Collected into one volume all Cherryh's short stories, novellas, and novelettes. Highly intelligent and inexhaustibly imaginative, this versatile collection should be cherished for decades to come.

This collection is divided into three sections.

Sunfall
Stories from the Sunfall collection plus a new story

First published in Sunfall, 1981:
Prologue

The Only Death in the City (Paris) , short story

The Haunted Tower (London) , novelette

Ice (Moscow) , novelette

Nightgame (Rome) , short story

Highliner (New York) , novelette

The General (Peking), novelette

and MasKs (Venice), novelette
This new Sunfall tale, takes place in a quixotic Venice of the far future - a "city at war between sea and land, a city that has found a unique way to be modern, and still to remain so perfectly ancient." Forced into a marriage by her materialistic grandmother, young Giacinta vows to follow her heart, even if it means dishonor and almost certain death.

Visible Light

Frontpiece (Visible Light, 1986)

Cassandra
Short story (The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, October 1978). Hugo Award –winner.

Threads of Time, short story (Darkover Grand Council Program Book IV, 1981)

Companions
Novella (John W. Campbell Memorial Awards Vol V, 1984)
Paul Warren is the last explorer left alive on an idyllic planet after a mysterious plague kills the rest of his team. Left alone with just the ship's artificial intelligence, he searches the lush planet for another sentient form of life - and finds it in the unlikeliest of places.

A Thief in Korianth, novelette
(Flashing Swords! No 5: Demons and Daggers, 1981)

The Last Tower, short story (Sorcerer’s Apprentice, Winter 1982)

The Brothers, novella (Visible Light, 1986)

Endpiece, (Visible Light, 1986)

Other Stories
Stories from other collections and magazines (first published)

The Dark King
Short story (The Year’s Best Fantasy Stories 3, 1982)
Death gets outsmarted by King Sisyphos in Corinth when the dark twin of Sleep comes for the king's soul.

Homecoming, short story (Shayol, Summer 1979)

The Dreamstone, short story (Amazons!, 1979)

Sea Change, short story (Elsewhere, 1981)

Willow, novelette (Hecate’s Cauldron, 1982)

Of Law and Magic, novelette (Moonsinger’s Friends, 1985)

The Unshadowed Land, short story (Sword and Sorceress II,  1985)

Pots, novelette (Afterwar, 1985)

The Scapegoat, novella (Alien Stars, 1985)

A Gift of Prophecy, short story (Glass and Amber, 1987)

Wings, short story
(Carmen Miranda’s Ghost Is Haunting Space Station Three, 1989)

A Much Briefer History of Time, short story
(Drabble II: Double Century, 1990)

Gwydion and the Dragon, novelette (Once Upon a Time, 1991)

Mech, short story (FutureCrime, 1992)

The Sandman, the Tinman, and the BettyB, novelette
(DAW 30th Anniversary: Science Fiction, 2002)