Once Giants Roamed the Earth

"Once Giants Roamed the Earth" was first published in 2005 in the anthology Daikaiju! Giant Monster Tales and the collection The Traveling Tide.[1] Daikaiju! Giant Monster Tales was edited by Robin Pen and Robert Hood and published by Agog! Press.[1] The Traveling Tide is a collection of stories by Rosaleen Love and was first published in May 2005 by Aqueduct Press.[1] In 2006 it was republished in The Year's Best Australian Science Fiction & Fantasy: Volume Two, edited by Bill Congreve and Michelle Marquardt and published by MirrorDanse Books.[1] "Once Giants Roamed the Earth" was a joint winner for the 2005 Aurealis Award for best fantasy short story along with Richard Harland's "The Greater Death of Saito Saku".[2] It was also a short-list nominee for the 2006 Ditmar Award for best short story but lost to Kaaron Warren's "Fresh Young Widow".[3]