[Next production] Harry Harrison - Short Fiction

[Robin Whittleton]

Gutenberg’s got a set of PD-OKed Harry Harrison shorts, so I’ll do a compilation of those next. I’ve put together a spreadsheet tracking his short fiction (according to Wikipedia) along with a few of his novels at https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1HKHyFlM6sbBu8ZsEzRDKGET8Y2BmBLPmbeble8jjT1M/edit?usp=sharing.

It looks like the collection will be 8 shorts in total at the moment. PG also have “The Stainless Steel Rat” and “The Misplaced Battleship” but those were edited together and fleshed out to make The Stainless Steel Rat novel which I’ve already done, so I plan to omit them. I’ll note that in the description. The other works that PG has tip over the word count into novels, so they can be for another day.

Repo at https://github.com/robinwhittleton/harry-harrison_short-fiction.

-Robin

[Alex Cabal]

OK, great. I've made a copy of the spreadsheet and added you as an
editor. Emma will manage with Weijia reviewing.

On 6/23/26 1:34 AM, Robin Whittleton wrote:
> Gutenberg’s got a set of PD-OKed Harry Harrison shorts, so I’ll do a
> compilation of those next. I’ve put together a spreadsheet tracking his

> short fiction (according to Wikipedia <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
> List_of_short_stories_by_Harry_Harrison>) along with a few of his novels
> at https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/
> d/1HKHyFlM6sbBu8ZsEzRDKGET8Y2BmBLPmbeble8jjT1M/edit?usp=sharing
> <https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/
> d/1HKHyFlM6sbBu8ZsEzRDKGET8Y2BmBLPmbeble8jjT1M/edit?usp=sharing>.

>
> It looks like the collection will be 8 shorts in total at the moment. PG
> also have “The Stainless Steel Rat” and “The Misplaced Battleship” but

> those were edited together and fleshed out to make /The Stainless Steel
> Rat/ novel which I’ve already done, so I plan to omit them. I’ll note

> that in the description. The other works that PG has tip over the word
> count into novels, so they can be for another day.
>
> Repo at https://github.com/robinwhittleton/harry-harrison_short-fiction

> <https://github.com/robinwhittleton/harry-harrison_short-fiction>.
>
> -Robin
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[Robin Whittleton]

Thanks!

Emma: what do we think about “ID” as an exception to the usual rule that initialisms are separated by periods? The etymology seems a bit confused as to whether it stands for “Identity” or “Identity Document”.

-Robin

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[Weijia Cheng]

Ok, noted.

[Emma Sweeney]

It looks like other instances in the corpus have been formatted as <abbr epub:type="z3998:initialism">I.D.</abbr>. I'm recommend doing the same here.

Emma

[Robin Whittleton]

Sounds good, done.

-Robin

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[David]

I wonder if this is a case where "modernization" comes into play? There is a MW entry for "ID" as a noun(!) meaning: `a document (such as a card) bearing identifying information about and often a photograph of the individual whose name appears on it -> called also ID card, identification card, identity card`.

Or maybe this contextual? e.g, "She showed her <abbr epub:type="z3998:initialism">I.D.</abbr> to the guard." But "He lost his ID card in the bus." 

But MW, at least, regards "ID" as a "noun", not an abbreviation....

On Wednesday, 24 June 2026 at 07:49:08 UTC+1 robin wrote:

Sounds good, done.

-Robin

On 24 Jun 2026, at 04:18, Emma Sweeney wrote:

It looks like other instances in the corpus have been formatted as <abbr epub:type="z3998:initialism">I.D.</abbr>. I'm recommend doing the same here.

Emma

[Robin Whittleton]

Cover art will be The City (thanks Emma!). I’ve assigned it.

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