The collection of Brunner's best stories features time travelers, ghosts, brilliant madmen and interplanetary managers who can advertise and sell anything: from a wish-granting machine to a state-of-the-art themed fashion club. The reader will have unforgettable meetings with a French aristocrat who received the key to immortality, the last general of the Third Reich who fell into a time trap, a magician who provided invaluable service to the Roman proconsul, and other wonderful people and humanoids.