Contents -- Introduction and Apologia -- A Length of Hemp Rope -- Lost Worlds, New Deals -- The Hive -- Sprung Vision -- Or, Who Is Duane, and Why Do I Have His Syndrome? -- Brain Wave and the End of Science Fiction -- Impermanent Earth -- Available Surfaces -- Dead Writer, "Extinct" Form, The Power of the Small -- The Genographica -- Hotel California -- Going Gentle -- Applied Platonism -- Or, What Work Isn't -- Hard Freight, "The New Poem," and My Ignorance -- Emissary: Five Eternities in September.