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Transformation Stories List
* A list of books, stories, and other works (mostly
SF/fantasy/horror) with physical transformation (lycanthropy,
nanotechnology, shapechanging spells, etc.) as a theme.
Searchable; includes brief descriptions and reviews. New entries
always welcome.
* Last Modified: March 2, 1998 (Please disregard any previous
versions)
* Copyright © 1993-1998 Phaedrus (transform@halcyon.com). All rights
reserved. The entries in this list are the property of their
respective authors; the list itself is mine. Contact me before
redistributing this list.
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Please read!
If you've sent me email, I apologize for not replying to it. I have
been working my way through the backlog of email, and I have
essentially caught up in terms of adding entries and corrections, but
I have not yet started sending out replies. I will do that shortly.
If you have a question about the list, the answer may well be on the
Q&A page.
What the List is About
This list includes books, short stories, and other creative works that
feature shapeshifting, lycanthropy, nanotech, and other forms of
transformation. (By "transformation", I mean an abrupt and/or
unnatural change; someone growing up isn't transforming, unless, say,
they turn into a werewolf in the process. :-) )
Each work has also been rated as to how much of a role transformation
plays in it; this should give you a good idea of what works are most
worth seeking out.
Over a hundred people have contributed information for this list;
there's been so many of them that I have to put their names on a
separate page to keep the load times reasonable. :-) My profuse thanks
to everyone who has contributed.
List Format
The list has two major sections; books and short stories. Within these
sections, the list is sorted alphabetically by author. There are other
minor sections for things like comics and TV programs; these sections
are generally sorted by title.
At first, the list may look a bit imposing, but it's easy to read once
you know how it's laid out. An entry on the list looks like this:
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Brandner, Gary
+ The Howling {11/Ph/} [BBT]
[Fawcett; 1977; 0449138240, $1.75] [BB]
[Fawcett; 1986; 0449131556; $?] [BB]
* Rating: 2 Result: LY Significance: + Description: + Saturation: -.
Horror; lycanthropy. Traditional werewolf story. Somewhat the
basis for the original movie of the same name; definitely the
basis for the fourth movie in the series. A reasonably good
transformation description saves it from the trash heap. -11
* As a story it's fair at best, but as a transformation tale it's
worth a look, though I wouldn't quite give it a +. -Ph
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The first line gives the author. The second line gives the title and a
list of the people who have commented on this book. To save room,
these people are listed by number; check the list of Contributors
later on to find out whose number is whose. The people listed before
the first slash (#11, Joe Huber, in this case) gave the book a "+"
rating, meaning that someone interested in transformations should
definitely seek out this book. The people listed between the slashes
(just Ph, myself, here) gave the book a "0" rating, meaning that the
book is about average as far as transformation goes. The people listed
after the slashes (nobody here) gave the book a "-" rating, meaning
that the book uses transformation only incidentally. (If the slashes
are missing entirely, it means that everyone gave the book a "0"
rating.) Please take note that these ratings deal only with the use of
transformations in the work, not with the overall quality of the work
itself.
The character at the far left margin (a "+" here) is a quick
reference; a "+" if there have been more "+" than "-" votes, a "0" if
the votes are even, a "-" if there are more "-" than "+" votes, or a
"?" if the book's entry has critical information missing or if there's
some question as to whether the book belongs on the list at all (many
of these are books that I've gotten from other lists or picked up off
the bookstore shelves, but haven't had a chance to read to confirm
their transformation content; if you are familiar with these works,
I'd greatly appreciate if you could send me the needed info).
The [BBT] to the right is a link to the Bookstore Browser, to let you
search various online bookstores for this book, by title and author.
Each of the next two lines has publication info for a particular
edition of the book; publication info; publisher, year, ISBN and
price. Most of this information comes from my own collection, so the
publication info given may well not be for the most recent edition. If
a "*" appears just after the publication info, it means that I don't
own the book, which means I won't be able to answer any questions on
it. If a "!" appears instead, it means that I don't own the book but
it's on my list of Neat Stuff to Buy. :-) The [BB] is another
Bookstore Browser link, this one doing a search by ISBN (for this
particular edition) rather than for title.
After that, any specific comments people have made about the book are
listed and identified by number.
Link Types
As you read through the list, you will sometimes come across funny
little two-letter codes in brackets. If you're reading the text-only
version, these will probably serve only to be generally irritating. If
you're reading the HTML version, on the other hand, these will point
you to all sorts of hopefully-interesting-and-relevant resources.
* [AL]: Author List. The ftp archive at sflovers.rutgers.edu has a
collection of lists of works by particular authors (in the
/pub/sf-lovers/bibliographies/authorlists directory); this link
will take you to the list of works by the author you're reading
about.
* [BB]: Bookstore Browser link by ISBN. This link will take you to
a separate browser screen, which will let you browse various
online bookstores' information on information on the book (such as
its availability, and reviews written by other customers). If
you're interested, it will also allow you to order the book. This
link does a search for the book by its ISBN number; that's faster,
and more reliable (since it's not as vulnerable to typos in the
author or title), but it means that you'll only see that
particular edition of the book--you won't see other editions that
may have come out. Following one of these links does not obligate
you to buy anything! If one of these links doesn't seem to lead
anywhere, please see the Q&A page for more info.
* [BBT]: Bookstore Browser link by title. This works the same way
as the [BB] links, but does a search by title (and possibly by
author, depending on the store) instead of by ISBN. This will show
you every edition of the book that the store has, not just the
ones I know about. But it's slower, and a bit less
reliable. Following one of these links does not obligate you to
buy anything!
* [Bo]: Cross-reference to Book list. You'll find this if you're
reading the Stories section of the list, and the author in
question has also written transformation-related books; this link
will take you to the author's entry in the Books section of the
list.
* [BR]: Book review. This will take you to a review of the book
you're reading about.
* [DZ]: Dani Zweig's Belated Reviews. Dani Zweig has written a very
large, very well-written set of reviews about various SF authors
and books; this will take you to the review of the book or author
you're reading about.
* [FT]: Full Text. In a few rare cases, the full text of a book or
story may be available on line; for example, Project Gutenberg
electronically archives some books that are in the public domain.
In these cases, following this link will let you see and download
the book or story being talked about. In the case of net
stories--stories only published on the Internet--there will always
be one of these links, letting you download the story. (Because if
there isn't one, I won't list it... simple, huh? :-) )
* [FT$]: Full Text--Commercial. "Virtual publishing" companies are
starting to appear--companies that publish books and stories over
the Internet. With some of them, you have to pay in advance; with
others, you read it, and then pay if you like it. (Or they may
give you the start of the story, but sell you the ending...) This
link will direct you to stories published this way. (It will not
lead you to a location that commits you to spend money, nor will
it display anything you're supposed to pay for if you like. For
that reason, you may have to follow a few more links after this
one to get to the actual story.)
* [GS]: Good Stuff. Things that didn't fall neatly into any of the
other categories, but which seemed interesting enough to include
anyway.
* [HP]: Home Page. An author's home page, which may contain more
info about the author's works.
* [RR]: Raymond's Review. Eric S. Raymond wrote another very large,
very well-written set of reviews about various SF authors and
books. This will take you to his review of whatever the heck it is
you're reading about.
* [SS]: Cross-reference to Short Story list. The opposite of the
[Bo] link; if you're reading the Books section of the list, this
will take you to the author's entry in the Stories section.
* [??]: Watch this space. This one isn't really a link; it means
that this author and/or title has just been added to the list, and
I haven't had the time to check for links that should be added to
it. Before too long, this will go away, possibly to be replaced by
real links.
Compact Entry Format
Joe Huber (#11), one of my best contributors, has devised a nice,
compact format for adding lots of information to his comments. I've
altered his format a bit, to make all the codes the same length and to
make sure that all the codes were unique; I've also added a few
additional codes. If you're submitting an entry to the list, it's
great if you can provide this information in this format.
* Rating of the quality of the book:
+ 4-5: A multiple read book/series
+ 3: Worth a read
+ 2: Possible read, if it looks interesting
+ 1: I wouldn't recommend it to anyone.
+ NR: not read
* Cause of the transformation(s): (one or more of the following)
+ AM: Advanced medical technology
+ AS: Advanced science
+ AX: Transformation of humans by aliens
+ CM: Current medical technology
+ DT: Travel between dimensions
+ EC: Result of evolutionary change
+ EM: Evolutionary genetic manipulation
+ GM: Genetic manipulation
+ MA: Magic (cast upon those transformed)
+ MC: Magic (caster transformed)
+ NA: Natural ability
+ NT: Nanotechnology
+ RE: Reincarnation
+ SY: Symbiosis
+ VI: Virus
+ VR: Virtual Reality
+ OT: Other (described in the entry comments)
* Result: (What transformation occurred)
+ AN: Animal characteristics
+ AP: Astral projection
+ AR: Age regression
+ AT: Artificial telepathy
+ BC: Bodies combined into one
+ BM: Body metamorphosis
+ BT: Brain transplant
+ BX: Body completely transformed
+ EA: Evolutionary ability
+ GC: Gender changes
+ HG: Hermaphroditic gender changes
+ IN: Transformation from/to inanimate object
+ LY: Lycanthropy
+ MD: Decrease in mental power
+ MP: Increase in mental power
+ MR: Mental recordings
+ MT: Mind Transfer
+ MU: Mind transfer--participant(s) unwilling
+ MX: Minor body transformations
+ PE: Personality changes*
+ RM: Racial metamorphosis
+ RP: Reverse possession
+ SC: Shape changers
+ SP: Spiritual possession
+ ST: Soul transfer
+ TD: Telepathic disguise
+ TT: Mind transfer forward/back in time
+ VA: Vampiric ability
+ ZC: Size change
+ OT: Other (described in the entry comments)
* Significance rating: +/0/-/X scale, where:
+ +: Story/Book/Series is about the transformations, or
revolves around them.
+ 0: The transformations are critical to the story, but not the
focus.
+ -: Any transformations are incidental to the story.
+ X: Not rated
* Description: Amount and clarity of transformation description.
(+/0/-/X)
* Saturation: Number/pervasiveness of transformations. (+/0/-/X)
Contacting Me About the List
I welcome questions and comments about the list, though it often takes
me some time to reply to them. My Internet address is
transform@halcyon.com.
Note that, when you send me information about books and stories and so
on, I will assume that it's for inclusion in the list unless you tell
me otherwise in your message. So if you are sending anything that's
only intended as a comment for me, please be sure to say so.
Update Notifications
If you would like to be notified when the list is updated, please sign
up using the following form; it will register you with the extremely
cool URL-Minder service.
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Register for emailed update notices.
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Making Additions/Corrections to the List
I always welcome additions or corrections to the list. Please see the
Q&A section for more information on how to contribute.
Transformation Ring [LINK]
There's now a ring for sites dealing with transformation stories. (And
to think it wasn't too many years ago when the TSL was virtually a
lone voice in the wilderness. It's nice to see that I'm not the only
one who's into this stuff. :-) )
Anyway, the Ring is a great way to see what else is out there. So go
check it out!
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Contributors
I received suggestions and ideas from the following people, listed in
no particular order. Once again, my profuse thanks to each of them.
(And, if you're one of these people, and you would like your entry in
the HTML version to point to your home page or something, just let me
know.)
1. Jeff Jensen 2. Greg Alan Raburn 3. Gavin Steyn
4. Todd Haynes 5. Dave Schaumann 6. Paul S Shannon
7. Seth D. Kadesh 8. Janet M. Lafler 9. Michel Forget
10. Dan Bloch 11. Joe Huber 12. Andy Nelson
13. David Goldfarb 14. Marc Espie 15. Sonja Bock
16. Jim Kasprzak 17. (unknown) 18. Gavroche
19. Robert Fisch 20. Carlo Radovsky 21. Ellen West
22. John Whitmore 23. Michael J. Hennebry 24. Sam F Bullard
25. Alayne McGregor 26. Jim Winer 27. Robert White
28. Tom Talley 29. Marc Colten 30. Ron Hough
31. D. Jay Newman 32. Maurizio Codogno 33. Leslie DeGroff
34. The Humbug Wizard 35. Ryk E Spoor 36. Caroline Kierstead
37. Mark Gooley 38. David Fenger 39. Ben Cohen
40. Matthew P Wiener 41. Rolf Wilson 42. Dani Zwieg
43. Malcolm Mladenovic 44. Juri Munkki 45. Heikki Poso
46. Jason Comander 47. David Bennett 48. Stephen Carter Morgan
49. The Neuromancer 50. Michael Kerstetter 51. Derek Upham
52. Beth McCurdy 53. Cirocco Jones 54. Greg Schmidt
55. Ethan Miller 56. Teppo Jarvinen 57. Marcy Thompson
58. Bob Ewoldt 59. Jim Lawson 60. Aaron Humphrey
61. Greg Hughes 62. Amy Goldschlager 63. Steven Young
64. David Gibbs 65. Lanny Fields 66. Anthony J. Messina Coe
67. Kyle Wohlmut 68. Dave Hollinsworth 69. Sarah Smith
70. Garrett Wollman 71. Roger Squires 72. Tal Greywolf
73. Courtenay Footman 74. Peter Joachim 75. Jim Henry
76. Bill Hart 77. Malcolm Farmer 78. Brian Eirik Coe
79. Marko Korkiakoski 80. David Zink 81. Tom Zych
82. Dan Goodman 83. Dan Lorey 84. Lino Vari
85. Toni Sweeney 86. Nate Couch 87. List of unknown authorship, sent
in by Thomas Pluck
88. Tom Brady 89. Garrett Wollman 90. Martin Keates
91. Kerry Lee 92. Ian McDonald 93. Andy Wilson
94. Robert Sneddon 95. Katherine Milligan 96. Jan Six
97. Ian from alt.horror.werewolves 98. Avi Melman 99. Frang
100. Jason Trowbridge 101. Claude 102. Paul R. Lester
103. Bryan Derksen 104. Joseph Nebus 105. Michael Welsh Duggan
106. Roy Brander 107. Jeff Carver 108. Timothy Fay
109. Dread Pirate Baker 110. Joe Katz 111. Valerie Bryant
112. T. Chris Martindale 113. Richard Taliaferro 114. Joerg Reuter
115. Curtis Coman 116. Teresa Pearson 117. D. Watkins
118. Julius 119. Bryan Chen 120. Glenn
121. Linda Chance 122. Sidney C. Ontai 123. Robin Mercer
124. Walsh 125. Robert Parish 126. Amy Smith-Rivers
127. Christine Hawkins 128. Stickmaker 129. John Kim
130. Craig Hemenway 131. Doug Sojourner 132. Lawrence Schimel
133. Jesse von Kirchner 134. Ilse Rijk 135. "Dr. John" Filpus
136. Ian Davey 137. "Customer" 138. Ville Forss
139. Lawrence Person 140. "Shard" 141. Waldo Kaiser
142. (anonymous) 143. David Haseldine 144. Tiel Jackson
145. Duncan DeWar 146. "Janene" 147. "Goldberg4"
148. Jared Yelton 149. Jeffrey Meszaros 150. Jeremy Cook
151. Terry David Manuel 152. Jennifer (xStaTix) 153. Yuri Wuensch
154. William Osborn 155. "Amorphus" 156. John Byers
157. Joshua Roby 158. William Little 159. "Osty"
160. Brian Huisman 161. "MSmith" 162. "MVandi"
163. Mark D. McKean 164. Patricia Seibel 165. Pamela Briggs
166. Marcelo de Castro Bastos
Comments with "Ph" next to them are my own.
Marge@coyote.cs.wmich.edu was kind enough to send me her "TG SF List",
a list of SF/fantasy stories with transvestite/transsexual themes or
characters. Since then, she has apparently left the net, and her
version of the list has dropped out of sight; however, the list has
since evolved into a much broader list of stories involving gender
"confusion" (transvestites, cross-dressing, etc.), maintained by Bob
Ewoldt. A copy of this list is available at the Rutgers archive
(sflovers.rutgers.edu), as "gender-swapping.txt." Where you see "TG"
listed for a book in this list, it means that that book was listed on
Marge's original TG SF list (I have yet to read through the expanded
list and see what changes were made, mostly because the book portion
of that list is sorted by title, which makes cross-referencing it with
a by-author list like this quite a task); I've tried to place these
markers in the category (+, 0 or -) that seemed appropriate based on
the comments in that list, but I haven't included the comments
themselves, because I didn't want to step on anyone's toes (after all,
the people sending in those comments sent them to her list and not
mine). There are many more books in this list that aren't in mine at
all (and vice-versa, of course :-) ).
Also, there were a few suggestions from another thread on
alt.horror.werewolves; I saved them, but cleverly managed to fail to
save the headers. :-( So these entries are flagged with "AHW".
Where to from here?
From here you can go up to the list index, on to related resources, on
to books, on to short story entries, or on to spoilers.
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New Entries
Since the list has gotten Somewhat Large, it's easy for new entries
and changes to get lost in the shuffle. This section, suggested by
Brian Eirik Coe, will contain links to all the new entries and entries
with changed information, so you'll be able to quickly get the
updates.
(For those using the text version, which doesn't have the benefit of
the links, titles like this are books; titles in quotes are short
stories; I'll specify if it's something other than a book or short
story.)
* 98/03/03: Completed converting the Stories section to the new
format. In the process of making these conversions, some of the
internal links have broken; I'm working on fixing that. You'll
notice that the entries linked to from this page now have the
modification date in parentheses; you can now search by
last-modification date from the Power Search page. Speaking of
which, I've made numerous changes to the search engine, increasing
its speed somewhat and adding warnings for frequently-made
mistakes; please try it out if you haven't already.
* 98/03/02: Added some new links to the Resource page. Tweaked the
URL-Minder form a bit, to only send notiifcations every 7 days.
(This won't affect people who have already signed up for the
service, though you can make the change yourself on the URL-Minder
site.)
* 98/03/01: "Over the next few days" turned out to be a bit of an
underestimation. :-) Have now recoded the Books section in the new
format; starting on the Stories section, which should be an easier
job. Tweaked the Power Search a bit, fixing bugs and adding
warnings/error messages to try to spot common problems with search
requests. Tweaked the code system a bit in the process; notably
codes for animal transformations (AN), transformations to/from
inanimate objects (IN), and personality changes (PE). I'll be
changing the code system a bit more, now that I have the search
engine to actually tell me how the existing system is used...
* 98/02/24: Added a prototype Power Search page.
* 98/02/22: I'm "standardizing" the format of the list, to make it
possible to update the search engine to work by title, author,
subject matter, etc. I've already done the "A" books in this way;
I'll be doing the rest of the list over the next few days--I'll
spare you the blow-by-blow updates of how far I've gotten. :-) At
this point, I'm almost ready to start dealing with new entries;
I'll be adding a form-based interface to make it easier to send
things in.
* 98/02/19: Before I go further in adding bookstore links to the
site, I'm trying to make things a bit more "bookstore-neutral".
Everybody has a favorite bookstore, and I want to make things easy
for as many people as possible; besides, it's nice to be able to
compare notes among stores. So you'll notice that the [Am$] links
have been replaced by [BB$] links; these take you to the Bookstore
Browser screen, that allows you to check various online
bookstores' information on the book.
* 98/02/18: Tweaked the search engine some more.
* 98/02/17: Added a very early prototype of the search engine.
* 98/02/16: Since I'm almost caught up, I'm working on improving the
functionality of the list before finishing things off. By far the
most commonly-requested feature is a search engine, so I'm working
on adding one; it'll probably be fairly limited, but it'll be
several orders of magnitude better than the current "go through
the list until you find what you want" searching system. :-) Those
of you who can see invisible ink (or enjoy snooping around through
HTML source) will notice that I've now embedded HTML comments in
the pages, that the search engine will key on. Watch this space.
* 98/02/14: Added books: Piers Anthony's Shade of the Tree; Piers
Anthony and Mercedes Lackey's If I Pay Thee Not In Gold; Marie
Darrieussecq's Pig Tales: A Novel of Lust and Transformation; Alan
Dean Foster's Sentenced to Prism; Alexander Jablokov's Nimbus;
Steve Senn's A Circle In the Sea; Amy Thomson's The Color of
Distance. Updated information on books: Piers Anthony's And
Eternity and Cluster series; Gael Baudino's Dragonsword series;
Greg Bear's Blood Music; Mike Resnick's A Miracle of Rare Design.
Added stories: Pamela Briggs' "Lunch with Janoscz, the
Deconstruction Worker"; Adam-Troy Castro's "The Funeral March of
the Marionettes". Updated information for stories: Clive Barker's
"Twilight at the Towers"; Elizabeth Leslie's "How to Petrify Your
Brother". Added movie: An American Werewolf in Paris; Silver
Bullet. Added TV: Doctor Who #2, #7, #15, #32, #35, #36, #37, #42;
She-Wolf of London; Werewolf. Added lycanthropy resources: The
Werewolf Page. Corrected numerous errors in the Comics section.
Added Amazon.com links for the "B" books.
* 98/02/13: Processed a very large list of lycanthropy stories from
William Osborn. Added books: William Bridges' The Silver Crown;
Jonatha A. Caspian's The Nightmare Dream; Carla Cassidy's Heart of
the Beast; Stephen Charles' Nightmare Session; David Cook's
Soldiers of Ice; Cox and Weisskopf's Tomorrow Bites anthology;
Brett Davis' Hair of the Dog; Pamela Dean's The Dubious Hills;
Rebecca Flanders' Secret of the Wolf; Eric Garber's Embrace the
Darkness; David Gemmell's Waylander; Nina Kiriki Hoffman's The
Silent Strength of Stones; Clemence Housman's The Werewolf;
Anthony John's The Predator; William W. Johnstone's Watchers in
the Woods; Erin Kelly and Stewart Wieck's City of Darkness:
Unseen; Katharine Kimbriel's Night Calls; Stanley Krause and
Stewart Wieck's Strange City anthology; Terry Krueger's Night
Cries; Mercedes Lackey's The Fire Rose; Stephen Leigh's Robots and
Aliens; Brian Lumley's Necroscope II: Vamphyri!; Richard Maede's
The Sword of the Morning Star; Edward Packard's Night of the
Werewolf; Jessica Palmer's Shadow Dance; Francine Pascal's Sweet
Valley High books; Diana Paxson's The Wolf and the Raven; John
Peel's Dances With Werewolves; Rodman Philbrick's The Werewolf
Chronicles series; David Robbins' The Wraith; Fred Saberhagen's
Dancing Bears; Cheri Scotch's The Werewolf's Sin; William Mark
Simmons' One Foot in the Grave; James V. Smith Jr.'s Almost Human;
Nyx Smith's Who Hunts the Hunter; Brian Stableford's The
Werewolves of London series; R. L. Stine's Bad Moonlight, Night in
Werewolf Woods, and The Werewolf of Fever Swamp; Tom B. Stone's
Little Pet Werewolf; Evelyn Vaughn's Waiting for the Wolf Moon;
Eric Vinicoff's The Weighter; Ed and Lorraine Warren's Werewolf: A
True Story of Demonic Possession; Stewart Wieck's When Will You
Rage? anthology; D. M. Wind's The Others; Gene Wolfe's Soldier of
the Mist. Updated information for books: Philip Jose Farmer's
Blown; Dean Koontz' Midnight; Edward Levy's The Beast Within;
Joseph Locke's Kiss of Death.
* 98/02/12: Added books: Ed Greenwood's Elminster; Stewart von
Allmen's Conspicuous Consumption; Raymond E. Banks' The Moorapers;
Don Bassingthwaite's Breathe Deeply; Edo Van Belkom's Wyrm Wolf;
Cynthia Blair's Dark Moon Legacy series; Traci Briery's The
Werewolf Chronicles and Wolfsong. Updated information on books:
Gary Brandner's Howling III. Added stories: Clive Barker's
"Twilight at the Towers"; Robert Bloch's "The Bogey Man Will Get
You". Added comic: Hellboy: The Wolves of Saint August.
* 98/02/11: Added books: Allan Ahlberg's Woof!; Richard Setlowe's
The Experiment; Wayne Smith's Thor; unknown author's The Dragon's
Pearl; Anne Rice's The Tale of the Body Thief; Mike Resnick's A
Miracle of Rare Design: A Tragedy of Transcendence; Michael
Moorcock's The Final Programme, Cornelius Quartet series. Added
stories: H. P. Lovecraft's "The Thing on the Doorstep"; unknown
author's "The Mummy's Eyes" .
* 98/02/10: Added books: Jeff Noon's Pollen; Mark Sumner's Devil's
Tower and Devil's Engine; Laurell Hamilton's Anita Blake, Vampire
Hunter series; Karl Hansen's Dream Games; Doyle and MacDonald's
Bad Blood series; K. A. Applegate's Animorphs series (with
specific notes on The Invasion, The Visitor, The Encounter, and
The Message). Added stories: Patricia Wrede's "The Sixty-two
Curses of Caliph Arenschadd". Added information for TV: "Manimal".
* 98/02/09: Added books: Spider Robinson's Deathkiller; Harry
Turtledove's Prince of the North; Sharon Shinn's The
Shape-Changer's Wife; Paul Park's Celestis, and Starbridge
Chronicles series; Ian MacDonald's Evolution's Shore; Lucius
Shepard's Green Eyes and Life During Wartime. Added stories: Marie
de France's "Bisclavret"; Ian MacDonald's "Towards Kilimanjaro".
Added movie: Ladyhawke . Updated information on movie: Sssssss .
