The Winds of Change and Other Stories

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First edition, cover art by Kiyoshi Kanai

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

Contents

• "About Nothing" (1975)
• "A Perfect Fit" (1981)
• "Belief" (1953), novelette
• "Death of a Foy" (1980)
• "Fair Exchange?" (1978)
• "For the Birds" (1980)
• "Found!" (1978)
• "Good Taste" (1976), novelette
• "How It Happened" (1979)
• "Ideas Die Hard" (1957), novelette
• "Ignition Point!" (1981)
• "It Is Coming" (1979), Multivac series
• "The Last Answer" (1980)
• "The Last Shuttle" (1981)
• "Lest We Remember" (1982), novelette
• "Nothing for Nothing" (1979)
• "One Night of Song" (1982), Azazel series
• "The Smile That Loses" (1982), Azazel series
• "Sure Thing" (1977)
• "To Tell at a Glance" (1983; previously published in an edited version in 1977), novelette
• "The Winds of Change" (1982)

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."

Reviews

• Review by Dan Chow (1983) in Locus, #266 March 1983
• Review by Alma Jo Williams (1984) in Science Fiction Review, Fall 1984
• Review by Judith Hanna (1985) in Paperback Inferno, #52
• Review [French] by Frédéric Kurzawa? (1985) in Fiction, #361
• Review [French] by Éric Vial? (2005) in Galaxies, #36

Sources

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

External links

• The Winds of Change at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database