Fourteen stories deal with death camps, clones, time travel, amnesia, alien invaders, a writer's olympics, immortality, talking animals, and an all-male society.
Pamela Sargent is one of the most respected contemporary SF writers. Ursula LeGuin has praised her writing as "extremely realistic, humane and well-proportioned". These 14 short stories, written over a span of 13 years, explore new ground in the relation between the sexes.