(Cover Donna Violetti)
Editor(s): Robert Silverberg
Publisher: Ballantyne Books (USA)
Edition: 345-01960-1-095
Publication Date: Jul 1970
Great Short Novels of Science Fiction 1970
Novella
"Jack" Chandler is the British-born skipper of a cargo vessel that plies the Australian coast. Since about 1944 he has whiled away the long hours of maritime duty by writing science fiction, much of it, unsurprisingly, dealing with the space-going "navy" of the future. Giant Killer was one of his first stories, and - though perhaps it is no compliment to a writer of more than a quarter of a century's standing to say so - it is almost certainly his best work, an astonishly compelling realisation of a truly alien society.