 1977 Cover Wollheim's World's Best SF: Vol. I DAW Books Anthology 266
1981 Cover Approaching Oblivion Signet / New American Library of Canada Collection 108
March 1981 Cover Approaching Oblivion Signet / New American Library Collection 108
May 1985 Cover Approaching Oblivion Bluejay Books Collection 141
1987 Cover The Essential Ellison: A 35-Year Retrospective Nemo Press Collection 781
August 1987 Cover The Essential Ellison Nemo Press Collection 781
October 1988 Cover The Essential Ellison: A 35-Year Retrospective Nemo Press / SFBC Collection 781
1989 Cover Approaching Oblivion Nelson Doubleday / SFBC Collection 120
October 1991 Cover The Essential Ellison Morpheus International Collection 781
December 1991 Cover New Stories from The Twilight Zone Avon Books Anthology 147
August 1992 Cover New Stories from the Twilight Zone Warner Books UK Anthology 147
1993 Cover New Stories from the Twilight Zone Warner Books UK Anthology 211
February 1997 Cover The Essential Ellison Morpheus International Collection 781
July 1997 Cover The New Twilight Zone MJF Books Anthology 147
May 2001 Cover The Essential Ellison: A 50-Year Retrospective Morpheus International Collection 827
June 2005 Cover The Essential Ellison: A 50-Year Retrospective Morpheus International Collection 827
May 2009 Cover Approaching Oblivion e-reads.com Collection |108
March 2012 Cover Approaching Oblivion Gateway / Orion Collection
April 2014 Cover Approaching Oblivion Open Road Integrated Media Collection |108
June 2014 Cover Approaching Oblivion Open Road Integrated Media Collection |108
January 2020 Cover The Beast that Shouted Love at the Heart of the World and Other Works Recorded Books Omnibus |2108