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If you're looking for "Giant Killer", it's here: https://archive.org/stream/AsimovEdTheGreatSFStories021940/Asimov_ed%20-%20The%20Great%20SF%20Stories%2007%20-%

• ghaff 8y ago
  Somewhat related. I find it frustrating that in this day and age, if I come across a list of "best short stories" or something along those lines, I can't just buy them online for $1 each or something like that. I pretty much have no choice but to buy a whole book--which possibly isn't available digitally--for a single story. Or I have to go searching around often dodgy sites to download a PDF.
  • gwern 8y ago
    There's often archive.org. The IA has so many books available to read, even ones that they shouldn't, that I make a point of checking them when I'm looking for something (and that's one of my better search tips: https://www.gwern.net/Search https://www.gwern.net/Search ). In this case, it appears to be part of a whole anthology of Isaac Asimov-branded stories which goes decade by decade - the first anthology collects stories from the 1800s like Hoffer's "The Sandman"! (Which puzzled me for a while, as I couldn't find "Giant Killer" anywhere in the volume and it seemed wildly out of place among Poe and Hoffer, until I realized the IA had the entire set of anthologies and Google was pointing me at some combined OCR or something.) If you'd like to read a lot of classic SF stories, this is probably a good starting point: Isaac Asimov had decent taste as an editor and it pulls together hundreds of shorts in a single convenient place.