Did the Amazon.com links for the "A" books, just as a test; the
rest of them will wait until I'm caught up.
* 98/02/08: Updated the Transformation Ring links; added the Ring to
the Resources section, where it should have been in the first
place. (It's still on the main page as well.) Added books: Don
Webb's Uncle Ovid's Exercise Book; Unknown's Unicorn Tales; Tanith
Lee's Heart-Beast; O. Preussler's Krabat; Jack Vance's The Dying
Earth. Added stories: Lawrence Person's "Details" and "Salvation";
Unknown's "Lucianos is a Donkey"; Fredric Brown's "Abominable",
"Bear Possibility", "Cartoonist", and "Fish Story"; H. P.
Lovecraft's "The Doom That Came to Sarnath", "The Moon-Bog", and
"The Shadow Over Innsmouth"; Clarke Ashton Smith's "The Venus of
Azombeii", "Mother of Toads"; "The White Sybil"; "The Garden of
Adompha", "The Maze of Maal Dweb", "The Enchantress of Sylaire" ,
and "The Beast of Averoigne"; Jack Vance's "The Murthe".
* 98/02/07: Added books: Ursula Synge's Swan's Wing; Charloette
Otten's A Lycanthropy Reader; Gordon R Dickson's The Forever Man;
Stephen Goldin's And Not Make Dreams Your Master; Ron Goulart's
Brainz, Inc.; Doris Piserchia's DoomTime and StarRider; Jack
Williamson's Manseed; Roger Zelazny's Roadmarks; Doranna Durgin's
Dun Lady's Jess; Harry Turtledove's Werenight; Michael Moorcock's
The Fireclown, The Transformation of Miss Mavis Ming, and Blood: A
Southern Fantasy; Graham Masterton's The Wells of Hell and Hymn.
Added stories: Theodore Cogswell's "Thimgs"; Miriam Allen deFord's
"Henry Martindale, Great Dane"/"Gone to the Dogs" Added TV:
"Manimal". Added movies: The Shaggy Dog; The Shaggy D.A.; The
Incredible Mr. Limpet.
* 98/02/06: Actual new links! I promise; I will keep at this until
I catch up. This will not happen overnight. I will keep you
posted on the main page.
Added books: Martin H. Greenberg's Werewolves anthology; Anthony
and Gilliam's Tales from the Great Turtle anthology; Pam Keesey's
Women Who Run with the Werewolves anthology; Greenberg and Waugh's
Monster Brigade 3000 anthology; Custodio and Welch's Scary Stories
for Stormy Nights; James Patrick Kelly's Look Into the Sun and
Wildlife; Robert O'Brien's Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH; Doris
Piserchia's A Billion Days of Earth; Charles Platt's The Silicon
Man; Nancy Springer's Mindbond; Paul Tabori's The Green Rain.
More information on Bradley's Sword and Sorceress X and Sword and
Sorceress XIII. Added stories: Stanley G. Weinbaum's "The
Adaptive Ultimate" and "Proteus Island".
* 2/5/98: More link cleanups; turned the Rutgers archive links from
the ftp versions into the much faster http equivalents.
* 2/4/98: Trying to bring the list back to life... Went through and
removed broken links, and updated other links (such as those to
the Lysator archive) to reflect new site names. Over the next
several weeks, I'll be working through the backlog of additions
and corrections. Please be patient.
Where to from here?
From here you can go up to the list index, up to the contributor list,
on to frequently asked questions, on to book entries, on to short
story entries, or on to spoilers.
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Copyright © 1993-1998 Phaedrus / transform@halcyon.com
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Questions
People have asked me a lot of questions about the list; here's the
answers to a few of them. You may find some of this useful. Or not.
See if I care. :-)
Questions about the books on this list
* Where can I find book (such-and-such)? Can you sell it to me?
* I need help with my paper on such-and-such. Can you give me more
information on...
* Please send me stories involving... (Insert adult-oriented details
here.)
* What about the "net stories" that used to be here?
Questions about the transformation list in general
* How did the list get started?
* How did that paper go? Can I see it?
* Okay, that explans the first version of the list. How about the
other umpteen versions since then?
* How long do you plan on maintaining the list?
* Why are books and stories listed separately?
* Is a text-only version available?
* Do you maintain the text-only version separately from the HTML
version?
* Do you plan on continuing to provide both versions?
* What changes do you plan on making to the list?
* Why isn't my question here?
* You have a thing about werewolves, don't you?
Questions about the Bookstore Browser feature
* How do I add a bookstore to the list?
* Why are you sending me cookies?
* I click on one of the [BB] or [BBT] links in the List, and nothing
happens. What's up?
Questions about additions and changes to the list
* Hey! That entry spoils the whole story!
* Are you interested in new entries, or new information for the
existing entries?
* Why didn't you answer my mail?
* What if I don't have all the information you're asking for?
* How long should my description of a book or story be?
* Is it okay if I list my own book?
* I'm not sure whether this is a spoiler or not...
* This typo showed up on the list in the entry I sent you...
* I'd like to send in an entry, but I haven't the foggiest idea what
HTML is or how to write it.
* I'd like to send in an entry, and I'm an HTML wizard; can I use
any HTML I want to in my entry?
* What about other types of transformation materials other than
books and stories?
* What information do you give out about your contributors?
* I'd like to send an entry to the list, but I don't want my name
showing up on it.
Questions about the books on this list
Where can I find book (such-and-such)? Can you sell it to me?
Many of the books on this list are relatively new; they should be
available (or at least readily available via special order) in just
about any bookstore. Other books on this list are out of print,
sometimes long out-of-print; they are very difficult to find.
Bookstores that carry used books may have them; your guess at to which
stores have them is as good as mine. (In many cases, if I knew where
the book would be found, I'd have bought it there myself. :-) )
In order to make the books easier to find, I have added a "Bookstore
Browser" feature. You'll see "[BB$] links next to some of the books
(eventually, next to all of them); these links take you to a screen
that lets you view various online bookstores' information on the book,
and optionally order it. (Top)
I need help with my paper on such-and-such. Can you give me more information
on...
No, I can't. I really wish I could, but I can't. If I had more
information on such-and-such, it would probably be in this list
(assuming that "such-and-such" is transformation-related). I have
tried to make the list as comprehensive as possible, and I am looking
at ways to make it more interactive (to allow for more searches and so
on). That's the best I can do.
If you're looking for help, the best thing you can do is go to an
appropriate Usenet group and ask. (Top)
Please send me stories involving... (Insert adult-oriented details here.)
No. Please do not ask me this question. I will not reply.
Believe it or not, I do not have a huge secret horde of
transformation-related adult stories. And if I did, and if I wanted to
distribute them, they would be here.
If you're looking for the actual text of transformation stories on the
net, then the Transformation Stories Archive is the place you should
be looking. There are many other story archives on the Transformation
Ring.
I have nothing against adult-oriented stories. But there are already
fourteen jillion adult-oriented story sites on the Internet. There is
no need for me to get into that market. :-) (Top)
What about the "net stories" that used to be here?
"Net stories" are stories that have only been published on the
Internet; in some cases they were written by groups of people on a
Usenet newsgroup. In the past, a few net stories involving
transformation were listed here; but I ran into all kinds of problems
with them--nobody seemed to have them available anywhere, everyone
wanted me to send them copies of them, and nobody wanted to believe
that I'd never even seen them in the first place. :-) So those entries
have been removed.
Thomas Hassan's Transformation Stories Archive, at
http://www.t0.or.at/~thomash/tsa/, is a great source of transformation
stories online. In addition, the Transformation Ring contains a great
many story archive sites. (Top)
Questions about the transformation list in general
How did the list get started?
Well, I was taking a fiction class, and one of the papers due for that
class was a free write (you could write on just about any
fiction-related topic your heart desired). Well, I decided to do mine
on the use of the transformation theme in science fiction and fantasy.
Which led to the next question: what books to write about? We weren't
supposed to use books we had already read, which shot a lot of
transformation-related books down for me, since I'd always been
interested in them. And I quickly ran into an unanticipated problem:
while there are any number of resources letting you find nonfiction
books by subject, that sort of information on fiction in general, and
sf/fantasy in particular, is spotty at best. At that point, I made two
decisions that led directly to the founding of this list:
* I reached the same conclusion that just about every student
confronted with the net reaches at one point or another: "Hey, if
I can't find anything good myself, I'll bet those folks on the net
can help me out."
* I typed the six words that have probably cost me more time than
any other six words in my life except "I'd like to apply for
college": "Please email me and I'll summarize." :-)
Well, I got email. A lot of it. Enough suggestions, in fact, that I
probably wound up spending twice as much time going through them all
and deciding which to use than I would have if I'd just picked a few
books from the library at random and been done with it. Such is the
price of knowledge. :-) The summary of those responses wound up being
the first version of the list. (Top)
How did that paper go? Can I see it?
Next question. :-) (Top)
Okay, that explans the first version of the list. How about the other umpteen
versions since then?
Well, in addition to the suggestions, I also got a lot of "Please send
me a copy of whatever you get" and "That's a good idea!"-type
responses--many more than I would have expected based on similar
questions I'd asked in the past. After I posted the list, the response
level, both submissions and requests for copies and so on, got even
higher. For whatever reason, the list seemed to be a big winner. And
given that level of interest, and the number of nice people I met by
having them write me about the list, it seemed like a shame to let it
die.
Besides, I've got ulterior motives. I've always had a very strong
interest in stories of this kind, and through years of living next to
used bookstores, I've managed to build up quite a collection of it.
(Note to aspiring crooks: Said collection has a resale value of about
14 cents per pound, and I live on the top floor of an elevatorless
building. Draw your own conclusions. ;-) ) Maintaining this list is a
lot like having your own book-finding service--all sorts of nice
people telling you about books you've never heard of that you'll
probably find very interesting. And all it costs is hours and hours of
free time... (Top)
How long do you plan on maintaining the list?
Well, I don't maintain it as much as I used to, or as much as I would
like to. I still put up a new version every so often ("every so often"
varies depending on how overworked I am). I certainly plan on keeping
the list available for the foreseeable future, even if I don't have
time to update it sometimes. (Top)
Why are books and stories listed separately?
For two reasons. First, many people are interested in one but not the
other. Second, anthologies and non-anthologies are usually listed
separately at bookstores, and anthologies are often shelved in a
different order; so mixing books and stories together would make it
more difficult to shop from a printout of the list. (Top)
Is a text-only version available?
Yes, at http://www.halcyon.com/phaedrus/translist/translist.text.
(Top)
Do you maintain the text-only version separately from the HTML version?
No; that's what makes it manageable. The text-only version is
constructed automatically from the HTML version. The mainframe I use
has the "lynx" Web browser; and one if its features is a "dump"
mode--you can give it an HTML file, and it will output the whole thing
as text just as it would be if you were browsing it. So I just use a
script that does this for all the files in the document, adding some
extra information before and after the list and in between each one;
the script looks something like this:
cp transbeginning.text translist.text
lynx -dump "transmain.html" >> translist.text
cat transdivider.text >> translist.text
lynx -dump "transbooksa.html" >> translist.text
cat transdivider.text >> translist.text
lynx -dump "transbooksb.html" >> translist.text
...
lynx -dump "transstoryz.html" >> translist.text
cat transdivider.text >> translist.text
lynx -dump "transspoil.html" >> translist.text
cat transending.text >> translist.text
So when I update the HTML version, all I do is run this script to
regenerate the text version. Then I quickly scan through the text
version with a word processor and remove the "Where to from here?"
navigation sections from the end of each part of the list, since they
only apply to the text version. Even for a list this size, the whole
regeneration-and- editing process only takes about five minutes. (Top)
Do you plan on continuing to provide both versions?
Yes, absolutely. I do think that anyone with access to a Web reader
should definitely use the HTML version; but there are plenty of people
without that access, and the text version is still important to them.
So the text version will stay. (Top)
What changes do you plan on making to the list?
I plan on adding a form-based interface, to make it easier to send in
new entries.
The search engine will be greatly improved.
I'd very much appreciate brief summaries for those works that don't
currently have them (and those that do, for that matter :-) ).
Some works still don't have complete publication info; any information
you can provide on these works would be most helpful. (Almost all of
these works are flagged by a question mark where the publication info
should be.)
For those works with question marks by the left margin (meaning that
I'm not sure whether or not they belong on the list), I'd greatly
appreciate any additional information on these works that you can give
me.
Ideally, all the listed works should have at least a basic explanation
of what is transformed into what and how. If you're familiar with any
of the listed works that don't have this information given, I would
very much appreciate your providing it (though be sure to let me know
if it constitutes a spoiler).
And of course, new works are always more than welcome too. :-) (Top)
Why isn't my question here?
Just because. :-) Seriously, if there's a question that you think
should go in this list, just email it to me (transform@halcyon.com)
and I'll probably include it. (Top)
You have a thing about werewolves, don't you?
Guilty as charged. :-) (Top)
Questions about the Bookstore Browser feature
How do I add a bookstore to the list?
Let me know the particulars (the name of the store, its Web address,
etc.). There are certain technical limitations on the stores I can
link to; but if I can, I will. (Top)
Why are you sending me cookies?
The Bookstore Browser window will send you one cookie whenever you
change bookstores. (The bookstore you're sending to may also send you
additional cookies; I have no control over that.) This cookie is used
to remember the last bookstore you used--so that, the next time you
click on a Bookstore Browser link, it will give you info from the same
store. If your browser doesn't accept cookies, the Browser will still
work just fine; you'll just have to select a bookstore manually each
time.
The cookie does not contain any identifying information about you, and
it's not used for any kind of statistical tracking; it's just used to
remember the default bookstore. (Top)
I click on one of the [BB] or [BBT] links in the List, and nothing happens.
What's up?
Let me guess; you're using Internet Explorer, aren't you? This is a
known bug in IE, at least in IE4; under certain circumstances, the
ability of IE4 to open new windows can become disabled. When that
happens, links that try to open a page in a different window, like the
Bookstore Browser links, will simply fail, with no error message. (You
may also be seeing "Interface not supported" errors when you're
browsing pages on other sites; those sites are trying to open new
windows through scripting.)
The Microsoft Knowledge Base contains an article on the problem,
including an easy workaround to fix it. (Note: They don't mention that
you have to restart your computer before the fix will work.) (Top)
Questions about additions and changes to the list
Hey! That entry spoils the whole story!
Please let me know, and I'll move it to the spoiler section. (Top)
Are you interested in new entries, or new information for the existing
entries?
Absolutely. I always welcome additions or corrections to the list;
please email them to me at transform@halcyon.com. Any work that has
transformation in any form (lycanthropy, genetic engineering, some
forms of vampirism, magic spells, curses, whatever) as a theme is
eligible. It doesn't matter if the story is any good or not, though it
would be nice if you tell us if it's lousy so we don't go in with any
false hopes. :-) For each story you add, please give as much of the
following information as possible:
* The title and author.
* The publisher, ISBN, publication year and price, if available.
(These are a great help to people trying to find or order the
work.).
* If the work is a short story, it would help others find the story
if you give the above information on a book or magazine in which
the story can be found.
* A brief description of how transformation is used in the story
(who is transformed into what and how), and anything else you feel
would be helpful to know about the story (such as whether or not
it's actually any good :-) ). If you feel that any of this
information constitutes a "spoiler," please say so and that
information will be put in the Spoiler Section instead of in the
regular list.
* A "degree of interest" rating. If transformation is a major theme
of the story (in other words, if this is a work someone interested
in transformation should really seek out), give a "+" rating. If
transformation is only incidentally involved in the work (in other
words, if it definitely wouldn't be worth someone's time to track
this down solely for the transformation content), give a "-"
rating. If it's somewhere in between, give a "0" rating; this is
what I'll assume if you don't give a rating, unless your
description of the work gives me strong reason to believe
otherwise. (Bear in mind that these ratings are trying to gauge
the involvement of transformation in the work, not solely the
number or degree of transformations present; a story where only
one character is transformed before the book begins and that plays
a key role in the book might well be a "+", while a book where a
transformation occurs every page but nothing is ever made of it
might be a "-".) Also bear in mind that the quality of the work
itself should not go into this rating, though it can certainly go
into your description above.
* If you'd like to be exceptionally helpful, you can add the
additional information described in the "Entry Format" section.
(Note that the "Significance:" in the Entry format is the "degree
of interest" I talked about above, so you don't need to do that
again.)
* If you know HTML, then feel free to use it in writing up your
entries. If you don't know HTML, don't worry about; just write in
plain text, and I'll make any necessary changes.
* Also, if you would like your entry on the "Contributors" list to
link to something, please let me know that as well. (Top)
Why didn't you answer my mail?
For a while, I had the excuse of incompetence--I couldn't put together
a mail filter that would reliably do the job of sorting incoming mail
without eating it. Now I no longer have that excuse. So I have to rely
on a more basic one; I have about 10 hours' too much stuff to do every
week...
I have a job which I greatly enjoy, and which pays very well, and
which takes up large chunks of my time. I also have a few things
besides transformation stories that I like to do in my spare time. As
a result, work on the list sometimes gets delayed, and I build up big
backlogs of mail. I am truly sorry about that. I am trying to get
better at managing things. But experience has shown that I can't
promise to answer mail within a set time frame; if you get the
auto-acknowledgement when you send me mail, that means I did get it,
and it will be added to the list as soon as I make it through the
backlog. (Top)
What if I don't have all the information you're asking for?
I'll take what I can get; the beauty of it is that someone else will
probably provide the missing information later. (Top)
How long should my description of a book or story be?
Well, long enough to say what you want to say, and not too much
longer. :-) It's good if you at least describe what gets transformed
into what and how; it doesn't hurt to at least briefly mention whether
or not the book is any good (but try not to dwell on this aspect; this
isn't a book reviews list). More than ten lines of text describing a
single book is probably excessive, though I'm flexible with this rule
when what's being said is good. When in doubt, say too much; I'll edit
your entry down to size if I have to. (Within reason; if you send me
eighteen pages, I'm likely to just chuck it. If I had time to read and
condense a huge entry, I'd have time to read the 450 books in my "to
do" pile. :-) ) (Top)
Is it okay if I list my own book?
Yes, that's more than fine. However, please read the previous
question. Since you're a published author, I'm sure you're familiar
with the virtues of writing within the guidelines of the publisher
you're submitting to; the guidelines here are "no more than ten lines
or so, reasonably objective". And if sufficiently provoked, I do send
back rejection slips...
If you send me your publisher's press release about a book complete
with glowing cover jacket quotes, there's often not a whole lot I can
do with that; press releases are often pretty vague about the actual
plot of the book they're plugging, and the cover jacket quotes just
aren't appropriate here. If you can't come up with a ten-line summary
of the book you just wrote, how do you expect me to do it? :-)
Of course, if you give a URL to another site with more information,
I'll include that in the Web version. (Top)
I'm not sure whether this is a spoiler or not...
Just tell me this, and I'll list it in the Spoiler Section anyway;
better safe than sorry. (Top)
This typo showed up on the list in the entry I sent you...
I'm very sorry; in a list this size, it's bound to happen. Just let me
know and I'll fix it. (Top)
I'd like to send in an entry, but I haven't the foggiest idea what HTML is or
how to write it.
You don't have to; that's my job. :-) Just send in the information as
plain text, and I'll add all the necessary HTML stuff. (Top)
I'd like to send in an entry, and I'm an HTML wizard; can I use any HTML I
want to in my entry?
You're welcome to use the HTML formatting tags; for emphasis,
for book titles, and so on. You're also welcome to use links. I
would ask that you not get carried away with formatting, though, and
that you not use lists and headings and so on; a consistent look is
important for making the list readable and manageable. Inline graphics
will not be allowed. If necessary, I'll edit the HTML part of your
entry to make it work with the list. (Top)
What about other types of transformation materials other than books and
stories?
If you think something should be listed, send it in; I'll try to find
room for it somewhere. (I just added sections for movies and TV;
they're still waiting for content, of course...)
Please be at least somewhat discriminating; list only things where
transformation plays a significant role in the work, not just a
special effect that's glossed over quickly. (For example, a comic book
hero with a secret identity does not constitute a "transformation
story"...) (Top)
What information do you give out about your contributors?
I list contributors' names, but not email addresses or any other
information (unless they specifically request it). I do not privately
give out any information that does not appear in the list, even if I
know it, which I usually don't. :-) (Top)
I'd like to send an entry to the list, but I don't want my name showing up on
it.
Fine; just pick a nickname that's not too corny and tell me to use
that instead. :-) (Top)
Where to from here?
From here you can go up to the list index, up to the contributor list,
on to related resources, on to books, on to short story entries, or on
to spoilers.
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Books: Author Unknown
? (title unknown) {/151/} [??]
[?]
* I am looking for the title of a science fiction book I read in a
public library 10-15 years ago. [...] Setting: Far in the future,
on several different worlds. Hero: Reed Novak, a warrior with a
rebuilt silicon based body and special powers. Enemy: Ancient
energy creature that feeds on life force and knowledge. Plot: Reed
Novak's silicon body was built as a weapon to destroy an ancient
energy creature in another universe before it can return to the
Universe of Man and destroy all life as it did millions of years
before. -151
? The Case of the Mischievous Mermaid {/137/} [??] [BBT]
[?]
* [Result: BM.] [...]It is part of the ancient Man From Sadisto
series, aka 0007. In this episode, our villian is supposedly
transforming young co-eds into mermaids, for reasons unknown. The
only other info that I recall is that the authors name was
something like Allinson? Have you or any of your other
contributors happened to know anything about this title. Any help
that you can provide is most welcome. -137
? The Dragon's Pearl {/150/} [??] [BBT]
[?]
* [Cause: MA Result: BX/AN.] The dragon is a dragon princess, and
she can change her shape with the help of a magical pearl that is
possessed by all her kind. -150 (98/02/11)
? Unicorn Tales {/140/} [??] [BBT]
[?]
* [Result: BM/AN.] Also, I remember reading a great transformation
story, in a book that is now out of print. The book was called
Unicorn Tales, (or something like that). It was about a man who
was inexplicably turning into a unicorn. I noticed there was a
story about a were-unicorn on your page by Stephen Donaldson, but
I believe this story was written by someone lesser known (please
correct me if I am wrong!)
An informal summary: He was basically a librarian, although in his
far-flung future there was no need for him. As a matter of fact,
the government ran your life, woke you up in the morning,
monitored your health, etc. He always went along with whatever the
government said, but once a horn started growing from his head he
began to wonder about things like, why does everyone think
imagination is foolishness? As a matter of fact, everyone ignored
the horn in the middle of his forehead. This story is THE BOMB. I
really enjoyed it, but that may have something to do with the fact
that I am addicted to unicorns. -140 (98/02/08)
Books: A
Aaronovitch, Ben
0 Transit {/103/} [BBT]
[Virgin; 1992; 0426203854; ?] [BB]
[London Bridge Mass Market; 1993; 0426203844; $6.99] [BB]
* Rating: 3 Significance: 0 Description: 0 Saturation: -. A book in
the "New Adventures of Dr. Who" series. An incorporeal entity
invades a teleportational subway network in the earth's future. It
captures some people, turning them into its minions by both taking
over their minds and physically transforming them into powerful
killers. -103
Adams, Douglas [AL] [BL]
- The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul {/40/11} [BBT]
[Pocket; 1991; 0671742515; $6.99] [BBT]
* Rating: 2 Significance: -. The sequel to Dirk Gently's Holistic
Detective Agency. -11
* Certain Norse gods deal with perceived pests by transformation. A
lurking refrigerator transforms itself into a new horror. -40
Ahern, Jerry; Ahern, Sharon
0 WerewolveSS {/83,87,154/} [BBT]
[Pinnacle; 1990; 1558173358, $4.50] [BB]
* [Result: LY.] Lycanthropy. -83
* Giggle. Snort. Nazi werewolves. Thousands of Nazi werewolves.
Trying to take over the world. Reads like it was James Bond meets
Godzilla. A few good scenes are overwhelmed by the tacky climax.
-87
* Lycanthropy. -154
Ahlberg, Allan [??]
0 Woof! {/148/} [??] [BBT]
[Puffin; ?; 0140319964; $?] [BB]
[Viking; 1986; 0670808326; $11.95] [BB]
* [Rating: 3 Result: BX/AN Significance: 0 Description: +
Saturation: +.] Summary: (from the back of the book) "Eric is a
perfectly ordinary boy. Perfectly ordinary that is, until the
night when, safely tucked up in bed, he slowly but surely turns
into a dog! What becomes of Eric--the adventures he has with his
best friend Roy, and their joint efforts to puzzle out the reason
for his transformation--makes a very funny and entirely believable
book."
Personal Notes: It was a good read, the transformations
descriptive and somewhat saturated. Important (integral, in fact)
to the plot. Probably a 3 of 4, good but not one you would read
several times over. -148 (98/02/11)
Akers, Alan Burt [??]
