Most of the straight narrative stories in this volume are in fact connected with my novels, in that they fit more or less well into the rather erratic “future history” scheme which all my science fiction books follow. Those that don’t fit in are the early fantasies, and then later the ones I call psychomyths, more or less sur-realistic tales, which share with fantasy the quality of taking place outside any history, outside of time, in that region of the living mind which—without invoking any consideration of immortality—seems to be without spatial or temporal limits at all.
