The creator of Gor delivers a wide-ranging story collection, all previously unpublished, with a handful of directly Gor-related pieces and several more stories that involve Gor-like female slavery and submission.Many of the stories are philosophical monologues which play with existential and phenomenal ideas by discussing their philosophical underpinnings and their relation to the real world as observed with a philosophical mind-set. They are often without dialogue or even characters, merely thoughts, descriptions and speculations. Some could almost be lectures given narrative form.Some stories are SF, some are horror, some have imainstreami settings. Among the characters in the various stories are a couple of talking frogs, a couple of independently-thinking computers, a fair number of philosophers and a number of clinical psychologists or psychiatrists, often analyzing or counseling computers or intelligent alien lifeforms. Table of Contents: The Calpa Unscheduled Stop The Hairbrush (An essay in paleocosmetology) Bamohee The Bed of Cagliostro Technology The Wereturtle The Computer that Went to Heaven Deity Harrelson Herman Alfred Notes Pertaining to a Panel in Salon Transfiguration Of Dreams and Butterflies The Face in the Mirror Il Jettatore How Close the Habitat of Dragons A Collar is Secondarily Applied A Gorean Encounter Two Conversations In Defense of the Russett Hypothesis When Armadillos Fly Comments on the Halliburton Case Buridanis Ass Copyright A Gorean Interlude Confessions of a Polar Bear Impostor Letters from Gor The Old Man and the Sprinkling Can