The Pottawatomie Giant
by Andy Duncan
In the early 1900s, boxer Jess Willard wins the world championship but then snubs
Houdini; after he dies, he gets a second chance.
He opened them to find himself in a far more uncomfortable chair, in a balcony at the Los
Angeles Orpheum, in the middle of Harry Houdini’s opening-night performance, November
30, 1915.
“The Pottawatomie Giant” by Andy Duncan, in Sci
Fiction, 1 November 2000.