"Once Giants Roamed the Earth" is a 2005

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Background

"Once Giants Roamed the Earth" was first published in 2005 in the anthology ''

Daikaiju! Giant Monster Tales ''Daikaiju! Giant Monster Tales'' is a 2005 speculative fiction anthology edited by Robert Hood and Robin Pen. Background ''Daikaiju! Giant Monster Tales'' was first published in Australia in 2005 by Agog! Press in hardback format. It won the ...

'' and the collection '' The Traveling Tide''. ''Daikaiju! Giant Monster Tales'' was edited by Robin Pen and

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and published by Agog! Press. ''The Traveling Tide'' is a collection of stories by Rosaleen Love and was first published in May 2005 by

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. In 2006 it was republished in '' The Year's Best Australian Science Fiction & Fantasy: Volume Two'', edited by

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and published by

MirrorDanse Books MirrorDanse Books, founded in 1994, is one of Australia's longest running independent book publishers of science fiction and horror. MirrorDanse Books publishes the ''Year's Best Australian SF & Fantasy'' anthology series, edited by Bill Congre ...

. "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". It was also a short-list nominee for the 2006

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for best short story but lost to

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