0 Dray Prescot 33: Werewolves of Kregen {/87,154/} [??] [BBT]
[New American Library; 1985; 0879979917; $?] [BB]
* Poorly-written high-tech sword & sorcery with werewolves as cannon
fodder. Nifty cover on the first printing. -87
* [Result: LY.] Lycanthropy. -154
Aldiss, Brian [SS] [AL]
0 Helliconia Spring and sequels {/22/} [BBT]
[Helliconia Spring: Berkley; 1984; 0425073289; $3.50] [BR] [BB] [BBT]
[Helliconia Spring: Berkley; 1983; 0425061868; $?] [BB]
[Helliconia Summer: Berkley; 1988; 0441326323; $?] [BB] [BBT]
[Helliconia Winter: Berkley; 1987; 0441326293; $?] [BB] [BBT]
* Summer/winter climate adaptation. -22
? Starswarm {/11/} [BBT]
[Pocket; 1985; 0671559990; $2.95] [BB]
* SF; Cause: GM; not read. -11
Allen, Roger MacBride
+ The Modular Man {103//} [BBT]
[Bantam Spectra; 1992; 0553295594; ?] [BB]
* Rating: 5 Significance: + Description: + Saturation: -. A dying
inventor transfers his mind into a robot's brain, the first such
transfer to ever be done. The story is about the legal battle that
ensues, as the government tries to prove that he's legally dead so
that a class of wealthy immortals won't develop and his wife
defends him. Her job is complicated by the fact that the transfer
went slightly wrong, and her husband isn't fully aware or in
control. In fact, she believes that he didn't survive but wants to
make sure that others in the future can try the same thing he did.
Did I mention that she's a quadruple amputee? -103
Almquist, Gregg
0 Wolf Kill {/Ph,154/} [BBT]
[Pocket; 1990; 0671671847; $4.50]! [BB]
* Result: LY. Lycanthropy story; not read. -Ph
* Lycanthropy. -154
Andersen, Hans C.
0 The Little Mermaid {/3/} [BBT]
[Hyperion; 1997; 0786803835; $11.95]! [BB]
* About a mermaid who becomes human. -3
Anderson, Poul [SS] [AL] [BL] [BR]
0 Brain Wave {/22/} [BBT]
[Ballantine; 1974; 345-24685-3-150; $1.50] [BB]
[Ballantine; 1985; 0345325214; $?] [BB]
* Result: MP. Mind power increase. -22
0 Operation Chaos {/10,11,31/} [RR] [BBT]
[Berkley; 1978; 0425037509; $1.75] [BB]
[Baen; 1992; 067172102X; $3.99] [BB]
* [Result: LY.] [One of] the two classic werewolf-as-hero stories.
-10
* Series; Fantasy; lycanthropy; not read. -11
* One of the main characters is a werewolf. -31
? Three Hearts and Three Lions {/Ph/} [BBT]
[Berkley; 1978; 425-03680-4; ?] [BB]
[Baen; 1993; 0671721860; $4.99] [BB]
* On a list of transformation stories, but not read. -Ph
Anstey, F.
0 Vice Versa {/117/} [BBT]
[Viking; 1985; 0140350675; $?] [BB]
* [Result: MT.] ...Several films were made almost simultaneously a
few years back about adolescent boys swapping bodies with grown
men - one was actually given the title "Vice Versa" - but none had
the grace to acknowledge Anstey's inspiration... C.S. Lewis said
that the book communicates, better than any realistic novel, the
dreadful experience of leaving a snug middle-class home for the
horrors of an English boarding school. -117
Anthony, Piers [AL] [BL] [BR] [DZ]
* BTW, all of Piers Anthony's in-print books are available directly
from Piers by calling 1-800-HI-PIERS. -163
0 Apprentice Adept series {/11,42,54,TG,158/} [BBT]
[1:Split Infinity: Ballantine; 1987; 0345354915; $5.95] [BB] [BBT]
[2:Blue Adept: Ballantine; 1991; 0345352459; $5.95] [BB] [BBT]
[3:Juxtaposition: Ballantine; 1991; 0345349342; $5.95] [BB] [BBT]
[4:Out of Phaze: Ace; 1994; 0441644651; $5.99] [BB] [BBT]
[5:Robot Adept: Ace; 1989; 044173118X; $5.99] [BB] [BBT]
[6:Unicorn Point: Ace; 1990; 0441846530; $5.99] [BB] [BBT]
[7:Phaze Doubt: Ace; 1994; 0441662633; $5.99] [BB] [BBT]
* My wife's rating: Significance: + Description: - Saturation: X.
-11
* All seven...books involve shapechangers--primarily werewolves and
shapechanging unicorns. -42
* There is also an alien whose native form is a blob of jello, which
can shapeshift to any form. (Unimportant to the plot; allows some
things to take place, but they could have been accomplished in
other ways.) -54
* It includes both rampant shapechanging and mind/body exchanges as
the major staples of the plot. -158
0 Cluster series {/11,18,20,39,42/} [BBT] (98/02/14)
[1:Cluster: Avon; 1977; 0380017555; $2.95] [BB] [BBT]
[2:Chaining the Lady: Avon; 1978; 0380017792; $2.50] [BB] [BBT]
[3:Kirlian Quest: Avon; 1978; 0380017784; $?]* [BB] [BBT]
[4:Thousandstar: Avon; 1980; 0380755564; $?] [BB] [BBT]
[5:Viscous Circle: Avon; 1982; 0380798972; $?] [BB] [BBT]
* On Cluster alone:
+ Rating: 3 Result: MT Significance: - Description: 0
Saturation: +. First in a series; SF; Space travel into empty
body. -11
* On all above:
+ [Result: MT?/ST?.] Deals with the transportation of a
person's 'mind and soul?' into other bodies. I really enjoyed
the idea behind Viscous Circle. -18
+ ...Has one/several(?) stories involving a consciousness
transference, allowing beings to enter the bodies of aliens
(a bit of a stretch for transformation). -20
0 Incarnations of Immortality series {/11,90,158/} [BBT]
[1:On a Pale Horse: Ballantine; 1989; 0345338588; $5.95] [BB] [BBT]
{90//}
[2:Bearing an Hourglass: Ballantine; 1991; 0345313151; $5.95] [BB]
[BBT]
[3:With a Tangled Skein: Ballantine; 1990; 0345318854; $5.95] [BB]
[BBT]
[4:Wielding a Red Sword: Ballantine; 1987; 0345322215; $5.95] [BB]
[BBT]
[5:Being a Green Mother: Ballantine; 1990; 0345322231; $5.95] [BB]
[BBT]
[6:For Love of Evil: Avon; 1996; 0380752859; $5.99] [BB] [BBT]
[7:And Eternity: Avon; 1991; 0380752867; $5.99] [BB] [BBT] {/11/}
* On On a Pale Horse only:
+ Rating: 5 Cause: MA Result: BX Significance: + Description: 0
Saturation: 0. ...The main transformation is the hero
becoming Death... Definitely his best book and a pretty good
fantasy book in general. It doesn't have all the awful puns
which ruin his other work. There are transformation themes
throughout the books...(a ring that becomes a snake and Satan
turns into other things and so on)..., but in particular in
On a Pale Horse there is a really cool one--a horse that
changes into a car! This is used quite extensively throughout
the book. [The rest of the series is not recommended.] -90
* On And Eternity only:
+ Cause: MA Result: GC Significance: 0. Fantasy; Not read... A
woman is magically transformed into a man, and rapes the
woman she's travelling with. To provide justice, a goddess
changes the first woman back, transforms the second woman
into a man, and allows her/him to rape the first woman. Don't
know about the rest of the book, but it is the seventh book
in an Anthony N-ology..." -11
+ The description you got of the TG in And Eternity is
inaccurate. The Goddess changes the first women into a man,
who tries to rape the other women, intercedes(offers herself)
and then reverses the positions, and has sex with the second
women to teach them a lesson about male nature. I would also
like to recommend For Love of Evil. -158 (98/02/14)
- Macroscope {/42/11} [BBT]
[Avon; 1969; 0380002094; $3.95] [BB]
* Rating: 4 Result: MT Significance: 0 Description: - Saturation: -.
-11
* Consciousness transference plays an important, though not central,
role in Macroscope, which is probably Piers Anthony's best book.
-42
0 Shade of the Tree {/158/} [??] [BBT]
[Tor; 1987; 0812531035; $3.95] [BB]
* [Result: MT.] Features a tree which telepathically records the
experiences of all beings near it, in complete accuracy and
detail. The hero's consciousness is transferred to the tree, and
he experiences many, including rape and getting shot as a deer.
-158 (98/02/14)
- Xanth series {//42} [BBT]
[1:A Spell for Chameleon: Ballantine; 1987; 0-345-34753-6; $5.95] [BB]
[BBT]
[2:The Source of Magic: Ballantine; 1990; 0-345-35058-8; $5.95] [BB]
[BBT]
[3:Castle Roogna: Ballantine; 1989; 0-345-35048-0; $5.95] [BB] [BBT]
[4:Centaur Aisle: Ballantine; 1990; 0-345-35246-7; $4.95] [BB] [BBT]
[5:Ogre, Ogre: Ballantine; 1990; 0-345-35492-3; $5.95] [BB] [BBT]
[6:Night Mare: Ballantine; 1990; 0-345-35493-1; $5.95]! [BB] [BBT]
[7:Dragon on a Pedestal: Ballantine; 1990; 0-345-34936-9; $5.95] [BB]
[BBT]
[8:Crewel Lye, A Caustic Yarn: Ballantine; 1989; 0-345-34599-1; $5.95]
[BB] [BBT]
[9:Golem in the Gears: Ballantine; 1989; 0-345-31886-2; $5.95] [BB]
[BBT]
[10:Vale of the Vole: Avon; 1987; 0-380-75287-5; $5.99] [BB] [BBT]
[11:Heaven Cent: Avon; 1988; 0-380-75288-3; $5.99] [BB] [BBT]
[12:Man from Mundania: Avon; 1990; 0-380-75289-1; $5.99] [BB] [BBT]
[13:Isle of View: Avon; 1990; 0-380-75947-0; $4.95] [BB] [BBT]
[14:Question Quest: Avon; 1991; 0-380-75948-9; $5.99] [BB] [BBT]
[15:The Color of Her Panties: Avon; 1992; 0-380-75949-7; $5.99] [BB]
[BBT]
[16:Demons Don't Dream: Tor; 1996; 0-812-53483-2; $5.99] [BB] [BBT]
[17:Harpy Thyme: Tor; 1995; 0-812-53484-0; $5.99] [BB] [BBT]
[?]
* [Result: BX/AN.] There are about fourteen Xanth books out so far,
and all involve some shape-changing, especially given that Dolph,
the protagonist of the more recent Xanth books, is a
shape-changer. This should not be read as a recommendation. -42
Anthony, Piers (ed.); Gilliam, Richard (ed.) [??]
0 Tales from the Great Turtle anthology {/132/} [??] [BBT]
[Tor; ?; 0312856288; $?] [BB]
[Forge; 1995; 0812534905; $5.99] [BB]
* [Result: BT/AN.] I'm not sure if my story "A Fire in the Heart"
[...]would count, but there's an alligator shape changer story in
there, so it's worth your taking a look at. -132 (98/02/06)
Anthony, Piers; Lackey, Mercedes [??]
0 If I Pay Thee Not In Gold {/158/} [??] [BBT]
[Baen; 1994; 0671876236; $5.99] [BB]
* [Result: GC.] Features an involuntary TGing demon as a main
character. -158 (98/02/14)
Anvil, Christopher
0 Warlord's World {/42/} [BBT]
[DAW; 1975; 451-UY1201-125; $1.25]
* [Result: MU.] Agent operates by taking over someone else's body.
-42
Applegate, K. A. [??]
+ Animorphs series {148,Ph//} [Publisher] [??] [BBT]
About the entire Animorphs series:
* Although I am quite an adult, I found these books to be very
interesting, fun to read, and captivating. Recommended to all who
just want to read some great animal transformation stories, with a
touch of alien life and humor. -148 (98/02/10)
* Agreed. This is young-adult fiction, but I absolutely love it. And
if your peers should happen to catch you reading it, just look
them straight in the eye and say "What are you looking at,
hyoo-man?" :-) Rating: 4 Cause: AX/NA Result: BX/AN/PE/MU
Significance: + Description: 0 Saturation: +. -Ph
[1: The Invasion: Apple; 1996; 0590629778; $3.99] {148//} [BB] [BBT]
* [Cause: AX Result: BX/AN/PE.] The characters, Jake, Rachel,
Cassie, Tobias, and Marco are given the ability to transform when
they encounter a dying alien. They must 'acquire DNA' from an
animal in order to have the ability to become it (via direct
contact). They are told to help fight for the survival of human
existence using the new abilities before the alien dies.
Transformations are all physical with a mental additive such as
the instincts or state of mind of the particular animal. Thus far,
all transformations have been only to animals not inorganic or
plant shapes. Transformations in Book 1 include: Dog, Cat, Hawk,
Lizard, Horse, Elephant, Tiger, and others. A two-hour time limit
is imposed to add a suspense factor. If a character spends more
than two hours in a "morph" they are unable to revert to their
human form (or change to any other.) Tobias, at the end of the
book, goes over his two hour limit as a Red-tailed Hawk. -148
(98/02/10)
[2: The Visitor: Apple; 1996; 0590629786; $3.99] {148//} [BB] [BBT]
* [Cause: AX/NA Result: BX/AN/PE/MU.] The "Animorphs" (the group of
kids who've been given some pretty awesome powers) realize that
the threat to humans (and all life on Earth for that matter) is a
real one. In order to get more information about the aliens and
their plot, they eavesdrop on one of them.
The aliens are basically slimy things that inhabit human bodies
like parasites, but take control mentally and physically of them.
Therefore, many humans who otherwise appear normal, are actually
alien-controlled and simply make things much harder for our
heroes. The Animorphs discover that the school's vice-principal is
a "Human-Controller" and eavesdrop on his conversations with alien
leaders. Rachel becomes a cat like that of the vice-principal's
daughter, and goes snooping. Book 2 transformations include: Cat,
Flea, Shrew, and others. -148 (98/02/10)
[3: The Encounter: Apple; 1996; 0590629794; $3.99] {148//} [BB] [BBT]
* [Cause: AX/NA Result: BX/AN/PE/MU.] Focuses on Tobias, who is now
permanently a Red-tailed Hawk. This book is my favorite so far.
The author does a good job of describing (insofar as a Young Adult
novel goes) Tobias's position. i.e. how he feels and how his
friends react. During the course of the book, Tobias discovers a
strange phenomenon in the sky, which turns out to be an alien ship
travelling to and from a mountain lake. The Animorphs investigate
and find that the Aliens are stealing natural resources (in this
case, water) to further their survival while waiting in orbit.
(All this alien stuff sounds somewhat dorky, but it is well-wove
into the transformations and the rest of the story.) Our heroes
decide to put a halt to their activities and using every secret to
their powers, barely accomplish their goal. There is a good
chapter or so that deals with Tobias trying to accept the fact
that he'll be an animal for the rest of his life. Transformations
this book: Wolves and Fish in addition to those previous. -148
(98/02/10)
[4: The Message: Apple; 1996; 0590629808; $3.99] {148//} [BB] [BBT]
* [Cause: AX/NA Result: BX/AN/PE/MU.] Recurring dreams of the
Animorphs give knowledge of a shipwrecked alien in the ocean. The
alien in particular is on the same side as the humans, which leads
them off on a quest to find it and rescue it. Cassie and the other
still-human Animorphs journey to the sea and make use of Dolphin
and Seagull forms to get there. Very invigorating adventure and as
always, written with a style that's positive, interesting and fun
to read. -148 (98/02/10)
[Boxed set 1 (books 1-4): Apple; 1997; 0590381873; $15.96] [BB]
[5: The Predator: Apple; 1996; 0590629816; $3.99] [BB] [BBT]
[6: The Capture: Apple; 1997; 0590629824; $3.99] [BB] [BBT]
[7: The Stranger: Apple; 1997; 0590997262; $3.99] [BB] [BBT]
[Megamorphs 1: The Andalite's Gift : Apple; 1997; 0590213040; $3.99]
[BB$] [BBT]
[8: The Alien: Apple; 1997; 0590997289; $3.99] [BB] [BBT]
[9: The Secret: Apple; 1997; 0590997297; $3.99] [BB] [BBT]
[10: The Android: Apple; 1997; 0590997300; $3.99] [BB] [BBT]
[11: The Forgotten: Apple; 1997; 0590997327; $3.99] [BB] [BBT]
[12: The Reaction: Apple; 1997; 0590997343; $3.99] [BB] [BBT]
[13: The Change: Apple; 1997; 059049418X; $3.99] [BB] [BBT]
[The Andalite Chronicles: Apple; 1997; 0590109715; $4.99] [BB] [BBT]
[14: The Unknown: Apple; 1998; 0590494236; $3.99] [BB] [BBT]
[15: The Escape: Apple; 1998; 0590494244; $3.99] [BB] [BBT]
[16: The Warning : Apple; 1998; 0590494309; $3.99] [BB] [BBT]
[Boxed set 4 (books 13-16?): Scholastic Trade; 1998; 0590284347;
$15.96] [BB]
[17: The Underground: Apple; 1998; 0590494368; $3.99] [BB] [BBT]
[18: The Decision: Apple; 1998; 0590494414; $3.99] [BB] [BBT]
[Megamorphs 2: In the Time of Dinosaurs: Apple; 1998; 0590956159;
$3.99] [BB] [BBT]
Apuleius
+ The Golden Ass {78/71,AHW/} [BBT]
[Moonday Press; 1992; 51-01414; ?]
[trans. P.G. Walsh: Oxford University Press; 1995; 0192824929; $11.95]
[BB]
[trans. Robert Graves: Noonday Press; 0374505322; $?] [BB]
* [Cause: MA Result: BX/AN.] The hero transforms into an ass by
smearing himself with salve. Someone else turns into an owl by the
same means. It's more comedy than horror, but it's good when
Robert Graves is the translator - accept no substitutes on the
translator or eftsoons ye will regret ere matins. -AHW
* This book..is terrific, and probably one of the best
transformation stories I have read. If you are at all interested,
find this. Definitely avoid older translations though. You will
have a hard time understanding (I did)... If you have trouble
finding it, you may wish to try at university bookstores under
literature. -78
* Written c. 150 AD, this, the only other Latin novel we have, is an
elaborate romance, hilarious and bawdy, about the adventures of "a
young voluptuary from the provinces who travels to Thessaly,
partakes of a magic potion, and is transformed into an Ass." -71
Armstrong, F. W.
0 The Changing {/87,154/} [BBT]
[TOR; 1985; 0812527542; $3.50] [BB]
* [Result: LY.] Lycanthropy as parasite with psychological
overtones; pretentious. Skimps on the violence but often wallows
in gross-out sexual images... -87
* Lycanthropy. -154
Arnason, Eleanor [BL] [DZ]
? Daughter of the Bear King {/Ph/} [BBT]
[Avon; 1987; 0380751097; $3.50] [BB]
* Result: BX/AN. Not read, but the main character at least appears
to turn into a bear. -Ph
0 To the Resurrection Station {/42/} [BBT]
[Avon; 1986; 0380751100; $3.50] [BB]
[Pocket; 1988; 0671559613; $?] [BB]
* The Resurrection Station's function is to provide new bodies,
though this turns out to be somewhat peripheral to the story. -42
Asimov, Isaac [SS] [AL] [BL] [BR] [GS]
0 The Gods Themselves {/40/} [BBT]
[Fawcett Crest; 1973; 449-01829-125; $1.25]
[Bantam Spectra; 1990; 0553288105; $6.50] [BB]
* One part involves a rather surprising transformation. -40
Asimov, Janet [AL]
- Mind Transfer {//18} [BBT]
[Ace; 1989; 044153306X; $3.95] [BB]
[Walker & Co.; 1988; 0802767486; $17.95 hardcover] [BB]
* [Result: MT.] Really isn't a 'transformation' as the minds are
transferred from one body to another, the body doesn't change into
the other. But it's good. -18
Asprin, Robert [AL] [BL] [BR]
+ Mything Persons {11,64//} [BBT]
[Ace; 1991; 0441552765; $5.50] [BB]
* Rating: 3 Result: VA Significance: + Description: 0 Saturation: +.
Part of Asprin's 'Myth' series; this is the last one worth
reading. -11
* Rating: 2 Result: VA Significance: + Description: 0 Saturation: +.
Skeeve and gang visit a dimension where the natives are vampires
with all the traditional powers (ie Bat form, etc.) -64
Asprin, Robert(ed.); Abbey, Lynn (ed.)
? Thieves' World anthologies {/61/} [BBT]
[The first four are edited by Robert Asprin only.]
[1:Thieves' World: Ace; 1983; 0441805817; $2.95] [BB] [BBT]
[1:Thieves' World: Ace; 1990; 0441805914; $?] [BB]
[2:Tales from the Vulgar Unicorn: Ace; 1980; 0441795773; $2.75] [BB]
[BBT]
[2:Tales from the Vulgar Unicorn: Ace; 1991; 0441805906; $?] [BB]
[3:Shadows of Sanctuary: Ace; 1983; 0441760295; $2.95] [BB] [BBT]
[3:Shadows of Sanctuary: Ace; 1990; 0441806015; $?] [BB]
[4:Storm Season: Ace; 1982; 0441787134; $?] [BB] [BBT]
[5:The Face of Chaos: Ace; 1984; 0441225500; $2.95] [BB] [BBT]
[5:The Face of Chaos: Ace; 1985; 0441805876; ?] [BB]
[6:Wings of Omen: Ace; 1985; 0441805884; $2.95] [BB] [BBT]
[6:Wings of Omen: Ace; 1987; 0441805965; $?] [BB]
[7:The Dead of Winter: Ace; 1987; 0441140890; $2.95] [BB] [BBT]
[8:Soul of the City: Ace; 1986; 0441775810; $3.50] [BB] [BBT]
[9:Blood Ties: Ace; 1986; 0441805957; $2.95] [BB] [BBT]
[9:Blood Ties: Ace; 1987; 0441805981; $?] [BB]
* [Cause: MA/MC.] ...You might look into Asprin-Abbey's Thieves'
World series with Sorcerers being changed and performing changes.
I can't spot you a specific instance as I haven't read them for
some time. -61
Attanasio, A. A. [AL]
? Solis [??] {/Ph/} [BBT]
[HarperCollins; 1994; 006017787X; $23.00 hc] [BB]
[Harper; 1995; 0061090921; $4.50] [BB]
* [Cause: AS.] The protagonist has his brain cryogenically
suspended, and is revived in a future nowhere near as enlightened
as he was hoping for. Not read; given a positive review in Locus
402, p.21. -Ph
Awlinson, Richard
0 Avatar series (Forgotten Realms) {/54/}
[Shadowdale: TSR; 1989; 0880387300; $5.99] [BB] [BBT]
[Tantras: TSR; 1989; 0880387483; $5.99] [BB] [BBT]
[Waterdeep: TSR; 1989; 0880387599; $5.99] [BB] [BBT]
* [Result: BX/AN.] One character is cursed to change into a panther
occasionally. (Adds good characterization, but not much to the
plot.) (see Spoiler Section for more information) -54
Axelrod, George
? Goodbye Charlie {/11/} [BBT]
[?]
* Result: MT/GC; not read. -11
Where to from here?
From here you can go up to the list index, up to the contributor list,
on to the B's, on to the short story entries, or on to spoilers.
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Books: B
Baker, Nancy
0 The Night Inside {/127/} [BBT]
[Viking; 1993; ?]
[Ballantine; 1994; 0449909042; $?] [BB]
* [Result: VA/PE.] A young woman is abducted to supply blood for a
captive vampire; she and the vampire realise that the only way
they can escape is by turning her. The rest of the book describes
what happens as she struggles to survive alone in Toronto. The
Night Inside emphasizes her psychological transformation as well
as her physical differences. -127
Ball, Brian N.
0 The Probability Man {/104/} [BBT]
[DAW; 1971; No ISBN; $0.95]
* Rating: 3 Cause: AX/CM/GM Result: BM Significance: 0 Description:
+ Saturation: +. A future setting sends humans to alternate
history-style adventures; Spingarn, the central character,
activated "Frames" that cause human entries to be transformed into
new and very different forms. He and three others are sent to
deactivate the "Frames." Difficult to follow on a first
read-through; Ball is very scrupulous about authenticity; the
characters never explain things they already know to one
another--so the reader has to infer the meaning of the "Frames"
and the specific problem. Fairly well-written, though. Sequel is
Planet Probability. -104
+ Planet Probability {104//} [BBT]
[DAW; 1973; No ISBN; $0.95]
* Rating: 3 Cause: AX/CM/GM Result: BM Significance: + Description:
+ Saturation: +. Sequel to The Probability Man. The Frames have
not been deactivated; some people are still being transformed into
new beings (including dinosaurs and sabre-toothed tigers). A pair
is sent to look for Spingarn and close the Frames. Again, a bit
difficult to follow on a first reading, although it is more clear
on its first reading than The Probability Man. Fairly
well-written. -104
Banks, Iain M. [AL] [BL]
- Culture series {/TG/11}
[The Player of Games: Harper & Row; 1989; 0061000981; $4.50] [BB]
[BBT]
[The Player of Games: Harper Collins; 1997; 0061053562; $10.00
softcover] [BB]
* In a future society, people can change their bodies in myriad ways
using glands they have modified themselves (as a race) to possess.
The only transformations in The Player of Games take place off
stage and have almost no impact upon the story, so it's not worth
reading for them. It is a quite good read, though. SF; Rating: 4
Cause: GM Result: GC Significance: - Description: - Saturation: -.
-11
[Consider Phlebas: Bantam Spectra; 1991; 0553292811; $5.99] [RR] [BB]
[BBT]
[Use of Weapons: Bantam Spectra; 1992; 0553292242; $4.99] [RR] [BB]
[BBT]
[Against a Dark Background: Bantam Spectra; 1993; 0553292250; $5.99]
[BB] [BBT]
Banks, Raymond E. [??]
