Science fiction and fantasy, mythology and encounters with the alien. From a Neolithic world of drowning islands to an Israeli desert town in the 1960s, from the realm of the gods beneath the Earth to a vineyard on Mars, these twenty-three stories and poems-some first seen in a variety of speculative magazines and anthologies, others appearing here for the first time-bring the numinous, the futuristic, and the strange face-to-face with the constant truths of the human heart.