This volume includes 12 stories, written between autumn 1952 and autumn 1953, from 20th-century science fiction and fantasy writer Theodore Sturgeon, including A Saucer of Loneliness, The Silken-Swift and The World Well Lost. A Saucer of Loneliness The Touch of Your Hand The World Well Lost And My Fear Is Great The Wages of Synergy The Dark Room Talent A Way of Thinking The Silken-Swift The Clinic Mr. Costello, Hero The Education of Drusilla Strange