Ursula K. Le Guin on a werewolf's wife's di- lemma. R. A. Lafferty on being changed into a spider. Kit Reed on a cockroach-turned-human. Thomas M. Disch on being "born again." Algis Budrys on genetic engineering. Changes. The very stuff of science fiction-of, indeed, all fic- tion. Here collected in an astonishing selection of tales from a wide variety of talents.