Includes: House Rule (an original short story); Ballade of An Artificial Satellite (a ballad) ; The First Love (a poem); Upon the Occasion of Being Asked To Argue That Love and Marriage Are Incompatible (a poem); Limericks (limericks); Two Songs ( songs); Science Fiction and Freedom (an essay); Notes Toward A Definition of Science Fiction (an article); The Archetypical Holmes (an article); A Blessedness of Saints (an article); A Philosophical Dialogue (a story); Lost Secrets Revealed (a story); Uncleavish Truethinking (an article); Herrings (bon mor).