1. Roger At A Party	Roger confronts some Libertarian, Objectivist and other "save the world" movements.
2. Roger And The Queers	Roger ruffles some gay feathers.
3. Roger And The Girl	Roger meets a feminist, who isn't.
4. Roger At The Bookstore	Roger discusses literature and "honor."
5. The Free And The Poor	Roger explains that only wealth is freedom.
6. Roger—Illegal Alien	Roger explains why law is unequal.
7. The Fermi Paradox	Roger explains where he is from, sort of.
8. Roger's Work	Roger explains what he is doing here.
9. Roger Answers Some Questions	Some conclusions about the world.
10. What's Wrong With The World	Roger identifies the symptoms and hints at the reason for the world's corruption.
11. Dinner Guests At Roger's	Misfits Roger regards as, "more nearly fully human," because they are exceptional.
12. Dinner	Dinner, interactions, and an unexpected event.
13. Sally	What Sally reveals to Mark.
14. Insiders	Sally and Mark share what they know about Roger.
15. Pool Party	Mark and Sally talk to Jo and meet some new friends.
16. True Gossip	Mark and Sally's talk.
17. An Evening at Roger's	Problems of being an alien and a decision for Sally and Mark.
18. Frank	Dinner with Francesca Danco and her perspective on Mark and Sally's decision.
19. The Family d'Anconia	Frank's impromptu lecture on the history of environmentalism and the d'Anconias.
20. Moving	Mark and Sally take over Roger's estate.
21. An Announcement	How everyone learns of Roger's departure.
22. Together Again	Real friends enjoying each other, and some hints of dangers to come.
23. From Grief to Laughter	Margo's personal private account of Roger's departure.
24. Dempsey Versus the Feds	Dempsey demonstrates a non-earth human defense and hints of dangers to come.
25. New Friends and Religion	Frank visits with news and a request.
26. Peter, Jo, and Philosophy	Peter and Sally discuss philosophy, and Sally discovers another romance.
27. Two Against the World	At least they would be, that is Bill and Sarah Barret would be.
28. A Literary Convention, Of Sorts	Mark calls a meeting to discuss the objective value of literature.
28. Disappearing Act	Thoughts of escape from thugs and the world.
29. Writers--A Literary Convention Continued	The literary convention continues with a discussion of the works of the writers in the group.
30. Exactly Who Are They?	A brief overview of the cast of chracters that are the Roger Stories.
31. God	Roger talks to an evangelist.
32. They've Taken Andrew	How everything changes.
33. The Nature Of Beauty, the Purpose of Art--A Literary Convention Concluded	Perhaps nothing concluded, but the popular veiws turned upside down.
34. About Plans	Reality is what it is, one's plans must conform to that or fail.
35. The Ruth Scheme	Planning to rescue Ruth from NatAlSec.
36. Ruth's Rescue Plan	The grand rescue plan and the discovery of 'others.'
37. Ruth's Rescue Adventure	The best plan is to wing it. 38. Things Change	And all things come to an end.

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Mark Halpern is a freelance journalist, writer, and commentator. He has been falsely classified as a libertarian, sometimes an anarchist, even an iconoclast, but says he is none of those things, "I'm just a lover of the truth, so obviously, everything I write offends someone because no one really wants the truth."

Of the Roger stories he says:

"The stories and incidents are fictionalized but the ideas they convey are true. The similarity of some characters to real people is intentional. Nothing has been changed to protect them, because, none of them are innocent."

"The one character that has not been fictionalized is Roger Conant. He is a real person and everything I've written about him is true. But Roger was right when he said, 'Go ahead and write all you want about me, Mark. No one is going to believe you.'"

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