The Winds of Change and Other Stories
Auteur: Isaac Asimov
Nombre de pages: 269 pages
ISBN: 0385180993, 9780385180993
Edition: Doubleday
Date de publication: Doubleday
Description: "In this new anthology, Isaac Asimov takes bits of earthly phenomena, trains his Promethean imaginative powers upon them, adds a generous helping of wit and a dash of satire, and comes up with a shimmering collection of s.f. stories. Among them: 'About Nothing' is a one-page tour de force. In A.D. 2125 the forecast of a black hole hurtling toward earth creates much ado among our future selves. 'Belief' - A sudden, unwelcome talent for levitation has the opposite effect on its victim/beneficiary - until he stands his 'air' and forces skeptics to rise to the challenge. 'Death of a Foy' - From burlesque hoofers to silver screen caricatures, the Foy's long-running act has been extended here with a few modifications that a certain back-door Johnny (Asimov) couldn't resist. 'Good Taste'--On a planet saturated with gustatorial arbiters a renegade's ambrosial recipes whip the populace into an angry froth when they learn his special ingredient was the same used by wary Transylvanians. This is the first Asimov s.f. anthology since The Bicentennial Man and Other Stories. From the Bible and Shakespeare to astronomy and math, the subjects of Isaac Asimov's 262 books are as varied and magnificently curious as the man who wrote them and the city he lives in, New York, New York"--Dust jacket.