The Winds of Change and Other Stories

The Winds of Change and Other Stories is a collection of short stories by American writer Isaac Asimov, published in 1983 by Doubleday.

First edition, cover art by Kiyoshi Kanai

Contents
  • "About Nothing" (1977)
  • "A Perfect Fit" (1981)
  • "Belief" (1953)
  • "Death of a Foy" (1980)
  • "Fair Exchange?" (1979)
  • "For the Birds" (1980)
  • "Found!" (1978)
  • "Good Taste" (1976)
  • "How It Happened" (1979)
  • "Ideas Die Hard" (1957)
  • "Ignition Point!" (1981)
  • "It Is Coming" (1979)
  • "The Last Answer" (1980)
  • "The Last Shuttle" (1981)
  • "Lest We Remember" (1982)
  • "Nothing for Nothing" (1979)
  • "One Night of Song" (1982)
  • "The Smile That Loses" (1982)
  • "Sure Thing" (1977)
  • "To Tell at a Glance" (1983 - first publication in this form)
  • "The Winds of Change" (1982)

"To Tell at a Glance" was previously published in an edited version in 1977.

Reception

Dave Langford reviewed The Winds of Change for White Dwarf #58, and stated that "Thankfully there are a few good pieces; but it's tragic that the title story, whose subject Asimov considers vitally important (he's right), should be ruined by incredibly ham-handed telling."[1]

gollark: No, it does solve it, because the *first* parsed string will be empty but the second won't, and as I said this is horrifying, but anyway.
gollark: Oh, except I was backwards, and it will work, just crazily and horrifically.
gollark: Yes, a horrible bodge which doesn't fix the first problem.
gollark: Except you filter the empty ones out, bodging it without solving anything.
gollark: I'm pretty sure that whichever strings will go in will just be blank, and also after every string will be another blank one.

References
  1. Langford, Dave (October 1984). "Critical Mass". White Dwarf. Games Workshop (Issue 58): 14.

Sources
  • Isaac Asimov, The Winds of Change, Granada 1983/ Panther, 1984/Doubleday 1984, ISBN 0-586-05743-9


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