Contents

Introduction, by Kate Wilhelm

Dead Men on TV

Women in the Trees

Don’t Look Back

Orange Blossom Time

In the Islands

Touch of the Bear

On a Hot Summer Night in a Place Far Away

Sweetly the Waves Call to Me

His Vegetable Wife

Good-Bye, Cynthia

Prescience

Clay Devils

A Falling Star Is a Rock from Outer Space

With Four Lean Hounds

On the Dark Side of the Station Where the Train Never Stops

In the Abode of the Snows

Rachel in Love

Recycling Strategies for the Inner City

Bones

Afterword—Why I Write

Acknowledgements

About the Author