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In the story, the protagonist Trent is on a mission to find another isolated group of humans like himself. Before Trent makes contact with people like himself, he encounters several of these mutant types, many of whom have never seen a human of the original type before.

The author's original title for the story was ''The Itinerants''.

Elements of this story appear in the novel Deus Irae , written by Dick and Roger Zelazny .

The story was originally published in the October-November 1953 issue of '' Fantastic Universe ''. The story also appears in ''We Can Remember It for You Wholesale (The Collected Short Stories of Philip K. Dick, Vol. 2)'' (formerly entitled ''Second Variety'').