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Waldrop, Howard [BL] [BR]

"Dr. Hudson's Secret Gorilla" {/77/}

[in Shayol #1, Nov. 1977]
[in Howard Who?; Doubleday; 1986] [BBT]
[in Strange Things in Close-up, The Nearly Complete Howard Waldrop; Legend (UK); 1989; 0099644401] [BB] [BBT]

• [Cause: AM Result: BT/AN.] Mad Scientist transplants human brain into gorilla. Homage to 50s B-movies, complete with Evil Assistant and Beautiful Daughter. -77

Watson, Ian [Bo] [AL]

"The Day of the Wolf" {/Ph/}

[in Changes, by Bishop and Watson]

• Innocent old granny gets eaten by marauding wolf...not. -Ph

Weinbaum, Stanley G. [??]

"The Adaptive Ultimate" {104//} [??]

[In The Best Of Stanley G. Weinbaum; Ballantine; 1975; SBN 345-23890-7-165; $1.85]

• Rating: 5 Cause: CM/GM Result: BM Significance: + Description: + Saturation: +. A dying tuberculosis patient is injected with hormones (had Weinbaum written this after DNA was understood, he would have meant gene therapy; the science is dated but who cares?) that makes her body able to adapt to beat TB--and in fact lets her body adapt to survive anything. And make herself able to adapt the world around her to make her most secure--which means, to make her ruler of the world. She goes about doing so quite promptly.  -104 (98/02/06)

"Proteus Island" {/104/} [??]

[In The Best Of Stanley G. Weinbaum; Ballantine; 1975; SBN 345-23890-7-165; $1.85] 

• Rating: 5 Cause: GM Result: RM Significance: 0 Description: + Saturation: 0. On an isolated island off of New Zealand, something has caused an evolutionary avalanche; new species in such abundance that there seem to be no two specimens of any plant or animal. Somehow, what appears to be a 20 year-old woman is there as well, without any indication of how she got there. All transformations are well before the story began, but it's quite a suspenseful read anyway. -104 (98/02/06)

Weinberg, Robert [Bo]

"Wolf Watch" {/11,28/}

[In The Ultimate Werewolf by Preiss]

• Rating: 4 Result: LY Significance: + Description: 0 Saturation: -. -11
• A night watchman who really enjoys graveyard shifts and entertaining robbers for the evening. -28
• This story really does have an unusual angle. Most werewolf stories either have the werewolf using his curse in bizarre situations, or trying to avoid the curse; very few explore the "practical, commercial" applications. -Ph

Weis, Margaret; Hickman, Tracy [Bo] [AL:Weis] [AL:Hickman]

"Wanna Bet" {/69/}

[in Dragonlance Tales 2: Kender, Gully Dwarves, and Gnomes; eds. Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman; TSR; 1987; 0880383828; $3.95] [BB] [BBT]

• [Cause: MC Result: SC.] Shapeshifting wizard; incidental to plot but funny. This is my favorite W&H story, much better than most of their other stuff. -69

Wellen, Edward

"Waswolf" {//Ph}

[in Fantasy & Science Fiction, 09/87]

• [Result: LY.] A werewolf escapes prosecution for a rape-murder by hiding out in his wolf form for years. But there's one consequence of this he hasn't thought through. Transformation is a relatively minor element. -Ph

Whittington, Mary

"Wolfskin" {/Ph/}

[in Werewolves, by Yolen and Greenberg]

Wilber, Rick

"With Twoclick Watching" {/79/}

[in Asimov's Science Fiction, January 1993]

• [Cause: NA? Result: SC.] An alien, Twoclick, is able to transform its body, also into human form. -79

Williamson, Chet

"Blood Night" {//11}

[in Hot Blood, by Gelb]

• A man's horrific nightmares come true, including some transformations. Horror; Rating: 1 Significance: - Description: - Saturation: -. -11

"Change of Life" {11/3/}

[in Hotter Blood, by Gelb]

• ...A salesman who is so adaptable that it becomes a liability... -3
• Horror; Dream ability; Rating: 3 Significance: + Description: - Saturation: 0. -11

Wilson, F. Paul

"Menage a Trois" {//11}

[in Hot Blood, by Gelb]

• An elderly, crippled woman transfers her conscience to a young woman who works for her. Horror; Rating: 2 Result: MT Significance: 0 Description: - Saturation: -. -11

Wodhams, Jack [??]

"There Is a Crooked Man" {/75/}

[in Analog 7; ?]
[in Pacific Book of Australian SF; ed. John Baxter; Angus & Robertson; 1968; AUS 68-193; ?] [BBT]

• [Cause: AS? Result: BT/GC/AN.] Deals, among other things, with brain transplants; a husband and wife swap bodies, and later the husband (in the wife's body) refused to swap back; and a jockey agrees to be put in the body of a racehorse, and is angry when they put him in a mare. Several others I've forgotten. -75

"Zwoppover" {94//} [??]

[in Visions of Tomorrow magazine, issue 7]

• Rating: 1 Cause: AA Result: MU/GC Significance: + Description: 0 Saturation: +. Body-hopping alien arrives on Earth, serially displacing people it finds objectionable. The detective sent to catch it gets swapped himself. Very light stuff. -94

Wolfe, Gene [Bo] [AL] [BL] [BR]

"The Dark of the June" {/Ph/}

[in Changes, by Bishop and Watson]

• [Cause: DT?/RE? Result: BM?.] Transformations into ghosts, or into another dimension, or into something... it's hard to tell exactly. -Ph

Wolphin [HP]

"A Day In My New Life" {/Ph/}

[http://www.lycanon.org/transcontest/1/ADayInMyNewLife.html]

• Result: BX/AN. Complete transformation into dolphin. -Ph (98/04/06)

Wrede, Patricia [??]

"The Sixty-two Curses of Caliph Arenschadd" {/147/} [??]

[in The Book of Enchantments by Wrede; Point; 0590972189; $4.50] [BB] [BBT]

• [Result: LY.] One of the 62 curses is lycanthropy. Funny, not bad descriptions.  -147 (98/02/10)

Wu, Frank

"Turn and Face the Strange" {Ph//}

[http://www.morpo.com/v4i1/strange.html]

• Cause: AS Result: BM/AN/FU Significance: + Description: 0 Saturation: 0. A musician has himself gradually turned into a cricket-morph, trying to get closer to his music. Very powerfully told. Recommended. -Ph (98/04/11)

Wyndham, John [AL] [BR] [DZ]

"Consider Her Ways" {/75/}

[?]

• [Result: MT.] A woman travels to the future and winds up inside the body of another woman, a Mother, who bears children. It seems there was some sort of virus that killed all the men. It doesn't focus mainly on the mind-transfer, though. -75

"More Spinned Against..." {94//} [??]

[Various collections]

• [Result: MT/AN.] Rating: 2 Cause: MA Significance: + Description: 0 Saturation: 0. Woman swaps bodies with spider (Arachne) for one night to steal jewels. One gag story. (See Spoiler Section for more info) -94

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