The creator of Gor delivers a wide-ranging story collection, all previously unpublished, with a handful of directly Gor-related pieces and several more stories that involve Gor-like female slavery and submission.Many of the stories are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 mainstream 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 CalpaUnscheduled StopThe Hairbrush (An essay in paleocosmetology)BamoheeThe Bed of CagliostroTechnologyThe WereturtleThe Computer that Went to HeavenDeityHarrelsonHermanAlfredNotes Pertaining to a Panel in SalonTransfigurationOf Dreams and ButterfliesThe Face in the MirrorIl JettatoreHow Close the Habitat of DragonsA Collar is Secondarily AppliedA Gorean EncounterTwo ConversationsIn Defense of the Russett HypothesisWhen Armadillos FlyComments on the Halliburton CaseBuridan s AssCopyrightA Gorean InterludeConfessions of a Polar Bear ImpostorLetters from GorThe Old Man and the Sprinkling Can"