This volume brings together ten previously uncollected stories and a major unpublished essay, which span nearly thirty years of the career of the noted science fiction writer.

Contents:
- Introduction: How to Build a Universe That Doesn't Fall Apart Two Days Later by
Philip K. Dick
- The Short Happy Life of the Brown Oxford (1954)
- Explorers We (1959)
- Holy Quarrel (1966)
- What'll We Do with Ragland Park? (1963)
- Strange Memories of Death (1984)
- The Alien Mind (1981)
- The Exit Door Leads In (1979)
- Chains of Air, Web of Aether (1980)
- Rautavaara's Case (1980)
- I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon (1980, variant of Frozen Journey)