? The Moorapers {/154/} [??] [BBT]
[1980; ?] (98/02/12)
Barker, Clive [SS] [BL] [BR]
0 Cabal {/65/} [BBT]
[Pocket; 1989; 0671685147; $4.50] [BB]
Barnes, Steven
0 The Kundalini Equation {/22,87/} [BBT]
[Tor; 1986; 0812531507; $3.50] [BB]
[Forge; 1995; 0812531507; $?] [BB]
* Kind of a berserker transformation, with some twists. -22
* Sort of Altered States on steroids. -87
Bass, T.J.
0 The Godwhale {/103/} [BBT]
[Ballantine; 1974; 345-24647-0; $1.50] [BB]
[Ballantine; 1989; 0345310950; $?] [BB]
* Rating: 2 Significance: 0 Description: - Saturation: 0. Set on the
same world as Half past human, but I'm not sure if it's a sequel.
There don't seem to be any carry-overs. One character has his legs
destroyed in an accident, and later uses a horse-like robot walker
to move around. Others learn to live in the ocean. Again, I
wouldn't read it just for the transformations. -103
0 Half Past Human {/103/} [BBT]
[Ballantine; 1971; 345-24635-7; $1.50] [BB]
[Ballantine; 1983; 0345311159; $?] [BB]
* Rating: 1 Significance: 0 Description: - Saturation: -. A citizen
in a hive-like culture is ordered to become sexually mature and
find a mate. I wouldn't read it for it's transformation, though
it's not too bad. -103
Bassingthwaite, Don [??]
0 Breathe Deeply {/154,Ph/} [??] [BBT]
[White Wolf; 1995; 1565048814; $5.99] [BB]
* [Result: LY.] Lycanthropy. -154 (98/02/12)
* Set in the World of Darkness background (from the White Wolf
roleplaying games). Not read. -Ph
Baudino, Gael [BL]
0 Dragonsword series {/11,TG/} (98/02/14)
[1: Dragonsword: ROC; 1991; 0451450817; $4.99] [BB] [BBT]
* Rating: 2 Result: MX/GC Significance: 0 Description: - Saturation:
0. Fantasy; magic. Not really good or bad, more just there. Little
detail to the transformations, though a fair amount of care is
given to examining their effects, at least in one instance. -11
[2: Duel of Dragons: New American Library; 1993; 0451450973; $4.99]
[BB] [BBT]
[3: Dragon Death: New American Library; 1993; 0451451473; $4.99] [BB]
[BBT]
Baum, L. Frank [GS]
0 The Lost Princess of Oz {/75/} [BBT]
[Ballantine; 1990; 0345333675; $4.99] [BB]
* [Cause: MA Result: BM.] The villain uses shapechanging spells on
the heroes in the final battle. -75
0 The Magic of Oz {/75/} [BBT]
[Del Rey; 1991; 0345332881; $4.95] [BB$]
* [Cause: MA Result: BM.] The villain discovers a shape-changing
spell unknown to Glinda and the Wizard, and wreaks havoc. -75
0 The Marvelous Land of Oz {/42/} [FT] [BBT]
[Ballantine; ?]
[Dover; 1985; 0486206920; $7.95] [BB]
* (See Spoiler section for more info.) -42
- Rinkitink in Oz {//75} [BBT]
[Ballantine; 1990; 0345333179; $4.95] [BB]
* One of the characters is a talking goat. Near the end, it is
discovered that he is an enchanted human; but the enchantment is
really powerful, and to change him back to his proper shape Glinda
has to go through a roundabout series of transformations: goat ->
lamb -> ostrich -> tottenhot -> mifket -> Prince. Rating: 5 Cause:
MA Result: BX/AN Significance: -. -75
0 The Road to Oz {/75/} [BBT]
[Ballantine; 1991; 0345334671; $4.95] [BB]
[Puffin; 1993; 0140351213; $2.99] [BB]
* [Result: MX/AN.] The Shaggy Man is given a donkey's head as a boon
by the king of Dunkiton, and Button-Bright is given a fox's head
as a boon by King Dox of Foxville. They do not appreciate these
gifts. On finally reaching Oz, they bathe in the Truth Pond and
are restored to their proper shapes. -75
0 The Tin Woodman of Oz {/75/} [BBT]
[Ballantine; 1988; 0345333436; $4.99] [BB]
[Amazon.com lists as: Ballantine; 1988; 0345334361; $?] [BB]
* [Cause: MA Result: BX/IN/AN.]
* More detail and background on the piecemeal transformation of Nick
Chopper into a tin man. Really neat... There is another
interesting transformation. The Scarecrow, the Tin Woodman, and
Woot the Wanderer are travelling together, and come to the home of
Mrs. Yoop the giantess. She makes them prisoners and turns the Tin
Woodman into a tin own, the Scarecrow into a straw stuffed bear,
and Woot into a Green Monkey. They escape, and, later, when Ozma
and Glenda find them, they have no trouble restoring the Scarecrow
and Nick Chopper, but it seems a Green Monkey can't be transformed
by any known magic. At last they hit upon giving the Green Monkey
shape to Mrs. Yoop, and transformating Mrs. Yoop's shape to Woot's
body. -75
Beagle, Peter S. [SS] [BL]
0 The Innkeeper's Song {/3/} [BBT]
[ROC; 1993; 0451452887; $20.00 hardcover] [BB]
[New American Library; 1994; 0451454146; $11.95] [BB]
* [Result: BX.] Beagle's new book [...] has a fox who changes into a
man. There are even a couple of chapters told in first person from
his point of view. There are other transformations... -3
0 The Last Unicorn {/3/} [BBT]
[New American Library; 1994; 0451450523; $11.95] [BB]
[In The Fantasy Worlds of Peter Beagle; Del Rey; 1978; 034527525X; $?]
[BB] [BBT]
[In The Fantasy Worlds of Peter Beagle; Ballantine; 1983; 0345289676;
$?] [BB]
* [Rating: 5.] Has an interesting transformation (it's a bit of a
spoiler if I tell you what it is), and is one of the best books
I've ever read. -3
+ Lila the Werewolf {11,Ph/3/}
[Capra Press; ?; 091226490X; $?] [BB]
[In The Fantasy Worlds of Peter Beagle; Del Rey; 1978; 034527525X; $?]
[BB] [BBT]
[In The Fantasy Worlds of Peter Beagle; Ballantine; 1983; 0345289676;
$?] [BB]
[in Werewolf! by Pronzini]
* Another (brilliant) werewolf story. -3
* Rating: 2 Result: LY Significance: + Description: 0 Saturation: +.
-11
* One of the more down-to-earth werewolf stories I've read, showing
some of the problems of life as a werewolf in the big city. -Ph
Bear, Greg [AL] [BL] [BR]
+ Blood Music {142/11,13,22/} [BBT]
[Ace; 1986; 0441067972; $4.50] [BB]
[Ace; 1996; 0441003486; $13.95] [BB]
* Rating: 2 Cause: GM Significance: + Description: 0 Saturation: -.
Horror; genetic manipulation error. -11
* Rating: 4 Cause: AS/NT Result: BX Significance: +.
Nanotechnologist Vergil Ulam has discovered a way to make
individual cells intelligent. When he gets fired from his job, to
avoid losing his hard-earned research to the company, he injects
the intelligent cells into his own body. Pretty soon he starts
noticing some odd changes in his eyesight, his hearing, even his
sex life, as his body becomes a host to literally billions of
intelligences. Then things get really funky. -142 (98/02/14)
0 Eon {/77/} [BBT]
[TOR; 1986; 0812537144; $4.95] [BB]
[TOR; 1995; 0812520475; $6.99] [BB]
0 Eternity {/77,79/} [BBT]
[Legend; 1990; 009970630X; $4.99?] [BB]
[Warner; 1994; 0446601888; $5.99] [BB]
* [Result: MT.] SF novel, sequel to Eon. One person's mind is taken
over by a Jart (an alien). -79
On Eon and Eternity:
* [Result: BX/ST.] A wildly changed humanity occupying the
space-time tube known as the Way; implants to preserve personality
beyond the death of the body, artificial designer bodies, children
conceived and raised in City Memory, who, on completion of their
education, pass their embodiment exams and are allowed a physical
body of their choice. -77
0 Queen of Angels {/77/} [RR] [BBT]
[Questar; 1991; 0446361305; $4.95] [BB]
[Warner; 1994; 0446361305; $5.99] [BB]
* [Cause: NT Result: BM.] One of the principal characters has a
transformed body, and meets another, peripheral character with a
metabolism designed for space (presumably immune to zero-G calcium
loss etc) These are nanotech modifications of an adult body,
rather than the result of genetic manipulation. -77
0 The Serpent Mage {/42/} [BBT]
[Berkley; 1986; 0425093379; $3.50] [BB]
[combined with The Infinity Concerto: Tor; 1995; 0312856695; $24.95
hardcover] [BB]
[combined with The Infinity Concerto: Tor; 1996; 0812536037; $6.99]
[BB]
* [Cause: MC? Result: BX/AN.] The most significant transformation
here is that of a millions-of-years-old mage to/from Loch-Ness
Monster. Great book; sequel to The Infinity Concerto. -42
Bell, Clare [??]
+ The Jaguar Princess {105//} [BBT]
[Tor; 1994; 0812515161; $4.99] [BB]
[Tor; 1993; 0312097042; $?] [BB]
* Rating: 4 Result: BM/AN/SC? Significance: + Description: +
Saturation: 0. Summary: A young slave girl tries to survive under
the rule of the Aztecs. It is discovered that she has a supurb
skill for artistry, and becomes a scribe. Simultaneously she has
to deal with her unknown ancestry; her people were descended from
the ancient Olmec Jaguar gods. Transformation: Main character
transforms into jaguar, with little control over this. Several
partial transformations. -105
Benford, Gregory [AL] [BL] [BR]
- Across the Sea of Suns {/TG/11} [BBT]
[Bantam Spectra; 1988; 0553282115; $4.50] [BB]
[Bantam; 1984; 0517490986; $?] [BB]
* SF; Cause: AS Significance: 0 Description: - Saturation: -. Second
in the series; portions of a crew decide to modify their bodies to
relieve boredom during the mission. -11
Benford, Gregory; Brin, David
- The Heart of the Comet {//42} [BBT]
[Bantam Spectra; 1987; 0553258397; $6.99] [BB]
* [Cause: SY Result: MT.] An isolated fraction of the human race
transforms itself in a short time, in multiple ways--some through
personality transfer, some through acquisition of symbionts.
Borderline for this list. -42
Benford, Gregory; Eklund, Gordon [??]
0 Find the Changeling {/91/} [??] [BBT]
[Dell; 1990; 0440126045; $2.75] [BB]
* Rating: 2 Cause: NA Result: SC Significance: 0. The Changeling is
an alien capable of becoming anything. The race tries to create
chaos without space. Two Earthmen are trying to find and kill it.
Not bad, but not spectacular. -91
Berlyn, Michael
0 The Integrated Man {/11,TG/} [BBT]
[Bantam; 1980; 0553139991; $1.95] [BB]
* Mind transfers via silicon wafers. Not terribly interesting. SF;
Rating: 2 Result: MT/GC Significance: 0 Description: 0 Saturation:
0. -11
Bester, Alfred [AL] [BR] [DZ]
0 The Computer Connection {/75/} [BBT]
[Berkley; 1976; 425-03039-150; $1.50]
[Putnam; 1975; 0399114815; $?] [BB]
* [Result: BX/AR/HG.] A mediocre book, but with a couple of somewhat
interesting transformations. Occasionally, a human being dying in
great pain, fully conscious, and so forth, will become an immortal
Molecular Man capable of breathing any gas by transmuting it into
oxy-nitro, and eating any substance and drinking any fluid. The
other transformation is when several cryonauts, being frozen for a
journey to the Oort cloud and back (I think), regress to become
unborn babies, and when they are unfrozen they start to grow up
again, but this time as hermaphrodites. Go figure. -75
0 Tiger! Tiger! {/47/} [BBT]
[Penguin; 1974; 0140026207; ?] [BB]
* [Rating: 3.] A classic work by this man, the 'hero' of the story
has some interesting problems and eventually manages through a
bizarre change to become capable of Teleportation. A good read, a
3... I wouldn't read it again and again... ;-) -47
Betancourt, John Gregory
- Jonny Zed {//103} [BBT]
[Warner; 1988; 0445205598; ?] [BB]
* [Cause: AM Result: BM/AN.] Rating: 2 Significance: - Description:
- Saturation: -. I don't think the book actually has any
transformation in it, but it has lots of references to some and a
few characters have been surgically transformed into "animen" at
some point in the past. -103
Biggle, Lloyd Jr. [AL]
0 Watchers of the Dark {/42/} [BBT]
[Dorchester; 1975; 0685531287; $?]! [BB]
* [Result: SC.] The bad guys are shape-changers (or at least
illusionists)--a fact of little importance to the story. -42
Bill, Alfred H. [??]
0 The Wolf in the Garden {/87/} [??] [BBT]
[Centaur; 1972; 0878180087; $?] [BB]
* Just picked this one up and haven't read it yet. -87
Bischoff, David; Brown, Rich; Richardson, Linda [??]
- A Personal Demon {//11} [??] [BBT]
[Signet/New American Library; 1985; 0451138147; $2.95] [BB]
* Fantasy; Rating: 3 Cause: MA/MC Result: BX Significance: -
Description: 0 Saturation: 0. An alcoholic college professor
accidentally summons a demon, who proceeds to wreak havoc and fall
in love. Transformations are minor elements; fun, but very
lightweight. -11
Bishop, Michael (ed.); Watson, Ian (ed.) [BR:Bishop]
+ Changes (anthology) {Ph//} [BBT]
[Ace; 1983; 0441102603; $2.75] [BB]
* Rating: 4 Significance: +. A very good collection of 18 stories
(listed elsewhere), that's recent enough to still be very
available in used book stores. -Ph
Blair, Cynthia [??]
0 Dark Moon Legacy series {/154/} [??] [BBT]
[1: The Curse: Harper; 1993; 0061061581; $?] [BB] [BBT]
[2: The Seduction: Harper; 1993; 0061061514; $3.99] [BB] [BBT]
[3: The Rebellion: Harper; 1993; 0061061603; $3.99] [BB] [BBT]
* [Result: LY.] Lycanthropy. -154 (98/02/12)
Blish, James [SS] [AL] [BR] [DZ]
0 Midsummer Century {/42/} [BBT]
[DAW; 1974; 451-UQ1094-095; $.95]
[Doubleday; 1972; 0385016271; $?] [BB]
* [Result: MU.] A man finds his mind occupying a non-human body in
the far future. The other 'occupant' is not amused. -42
0 The Triumph of Time {/22/} [BBT]
[Avon; 1966; S221; $.60]
* This one has the protagonist becoming a minor universe. -22
Bloch, Robert; Norton, Andre
? The Jekyll Legacy {/Ph/} [RR] [BBT]
[Tor; 1991; 0812515838; $4.99] [BB$]
* This one is an "inductive reasoning" entry; since it's a sequel to
Stevenson's Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and that's a transformation
story, this one probably is as well. With my luck, though, it
won't be, and someone can embarrass me by telling me so. ;-) -Ph
Blumlein, Michael
0 XY {/11,86/} [BBT]
[Dell/Abyss; 1993; 0440213746; $4.99] [BB]
* About a man who walks into a bar and through some sort of sonic
device transfers minds with a beautiful barroom dancer. He/she
then has to come to grips with the fact of his entrapment when his
old body dies (for some unremembered reason). Not bad although
some of this author's ideas of a relationship need some
psychiatric help. -86
* Horror; Rating: 1 Cause: X Result: MT/GC Significance: 0
Description: - Saturation: -. The transformation is left
completely unexplained; the only thing interesting about the
transformation is the psychological effects, and those are not
pleasant reading. Maybe not bad, but certainly not good IMHO. -11
Boyd, John [SS] [AL] [DZ]
0 The Organ Bank Farm {/42/} [BBT]
[Bantam; 1972; 553-07049-075; $.75]
* [Cause: GM/AM Result: MT.] Genetic manipulation and brain
transplants. Good, slightly macabre tongue-in-cheek. -42
Boyer, Elizabeth [BR]
0 The Elves and the Otterskin series {/45/}
[The Elves and the Otterskin: Del Rey; 1985; 0345320549; $2.95] [BB]
[BBT]
[The Sword and the Satchel: Del Rey; 1983; 0345309863; $2.95] [BB]
[BBT]
[The Sword and the Satchel: Ballantine; 1989; 0345336011; $?] [BB]
[The Thrall and the Dragon's Heart: Del Rey; 1983; 034531445X; $2.95]
[BB] [BBT]
[The Thrall and the Dragon's Heart: Ballantine; 1983; 0345337492; $?]
[BB]
[The Wizard and the Warlord: Del Rey; 1983; 0345307119; $2.95] [BB]
[BBT]
* [Result: BX/AN.] ...Are light-hearted fantasy and follow a plot
that differs only in details. Always some green youth finds a
powerful magic item and journeys forth to destroy an evil wizard
who threatens to enslave or destroy the world, etc. -45
0 The Troll's Grindstone series {/45/}
[The Troll's Grindstone: Del Rey; 1986; 0345321820; $3.50] [BB] [BBT]
[The Curse of Slagfid: Del Rey; 1989; 0345332652; $3.95] [BB] [BBT]
[The Dragon's Carbuncle: Del Rey; 1990; 0345354591; $4.95] [BB] [BBT]
* [Result: BX/AN.] ...Begin in the same setting, but are a series,
and, IMHO, rather more rewarding. -45
On The Elves and the Otterskin series and The Troll's Grindstone
series:
* [Result: BX/AN.] Most elves and all wizards have power to
transform themselves into one other creature, their fylgja. -45
Bradbury, Ray [AL] [BR]
+ Something Wicked This Way Comes {69//} [BBT]
[Bantam; 1970; 553-03408-075; $.75]
[Bantam Spectra; 1983; 0553280325; $5.50] [BB]
[Avon; 1998; 0380729407; $5.99] [BB]
* [Result: AR.] The carousel at the evil carnival makes people older
or younger, depending on whether it is turning forwards or
backwards. Used heavily in the plot. -69
Bradley, Marion Zimmer [AL] [BR] [DZ]
0 Endless Universe {/42/} [BBT]
[aka Endless Voyage] [BBT]
[Ace; 1979; 0441206611; $1.95] [BB]
[Ace; 1982; 0441206689; $?] [BB]
* [Cause: AM Result: BM.] Space travel requires surgical adaptation.
-42
0 The World Wreckers {/42,TG/} [BBT]
[Ace; 1971; 0441911722; $1.75] [BB]
[DAW; 1994; 0886776295; $4.99] [BB$]
* [Result: HG.] Hermaphrodites who go through a gender-shifting
metamorphosis. -42
Bradley, Marion Zimmer (ed.) [BL]
? Darkwater (anthology) {/3/} [BBT]
[?]!
* [Result: BX/AN.] There are also a few stories in [this] anthology,
but I don't remember others. In fact, I only remember the name of
one story-- 'Lady into Fox' is about a woman who, for no
particularly good reason ('There was no family history of this
sort of thing,' to quote the story), changes into a fox. The story
mostly focuses on her husband's attempts to deal with the change.
-3
* Brian Eirik Coe was nice enough to provide the editor's name,
which was previously unknown. -Ph
* I still haven't been able to locate this book. I have found
references to a Lady Into Fox authored by David Garnett and
published by Knopf in 1923; does anyone know whether this is the
same thing? -Ph
? Sword and Sorceress (anthology series) {/38/} [BBT]
[I: DAW; 1984; 0879979283, $2.95] [BB] [BBT]
[II: DAW; 1985; 0886770416, $2.95] [BB] [BBT]
[II: DAW; 1989; 0886773601; $?] [BB]
[III: DAW; 1986; 0886773024, $3.95] [BB] [BBT]
[IV: DAW; 1987; 0886772109, $3.50] [BB] [BBT]
[IV: DAW; 1989; 0886774128; $?] [BB]
[V: DAW; 1988; 0886772885, $3.95] [BB] [BBT]
[VI: DAW; 1990; 0879974233, $4.50] [RR] [BB] [BBT]
[VII: DAW; 1990; 0886774578, $4.50] [BB] [BBT]
[VIII: DAW; 1991; 0886774861, $4.50] [RR] [BB] [BBT]
[IX: DAW; 1992; 0886775094; $4.50] [BB] [BBT]
[X: DAW; 1993; 0886775523; $4.99] [BB] [BBT] {/132/}
[XI: DAW; 1994; 0886776147; $?] [BB] [BBT]
[XII: DAW; 1995; 0886776570; ?] [BB] [BBT]
[XIII: DAW; 1996; 0886777038; $5.99] [BB] [BBT] {/132/}
[XIV: DAW; 1997; 0886777410; $5.99] [BB] [BBT]
[XV: DAW; 1998; 0886777682; $5.99] [BB] [BBT]
* [Cause: MA/MC Result: BX.] Every volume in the series has at least
one or two transformation stories. Some good, some mediocre.
Fantasy. -38
* (On Sword & Sorceress X:) Also, I had a story[...]called "In
Sheep's Clothing" which is again a werewolf story. [Result: LY.]
-132 (98/02/06)
* (On Sword & Sorceress XIII): My story "Crow Feathers"[...]is about
a human-avian tranformation. [Result: BX/AN.] -132 (98/02/06)
Brandner, Gary
+ Cat People {/83/} [BBT]
[Fawcett; 1982; 0449144704, $2.95] [BB$]
* [Cause: NA Result: SC/AN.] Shapechanging (Based on the 1982
version of the film Cat People). -83
+ The Howling {11/Ph,65,87,154/} [BBT]
[Fawcett; 1977; 0449138240, $1.75] [BB]
[Fawcett; 1986; 0449131556; $?] [BB]
* Rating: 2 Result: LY Significance: + Description: + Saturation: -.
Horror; lycanthropy. Traditional werewolf story. Somewhat the
basis for the original movie of the same name; definitely the
basis for the fourth movie in the series. A reasonably good
transformation description saves it from the trash heap. -11
* As a story it's fair at best, but as a transformation tale it's
worth a look, though I wouldn't quite give it a +. -Ph
* Lycanthropy. -154
- The Howling II {/87/11,65,Ph,154} [BBT]
[Fawcett; 1978; 0449140911; $1.95] [BB]
[Fawcett; 1984; 0449124002; $?] [BB]
* Rating: 1 Result: LY Significance: X Description: X Saturation: X.
Strongly not recommended. I couldn't get through it. -11
* Nor I... I just thought it should be listed since its previous
volume was. The transformation stuff isn't even as good as Howling
I. -Ph
* Lycanthropy. -154
0 The Howling III {/83,87,154/} [BBT]
[Fawcett; 1985; 0449128342, $3.50] [BB]
* [Result: LY.] Lycanthropy...The Howling II was rather bad, but III
is actually pretty decent! -83
* Lycanthropy. Teenage male werewolf wants to leave his pack. -154
(98/02/12)
On The Howling, The Howling II, The Howling III:
* Fairly good stuff; the movie follows the first one reasonably
well, the second one follows on the heels of the first (read 'em
back to back), but the third is the best read, set years after the
burning of Drago. Don't let the mass of movie sequels (6 and
counting) turn you off - only the first movie has anything to do
with the books. -87
Bridges, William [??]
0 The Silver Crown {/154,Ph/} [??] [BBT]
[White Wolf; 1995; 1565048822; $5.99] [BB]
* [Result: LY.] Lycanthropy. -154 (98/02/13)
* Another book set in the World of Darkness background from the
White Wolf roleplaying games. Not read. -Ph
Briery, Traci [??]
