7 Stories and a Play

Seven Stories and a Play are light reading, meant to entertain:
the Viscount Cavalier in Englands Civil War;
the physicist who invented a time machine that delivered
its passengers direct to eternity; a conservation effort that
never got off the ground; the disillusionments of marriage,
old and young; a murder unravelled; beating the genie, and
a money-hungry Roman domina who has to be got out of town.