 The pieces were originally published between 1951 and 1953 in the magazines and anthologies "Two Complete Science Adventure Books", "Fantasy Fiction", "Imagination Stories of Science and Fantasy", and "Fantastic Adventures".The title story, the novel "The Tritonian Ring" has also been published separately.The book is a collection of de Camp's early Pusadian tales, all of which are set in an antediluvian world patterned after Robert E. Howard's Hyborian Age.