0 The Werewolf Chronicles {/154/} [??] [BBT]
[Zebra; 1995; 0821748424; $4.50] [BB]
* [Result: LY.] Lycanthropy. -154 (98/02/12)
0 Wolfsong {/154/} [??] [BBT]
[Zebra; 1996; 082175288X; $?] [BB]
* [Result: LY.] Lycanthropy. -154 (98/02/12)
Brin, David [AL] [BL] [BR]
0 The Postman {/22/} [BBT]
[Bantam; 1986; 0553257048; $3.95] [BB]
[Bantam; 1985; 0553051075; $?] [BB]
* Military enhancements. -22
0 Uplift series {/42/}
[Startide Rising: Bantam Spectra; 1993; 055327418X; $6.99] [BB] [BBT]
[Sundiver: Bantam Spectra; 1996; 0553269828; $6.50]! [BB] [BBT]
[The Uplift War: Spectra; 1987; 055325121X; $4.50] [BB] [BBT]
[The Uplift War: Spectra; 1996; 0553279718; $6.50] [BB]
* [Cause: GM Result: RM.] The transformation, by genetic
manipulation, is evolutionary rather than personal. (If you
haven't read Startide Rising go read it now, before finishing to
read this list.) -42
Brooks, Terry [AL] [BR]
0 The Elfstones of Shannara {/4/} [BBT]
[Ballantine; 1990; 0345285549; $6.99]! [BB]
* [Result: BX.] Young elf girl becomes a tree. -4
- Magic Kingdom series {/18/Ph}
[Magic Kingdom For Sale-Sold!: Ballantine; 1990; 0345317580; $6.99]
[BB] [BBT]
[The Black Unicorn: Ballantine; 1990; 0345335287; $6.99] [BB] [BBT]
[Wizard At Large: Ballantine; 1989; 0345362276; $6.99] [BB] [BBT]
* [Cause: MA Result: BX/AN.] Has a person magically turned into a
dog. Poor Abernathy. -18
* I wouldn't bother to find this for the sake of the
transformations. Abernathy's there, but a pretty minor plot
element, and he seemed pretty "cardboard" to me. -Ph
Brown, Crosland
0 Tombley's Walk {/87,154/} [BBT]
[Avon; 1991; 0380760975; $4.50] [BB$]
* [Result: BX/AN.] Infectous werewolves infest small-town Texas; the
change is one-way only. Fairly graphic violence, surprisingly good
read... -87
* [Result: LY.]Lycanthropy. -154
Bulgakov, Mikhail
+ Heart of a Dog {125//} [BBT]
[trans. Mirra Ginsburg: Grove Weidenfeld; 1987; 0802150594; $10.00]
[BB]
[trans. Michael Glenny: Harvill; 1997; 1860460828; $13.00] [BB]
* [Cause: AM Result: BX.] ...A medical experiment is performed on a
lovable stray dog named Sharik, when the testes and pituitary
gland of an executed criminal are implanted in him. Sharik morphs
into a human, but a petty and mean-spirited human, who manages to
find his niche in the Moscow city bureaucracy as the official
responsible for the extermination of the city's cats. (See Spoiler
Section for more information.) -125
Bull, Emma
0 War for the Oaks {/42/} [BBT]
[Ace; 1996; 0441870732; $5.99] [BB]
* [Cause: NA Result: LY.] A Pookha is a kind of were-dog. In case
you were wondering. -42
Burroughs, Edgar [AL] [DZ]
0 The Land that Time Forgot {/42/} [BBT]
[Tandem; 1975; 0426180321; $1.25] [BB]
[Ballantine; 1992; 034537407X; $?] [BB]
[Video: GTE; 1997; $9.99] [BB]
* [Cause: EC Result: RM.] Trilogy set in a land where evolution is
personal. Neanderthals wake up one day and find/decide that it's
time to become Cro-Magnons. -42
0 Synthetic Men of Mars {/42/} [BBT]
[Del Rey; 1988; 0345339304; $3.95] [BB]
* [Cause: AM Result: MT.] Pulp-era brain transplants. -42
Burton, Sir Richard (trans.)
0 The Arabian Nights {/3/} [FT] [BBT]
[Selections: Modern Library; 1997; 0679602356; $20.50 hardcover]! [BB]
[Selections: Crescent; 1993; 0517265753; $12.99] [BB]
* ...At least half the stories have transformations of one sort or
another. -3
Busby, F. M. [SS] [AL] [BL] [BR]
+ The Breeds of Man {11/TG/} [BBT]
[Bantam Spectra; 1988; 0553270087; $3.95] [BB]
* Rating: 4 Cause: GM Significance: 0 Description: + Saturation: +.
After conquering an AIDS-like plague, the inhabitants of Earth
find themselves unable to bear more than one child per partner's
blood type. The solution to that, however, produces some
unexpected side effects... (See the Spoilers Section for more
information.) -11
0 Demu Trilogy {/42/} [BBT]
[Pocket; 1980; 0671432885; $3.50] [BB]
* [Cause: AM Result: BM.] Aliens who believe themselves to have the
only acceptable form try to alter their captives to suit. -42
Butler, Octavia [AL] [BL] [DZ]
* Most everything recommended -8
+ Patternist series {11//}
[Wild Seed: Warner; 1995; 0445205377; $5.99] {Ph/8,12,87/} [BB] [BBT]
* Result: MT/BX Significance: +. One main character "transforms" by
possessing others' bodies when he dies; the other really
shapeshifts. Again, a great psychological story. -Ph
[Clay's Ark: Ace; 1985; 0441110894; $2.75] {64/42/} [BB] [BBT]
[Clay's Ark: Warner; 1996; 0446603708; $5.99] [BB]
* A space-born plague transforms much of the human race. -42
* Rating: 4 Result: BM Significance: + Description: + Saturation: +.
-64
[Patternmaster: Warner; 1995; 0446362816; $5.50] [BB] [BBT]
[Mind of My Mind: Questar; 1994; 0446361887; $5.99] [BB] [BBT]
[Survivor: Doubleday; 1978; 0385133855; $?] [BB] [BBT]
[The Parable of the Sower (maybe): Warner; 1995; 0446601977; $5.99]
[BB] [BBT]
On the whole series:
* I've only read Patternmaster, Wild Seed, and 1/2 of Mind of My
Mind, but would (based on these and her other works, plus the
opinion of my sister-in-law) recommend all of these books.
Patternmaster is the first written, weakest, and contains no
transformations. Wild Seed is, IMHO, perhaps the perfect example
of a "transformation story"--the transformations are well
described, reasonably explained for their environment, reasonably
frequent and varied, and still do not dominate the story--which is
wonderfully told. SF; Rating: 4 Cause: X Result: MT/SC
Significance: + Description: + Saturation: + -11
+ Xenogenesis series {11,Ph/8,12,15,TG/}
[Dawn: Warner; 1997; 0446603775; $5.99] [BB] [BBT]
[Adulthood Rites: Warner; 1995; 0445209038; $5.99] [BB] [BBT]
[Adulthood Rites: Warner; 1997; 0446603783; $5.99] [BB]
[Imago: Warner; 1997; 0446603635; $5.99] [BB] [BBT]
* Rating: 4 Cause: AX Result: BM Significance: + Description: +
Saturation: +. SF; Alien technology... An alien race comes upon an
Earth devastated by nuclear war, and rescues the survivors. Their
intention: to interbreed, incorporating the best of both races.
-11
* A fascinating look at the psychological aspects of such a
situation; is it better for humanity to die or to change to
something not really human? Different people make different
decisions, and the reader can empathize with all of them. -Ph
On Xenogenesis series and Wild Seed:
* Butler is an amazingly good writer who is not terribly well-known.
These books are unsettling. -12
Where to from here?
From here you can go up to the list index, up to the contributor list,
back to the A's, on to the C's, on to the short story entries, or on
to spoilers.
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Books: C
Cabell, James B. [AL] [BL] [DZ]
0 Poictesme series {/42/}
[1:Figures of Earth: Del Rey; 1979; 0345281705; $2.25] [BB] [BBT]
[2:The Silver Stallion: Del Rey; 1979; 0345280725; $2.25] [BB] [BBT]
[3:Domnei: Del Rey; 1979; 0345281713; $2.75] [BB] [BBT]
[3:Domnei: Ayer; 1920; 0836955498; $? hardcover] [BB]
[4:The High Place: Del Rey; 1979; 0345282841; $2.25] [BB] [BBT]
[4:The High Place: Amareon Ltd.; 1980; 0884117952; $22.95 hardcover]
[BB]
[5:Something About Eve: Del Rey; 1979; 034528352X; $2.25] [BB] [BBT]
[5:Something About Eve: Ballantine; ?; 0345020677; $?] [BB]
[6:The Cream of the Jest: Del Rey; 1979; 0345283589; $2.25] [BB] [BBT]
[6:The Cream of the Jest: New College; 1973; 0808403966; $?] [BB]
[?:Jurgen: A Comedy of Justice: Dover; 1978; 0486235076; $7.95] [BB]
[BBT]
[?]
* Especially Jurgen, and Figures of Earth. -42
Cadigan, Pat [BL] [SS]
0 Fools {/82/} [BBT]
[Spectra; 1992; 0553295128; $?] [BB]
* [Result: MT.] Personality transplants/overlays -- usually from
another person, maybe not always. There are others in the series;
only title I remember is Synners. Fools is well written; but
unless you're interested enough in the subject to keep track of
who's in the body that's telling the story/stories, you might
overdose quickly. -82
Cadnum, Michael
+ Saint Peter's Wolf {11,114,Ph/28,66,83,87,154/} [BBT]
[Carroll & Graf; SFBC]
[Carroll & Graf; 1991; 0881847283; $?] [BB]
[Zebra/Kensington; 1993; 0821741837, $4.99] [BB]
* This is a novel that explores the experience of becoming a
werewolf and the changes that take place in the protagonist. It is
quite good and is set from the point of view of the werewolf. -28
* Rating: 5 Result: LY Significance: +. The best psychological look
at the werewolf that I've seen. The jacket blurbs call it "the
best werewolf novel in fifteen years"; I certainly wouldn't argue.
-Ph
* Good, well-written, upbeat novel about a man becoming a werewolf
and how he deals with it. -87
* Horror/fantasy; Rating: 3 Result: LY Significance: + Description:
0 Saturation: 0. This is not your typical werewolf story.
Certainly one of the best werewolf books I've ever read, though
not the best descriptions of physical transformations. -11
* The transformation scene(s) is okay, also the first third of the
book; then it declines into a quite annoying chase through half a
state and gives us an esoteric explanation of the werewolf as a
kind of transcential being. Or was it just a bad German
translation I got? Transformation: thumb up. Rating: 2. -114
* Lycanthropy. -154
Caidin, Martin
0 Cyborg {/22,Ph/} [BBT]
[Warner; 1974; 0446766437; $1.25] [BB]
[Ballantine; 1984; 0345316207; $?] [BB]
* Good book; the TV version was $6M Man, which wasn't nearly so well
done. -22
* Rating: 3 Cause: AS/AM Result: BM Significance: 0. I wasn't all
that impressed by the book; still, it's one of the earliest
bionic-modification books I know of, and it's worth reading. You
know the plot line; test pilot crashes, has to be pieced together
with hardware, gets sent on impossible missions. -Ph
? Manfac {/11/} [BBT]
[Baen; 1988; 0671654098; $3.50] [BB]
* SF; not read. -11
* Cause: AS Result: BM. A man is crippled in a nuclear accident, and
a new body is built for him. Not read. -Ph
Caine, Geoffrey
0 Wake of the Werewolf {/87,154/} [BBT]
[Diamond; 1991; 1557735786; $4.50] [BB]
* [Result: LY.] It stinks. Imagine the Ghostbusters as militant
right-wing Christian fundamentalists, determined to wipe the
scourge of werewolves from the face of America, and you're not far
off. It reads like it was written by a twelve-year-old who'd
overdosed on GI Joe cartoons. -87
* Lycanthropy. -154
Callahan, Jay
? Night of the Wolf {/87,154,Ph/} [??] [BBT]
[Leisure; 1979; 0843922699; $3.25] [BB]
* Result: LY. Lycanthropy novel; not read. -Ph
* Lycanthropy. -154
Campbell, John [AL]
0 From Unknown Worlds {/87/} [??] [BBT]
[?]
Card, Orson Scott [SS] [AL] [BL] [BR]
0 Treason {/11,15,TG/} [RR] [BBT]
[St. Martin's; 1990; 0312920198; $4.95] [BB]
* A race of humans with regenerative powers has members whose bodies
transform uncontrollably--radical regeneratives. Apparently on TG
list because of mismatched body parts. SF; Rating: 4 Result: BM
Significance: 0 Description: + Saturation: -. -11
- Xenocide {//79} [BBT]
[TOR; 1992; 0812509250; $5.99] [BB]
* (See Spoiler Section for more info) -79
Card, Orson Scott (ed.)
0 Dragons of Darkness (anthology) {/20/} [BBT]
[Ace; 1983; 0441166644; $2.95] [BB]
[Baen; 1988; 155785033X; $?] [BB]
0 Dragons of Light (anthology) {/20/} [BBT]
[Ace; 1983; 044116661X; $2.95] [BB]
[Baen; 1988; 1557850372; $?] [BB]
Carroll, Lewis
0 Alice in Wonderland {/38/} [FT] [BBT]
0 Through the Looking Glass {/38/} [FT] [BBT]
[both of the above, published together: Bantam; 1988; 0553213458;
$2.25] [BB]
[both of the above, published togther: New American Library; 1995;
0451523202; $3.95] [BB]
On both of the above:
* A sort of measured strangeness, where the familiar becomes the
completely alien, in a short space of time. -38
Carter, Angela [SS] [AL]
0 The Bloody Chamber {/11,114/} [BBT]
[Penguin; 1979; 0140128379; $?]! [BB]
[Penguin; 1993; 014017821X; $11.95 softcover] [BB]
* A collection of fairy tales rewritten for adults. Includes at
least two werewolf stories. The stories I've read in it haven't
grabbed me. Horror; Rating: 2 Result: LY Significance: 0
Description: - Saturation: 0. -11
* Yes, it is very erotic, transformations are used as a metaphor for
sexuality and growing-up. BTW: It is not limited to werewolves.
Rating: 5. -114
* [Listings for the stories in this anthology are in the story
section.]
0 The Passion of New Eve {/3/} [BBT]
[Gollancz; ?; 0575022477; $?] [BB]
* [Result: GC.] ...About a man in a pretty apocalyptic future who
goes out into the desert after refusing to take responsibility for
impregnating his girlfriend. He's picked up by a group of woman
who change him into a woman. -3
Carter, Carmen
- Dreams of the Raven (Star Trek 34) {/75/} [BBT]
[Pocket; 1994; 0671743562; $5.50] [BB]
* [Cause: NA Result: MU.] The male Raven babies are mindless until
they eat a sentient alien, then they absorb its memory RNA, or
something like that, and it is as though the alien had been
transformed or transferred into a Raven body. Fairly good, but the
story doesn't focus that much on the folks who've been transformed
-- more on Kirk, Spock et al trying to prevent more folks being
eaten up. -75
Carver, Jeffrey
0 Chaos Chronicles series {/107/} [BBT]
[1:Neptune Crossing: Tor; 1995; 0812535154; $5.99] [BB] [BBT]
[2:Strange Attractors: Tor; 1996; 0812535162; $5.99] [BB] [BBT]
* [Cause: SY Result: MT.] ... has as one of its premises the
symbiotic presence of a noncorporeal alien called a quarx in the
mind of the protagonist. This is just the beginning point; his
journey through Neptune Crossing and Strange Attractors, and
further volumes to follow, involve a continuing process of
transformation in alien environments. -107
0 From a Changeling Star series {/40/}
[1:From a Changeling Star: Bantam Spectra; 1989; 0553276395; $3.95]
[BB] [BBT]
[2:Down the Stream of Stars: Bantam Spectra; 1990; 0553283022; $4.95]
[RR] [BB] [BBT]
* [Cause: NT Result: BM.] They are packed with ideas beyond what the
writer could handle, more suitable for a Star Trek show than
reading material. But if you like transformation, there's nanotech
remaking of people and one bizarre megatransformation. -40
0 The Infinity Link {/107/} [BBT]
[Tor; 1996; 0812533275; $?] [BB]
* [Result: MT.] Describes the journey of a young woman into a wholly
AI-based existence, and then into a telepathic residence in the
group mind of an alien culture. -107
0 Rigger series {/107/}
[Star Rigger's Way: Tor; 1994; 0812534441; $4.99] [BB] [BBT]
[Panglor: Tor; 1996; 0812534468; $6.99] [BB] [BBT]
[Seas of Empire: Tor; ?] [BBT]
[Dragons in the Stars: Tor; 1992; 0812533038; $4.99] [BB] [BBT]
[Dragon Rigger: Tor; 1994; 0812533232; $4.99] [BB] [BBT]
* [Cause: AS Result: MT/ST.] ... involve starflight through mental
transformations mediated through a rigger's sensory net. The most
recent of these, Dragon Rigger, goes considerably further,
involving complete transmigration of the personality and soul into
nonphysical forms. It also describes something called the
"underrealm," through which several of the dragons explore unusual
facets of their world. -107
Case, David
0 Wolf Tracks {/87,154/} [BBT]
[Leisure; 1984; 0843921668; $2.95] [BB]
[Leisure; 1988; 0843926252; $?] [BB]
* [Result: LY.] Set in Toronto. Not bad. Detective following a
lycanthrope. -87
* Lycanthropy. -154
Caspian, Jonatha A. [??]
0 The Nightmare Dream {/154/} [??] [BBT]
[West End; 1990; 0874313031; $4.95] [BB]
* Result: LY. See the entry on the Possibility Wars series, by Greg
Gordon and Bill Slavicsek, for more information. -Ph (98/02/13)
Cassidy, Carla [??]
0 Heart of the Beast {/154/} [??] [BBT]
[Harlequin; 1993; 0373270119; $?] [BB]
* [Result: LY.] Lycanthropy. -154 (98/02/13)
* From the Silhouette Shadows series, #11. Not read. -Ph
Chalker, Jack [SS] [AL] [BL] [BR]
On most/all his works (mentioned by
{1,2,3,7,12,13,17,22,31,33,34,35,75,Ph}):
* Physical transformations until they get tedious. -2
* Many of [his] works have the transformation theme, although he's
not a particularly good writer. -3
* I consider him a hack. -12
* I can think of one novel offhand written by Chalker that didn't
involve physical or mental transformation. And a few short
stories. (Well, one.) All the rest of it does to one degree or
another. -13
* Warning, he likes to transform everybody (eventually) into
beautiful nymphomaniac females with humongous breasts. While I
have stopped reading his books due to this tendency, he can
occasionally tell a good story. -31
* It seems like almost every one of his novels incorporates someone
who is transformed or switches bodies with someone else or has
their sex reversed or species changed. It might almost make a good
contest to come up with a Jack Chalker novel that doesn't include
at least one such individual however minor or seemingly irrelevant
to the story line. -34
* Try almost anything by Jack Chalker...everything Chalker writes
deals with the physical transformation of at least one, and
sometimes all, of his protagonists. In fact, even his Demons at
Rainbow Bridge has one character that gets changes, so I guess so
far he's batting a thousand in the Transformation Sweepstakes. (He
cheats, though, in Rings of the Master; there's no earthly reason
the changes should be irreversible except he doesn't want the
characters to be able to get away with it scot-free. -35
+ No, there were very good reasons for the transformations [in
Rings of the Master] being irreversible. -75
* People seem to either like or hate Jack Chalker. Personally, I
like him, in small doses. Several of his stories seem to be pretty
much the same plotwise, though. But he does use transformation
more than any other author I've seen. -Ph
- And the Devil Will Drag You Under {//11,31} [BBT]
[Del Rey; 1982; 0345305043; $2.50] [BB]
* Rating: 4 Cause: AS Result: MX Significance: - Description: 0
Saturation: -. SF...only touches on transformations, rather than
using that as a main theme. I just threw it in because it does
include a few transformations (minor) and is one of his better
books. -11
* There isn't much transformation, but there is a little, and some
of it is interesting. -31
- Changewinds series {/35/11} [BBT]
[When the Changewinds Blow: Ace; 1987; 0441880819; $3.50] [BB] [BBT]
[Riders of the Winds: Ace; 1988; 0441723519; $3.50] [BB] [BBT]
[War of the Maelstrom: Ace; 1988; 0441102689; $3.95] [BB] [BBT]
[omnibus volume: Baen; 1996; 0671877348; $15.00 softcover] [BB]
* Rating: 2 Cause: MA Result: MX/MT Significance: - Description: 0
Saturation: -... does deal some with physical transformations, but
not as much as other series/stories. -11
+ Dancing Gods series {11/2,35,75,TG/} [BBT]
[1:The River of Dancing Gods: Del Rey; 1984; 0345345010; $5.99] [BB]
[BBT]
[2:Demons of the Dancing Gods: Del Rey; 1990; 034530893X; $4.95] [BB]
[BBT]
[1&2 together: Ballantine; 1996; 0345402464; $6.99] [BB]
[3:Vengeance of the Dancing Gods: Ballantine; 1990; 0345315499; $5.99]
[BB] [BBT]
[4:Songs of the Dancing Gods: Del Rey; 1990; 0345347994; $4.95] [BB]
[BBT]
[3&4 together: Ballantine; 1996; 0345407717; $6.99] [BB]
[?:Horrors of the Dancing Gods: Del Rey; 1995; 0345376927; $5.99] [BB]
[BBT]
* Rating: 4 Cause: MA Result: LY(Random)/GC Significance: 0
Description: + Saturation: +... essentially humor/parody, and the
first three books are rather fun. -11
* ...Certain characters transform into whatever creature that happen
to be nearest to when the moon rises. -75
+ Downtiming the Nightside {11/TG/} [BBT]
[Tor; 1985; 0812532880; $2.95] [BB]
[Baen; 1993; 0671721704; $4.99] [BB]
* Rating: 1 Result: MT Significance: + Description: 0 Saturation: 0.
SF; time travel... When time-traveling, the traveler must have a
body to occupy at the destination, so one is made up--someone
unimportant, usually lower class, and most often someone who had
died young, but was now miraculously alive at the jump point. This
is, IMHO, Chalker's worst work; unorganized, poorly written, and
clunky. -11
+ Four Lords of the Diamond series {11/7,13,TG/} [BBT]
[Lilith: A Snake in the Grass: Ballantine; 1983; 034529369X; $2.50]
[BB] [BBT]
[Lilith: A Snake in the Grass: Ballantine; 1981; 0345344200; $?] [BB]
[Cerberus: A Wolf in the Fold: Ballantine; 1982; 0345293711; $2.50]
[BB] [BBT]
[Charon: A Dragon at the Gate: Del Rey; 1989; 0345293703; $3.95] [BB]
[BBT]
[Medusa: A Tiger by the Tail: Del Rey; 1983; 034529372X; $2.95] [BB]
[BBT]
[Omnibus volume?: Ballantine; 1991; 0345352475; $?] [BB]
* 4 books - some of his better work. -7
* Rating: 3 Cause: VI Result: MT/SC/GC Significance: + Description:
+ Saturation: +. SF; virus. -11
+ The Identity Matrix {11,TG//} [BBT]
[Pocket; 1992; 0671698540; $4.99] [BB]
* Rating: 5 Cause: AS Result: MU/GC Significance: + Description: +
Saturation: +. SF; Alien ability and advanced science. -11
0 The Messiah's Choice {/3/} [BBT]
[TOR; 1986; 0812532902; $3.50] [BB]
* [Cause: AS.] ...Has a few transformations, done by a computer...
-3
- Quintara Marathon series {/3,35,75/11} [BBT]
[1:Demons at Rainbow Bridge: Ace; 1990; 0441699928; $3.95] [BB] [BBT]
[2:The Run to Chaos Keep: Ace; 1992; 0441693482; $4.99] [BB] [BBT]
[3:The 90 Trillion Fausts: Ace; 1992; 044158103X; $4.99] [BB] [BBT]
* [Cause: AM/NT/VI Result: BM/MT.] IMO Chalker's best books so far.
There is some transformation by various means, nanotechnology or
viruses, I've forgot which, and by mind transfer, and by surgery,
and mental/moral transformation (some of it in the presence of the
god-alien Mizlaplan); but less of it than in his earlier books.
What there is of it is very central to the plot. -75
* [The Run to Chaos Keep] has pretty much no transformations, and
[The 90 Trillion Fausts] has some at the end. (I think they're
supposed to be nanotech). Nothing too major. -3
* SF; Rating: 3 Cause: GM/NT Result: MT Significance: - Description:
- Saturation: -. OK, I've only read the first book so far (have to
leave time for them to make the used book stores, you see... B^),
but Demons at Rainbow Bridge has no transformations. Oh, OK, there
are some mental transformations (mostly off- screen), some
genetically engineered beings, and the creation of a cyborg, but
nothing to compare with a typical Chalker novel. -11
+ Rings of the Master series {11/2,35/} [BBT]
[1:Lords of the Middle Dark: Del Rey; 1986; 0345325605; $3.50] [BB]
[BBT]
[2:Pirates of the Thunder: Del Rey; 1987; 0345325613; $5.99] [BB]
[BBT]
[3:Warriors of the Storm: Del Rey; 1988; 0345325621; $4.95] [BB] [BBT]
[4:Masks of the Martyrs: Del Rey; 1988; 0345343093; $3.95] [BB] [BBT]
* Rating: 3 Cause: AS Result: BX/GC Significance: + Description: +
Saturation: +. SF; Advanced science and natural ability. -11
+ Soul Rider (Flux and Anchor) series {11/1,2,17,TG/} [BBT]
[Spirits of Flux and Anchor: Tor; 1984; 0812532759; $2.95] [BB] [BBT]
[Empires of Flux and Anchor: Tor; 1984; 0812533291; $3.95] [BB] [BBT]
[Masters of Flux and Anchor: Tor; 1985; 0812532813; $2.95] [BB] [BBT]
[The Birth of Flux and Anchor: Tor; 1985; 0812532848; $3.50] [BB]
[BBT]
[Children of Flux and Anchor: Tor; 1986; 0812532864; $3.50] [BB] [BBT]
* ...Deal with people being transformed via spells into all types of
creatures and variations of creatures, both willingly and
unwillingly. -1
* Rating: 4 Cause: AS Result: MX/BX/GC Significance: + Description:
+ Saturation: +. SF; conversion mass -> energy -> mass. -11
0 Web of the Chozen {/11,22/} [BBT]
[Ballantine; 1987; 0345339592; $2.95] [BB]
[Ballantine; ?; 0345273761; $?] [BB]
* Rating: 2 Cause: VI Result: BX Significance: 0 Description: 0
Saturation: -. SF; virus. -11
+ Well World (Well of Souls) series {11/1,13,17,35,TG/} [BBT]
[Midnight at the Well of Souls: Ballantine; 1989; 0345324455; $5.99]
[BB] [BBT]
[Exiles at the Well of Souls: Del Rey; 1988; 0345324374; $5.99] [BB]
[BBT]
[Quest for the Well of Souls: Ballantine; 1995; 0345324501; $5.99]
[BB] [BBT]
[The Return of Nathan Brazil: Ballantine; 1990; 0345341058; $5.99]
[BB] [BBT]
[Twilight at the Well of Souls: Ballantine; 1991; 0345344081; $5.99]
[BB] [BBT]
* The Well World books basically have big holes in space where
humans sometimes fall in. They are then transported to the Well
World, where they are transformed into one of 800+ different
species. -1
* Rating: 4 Cause: AS Result: BX/GC Significance: + Description: -
Saturation: +. SF; machine. -11
+ Watcher of the Well of Souls series {78//} [BBT]
[Echoes of the Well of Souls: Del Rey; 1994; 0345386868; $5.99] [BB]
[BBT]
* [Cause: AS Result: BX/GC.] Reasonably good continuation of the
Well of Souls series... If you liked the rest, you will probably
enjoy this one. -78
[Shadow of the Well of Souls: Del Rey; 1994; 0345388461; $5.99] [BB]
[BBT]
* Rating: 4 Cause: AS/AM Result: BX Significance: + Description: +
Saturation: +. Second book in three book trilogy. Those familiar
with the Well Wrold series would probebly enjoy this. In the
spirit of that series, two opposing groups are in a flight for the
Well and control over the Well Computer. -78
[Gods of the Well of Souls: Del Rey; 1995; 034538850X; $5.99] [BB]
[BBT]
* Rating: 4 Cause: AS/AM Result: BX Significance: + Description: +
Saturation: 0. Conclution of the Watcher series. All of your
questions are answered(maybe). Not much transformation until the
end. -78
Chalker, Jack; Resnick, Mike; Effinger, George
- The Red Tape War {//11} [RR] [BBT]
[Tor; ?; 0312851510; $17.95 hardcover]* [BB]
* Rating: 2 Result: MU/GC Significance: - Description: - Saturation:
-. SF; Silly round-robin story, with no plot, little action, and
barely enough humor to get by. -11
Chandler, A. Bertram [AL]
0 Frontier of the Dark {/87/} [??] [BBT]
[Ace; 1984; 0441255043; $?] [BB]
* [Cause: AS Result: LY.] Man's faster-than-light drive aggravates
lycanthropy. Fairly good. -87
Charles, Stephen [??]
