title: Robots and Changelings
text: # Robots and Changelings
  
  Robots and Changelings is the second collection of fantasy and science fiction stories by Lester del Rey, published by Ballantine Books in 1957.
  
  ## Contents
  
  * "The Pipes of Pan" (Unknown 1940)
  * "Little Jimmy" F&SF 1957)
  * "The Coppersmith" (Unknown 1939)
  * "No Strings Attached" (If 1954)
  * "The Still Waters" (Fantastic Universe 1955)
  * "Kindness" (Astounding 1944)
  * "Stability" (Vortex 1953)
  * "Keepers of the House" (Fantastic Universe 1956)
  * "Uneasy Lies the Head" (Ten Story Fantasy 1951)
  * "The Monster" (Argosy 1951)
  * "Into Thy Hands" (Astounding 1945)
  
  "The Coppersmith" was originally published as "Ellowan Coppersmith". "The Still Waters was originally published as "In the Still Waters."
  
  ## Reception
  
  Floyd C. Gale wrote that all of the stories "have the stamp of [del Rey's] compassion [for the unhuman]". Damon Knight found the stories "memorable for their quiet compassion." Newspaper reviewer Earl Heath described the book as "good and different stories [which] will amuse you, arouse you, and perhaps chill you a bit."
  
  