Procrustes (short story)

"Procrustes" is an English-language science fiction short story written in 1993 by Larry Niven. It is the sixth in the series of stories about crashlander Beowulf Shaeffer. The short story was originally published in Bridging the Galaxies (1993).

The story is retold, from the point of view of Sigmund Ausfaller, in Juggler of Worlds.