Short stories by award-winning science fiction writer, James Triptree, Jr. Stories include adventures in outer space and the world of the future. All but one of the stories, "Excursion Fare", have previously appeared in earlier short story collections by James Tiptree, Jr. Table of contents:

• Introduction by Michael Bishop
• With Delicate Mad Hands
• Beam Us Home
• Love is the Plan, the Plan is Death
• The Man Who Walked Home
• Your Faces, O my Sisters! Your Faces Filled of Light!
• The Peacefulness of Vivyan
• Excursion Fare
• I'll Be Waiting For You When the Swimming Pool is Empty.