(Preface by Ursula K. Le Guin)
The Author of the Acacia Seeds
The New Atlantis
Schrodinger's Cat
Two Delays on the Northern Line
SQ
Small Change
The First Report of the Shipwrecked Foreigner to the Kadanh of Derb
The Diary of the Rose
The White Donkey
The Phoenix
Intracom
The Eye Altering
Mazes
The Pathways of Desire
Gwilan's Harp
Malheur Country
The Water is Wide
The Wife's Story
Some Approaches to the Problem of the Shortage of Time
Sur

Original appearances from 1974 to 1982 - sources include Antaeus, New Yorker, Redbook, Kenyon Review, TriQuarterly, Omni, Fellowship of the Stars, The New Atlantis, Universe 5, Cassandra Rising, Future Power, Stopwatch, The Altered I, Epoch, New Dimensions 9, and others. "The Wife's Story" is original to this collection.