Nineteen short stories by Talmadge Walker, some sci-fi, some historical, some humorous, some sad. In "Independent Study" an English Lit student travels in time to meet Geoffrey Chaucer. A dinner menu creates havoc for interstellar diplomats in "Dinnertime." Two people manage to beat the system in a futuristic corporate police state in "On Ice." And in "In the Air" a hermit tries to cope when the earth is invaded by bumbling bureaucrats from out space...