Leviathan!

Publication date: 
1970-08
Publication type: 
Short Story
Published: 
Playboy, August 1970
Opus No.: 
47
Setting: 
Sveltz
I.U.C.: 
s. 2
Characters: 
Hanville Svetz; Ra Chen
Summary: 

One of two stories that Niven has had published inĀ Playboy. Svetz is sent again into the past to find a sperm whale, but he encounters more than he bargained for when a giant sea serpent starts eating his time machine!

Notes: 

Svetz meets Moby Dick

Reprints: 

Reprints Characters Notes anthology: Last Train to Limbo, Playboy Press; SeaSerpents!, ed. Jack M. Dann & Gardner R. Dozois, Ace 1989; The Playboy Book Of Science Fiction: Forty-five Years Of Uncensored Tomorrows, ed. Alice K. Turner, HarperPrism 1998; Flight of the Horse, The; Playgrounds of the Mind; Rainbow Mars