In the past fifteen years, concentrated efforts with a strong Krakovian flavor have focused on developing thick-target \gamma \gamma coincidence methods for exploring the spectroscopy of neutron-rich heavy ion reaction products that cannot be reached by fusion--evaporation reactions. For a typical system, scores of product nuclei are formed with millibarn cross sections or less, the data analysis tends to be complicated, and isotopic assignments can sometimes be problematic. However, by taking advantage of the analyzing power of modern multidetector arrays, it has been possible to extract important new information about a wide range of poorly studied nuclei on the neutron-rich side of maximum stability. An eclectic sampling of results is presented.

PACS numbers: 25.70.-z, 25.70.Lm, 23.20.-g, 23.20.Lv