Twenty-four stories are included in this ambitious collection of Silverberg's work, each with an introduction by the author recollecting the time and place in which they were conceived. Winner of five Nebula Awards and four Hugos, Silverberg is one of the undisputed masters of science fiction. Contents:

1. A Sleep and a Forgetting
2. Against Babylon
3. Amanda and the Alien
4. Basileus
5. Chip Runner
6. Dancers in the Time-Flux
7. Enter a Soldier. Later: Enter Another [Time Gate]
8. Gate of Horn, Gate of Ivory
9. Hannibal's Elephants
10. Hardware
11. Homefaring
12. House of Bones
13. Multiples
14. Sailing to Byzantium
15. Snake and Ocean, Ocean and Snake (variant of The Affair)
16. Sunrise on Pluto
17. Symbiont
18. The Asenion Solution
19. The Dead Man's Eyes
20. The Iron Star
21. The Pardoner's Tale
22. The Secret Sharer
23. To the Promised Land [Roma Eterna]
24. Tourist Trade