0 Nightmare Session {/154/} [??] [BBT]
[Pocket; 1986; 0671603256; $?] [BB]
* [Result: LY.] Lycanthropy. Private School series, #1. -154
(98/02/13)
Charrette, Robert
0 Secrets of Power trilogy {/42/} [BBT]
[1: Never Deal with a Dragon: Roc; 1990; 0451450787; $4.95] [RR] [BB]
[BBT]
* [Cause: MA Result: BX/SC.] Set in the universe of the Shadowrun
game, but surprisingly readable. Some of the characters are
shapechangers. In addition some are humans who came down with a
disease which causes them to be transformed into Orcs or Elves or
whatever. -42
Cherryh, C. J. [AL] [BL] [BR]
- Cyteen {//42} [BBT]
[New English Library; 1990; 0450500861; $4.99?]! [BB]
[Warner; 1995; 0446671274; $14.99 softcover] [BB]
* [Cause: AS.] One book in hardcover, three in paperback. This is
actually the opposite [of the Morganie series]. Essentially, it's
a study of what constitutes identity and, secondarily, what
constitutes genius. The book centers on an attempt to reproduce a
genius by cloning her and raising her in an identical environment
to the original. A superb book, though I'm not sure it's 'on
topic'. -42
0 Morganie series {/42/}
[Exile's Gate: DAW; 1995; 0886772540; $5.50] [BB] [BBT]
[Fires of Azeroth: DAW; 1995; 0886773237; $4.50] [BB] [BBT]
[Gate of Ivrel: DAW; 1995; 0886773210; $4.50] [BB] [BBT]
[Well of Shiuan: DAW; 1995; 0886773229; $4.50] [BB] [BBT]
* [Result: MU.] Sword and not-much-sorcery, except that the baddies
have the technology to transfer to new bodies when theirs wear
out. Which is too bad for the occupants. -42
- Voyager in Night {//45} [BBT]
[DAW; 1984; 0879979208; $2.95] [BB]
[DAW; 1986; 0886771072; $?] [BB]
* [Cause: AS/AX Result: BM.] I'm not sure if this qualifies... A
computer-run alien ship takes in some humans after the crash. Two
out of three humans die, but the computer has taken templates (?)
of them and can copy them at will. These copies then mutate in
quite different directions. I liked this book a lot. -45
Chesbro, George C.
0 The Fear in Yesterday's Rings {/99/} [BBT]
[Mysterious Press; 1991; 0892963964; $?] [BB]
[Warner; 1992; 0446401021; $?] [BB]
* [Result: LY?.] Murder/mystery centered around a circus. Killers
may or may not be werewolves (telling would be a spoiler). -99
Chesterton, G. K.
0 Side-Lights {/75/} [BBT]
[included in The Collected Works of G. K. Chesterton, Vol. 21;
Ignatius; 1990; 0898702720; $24.95] [BB] [BBT]
* [Cause: MA Result: BX.] ...There is an essay on magic in stories;
he remarks that bad magic generally enchants or transforms things,
and good magic restores them to their proper shape; and he gives
several examples from legends and fairy tales. -75
Chronister, Alan B.
0 Cry Wolf {/83,87,154/} [BBT]
[Zebra/Kensington; 1987; 0821720945, $3.95] [BB]
* [Result: LY.] Lycanthropy. -83
* Evil community of werewolves, but not a bad read. -87
* Lycanthropy. -154 (98/02/13)
Clarke, Arthur C. [AL] [BL] [BR]
+ Childhood's End {11,Ph/64/} [BBT]
[Del Rey; 1980; 034529467X; $5.95 softcover] [BB]
[Ballantine; 1987; 0345347951; $5.99] [BB]
* Rating: 5 Result: RM Significance: + Description: 0 Saturation: 0.
To me this is one of the classics, like the Xenogenesis series. It
deals with the transformation of an entire race, and the social
and psychological aspects of the events leading up to it. The
aliens assisting this change, who themselves can never change in
this way, are fascinating characters as well. -Ph
* Rating: 5 Significance: + Description: - Saturation: -. -64
* SF; Rating: 3 Cause: EC Result: BC Significance: + Description: -
Saturation: -. A good read, but I didn't enjoy it as much as
everyone else who's spoken up, FWIW. -11
0 2001: A Space Odyssey {/77/} [BBT]
[New American; 1991; 0451450639; $?] [BB]
[New American; 1993; 0451452739; $12.95] [BB]
* There are definitely major transformations at the beginning and
end of the book! -77
Clavell, James
0 King Rat {/75/} [BBT]
[Dell; 1993; 0440145465; $7.95] [BB]
* In a WWII prison camp in Malaya, some prisoners decide to organize
a camp theatre, but at first can't find anybody to play the female
parts. They draft a young fellow and, to help him get ready for
playing them, treat him like a woman; over time, he comes to think
of himself entirely as a woman. Only a small part of the book, but
it's worth seeking out for the transformation. -75
Clayton, Jo [AL]
0 Diadem series {/42/} [BBT]
[1:Diadem from the Stars: DAW; 1977; 0879972939; $1.50] [BB] [BBT]
[1:Diadem from the Stars: New American Library; 1984; 0879979771; $?]
[BB]
[2:Lamarchos: DAW; 1978; 0879979712; $2.50] [BB] [BBT]
[3:Irsud: DAW; 1978; 0879971269; $2.95] [BB] [BBT]
[4:Maeve: DAW; 1979; 0879974699; $1.75] [BB] [BBT]
[4:Maeve: New American Library; 1990; 0879977604; $?] [BB]
[5:Star Hunters: DAW; 1980; 0886772192; $2.95] [BB] [BBT]
[6:The Nowhere Hunt: DAW; 1981; 0879976659; $2.25] [BB] [BBT]
[6:The Nowhere Hunt: New American Library; 1990; 0879978740; $?] [BB]
[7:Ghosthunt: DAW; 1983; 0879978236; $2.50] [BB] [BBT]
[7:Ghosthunt: New American Library; 1987; 0886772206; $?] [BB]
* The diadem in question contains some long-dead folks in need of
new bodies. -42
0 Drinker of Souls series {/28,42/}
[Drinker of Souls: DAW; 1986; 0886771234; $3.50] [BB] [BBT]
[Drinker of Souls: DAW; 1991; 0886774330; $?] [BB]
[Blue Magic: DAW; 1988; 0886772702; $3.95] [BB] [BBT]
[A Gathering of Stones: DAW; 1989; 0886773466; $3.95] [BB] [BBT]
* [Cause: MA Result: SC/VA.] The protagonist is a young girl changed
into a shapeshifter/energy vampire by a goddess. She supplies the
life energy she takes from people to two shapeshifting energy
beings the goddess also coerced into taking a roll. -28
* Assorted shapechangers. -42
Clement, Hal [AL] [BL] [DZ]
- Cycle of Fire {//42} [BBT]
[Ballantine; 1975; 0345243684; $1.50] [BB]
[Ballantine; 1981; 0345291727; $?] [BB]
* (See Spoiler section for more info.)
Collins, Nancy A.
0 Wild Blood {/114,154,Ph/} [??] [BBT]
[Roc/New American Library; 1994; 0451454324; $4.99] [BB]
* Lycanthropy; not read. Got a positive review in Locus 404, p.31.
-Ph
* [Cause: NA Result: LY.] A boy tries to find his natural parents,
after his stepmother died. He does not know he's a werewolf until
he gets (innocent) to jail. He gets misused there and transforms
into a werewolf while being raped by another prisoner. He breaks
out, is found by a werewolf speed metal band called "Vargr Rules"
and tries to get a rank within their brutal pack, but he does not
like their brutality and falls in love with a native American
girl, who is a were-coyote. Again it is bad European werewolves
against good native werecoyotes, too much rape and unnecessary
brutality. Rotten German translation. Transformation: depends on
your taste. Rating: 1. -114
* Lycanthropy. -154
Conaway, J. C.
0 Quarrel With the Moon {/83,87,154/} [BBT]
[Tor; 1982; 0523480334, $2.95] [BB]
* [Result: LY.] Lycanthropy. -83
* Stock werewolf story. -87
* Lycanthropy. -154
Constantine, Storm
+ Wraeththu series {111/11/} [BBT]
[1:The Enchantments of Flesh and Spirit:TOR; 1990; 0812505549; $3.95]
[BB] [BBT]
[2:The Bewitchments of Love and Hate:?] [BBT]
[3:The Fulfilments of Fate and Desire:?] [BBT]
[1-3: TOR; 1993; 0312890001; $18.95 softcover] [BB]
* SF; Result: EC/HG; not read -11
* Rating: 5 Cause: EM Result: HG Significance: + Description: +
Saturation: 0. This is an awesome story. The trilogy has recently
bee published in one book, so for those of you who have also over
3 years looking for the second book of the series, it is now
available. I highly recommend this book to anyone who enjoys
science fiction! -111
Cook, David [??]
0 Soldiers of Ice {/154/} [??] [BBT]
[TSR; 1993; 1560766417; $?] [BB]
* [Result: LY.] Lycanthropy. -154 (98/02/13)
Cook, Glen [AL]
0 Garrett Files series {/91/} [??]
[1:Sweet Silver Blues: Signet; 1987; 0451150619; $3.50] [BB] [BBT]
[1:Sweet Silver Blues: New American Library; 1990; 0451450701; $?]
[BB]
[2:Bitter Gold Hearts: ROC; 1988; 0451450728; $3.50] [BB] [BBT]
[3:Cold Copper Tears: Signet; 1988; 0451157737; $3.50] [BB] [BBT]
[4:Old Tin Sorrows: Signet; 1989; 0451160134; $3.95] [BB] [BBT]
[4:Old Tin Sorrows: New American Library; 1994; 0451451570; $?] [BB]
[5:Dread Brass Shadows: ROC; 1994; 0451450086; $5.50] [BB] [BBT]
[6:Red Iron Nights: ROC; 1995; 0451451082; $5.50] [BB] [BBT]
[7:Deadly Quicksilver Lies: ROC; 1994; 0451453050; $4.99] [BB] [BBT]
[?:Petty Pewter Gods: New American Library; 1995; 0451454782; $5.99]
[BB] [BBT]
* Rating: 5 Cause: MA Result: BM(usually) Significance: 0. The
Garrett series is a really excellent series. The transformations
that occur are semi-incidental, but are significant. If you're
just looking for the transformation stories, you'll want books 1,
3, 4, 5, and 6. In Sweet Silver Blues, people become vampires
(which is a disease, and is slow); in Cold Copper Tears a god
manifests in several forms; in Old Tin Sorrows a ghost becomes
solid by sucking the life out of somebody (marginal); in Dread
Brass Shadows a magic book has the power to transform a person
into somebody else; and in Red Iron Nights a curse moves from
person to person. I highly recommend Glen Cook's work to everyone,
not just for the transformation aspects. -91
Cook, Rick [??]
0 Wizard War {/91/} [??] [BBT]
[Popular Library; 1988; 0445208600; $4.95] [BB]
* Rating: 3 Cause: MA Significance: 0. A magic item has been stolen,
and a group of wizards must get it back. The item has the power to
bring rocks to life. And a few other transformations occur, but
nothing major. -91
Cooke, Catherine [??]
0 Mask of the Wizard series {/91/} [??]
[Mask of the Wizard: TOR; 1985; 0812533844; $2.95] [BB] [BBT]
[Veil of Shadow: TOR; 1987; 0812533860; $2.95] [BB] [BBT]
[The Hidden Temple: TOR; 1988; 0812533887; $3.95] [BB] [BBT]
* Rating: 3 Cause: MA Significance: 0. The shape-changer is the most
powerful and evil magic user around. He is prominent in the first
book, where he is killed. In the other two books, he is trying to
possess the man who killed him. Not bad. -91
Coontz, Otto
? Isle of the Shapeshifters {/Ph/} [BBT]
[Bantam; 1985; 0553248014; $2.50] [BB]
[Houghton Mifflin; 1983; 0395345529; $?] [BB]
* Not read. -Ph
Cooper, Louise [AL] [BL]
0 Indigo series {/42/} [BBT]
[1:Nemesis: TOR; 1989; 0812534018; $3.95] [BB] [BBT]
[2:Inferno: TOR; 1989; 0812502469; $3.95] [BB] [BBT]
[3:Infanta: TOR; 1990; 0812506677; $4.95] [BB] [BBT]
[4:Nocturne: TOR; 1990; 0812507983; $4.95] [RR] [BB] [BBT]
[5:Troika: TOR; 1991; 0812507991; $4.50] [BB] [BBT]
[6:Avatar: TOR; 1992; 0812508025; $4.99] [RR] [BB] [BBT]
[7:Revenant: TOR; 1993; 0812508076; $4.99] [BB] [BBT]
[?]
* [Result: SC.] One of the heroine's incidental talents is
shape-shifting. -42
Cooper, Susan
0 The Dark is Rising series {/36,64/}
[The Dark is Rising: Aladdin; 1986; 0689710879; $3.95]! [BB] [BBT]
[GreenWitch: Aladdin; 1986; 0689710887; $3.95]! [BB] [BBT]
[The Grey King: Aladdin; 1986; 0689710895; $3.95]! [BB] [BBT]
[Over Sea, Under Stone: Aladdin; 1990; 0020427859; $3.95]! [BB] [BBT]
[Silver on the Tree: Aladdin; 1986; 0689711522; $3.95]! [BB] [BBT]
[boxed set of all five: Aladdin; 1993; 0020425651; $19.75] [BB]
* [A juvenile series]...which have one or two references to
shape-changing also. Those ones are more of a 'discovery of power
enables change' type books. -36
* These are a very good juvenile series, and at least one of them
(The Dark is Rising) has won the Newberry award for children's
literature, and possibly another in the series also. Rating: 4.
-64
0 Tam Lin {/82/} [BBT]
[Margaret McElderry; 1991; 0689505051; $14.95 library binding] [BB]
* [Result: BX/AN/IN.] The heroine can get Tam Lin as her husband
(essential; she's pregnant by him) only by holding on to him while
he's shapechanged into a snake, a redhot iron rod, etc. -82
Cox, Greg; Weisskopf, T.K.F. (eds.) [??]
0 Tomorrow Bites anthology {/154/} [??] [BBT]
[Baen; 1995; 0671876910; $5.99] [BB]
* [Result: LY.] Lycanthropy. -154 (98/02/13)
Crichton, Michael
+ The Terminal Man {103//} [BBT]
[Ballantine; 1988; 0345354621; $6.99] [BB]
* Rating: 1 Significance: + Description: 0 Saturation: -. A mental
patient has a computer implanted in his brain to control his
problem, but it backfires and makes him into a killer. -103
Crowley, John [AL]
0 Little, Big {/75/} [??] [BBT]
[Bantam Doubleday; 1994; 0553373978; $?] [BB]
* Has several transformations... (More information in Spoiler
Section) -75
Custodio, Bernard; Welch, R. C. [??]
+ Scary Stories for Stormy Nights {133//} [??] [BBT]
[RGA Publishing; 1995; 1565654595; $?] [BB]
[Lowell House; 1995; 1565652622, $5.95] [BB]
* [Result: LY/BX/AN.] A collection of cheesy little horror stories.
I'd hesitate to mention it, but it has two shape-changing storises
in it. One has werewolves and the protaganist gets turned into a
bunny, and the second has the protagonists changed into monkeys
for a zoo exhibit. The stories are "The Shape of Things" and "Talk
to the Animals" repectively. [...] Although the stories are, as I
said, fairly cheesy, I'd give 'em a + since the shapechanging is
the resolution. -133 (98/02/06)
Where to from here?
From here you can go up to the list index, up to the contributor list,
back to the B's, on to the D's, on to the short story entries, or on
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Books: D
Danvers, Dennis
+ Wilderness {11,88/65,154,Ph/} [BBT]
[Poseidon; SFBC]
[Pocket Star; 1992; 0671728288; $5.99] [BB]
[See also the TV Section]
* Rating: 3 Result: LY Significance: +. Werewolf story. Got very
good reviews; I didn't think it was all that good, but certainly
not bad either. -Ph
* Rating: 2 Result: LY Significance: + Description: - Saturation: 0
-11
* Rating: 2 Result: LY Significance: + Description: - Saturation: 0.
Uninteresting characters doom what would have been an otherwise
interesting story. About the romance between a college professor
and his student, who just happens to be a werewolf. -88
* Lycanthropy. -154
Darrieussecq, Marie [??]
0 Pig Tales: A Novel of Lust and Transformation {/164/} [??] [BBT]
[(trans. Linda Coverdale) New Press; 1997; 1565843614; $18.00
hardcover] [BB]
[New Press; 1998; 1565844424; $10.95] [BB]
* [Result: BX/AN.] About a woman who changes into a pig. -164
(98/02/14)
David, Peter [AL] [BL]
+ Howling Mad {11,Ph/3,154/} [BBT]
[Ace; 1989; 0441346634; $3.50] [BB]
* About a wolf who gets bitten by a werewolf and turns human 3
nights a month. -3
* Rating: 3 Result: LY Significance: + Description: 0 Saturation: 0.
Fantasy; lycanthropy (in reverse). -11
* A quite good (and different) lycanthropy story, and a rather funny
look at our own culture as a bonus. -Ph
* Lycanthropy. -154
Davidson, Avram [SS] [AL] [BR]
- Peregrine series {//75} [BBT]
[1: Peregrine: Primus: Ace; 1971; 0441659500; $1.50] [BB] [BBT]
[2: Peregrine: Secundus: Berkley; 1981; 0425048292; $2.25] [BB] [BBT]
[All:]
* [Cause: MA Result: BX/AN Saturation: -.] At the end of the first
book, Peregrine is turned into a peregrine falcon by an enchanter,
supposedly to save him from an even worse fate. At the beginning
of the second, he is restored to human shape accidentally. Very
funny stories, but not exactly saturated with transformations.
Rating: 3. -75
? Ursus of Ultima Thule {/Ph/} [BBT]
[Avon; 1973; 380-17657-095; $.95]
* Result: LY. For some reason I have "were-whales" written down next
to this one. I'll have to find the books to see if I was sane at
the time. :-) -Ph
Davis, Brett [??]
0 Hair of the Dog {/154/} [??] [BBT]
[Baen; 1997; 0671877623; $5.99] [BB]
* [Result: LY.] Lycanthropy. -154 (98/02/13)
Davis, Don; Davis, Jay [??]
0 Sins of the Flesh {/87/} [??] [BBT]
[TOR; 1989; 0812516796; $4.50] [BB]
* [Result: LY.] Uninspired werewolfish horror story. -87
de Camp, L. Sprague [SS] [AL]
- The Goblin Tower {//75} [BBT]
[Del Rey; 1983; 034529842X; $2.75] [BB]
* [Result: LY Description: +.] Magic. One of the villains is a
long-lived negro were-snake lady. The transformation is described
in tolerably great detail. -75
de Camp, L. Sprague; Pratt, Fletcher [SS]
- The Compleat Enchanter {//42} [BBT]
[In The Complete Compleat Enchanter; Baen; 1989; 0671698095; $4.50]
[DZ] [BB]
* [Result: BM.] Excellent fantasy classic, with some incidental
shape-changing. -42
de Lint, Charles [SS] [AL] [BR]
+ The Dreaming Place {123//} [BBT]
[?] (96/04/28)
* Rating: 3/4 Cause: MA Result: MU Significance: + Description: +
Saturation: +... excellent YA fantasy... A very strange book
wherein a girl is transformed, in what appear at first to be
nightmares, into a number of different animals: a rabbit, a wolf,
etc. De Lint manages to weave Native American/Celtic legend into
yet another fine mythic fantasy. -123
+ Wolf Moon {11,65/20,36,87,154/} [BBT]
[Signet/New American Library; 1988; 0451154878; $3.50] [BB]
* Rating: 3 Result: LY Significance: + Description: X Saturation: X
-11
* Lycanthropy; not bad to good yarn. Several other stories by de
Lint have incidental morphisms. -20
* About a werewolf and the evil man hunting him. -36
* ...Definitely an excellent werewolf book. -65
* Excellent fantasy werewolf tale. -87
* Lycanthropy. -154
Dean, Pamela [BL] [BR]
0 The Dubious Hills {/154/} [??] [BBT]
[Tor; 1995; 0812523628; $4.99] [BB]
* [Result: LY.] Lycanthropy. -154 (98/02/13)
0 Tam Lin {/82/} [BBT]
[TOR; 1992; 0812544501; $4.99] [BB]
* [Result: BX/AN/IN.] The heroine can get Tam Lin as her husband
(essential; she's pregnant by him) only by holding on to him while
he's shapechanged into a snake, a redhot iron rod, etc...
Contemporary (actually, a couple decades ago). -82
Deitz, Tom [AL] [BL]
0 Darkthunder's Way series {/28/} [??]
[1:Darkthunder's Way: Avon; 1989; 0380755084; $3.95] [BB] [BBT]
[2:Sunshaker's War: Avon; 1990; 0380760622; $3.95] [BB] [BBT]
[3:Stoneskin's Revenge: Avon; 1991; 0380760630; $3.95] {/42/} [BB]
[BBT]
* [Result: SC.] A monster whose talents include shapechanging. -42
[All:]
* [Cause: MC Result: BM.] Some of the people in the books learn old
Cherokee magic for shapeshifting. They are fun books targeted at
the young adult market. -28
0 Fireshaper's Doom {/42/} [BBT]
[Avon; 1987; 0380753294; $3.95] [BB]
* [Result: BX.] One subplot involves turning a lizard back into an
elf. -42
Delaney, Joseph [BR]
- In The Face of My Enemy {//11} [BBT]
[Baen; 1985; 0671559931; $2.95] [BB]
* SF; Rating: 3 Cause: AX Result: SC(Human) Significance: 0
Description: - Saturation: -. The story of a primitive man made an
immortal shape-changer by aliens, and his adventures into the past
and future. -11
Delaney, Joseph H.; Stiegler, Marc
0 Valentina: Soul in Sapphire {/64/} [BBT]
[Baen; 1984; 0671559168; $3.95] [BB]
* Rating: 3 Result: MT Significance: 0 Description: 0 Saturation: -.
