The Winds of Change and other stories
by Isaac Asimov
Reviewed date: 2004 Nov 9
277 pages
Reviewed date: 2004 Nov 9
277 pages
A collection of 21 Asimov short stories, each with an introduction by the author. The Winds of Change is classic Asimov and comes highly recommended by your humble reviewer.
- About Nothing: Humorous short-short about a black hole.
- A Perfect Fit: Ian Bradstone is incapable of using a computer.
- Belief: A physicist discovers that he can fly. But how to convince his fellow scientists that he is telling the truth?
- Death of a Foy: Humorous short-short, but I don't get the punch line. Guess I'm stupid.
- Fair Exchange?: A man takes a trip back in time to retrieve the lost score to a Gilbert and Sullivan work.
- For the Birds: Flying in zero gravity.
- Found!: Orbital computer inexplicably stops working.
- Good Taste: People in future space habitats eat only Prime grown in vats.
- How It Happened: Humorous short-short about the origin of the universe.
- Ideas Die Hard: Space ships sent to the moon cease to function at about 200,000 miles out.
- Ignition Point: Scientific principles of speech-writing promise to turn an amiable but shallow man into a master politician.
- It Is Coming: Something is coming to Earth, and it's up to Multivac to figure out what it is.
- The Last Answer: The afterlife isn't all it's cracked up to be.
- The Last Shuttle: The last shuttle flight.
- Lest We Remember: Give a man total and instant recall of every bit of information he has ever experienced and see what becomes of him.
- Nothing for Nothing: Traders visit Earth in ancient times. What will they take away and what will they give in return?
- One Night of Song: A man gives his ex-girlfriend the gift of a perfect singing voice for one night.
- The Smile That Loses: Azazel the implet captures the essence of a man in a perfect photograph.
- Sure Thing: Short-short with a pun punch line.
- To Tell At A Glance: Elaine Metro must identify the sabateur in the group of VIP tourists, but if she guesses wrong all will be lost.
- The Winds of Change: A man manipulates time to win the fame and recognition he so desperately desires.