Changes

by William Barton

Originally published in Aboriginal Science Fiction, Summer 1996.Reprinted in The Year's Best Science Fiction, 14th Annual Series,The Best New Science Fiction, 10th Annual Collection,Shadows in the Sky, September 2011.Preliminary Nominee, Novelette, 1998 Nebula Awards.A short story by science-fiction writer William Barton. Changes follows the Severn family as they move from the past into a species of present, departing the early 1990s at an odd tangent whose history is not quite our own, winding up in the future of an old, old man who will never quite die.

29 pages, Kindle Edition

First published March 24, 2012

About the author

William Renald Barton III (born September 28, 1950) is an American science fiction writer. In addition to his standalone novels, he is also known for collaborations with Michael Capobianco. Many of their novels deal with themes such as the Cold War, space travel, and space opera.

Barton also has written short stories that put an emphasis on sexuality and human morality in otherwise traditional science fiction. His short fiction has appeared in Asimov's and Sci Fiction, and has been nominated for the Hugo Award, the Theodore Sturgeon Award, the Sidewise Award, and the HOMer Award, and three of his novels (The Transmigration of Souls, Acts of Conscience, and When We Were Real) have been nominated for the Philip K. Dick Award.

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