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An anthology of 15 novellas/short stories by such authors as Isaac Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke, A. Bertram Chandler, Cordwainer Smith, Theodore Sturgeon, Robert Silverberg and James Blish. Editors Silverberg and Greenburg also contribute an introductory essay.
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Giant Killer,
single work
short story
science fiction
'"Giant Killer" is a closed universe story wherein the characters (or at least some of them) do not realize that their environment constitutes only a small, confined space. It is arguably his finest work of science fiction'. (Isaac Asimov, ctd. www.bertramchandler.com)
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