“Killdozer!” was first published in the November 1944 issue of Astounding.  There are two versions of this novella. It was revised when it was reprinted in Sturgeon’s collection Aliens 4.  The revised version is currently available in Killdozer!: The Complete Stories of Theodore Sturgeon Volume 3 and in Selected Stories. I’m not sure if the original is currently available. I don’t know what the differences are, and I’m not going to compare the two versions.

I originally read “Killdozer!” in Isaac Asimov Presents the Great SF Stories 6.  I think it’s the original version. Asimov and Greenberg tended to reprint the original versions of any stories that had undergone later revision.  That was what I reread it in for this post. Continue reading →