Transfer of consciousness occurs from a person to a computer, and
from an AI program running on a computer to a human body. -64
Delany, Samuel R. [AL] [BL] [BR] [DZ]
0 The Fall of the Towers {/11/} [BBT]
[Bantam; 1982; 0553203096; $3.95] [BB]
* [Result: MT/GC.] SF; Mind/gender transfer; not read. -11
- Triton {/3,TG,77/11} [BBT]
[Bantam; 1983; 0553229796; $3.95] [BB]
* [Cause: AM Result: GC.] Delaney's Triton is set on three different
worlds, each of which has a different gender philosophy. (On one,
men are dominant, women on another, and things are pretty equal on
the third). Sex changes are quick and easy, and the super-macho
protagonist has one in the last third of the book. -3
* I couldn't get into it at all. No rating. -11
* After an unsuccesful attempt at romance, the protagonist has a sex
change operation to become a woman, for reasons that are not at
all clear to me (or to the protagonist). Basically, (s)he is not a
nice person, cannot get on with other people or empathise with
them at all, and the operation does nothing to resolve this basic
problem. -77
Dick, Philip K. [SS] [AL] [BR]
0 The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch {/77/} [BBT]
[Bantam; 1977; 0553105868; $1.75] [BB]
* [Cause: AM/AX Result: MP/BC?.] Some characters in this undergo
Evolution Therapy to boost their intellect; also most of those who
take the alien drug that Eldritch introduces start to be absorbed
by him (a sort of reverse communion). -77
Dick, Philip K.; Zelazny, Roger
- Deus Irae {//79} [BBT]
[Sphere; 1988; 0722129831; $2.99?] [BB]
* [Cause: MA Result: BM.] Legless and handless Tibor McMasters has
his hands and legs back for a moment, so he can kneel down and
pray to god Deus Irae. -79
Dickson, Gordon R. [SS] [AL] [BL] [BR]
0 The Alien Way {/Ph/} [BBT]
[Warner; 1977; 0446845523; $1.75] [BB]
* Result: MT Significance: 0. A mind-transfer story, where a human's
mind is projected into an alien body. Interesting mental changes
result. -Ph
0 The Dragon and the George series {//} [??]
[1:The Dragon and the George: Del Rey; 1988; 0345299027; $2.50]
{/15,Ph/} [BB] [BBT]
* Cause: AS Result: MU/AN Significance: 0. A modern-day scholar gets
projected into the body of a dragon in a medieval world. -Ph
[2:The Dragon Knight: Tor; ?; 0312931298; $19.95 hardcover]
{/15,Ph/}[RR] [BB] [BBT]
* Cause: MA Result: LY/BX/AN Significance: 0. The protagonist of The
Dragon and the George now has to learn to control the magic that
keeps changing him from dragon to human and back. Another
character can change into a seal. -Ph
[3:The Dragon on the Border: Ace; 1993; 0441166571; $?]! {//78}[BB]
[BBT]
* Another sequel to The Dragon and the George. -Ph
* Rating: 2 Significance: -. Dragon on the Border has only a couple
of instances of tranformation in it at all, and is a rather bad
book besides, nowhere near the level of the other two. The Dragon
knight deals with an uprising of elves. -78
[4:The Dragon at War: Ace; 1993; 0441166113; $5.50] {/78/}[BB] [BBT]
* Yet another sequel to The Dragon and the George. -Ph
* Rating: 2 Significance: 0. The Dragon at War is somewhat better
than [The Dragon on the Border], and transformation is important
to the story. It deals with the invasion of England from France
and the Sea. The best thing about it is the cover art. -78
+ The Forever Man {104//} [BBT]
[Ace; 1986; 044124713X; $3.50] [BB]
* Rating: 3 Cause: AS Result: MT Significance: + Description: 0
Saturation: 0. A spaceship which has absorbed some of the
personality of its now long-dead pilot gives Earth scientists the
key to learning how to transfer a person's personality, intellect,
spirit into an object--such as another spaceship. Jim Wander is
transferred into his spaceship and and (with a companion coming
along in a corner of his personality) goes into space to try to
gather information on the extraterrestrials with whom Earth has
been at war. -104 (98/02/07)
+ The Last Master (aka The R-Master) {103//} [BBT]
[Tor; 1984; 812-53-562-6; $?]
* Rating: 4 Cause: VI Result: MP Significance: + Description: +
Saturation: 0. A virus exists that can give a person great
creative brainpower. The catch: it behaves erratically and when it
does much at all it is equally likely to make you a moron. The
protagonist's brother tried it and became a vegetable; the
protagonist tries it also and gets the maximum benefit. -103
0 Sleepwalker's World {/87/} [??] [BBT]
[?]
* [Cause: AS Result: MX/MP?.] No werewolves, but a cyber-enhanced
wolf who talks. Odd book. -87
0 Wolfling {/66/} [BBT]
[Dell; 1980; 0440196337; $1.95] [BB]
DiSilvestro, Roger
0 Ursula's Gift {/Ph/} [BBT]
[Donald I Fine; 1988; 1556111088; $16.95 hardback] [BB]
* Rating: 3 Result: LY Significance: 0. A man helps out a
prostitute, and gets turned into a werewolf by way of thanks.
Things get progressively worse from there. A funny read; not as
good as Lila the Werewolf, but worth reading. -Ph
Dixon, Dougal
0 Man After Man {/51/} [BBT]
[?]!
* [Cause: EM.] Speculative fiction concerning future genetic
manipulation techniques and subsequent evolution. -51
Dixon, F. [??]
0 Night of the Werewolf {/87/} [??] [BBT]
[?]
* [Result: LY.] -87
Douglas, Adam
0 The Beast Within: A History of the Werewolf {/113/} [BBT]
[Avon; 1992; ?; $?;360 pp]
* [Result: LY.] Not strictly speaking a transformation story .. it's
non-fiction, but a great background reference for anyone curious
just why our culture has this thing about werewolves, how they got
their connection with the full moon, and other fun things. -113
Doyle, Debra; MacDonald, James [??]
? Bad Blood series {/147,154/} [??]
[1: Bad Blood; ?; $3.99] [BBT]
* [Result: LY.] Val is bitten by a crazy werewolf. The story is
based around how she deals with her new lycanthropy, and what she
does to save her friends when the werewolf who bit her comes back
for round 2. Good descriptions of her changes. A good book, one of
my favorites. -147 (98/02/10)
* Lycanthropy. -154
* Amazon.com lists a book, Bad Blood: The Moon Is Full Beware the
Beast; it's Berkley, 1993, 0-425-13953-0, $? [BB]. Does anyone
know whether this is the same book? -Ph
[2: Hunter's Moon: Berkley; 1994; 0425143627; $3.99] [BB] [BBT]
* [Result: LY/VA.] The continued story of Val. This story is about
what she does when Vampires come to town. Interesting, good plot.
I liked it alot. -147
[3: Judgment Night: Berkley; 1995; 0425147282; $?] [BB] [BBT]
* [Result: LY.] The third Val book (same authors). This is a very
original werewolf tale in my opinion. The bad guy is an "ancient,
inhuman spirit of evil". People from the first two books are in
this one (don't count out the dead, hint, hint) the ending is sort
of surprising. Another favorite. -147
Dreadstone, Carl
0 The Werewolf of London {/83/} [BBT]
[Berkley; 1977; 0425034135, $1.25] [BB]
* [Result: LY.] Lycanthropy. -83
0 The Wolfman {/87/} [??] [BBT]
[?]
Duane, Diane [SS] [AL] [BL]
0 Deep Wizardry {/28,42,Ph/} [BBT]
[in Support Your Local Wizard; SFBC]
[Delacorte; 1985; 0385293739; $?] [BB]
* [Result: BX/AN.] The heroine and hero transform and are
transformed into whales to undertake this mission. This is the
middle book of a trilogy consisting of So You Want to Be a Wizard
and High Wizardry also. -28
* The protagonists change themselves into whales in order to save
the world. Much better than it sounds. -42
* Two different mechanics are used for the shapechanges, though that
fact doesn't change much in the plot. A fun story to read, but
raises some very serious points too. -Ph
0 Door Into series{/70/}
[The Door Into Fire: Dell; 1979; 0440118743; $1.95] [BB] [BBT]
[The Door Into Shadow: TOR; 1984; 0812536738; $2.95] [BB] [BBT]
[The Door Into Sunset: TOR; 1993; 0312851847; $21.95 hardcover] [BB]
[BBT]
On all three of the above:
* [Cause: MA?/MC?/NA/SY Result: SC/BX/AN.]
* In all three books, characters can transform themselves and
others, for both disguise and offense, with the appropriate
ability (there are three different mechanisms involved). In Fire,
one character (a fire elemental) is by nature able to take on any
form that pleases it. In Shadow and Sunset, another character
takes on a dying dragon as indweller ('mdaha'), and after some
time is able to take the shape of a dragon herself. -70
Duncan, Dave [??]
0 Swordsman trilogy {/88/}
[1:The Reluctant Swordsman: Del Rey; 1988; 0345352912; $3.50] [BB]
[BBT]
[2:The Coming of Wisdom: Del Rey; 1988; 0345352920; $3.95] [BB] [BBT]
[3:The Destiny of the Sword: Del Rey; 1988; 0345352939; $3.50] [BB]
[BBT]
On all three of the above:
* Rating: 4 Cause: DT? Result: MU Significance: 0 Description: -
Saturation: -. Fantasy. Following a bout of (or death by?)
meningitis, Wallie Smith awakes in a body of a swordsman--more
than just a job description in the caste-based fantasy society
presented here. The trilogy (closed-ended--rare these days!)
follows Wallie's search for why the transfer occurred and his
explorations of the semiprimitive society. Once the initial
transfer takes place, not much in the way of transformations, but
good characterizations and plotting make this an entertaining
read. -88
Dunn, Katherine [??]
0 Geek Love {/95/} [BBT]
[Warner; 1989; ?; $9.99]
* [Cause: AM Result: BX.] The set-up for this weird and fascinating
novel is that a carnival-owning couple decide that in order to
make any money in the business they're going to have to breed
their own freaks. Which they do, with the aid of "drugs,
insecticides, arsenic, radioisotopes" etc. The story is mainly
about the kids coming of age in such a weird world. Other
transformations involve a cult in which initiates progressively
amputate their limbs and a wealthy woman who gets her kicks from
permanently mutilating overly beautiful young women (so that they
can be evaluated by their brains rather than their bodies).
Fascinating book but certainly disturbing. -95
Durgin, Doranna [??]
0 Dun Lady's Jess {/135/} [??] [BBT]
[Baen; 1994; 0671876171; $4.99] [BB]
* [Cause: MA Result: BX/MP Significance: 0 Description: -
Saturation: 0.] Back cover copy: "HORSE CRAZY... When Dayna and
Eric find a young woman on their property, naked, terrified and
incapable of speech, they're sure she's abused and mentally
deficient. But the truth is much stranger; she isn't human at all,
she's Dun Lady's Jess, a horse transformed into this new shape by
a malfunctioning spell that brought her and her rider, to whom she
is utterly devoted, into our world. Possessed now of human
intelligence but still a horse deep inside, Jess searches this
world desparately for her master and rider--while a new, more
human self slowly wells up in her, making her doubt her very
reason for existence..." A very well-written first novel, by an
experienced horse-woman. Mechanism: Magical. Extent: total
physical, and intelligence, though personality remains equine.
Saturation: She changes a few times each way in the course of the
story. Description: None, instant change. -135 (98/02/07)
Dyer, Alfred [??]
+ The Symbiotic Mind {94//} [??] [BBT]
[Hale; 1980; 0709182759; UK5.25] [BB]
* Rating: 1 Cause: AX Result: ST/GC Significance: + Description: +
Saturation: 0. Space pilot is abducted by aliens and left to die
after interrogation. Back on Earth he dies and his soul moves into
a crippled girl's body in the same hospital. Minor stuff, somewhat
simplistic storyline. -94
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Books: E
Easton, Thomas [BL]
0 Sparrowhawk {/Ph/} [BBT]
[?]
* Cause: GM Significance: 0. Genetic manipulation. -Ph
0 Woodsman {/Ph/} [BBT]
[Del Rey; 1988; 0345335708; $3.95] [BB]
* Cause: GM Significance: 0. Genetic manipulation. -Ph
Eddings, David [AL] [BL] [BR]
0 Belgariad series {/9,64/}
[Pawn of Prophecy: Del Rey; 1990; 0345335511; $5.95] [BB] [BBT]
[Queen of Sorcery: Del Rey; 1982; 0345300793; $3.95] [BB] [BBT]
[Magician's Gambit: Del Rey; 1988; 0345335457; $3.95] [BB] [BBT]
[Castle of Wizardry: Del Rey; 1988; 0345335708; $3.95] [BB] [BBT]
[Enchanter's End Game: Del Rey; 1984; 0345338715; $4.95] [BB] [BBT]
0 Malloreon series {/9,64/}
[Guardians of the West: Del Rey; 1990; 0345352661; $5.95] [BB] [BBT]
[King of the Murgos: Del Rey; 1988; 0345358805; $5.95] [BB] [BBT]
[Demon Lord of Karanda: Del Rey; 1988; 0345363310; $5.95] [BB] [BBT]
[Sorceress of Darshiva: Del Rey; 1989; 0345369351; $5.95] [BB] [BBT]
[Seeress of Kell: Del Rey; 1992; 0345377591; $5.99] [BB] [BBT]
On the Belgariad and Malloreon:
* [Cause: MA Result: BX Saturation: +.] The books are Fantasy, and
can be found almost anywhere. They deal extensively with
Shapechanging. They are all excellent books. Subjects also touched
upon are Demons, and the transforming of others into other shapes.
You would have to read them to understand what I mean. -9
- The Ruby Knight {//79} [BBT]
[Grafton; 1991; 0246137312; $8.99?] [BB]
* [Cause: MA Result: BX/RM?.] Fantasy novel in Elenium trilogy. One
of Azoch's creatures' life is speeded up to make it transform to
its next and harmless form. -79
Edghill, Rosemary [??]
? The Sword of Maiden's Tears {/Ph/} [??] [BBT]
[DAW; 1994; 0886776228; $4.99] [BB]
* Cause: MA Result: BM. One element of the story is a sword which
transforms any human wielding it into a man-eating monster. Not
read; received a largely-positive review in Locus 403, p.35. -Ph
Edmonson, Roger [??]
? Silverwolf {/87,154/} [??] [BBT]
[Banned Books; 1990; 0934411328; $?] [BB]
* [Result: LY.] Giggle, snort. Gay werewolf porn, no kidding. Well
written--and what collection would be complete without it (gryn).
-87
* Lycanthropy. -154
* Amazon.com lists the author as Roger Emerson, not Roger Edmonson.
Is this an error? -Ph
Effinger, George Alec [AL] [BL] [BR]
0 The Nick of Time {/3/} [BBT]
[?]
* [Cause: MA Result: BX/AN/IN.]
* there is section which involves "The Historian," who can change
reality to suit himself. Our hero is turned into a lizard-man for
a while (and discovers that lizards don't like crepe suzettes),
and gets involved in a rebellion against the historian. For
punishment, he's turned into a rapid succession of things (a big
sentient chocolate, an atom of formaldehyde, etc.). The
transformations aren't really important to the plot, but the
book's worth seeking out just for its sheer goofiness. -3
Egan, Greg
0 Quarantine {/103/} [BBT]
[Harper; 1992; 0-06-105423-2; ?]
* [Cause: AM Result: PE.] Rating: 4 Significance: 0 Description: +
Saturation: -. An excellent book for quantum mechanics buffs. The
main transformation in this book is when the main character is
made loyal to an organization by brain rewiring; it's very well
handled and described. There's also a one-scentence physical
transformation in the last bit of the book, but it's not worth it
just for that. The ending completely ruins the story, but until
that point I really liked this book. -103
Ehrlich, Max [??]
0 Shaitan {87} [??] [BBT]
[Tor; 1983; 052348075X; $3.95] [BB]
* [Cause: RE Result: BX/AN.] Reincarnation into jungle cat. -87
Eisenstein, Phyllis [AL] [BL]
0 Sorcerer's Son {/42/} [BBT]
[Signet; 1989; 0451156838; $3.95] [BB]
* [Cause: MA Result: BX.] A world in which people who summon demons
must devise shapes for them. -42
Elflandsson, Galad [??]
0 The Black Wolf {/87/} [??] [BBT]
[?]
Emshwiller, Peter
+ The Host {11//} [BBT]
[Bantam Spectra; 1991; 0553289845; $4.50] [RR] [BB]
* [Cause: AS Result: MT.] Manhattan of the future has been
segregated between the classes, separate but very unequal. One
popular activity for the upper class is to have their minds
transferred into the body of a lower class "host". One interesting
aspect of this transfer is that the host's mind remains in his/her
body, but has no control. SF; Rating: 4 Significance: +
Description: - Saturation: -. -11
+ Short Blade {/11/} [BBT]
[Spectra; 1992; 0553294172; $4.99] [BB]
* [Cause: AS.] The sequel to The Host. A good story, set in a future
Manhattan where the division between the classes is quite literal
and physical, this book details the war that erupts between the
classes. The only real 'transformation' is a minor one taking
place at the end of the book. SF; Rating: 4 Result: MT/GC
Significance: + Description: - Saturation: -. -11
Endore, Guy [??]
0 The Werewolf of Paris {/87,154/} [??] [BBT]
[Citadel; 1992; 0806512873; $10.95] [BB]
* [Result: LY.] Lycanthropy. -154
Ergas, Elizabeth
? The Shapechanger {/Ph/} [BBT]
[Pinnacle; 1989; 1558172130; $3.95] [BB]
* Result: LY. Lycanthropy; not read. -Ph
Estes, Rose [BL]
- Greyhawk Adventures 3: Master Wolf {//78} [BBT]
[TSR; 1987; 0880384573; $3.95] [BB]
* [Cause: MA.] Rating: 4 Result: MT Significance: - Description: 0
Saturation: 0. Good story with minimal transformation, though a
transformation at the end is important for later books in the
series. A good read that is unrelated to the first two Greyhawk
books by Gary Gygax. -78
+ Greyhawk Adventures 4: The Price of Power {78/154/} [BBT]
[TSR; 1987; 0880384581; $3.95] [BB]
* [Cause: MA Result: AN.] Rating: 4 Result: MT Significance: +
Description: + Saturation: +. A character changed into a wolf for
the entire book. Also another who becomes a wolf for a brief
period. Terrific scene when a father gets to react to his
daughter's wolf transformation. -78
* Lycanthropy. -154
0 Greyhawk Adventures 5: The Demon Hand {/78/} [BBT]
[TSR; 1988; 0880385421; $3.95] [BB]
* [Cause: MA.] Rating: 3 Result: MT Significance: 0 Description: 0
Saturation: -. Mostly ties up loose ends from previous two books.
A couple of transformations, and a good end to this part of the
series. -78
0 Greyhawk Adventures 6: The Name of the Game {/Ph/} [BBT]
[TSR; 1988; 0880386142; $3.95] [BB]
* Cause: MA Result: BX/AN Significance: 0. Sixth in the Greyhawk
Adventures series. Hero is transformed into a griffon. -Ph
Where to from here?
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Books: F
Farmer, Philip Jose [SS] [AL] [BR] [DZ]
0 Blown {/77,154/} [BBT]
[Quartet; ?; 0704312395; $?] [BB]
* [Result: LY.] Lycanthropy. -154 (98/02/13)
- Image of the Beast {/77/64} [BBT]
[Berkley; 1985; 042507708X; $3.50] [BB]
* Rating: 3 Result: BM/LY Significance: - Description: 0 Saturation:
0. Most of the characters in this novel are extra-planar creatures
who are forced by the paraphysics of our world to manifest as
creatures from human legend, ie Vampires (with traditional bat and
wolf form), and weres, including a weresnake. High sexual content.
-64
On Blown and Image of the Beast:
* Shapechanging aliens masquerading as human in a pair of novels
that PJF apparently wrote for a shortlived porno publisher.
Completely over the top bodily transformations, and a most unusual
method of intergalactic travel. Saturation: + : definitely 'For
those who like transformations by the gross'. Emphasis on gross.
Dear me. -77
0 Dayworld {/75/} [BBT]
[Ace; ?]
0 Dayworld Rebel {/75/} [BBT]
[Ace; ?]
On Dayworld and Dayworld Rebel:
* [Result: PE.] Very remarkable self-induced mental transformations.
A fellow learns how to totally change his personality every day of
the week to fit his seven undercover identities (he's sort of a
spy for a rebel organization), and in the end winds up practically
schizophrenic. In the sequel Dayworld Rebel, all six of his
carefully planned and self-created personalities mysteriously
vanish, along with his original self, and he becomes an eighth
man, who doesn't remember anything about his earlier activities,
thus can't be tortured out of the information. -75
- Riverworld series {/11/42}
[To Your Scattered Bodies Go: Berkley; 1971; 0425043142; $1.95] [BB]
[BBT]
[The Fabulous Riverboat: Berkley; 1971; 0425048179; $2.25] [BB] [BBT]
[The Dark Design: Berkley; 1977; 0425050270; $2.50] [BB] [BBT]
[The Magic Labyrinth: Berkley; 1980; 0425048543; $2.75] [BB] [BBT]
[Gods of Riverworld: Berkley; 1983; 042507448X; $3.50] [BB] [BBT]
* SF; not read. -11
* Significance: -. Marginally on topic. Everyone who ever lived on
Earth is resurrected simultaneously on another planet, which lets
the author write a story with all his favorite historical
characters. Anyone who dies on this planet is immediately
resurrected at an arbitrary location on the same world. -42
0 Traitor to the Living {/86,91/} [BBT]
[TOR; 1985; 0812523970; $4.99] [BB]
* [Cause: AS Result: ST/GC.] About a device that can take a person's
semb (I translate this as soul) and place it into some other body.
There is a megalomaniacal semb who takes over several bodies
including the hero's girflfriend/wife. The hero is in turn placed
in a woman's body at the end. Pretty fast-paced and good reading.
-86
* Rating: 2 Cause: AS. A machine capable of contacting the dead is
made. Essentially, everyone either wants to get their hands on it,
or destroy it. The only problem is, a dead soul has taken over the
body of the man controlling it, and is offering immortality to
anyone who can pay (by stealing other people's bodies.) I've seen
a description of it as 'written faster than he could think.' Not
spectacular. Reprints exist, although I don't know why. -91
Farrar, Stewart [??]
+ Forcible Entry {94//} [??] [BBT]
[Hale; 1986; 0709026404; UK8.95] [BB]
* Rating: 3 Cause: MA Result: MU/GC Significance: + Description: +
Saturation: 0. A dying male photographer takes over a young
secretary's body during parapsychology experiments. The book
chronicles the interloper's attempts to keep the girl's spirit out
while appearing normal to those around him/her. The author is a
practising witch (according to the blurb) and Craft themes appear
in the story. Unusually for fantasy, the entire plot is set in and
around modern Dublin. -94
Faucette, John M.
0 Crown of Infinity {/42/} [BBT]
[Ace double including The Prism: Ace; 1968; 020-08051-060; $.60]
* [Cause: GM Result: BX/RM?.] Highly readable old novel in which
most of the human race is exterminated by aliens, and the
survivors decide to evolve (by genetic manipulation) into a race
that can fight back. -42
Feist, Raymond [AL] [BL]
0 Riftwar Saga {/36/} [BBT]
[1:Magician: Apprentice: Bantam Spectra; 1986; 0553255754; $3.50] [BB]
[BBT]
[2:Magician: Master: Bantam Spectra; 1986; 0553256467; $3.50] [BB]
[BBT]
[3:Silverthorn: Bantam Spectra; 1986; 0553270540; $3.95] [BB] [BBT]
[4:A Darkness at Sethanon: Bantam Spectra; 1987; 0553263285; $3.95]
[BB] [BBT]
[5:Prince of the Blood: Bantam Spectra; 1990; 0553285246; $4.95] [BB]
[BBT]
* [Cause: MA Result: BX/AN.] One of the heroes is transformed from a
normal mortal into a dragon-lord, another becomes one of the most
powerful mages ever. This was a pretty popular series when it came
out. -36
Fenn, Lionel [??]
0 Quest for the White Duck series {/91/} [??] [BBT]
[Blood River Down: TOR; 1986; 0812537858; $2.95] [BB] [BBT]
[Web of Defeat: TOR; 1987; 0812537874; $2.95] [BB] [BBT]
[Agnes Day: TOR; 1987; 0812537890; $2.95] [BB] [BBT]
* [Result: BX/AN.] Rating: 3 Cause: MA. I don't know if this is a
spoiler or not, but the white duck in question is the sister of
the hero, who has been turned into a duck by the evil wizard to be
used as a sacrifice. Sort of a silly series, but not too bad. -91
Flanders, Rebecca [??]
0 Secret of the Wolf {/154/} [??] [BBT]
[Harlequin; 1995; 0373270542; $?] [BB]
* [Result: LY.] Lycanthropy. -154 (98/02/13)
* Harlequin romance novel; Silhouette Shadows, #54. -Ph
Flynn, Michael [SS] [BL]
+ The Nanotech Chronicles (anthology) {11/154/} [RR] [BBT]
[Baen; 1991; 0671720805; $4.95] [BB]
* SF; Rating: 4 Cause: NT Result: BX/LY/GC Significance: +
Description: 0 Saturation: +. In addition to "Werehouse", there
are other transformations, generally on a lesser scale, throughout
this collection of previously released short stories. Worth
looking for. -11
* Lycanthropy. -154
Fontenay, Charles L.
0 Rebels of the Red Planet {/42/} [BBT]
[?]
* [Cause: GM.] Another oldie-but-goody featuring genetic
manipulation. -42
Forsythe, Richard
? Fangs {/87,Ph/} [BBT]
[Leisure; 1985; 0843922753; $3.95] [BB]
* Result: LY. Appears to be a lycanthropy story, but not read. -Ph
Foster, Alan Dean [AL] [BL] [BR]
0 The False Mirror {/103/} [BBT]
[Ballantine; 1992; 0345375750; $?] [BB]
* Rating 4 Cause: AX Significance: 0 Description: - Saturation: -.
Second in the "the damned" series, in which humans are at war with
a collection of aliens. The aliens have raised a group of humans
to be soldiers for them, and as part of the plan to keep them
loyal surgically altered them at birth to resemble another allied
race. When they are finally used in battle, one is captured and
"restored" to human form. The other books in the series are: #1 A
Call to Arms and #3 The Spoils of War. The Spoils of War has more
of these altered humans in it. -103
+ The I Inside {103//} [BBT]
[Warner; 1984; 0446320277; $2.95] [BB]
* Rating: 4 Cause: AX Significance: + Description: X Saturation: -.
