Giant Killer

"Giant Killer"
Cover Astounding Science Fiction October 1945
Author	A. Bertram Chandler
Country	Australia
Language	English
Genre(s)	Science Fiction short story
Published in	Astounding Science Fiction
Publication type	Periodical
Publisher	Street & Smith
Media type	Print
Publication date	October 1945

"Giant Killer" is a science fiction short story by A. Bertram Chandler. It was first published in the October 1945 issue of Astounding Science Fiction, and later included in many science fiction anthologies, including World of Wonder edited by Fletcher Pratt. In 1996 it was shortlisted for a Retro Hugo Award for Best Novella.^[1]

Plot summary

Referred to as a "pocket universe" story by the The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction,^[2] "Giant Killer" is told from the point-of-view of a colony of mutated rats living in a spaceship. The "giants" of the story's title are the humans crewing the spaceship.

Further publications

• World of Wonder edited by Fletcher Pratt (1951)
• Great Novels of SF edited by Robert Silverberg (1970)
• Novella : 3 edited by Ben Bova (1978)
• The Arbor House Treasury of Great Science Fiction Short Novels edited by Robert Silverberg and Martin H. Greenberg (1980)
• Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 7 (1945) edited by Isaac Asimov (1982)
• Isaac Asimov Presents the Golden Years of Science Fiction : Fourth Series edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg (1986)
• The Mammoth Book of Golden Age Science Fiction : Short Novels of the 1940s edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg (1989)
• From Sea to Shining Star by Bertram Chandler (1990)

See also

• Australian science fiction
• 1945 in Australian literature

References

1. "1946 Retro Hugo Awards". World Science Fiction Society. Archived from the original on 2011-05-07. Retrieved 2010-04-19.
2. The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction - Chandler, A Bertram