The master of 'inversion and sci-fi trickster' demonstrates his unique and unpredictable imagination that won him the 1990 World Fantasy Award for Lifetime Achievement. Lafferty's 'Orbit' anthology series which began in 1966 and edited by Damon Knight became a landmark in the history of science fiction. This volume contains suck classics as: Old Foot Forgot; All Pieces of a River Shore ; Skinny People of Leptophlebo Street; The Hole on the Corner; Entire and Perfect Chrysolite; One at a Time; Royal Licorice; Fall of Pebble Stones; Dorg; Interurban Queen are some of the 19 stories included.