| Preface | page [9] |
| [BOOK I:] WARP AND WOOF |
| I Groping | [15] |
| II Finding his Feet | [21] |
| III The New Philosophy | [31] |
| IV New Faces | [44] |
| V Emerging | [52] |
| VI Clarke | [62] |
| VII When One is in Rome | [69] |
| [BOOK II:] THE TANGLED SKEIN |
| I Quantum Mutatus | [79] |
| II Healthy Philistinism | [102] |
| III Tin Gods | [119] |
| IV Through a Glass Darkly | [130] |
| [BOOK III:] UNRAVELLING THE THREADS |
| I Common Room Faces | [134] |
| II Carnival | [169] |
| III Broadening Outlook | [179] |
| IV Thirds | [185] |
| V Dual Personality | [196] |
| VI The Games Committee | [200] |
| VII Rebellion | [208] |
| VIII The Dawning of many Dreams | [213] |
| [BOOK IV]: THE WEAVING |
| I The Twilight of the Gods | [226] |
| II Setting Stars | [239] |
| III Romance | [242] |
| IV The Dawn of Nothing | [249] |
| V The Things that Seem | [259] |
| VI The Tapestry Completed | [277] |