From the preface: Written twenty-five to forty years ago, these works evoke a time when economic decline for those who actually make and do things began as an ominous whisper and gradually increased to the now-familiar dull roar. They are the products of a society in chronic distress as experienced by one who couldn't buy his way out of participating in it. The collection might be summed up as Maupassant and Kafka go looking for the cask of Amontillado. The individual works: "The Position" the right man for the right job. Talking Heads: out of the frying pan .... In No Wise: Coming of Age...

After being frozen and revived, "sometimes licensed" P. I. Orlo Suggs finds himself selected for a mission into deep space to find out what happened to a mysteriously vanished individual. He is helped and sometimes hindered by a team of associates with checkered pasts. It is not long before the hunters become the hunted.

Episodes One through Six of Space Dick, Space Ranger, Space Outlaw, and Space Avenger all in one volume. After a near death experience "sometimes licensed" P. I. Orlo Suggs finds himself in a new century with a new job. Follow the mistake-prone Orlo and his not always reliable team on their adventures throughout the cosmos. Futurism jostles with tongue-in-cheek in this serial.