(See Spoiler Section for more information.) -103
0 Icerigger and sequels {/22/}
[Icerigger: Del Rey; 1978; 0345227996; $1.95] [BB] [BBT]
* Summer/winter climate adaptation. -22
0 Paths of the Perambulator {/44/} [BBT]
[Warner; 1986; 0446327698; $3.50] [BB]
* [Cause: MA Result: BX/AN.] Foster's Spellsinger [series] has some
shape changes, especially in the book Paths of the Perambulator.
These are all magical changes, but the books are fun to read. -44
0 Sentenced to Prism {/159/} [??] [BBT]
[Ballantine; 1991; 034531980X; $3.50] [BB]
* Man isolated on alien world. Taken in by silicon based life forms
that consider body shape and function as just changeable tools for
housing self. [Transformation:] Repair of damaged body by aliens
who believed in returning function but could not and see no need
to keep repaired organs the same as original. Worth a read; Foster
writes readable books but is a hack who seems to write to pay the
bills. Rating: 3 Cause: AX Significance: 0 Description: 0. -159
(98/02/14)
Foster, M. A. [AL]
0 Morphodite series {/11,22/} [BBT]
[Transformer: DAW; 1983; 0879978147; $2.50] [BB] [BBT]
* [Cause: NA.] Rating: 3 Result: SC(Alien)/GC Significance: -
Description: + Saturation: 0. The main character can voluntarily
transform itself through a painful process, always remaining human
but becoming younger and changing gender with each transformation.
-11
[The Morphodite: DAW; 1981; 0879976691; $2.75] [BB] [BBT]
On series:
* Must read to appreciate. -22
Franklin, Pat
0 Embrace of the Wolf {/83,154/} [BBT]
[Diamond; 1993; 1557738866; $4.50] [BB]
* [Result: LY.] Lycanthropy. -83
* Lycanthropy. -154
Frankowski, Leo
+ Copernick's Revolution {106//} [BBT]
[Del Rey?; 1988?; $?]
* [Cause: GM Result: BX/RM?/PE.] It examines the implications of a
total breakthrough in genetic engineering such that absolutely any
lifeform may be designed to order, from trees that grow into
houses or cover an acre and produce a hundred kinds of fruits and
vegetables, to animals more intelligent than humans. Further,
tailored viruses can change a given human in a matter of months to
be any desired shape, age or other characteristics and a couple of
characters go through this. Also, the technique can totally
reprogram enemies into friends. There is a nice discussion at the
very end on the whether the use of transformation should be
limited so that evolution is not tossed aside as a technique, or
whether it will only complement evolution and speed it up. -106
Friedman, C. S. [BL]
+ Dark Sun Rising {100//} [BBT]
[?]
+ When True Night Falls {100//} [BBT]
[?]
On both of the above:
* [Result: BX/GC/RM/MT.] ... excellent books by C.S. Friedman. The
evil protaganist feeds off the fear of others and can and will
assume the form of their worst fear. Also, the alien race on Erna
have been transformed into sentient creatures by the collective
fears of the humans. In Night, a man who possesses other
creatures' bodies also takes over a little girl. Excellent series.
-100
+ The Madness Season {64,100/11,21,42,46,154/} [BBT]
[DAW; 1991; 0886774446; $6.99] [BB]
* Rating: 4 Result: VA/SC(Alien) Significance: 0 Description: 0
Saturation: 0. SF; vampire & alien ability. Very worthwhile read.
It really does involve what is essentially a vampire, even if it
is not in any way a vampire story. -11
* ...Recent; also about a vampire type person who has several
transformations, each more complex than the last... -21
* The description that was given left out the setting: alien
conquest of earth--story is set in space--has nothing to do with
vampires! -46
* The protagonist is suffering from century-old memories and his
ability to transform into any shape. He's forced to transform into
the alien conquerors of Earth, the Tyrr, in order to save himself.
Another excellent book. -100
* [Result: LY.] Lycanthropy. -154 (98/02/13)
Friesner, Esther [AL] [BL] [BR]
0 Demons series {/11,45/}
[Here Be Demons: Ace; 1988; 0441327974; $3.50] [BB] [BBT]
[Demon Blues: Ace; 1989; 0441143091; $3.50] [BB] [BBT]
[Hooray for Hellywood: Ace; 1990; 0441342817; $3.50] [BB] [BBT]
On Here Be Demons and Demon Blues:
* Shape-shifting demons find that their idea of sin is somewhat
out-of-date in 20th century Earth. -45
* Rating: 3 Result: SC Significance: 0 Description: 0 Saturation: -.
-11
Where to from here?
From here you can go up to the list index, up to the contributor list,
back to the E's, on to the G's, on to the short story entries, or on
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Books: G
Gaiman, Neil (ed.); Gentle, Mary (ed.); Kaveney, Roz (ed.) [??]
0 The Weerde series (anthology) {/93/} [??] [BBT]
[1:ROC; 1992; 0140145621; $? (UK edition)] [BB]
[2:?]
* [Rating: 4 Cause: NA Result: SC.] ...Anthologies of short
stories...regarding an ancient race of shapeshifters who have
lived alongside normal people for centuries. I'd give it a 3/4 on
the worth-reading scale and a +/0 on the transformation-relevancy
scale. The ratings are a bit hazy as because they're written by
several authors the standard is a bit variable. All in all though,
I found them quite good, especially the way that some of the
stories tied in with ancient mythology. -93
Galouye, Daniel F. [AL]
0 Simulacron 3 {/42/} [BBT]
[Bantam; 1964; J2797; $.40]
* [Cause: AS Result: MT.] A simulated Earth is constructed, for
purposes of market research, into which the researchers can
project their consciousness. -42
Garber, Eric (ed.) [??]
0 Embrace the Darkness {/154/} [??] [BBT]
[Alyson; 1991; 1555831672; $?] [BB]
* [Result: LY.] Lycanthropy. -154 (98/02/13)
* Amazon.com lists this as Embracing the Dark. Can anyone confirm
the correct title? -Ph
Garden, N. [??]
0 Werewolves {/87/} [??] [BBT]
[?]
* [Result: LY.] -87
Gardner, Craig Shaw [SS] [AL] [BL]
0 An Excess of Enchantments {/TG/} [BBT]
[Ace; 1988; 044122363X; $3.50] [BB]
* [Result: GC.] -TG
Garrett, Randall; Heydron, Vicki Ann [AL:Garrett]
0 Gandalara Cycle series {88//} [??] [BBT]
[1:The Steel of Raithskar: Bantam; 1981; 0553237470; $2.50] [BB] [BBT]
[2:The Glass of Dyskornis: Bantam; 1982; 0553208276; $2.50] [BB] [BBT]
[3:The Bronze of Eddarta: Bantam; 1983; 0553232819; $2.95] [BB] [BBT]
[1-3:The Gandalara Cycle I: Bantam Spectra; 1986; 0553259423; $4.95]
[BB]
[4:The Well of Darkness: Bantam; 1983; 0553237195; $2.50] [BB] [BBT]
[5:The Search for Ka: Bantam; 1984; 0553241206; $2.50] [BB] [BBT]
[6:Return to Eddarta: Bantam; 1985; 0553247093; $2.75] [BB] [BBT]
[4-6:The Gandalara Cycle II: Bantam Spectra; 1986; 0553259431; $4.95]
[BB]
[7:The River Wall: Bantam Spectra; 1986; 0553255657; $3.50] [BB] [BBT]
* Rating: 3 Cause: DT? Result: MU Significance: + Description: -
Saturation: -. A dying academic is on a cruise ship in the
Mediterranean which is struck by a meteorite and he awakens in a
much younger and physically different body (similar to Dave
Duncan's Swordsman Trilogy). The series is about his struggle to
understand why and how the mind transfer took place. I believe the
first six books have been gathered into two volumes (the originals
were less than 200 pages apiece). Outside of the initial transfer
there's no transformations, but it's a good read nonetheless. -88
(See Spoiler Section for more info)
Gelb, Jeff (ed.); Garret, Michael (ed.)
0 Hot Blood anthology series {/3,11,TG/}
[Hot Blood: Pocket; 1989; 0671664247; $3.95] [BB] [BBT]
[Hotter Blood: Pocket; 1991; 0671701495; $4.95] [BB] [BBT]
[Hottest Blood: Pocket; 1993; 0671753673; $5.50] [BB] [BBT]
On Hotter Blood only:
* [Result: GC.] -TG
* There are a few transformation stories...I just skimmed through
this one in the store--you may want to check it out, though. -3
Gemmell, David [??]
0 Waylander {/154/} [??] [BBT]
[Del Rey; 1995; 0345379071; $5.99] [BB]
* [Result: LY.] Lycanthropy. -154 (98/02/13)
Gentle, Mary [??]
0 Grunts {/96/} [BBT]
[?; 1991; ?; $?]
* Rating: 3/4 Cause: MA/MC/AX Result: MT/MU/ST/GC/BM/MX
Significance: 0. This book is an outrageous F/SF pastiche where
the bad guys lick the good guys with a vengeance. Sort of Terry
Pratchett with a really mean sense of humor. There are many
transformations, most of which are incidental, but a few are
crucial to the plot. A must for those who like their villainous
heroes really bad to the bone. -96
George, Stephen R.
0 Dark Reunion {/83/} [BBT]
[Zebra; 1990; 0821729632, $3.95] [BB]
* [Result: LY.] Lycanthropy. -83
Gerrold, David [AL] [BL] [SS]
0 Moonstar Odyssey {/25/} [BBT]
[Signet; 1977; 045107372X; $1.50] [BB]
* [Cause: NA? Result: GC.] This book is about a society where a
person's gender is not fixed until maturity and the problems
caused to someone who doesn't know which to choose. I remember it
as quite well written. -25
0 War Against the Chtorr series {/11,82/} [BBT]
[A Matter for Men: Pocket; 1984; 0671451200; $3.95] [BB] [BBT]
* [Cause: NA? Result: MT?.] Alien invaders are transforming Earth's
ecology. The defenders include body-swapping telepaths. -82
Goddin, Jeffrey
0 Blood of the Wolf {/83,87/} [BBT]
[Leisure; 1987; 0843925582, $3.95] [BB]
* [Result: LY.] Lycanthropy. -83
Godwin, Parke [AL] [BL] [BR]
+ The Snake Oil Wars Or Scheherazade Gindberg Strikes Again {50//} [BBT]
[Foundation; 1989; 0385263503; $6.95 softcover] [BB]
+ Waiting For the Galactic Bus {50//} [BBT]
[Bantam; 1988; 055328066X; $3.95] [BB]
On both of the above:
* [Cause: NA/AX Result: SC/RM?.] Well, Barion and Coryu, our
stranded, shape-shifting, pure-energy aliens, wouldn't have had to
assume the roles of God and Satan, respectively, if they hadn't
transformed that d*?ned monkey into 'homo sapien' and gotten us
all into this mess to begin with! -50
Goldin, Stephen [??]
- And Not Make Dreams Your Master {//104} [??] [BBT]
[Fawcett Gold Metal; 1981; 0449144100; $2.25] [BB]
* Rating: 2 Cause: VR Result: MX Significance: - Description: -
Saturation: -. In the near future the new medium is broadcasted
dreams. One night a masterdreamer (who can compose dreams about
entire worlds, as opposed to one or two individuals, and thus can
offer many points of view for the audience to share) under
personal stress turns his dream into a massive nightmare. Very
minor transformations as the hero and heroine enter the dream to
save the trapped audience; also, the characters are absolutely
predictable and if you can't see the resolution of every crisis
the moment it's mentioned, you aren't paying attention while
you're reading. -104 (98/02/07)
Gorden, Greg; Slavicsek, Bill
0 Possibility Wars series {/65,87/} [BBT]
[1:Storm Knights: West End; 1990; 0-87431-301-5; $4.95] [BB] [BBT]
[2:The Dark Realm: West End; 1991; 0874313023; $4.95 ] [BB] [BBT]
[3:The Nightmare Dream: by Jonatha A. Caspian; West End; 1990;
0874313031; $4.95] [BB] [BBT]
* Books based on the TORG roleplaying game. -65
* [On The Nightmare Dream only:] One character is a werewolf. It's
still a poorly-done RPG tie-in. -87
* Cause: MA? Result: BX/PE/LY Significance: 0. For those of you
who've never heard of the game, TORG is a science-fantasy RPG in
which a number of alternate realities invade Earth, transforming
the residents of large parts of the planet into creatures from
these other realities. The Storm Knights, people with the natural
ability to resist and manipulate the "possibility energy" that
produces this effect, try to defend Earth against this onslaught.
Oh, yes, and TORG is a registered trademark of West End Games,
which hopefully won't sue me for the mention here. ;-) -Ph
Goulart, Ron [SS] [AL]
0 Brainz, Inc. {/104/} [??] [BBT]
[DAW; 1985; 0886770424; $2.75] [BB]
* Rating: 2 Cause: AM Result: BT Significance: 0 Description: -
Saturation: -. Advances in medical science make it possible
for a person to record one's personality and survive one's body's
death in a new android body. Sylvie Kirkyard hires detectives Jake
and Hildy Pace after waking up an android to find who murdered
her. She spends most of the book off stage, however. The book
attempts to be funny, but I found the humor strained except for
brief passages. -104 (98/02/07)
0 The Chameleon Corps and Other Shape Changers (anthology) {/41,Ph/} [BBT]
[Collier; 1974; 02075; $1.50]
* [Result: SC.] Five stories ("Chameleon", "Rake", "Copstate",
"Masterpiece", "Sunflower") about the Chameleon Corps, a spy
organization for a galactic empire, whose members can change shape
at will. Also six other transformation stories. -Ph
0 Shaggy Planet {/103/} [BBT]
[Lancer; 1975; 75-420; 95c]
* Rating: 2 Cause: AM Result: BX Significance: 0 Description: -
Saturation: -. A slightly silly story about a detective looking
for a missing person on the planet Murdstone. Reasonably
interesting, but don't buy it for the transformation. (See Spoiler
Section for more information.) -103
Gould, Lois [??]
- The Sea Change {//11} [BBT]
[?]
* Rating: 2 Result: BX?/GC Significance: 0 Description: -
Saturation: -. There's a "literature" feel to the book, and it's
classified as fiction, which should have warned me. At the end,
the main female character is transformed into a man. Why? Who
knows. How? You got me. What happens as a result? Nothing much,
really. Will I reread it someday? No, not likely. -11
Grant, Charles L.
0 The Dark Cry of the Moon {/87/} [BBT]
[Berkley; 1987; 0425105024; $2.95] [BB]
* [Result: LY?.] Fairly standard story with a few interesting
characterizations. PG stuff. -87
Green, Sharon [AL]
0 The Far Side of Forever {/57/11} [BBT]
[DAW; 1987; 0886772125; $3.50] [BB]
* Rating: 2 Result: SC/BX Significance: - Description: - Saturation:
-. The shapechanger's ability plays a relatively minor role in the
story, which doesn't stand out. -11
0 Hellhound Magic: The Far Side of Forever 2 {/57/} [BBT]
[DAW; 1989; 0886773997; $4.50] [BB]
On both of the above:
* Both books involve a major character who is a shape changer. The
first has at least one other shape changer in it. The second also
has some characters who have been forcibly shape-changed. -57
+ Silver Princess, Golden Knight {72//} [BBT]
[AvoNova; 1993; 0380766256; $4.99] [BB]
* Rating: 3 Cause: MA Result: BX Significance: + Description: +
Saturation: +. A young princess is to be married to whoever wins a
competition. Everyone who enters is a shapeshifter, along with the
princess (who doesn't want to be married). She along with a
mercenary soldier end up travelling together during the
competition. Very heavy saturation of forms, nicely handled. -72
Greenberg, Martin H. (ed.) [??]
0 Werewolves (anthology) {/132/} [??] [BBT]
[DAW; 1995; 0886776546; $5.50] [BB]
* [Result: LY.] I have a story in there, "Little Boy Riding Hood,"
and there's 21 other lycanthrope tales in there, all of which are
appropriate for your list. -132 (98/02/06)
Greenberg, Martin H. (ed.); Waugh, Charles (ed.) [??]
0 Monster Brigade 3000 (anthology) {/132/} [??] [BBT]
[Ace; 1996; 0441003230; $?] [BB]
* [Cause: AS/GM.] My story "Correspondence" written with Mark A.
Garland[...]The transformation here is scientific and genetic, an
exploration of what is alien (when it turns out to be an altered
version of ourselves). -132 (98/02/06)
Greenhalgh, Zahra
0 Contrarywise {/11/} [BBT]
[Ace; 1989; 0441117112; $3.95] [BB]
* Fantasy; Result: SC(Alien)/GC; no rating. -11
0 Trickster's Touch {/11/} [BBT]
[Ace; 1989; 0441114415; $3.50] [BB]
* Fantasy; Result: SC(Alien)/GC; no rating. -11
Greenwood, Ed [??]
? Elminster {/152/} [??] [BBT]
[Elminster: The Making of a Mage: TSR; 1995; 0786902035; $5.99] [BB]
* [Cause: MC? Result: GC.] Elminster by Ed Greenwood set in the
Forgotten Realms World has Elminster becoming a woman for almost
half of the book. -152 (98/02/12)
* There are two Elminster books out. I believe that the one listed
above is the one being talked about here. The other one is
Elminster in Myth Drannor; it's TSR, 1997, 0786906618, $19.99
hardcover [BB]. Can anyone who's read these books confirm which
one is described here? -Ph
Gresham, Stephen [??]
0 The Living Dark {/87/} [BBT]
[?]
* [Result: LY.] A sort of ghost-werewolf. Not particularly
memorable. -87
Grimwood, Ken [??]
+ Breakthrough {94//} [??] [BBT]
[Ballantine; 1976; 0345254708; $?] [BB]
* Rating: 2 Cause: AS Result: TT Significance: + Description: +
Saturation: 0. Young epilectic undergoes experimental brain
surgery. Under electrical stimulation she "remembers" another
woman's existence in the past. Borderline transformation story but
well written and with chilling ending. -94
Grinnell, David
0 Edge of Time {/42/} [BBT]
[Ace; 1958; M-162; $.45]
* [Cause: AS Result: MT.] Old SF novel about researchers projecting
their consciousness into a succession of lives. -42
Gunnarsson, Thorarinn [BL]
- Make Way for Dragons! {/48/Ph} [BBT]
[Ace; 1990; 0441515371; $3.95] [BB]
* Rating: 3 Cause: MA Significance: - Description: 0 Saturation: -.A
powerful evil dragon and two good ones enter our world, and the
good ones seek out a powerful human "wizard" (though completely
untrained) to help them beat the evil one. The transformation is
pretty incidental, and constitutes a spoiler anyway... -Ph
0 Human, Beware! {/48/} [BBT]
[Ace; 1990; 044151541X; $4.50] [BB]
* [Cause: MA Result: ST?.] ...The High Priest and the Emperor of the
evil Alasheran Empire have achieved a form of immortality by
stealing people's bodies for over a thousand years. The latest
victim is the dragon Keridaejan. Also, Jenny, the heroine of the
novel, discovers that in order to fulfill the Prophecies,
Keridaejan had come to Earth before his body was stolen by the
High Priest and taken human form in order to father her... -48
? Dragons on the Town {/Ph/} [BBT]
[Ace; 1992; 044115526X; $4.99] [BB]
* Sequel to Make Way for Dragons!; not read. -Ph
? Dragon's Domain {/Ph/} [BBT]
[Ace; 1993; 0441166652; $4.99] [BB]
* Sequel to Make Way for Dragons!; not read. -Ph
Gygax, Gary
+ Greyhawk Adventures 2: Artifact of Evil {78//} [BBT]
[TSR; 1986; 0880382791; $3.95] [BB]
* Rating: 4 Cause: MA Result: BX/AN Significance: + Description: +
Saturation: 0. Fantasy tale of a thief who gets a magic ring in
the course of his travels and is able to turn himself into various
felines with it. Good story, but a bit long, and the first book
should be read first (whose name I don't recall). -78
+ The first story in the series is Saga of Old City, also by
Gygax. -Ph
Where to from here?
From here you can go up to the list index, up to the contributor list,
back to the F's, on to the H's, on to the short story entries, or on
to spoilers.
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Books: H
Halkin, John [??]
0 Fangs of the Werewolf {/87,154/} [??] [BBT]
[Barrons; 1988; 0812040716; $?] [BB]
* [Result: LY.] Young adult, not very memorable. -87
* Lycanthropy. -154
Hambly, Barbara [AL] [BL] [BR]
0 Dragonsbane {/69/} [BBT]
[Del Rey; 1986; 0345315723; $3.50] [BB]
* (See the Spoiler Section for more information.)
0 Those Who Hunt the Night {/50,69/} [BBT]
[Del Rey; 1989; 0345361326; $4.50] [BB]
* [Result: VA.] ...A recent vampire novel. -50
* ...Has some extremely interesting ideas about the transformation
from human to vampire. -69
Hamel, F. [??]
? Human Animals {/87/} [??] [BBT]
[?]
Hamilton, Laurell [??]
? Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter series {/146,154/} [??]
[?: Guilty Pleasures: Ace; 1995; 0441304834; $6.50] [BB] [BBT]
[3?: Circus of the Damned: Ace; 1995; 0441001971; $5.99] [BB] [BBT]
[?: Bloody Bones: Ace; 1996; 0441003745; $6.50] [BB] [BBT]
[?: Killing Dance: Ace; 1997; 0441004520; $6.50] [BB] [BBT]
[?: The Laughing Corpse: Ace; 1994; 0441000916; $6.50] [BB] [BBT]
[?: The Lunatic Cafe: Ace; 1996; 0441002935; $6.50] [BB] [BBT]
[?: Burnt Offerings: Ace; 1998; 0441005241; $6.99] [BB] [BBT]
[?]
* [Cause: NA/MA/VI Result: VA/LY.] Laurell Hamilton writes a series
about a vampire slayer in a world where every legend is true. So
far in this series (five books..) there have been were-rats..
were-wolves.. were-leopards.. a were-swan.. and more. Characters
in this series have become shape shifters in a wide variety of
ways, that include viruses.. spells..heredity and more. I do hope
that you try this series and enjoy it as much as I have. -146
(98/02/10)
* [On Bloody Bones, The Lunatic Cafe, Killing Dance:] Lycanthropy.
-154
* A search has turned up the books listed above, but I have no idea
in which order they come in the series. -Ph
Hancock, Niel
? Circle of Light series {/Ph/}
[1: Greyfax Grimwald: Popular Library; 1977; 0445085859; $1.95]
[2: Faragon Fairingay: Popular Library; 1977; 0445086181; $2.50]
[3: Calix Stay: Popular Library; 1977; 0445040475; $1.95]
[4: Squaring the Circle: Popular Library; 1977; 0445040890; $2.95]
* Result: BX?/AN? Appears to be a young-adult series featuring
several shapechanging characters; not read -Ph
Hansen, Karl
0 Dream Games {/76/} [??] [BBT]
[Ace; 1985; 0441166911; $2.95] [BB]
* [Result: PE?/AN?.] Rating: 3 Cause: AM/GM Result: BM/GC/MT
Significance: 0 Description: 0 Saturation: 0. This is set in a
future where humans have hybridized their DNA in order to colonize
space. However the hybridization, which granted virtual
immortality to the select few, is inherently flawed by the
accumulation of errors in DNA replication. To combat this xeno-DNA
is introduced before puberty. The results may or may not be fully
human, and earlier memories are made unavailable, while new
memories are added. There are very few actual physical
transformations. But there are many results of those
transformations. The story evolves into rebel vs. ruler scenario.
-76 (98/02/10)
0 War Games {/64/}
[Playboy Paperbacks; 1981; 0-872-16837-9; $2.50]
* [Cause: AM/AS.] Rating: 3 Result: BM Significance: 0 Description:
0 Saturation: -. Surgical and bio-engineering to modify people
into combat troops and for survival in hostile environments. (Not
related to the movie of the same name.) -64
Harness, Charles [AL]
0 The Paradox Men {/42/} [BBT]
[Crown; ?; 051755433X; $?] [DZ] [BB]
* The exact nature of the transformations constitute a major
spoiler. -42
+ Could someone share that spoiler with us? :-) -Ph
Harris, Steve
0 Wulf {/114/} [BBT]
[?]
* [Cause: MA? Result: MX Description: +.] This seems to be a novel
written by a person who awakes from an LSD trip one morning or
after a nightmare caused by the consumption of a Stephen King
novel. It contains some kind of transformation -- the (teenage)
protagonist gets the claw of a wolf which becomes a part of him
and gives him the strength of the wolf spirit when he needs to
fight the evil. Not very well written, a bit chaotic, but some
very nice ideas. Even better than most of Stephen King's novels.
(IMHO) At least it does not bore. Transformation scenes: thumb
slightly up. Rating: 3. -114
Hautala, Rick
0 Moondeath {/11,87,154,Ph/} [BBT]
[Zebra; 1980; 0821710990; $2.95] [BB]
[Kensington; 1986; 0821718444; $?] [BB]
* Result: LY. Lycanthropy; not read. -Ph
* Set in Coopers Falls, New Hampshire. -87
* Horror; lycanthropy; Rating: 2 -11
* Lycanthropy. -154
Hawk, Douglas D. [??]
0 Moonslasher {/87/} [??] [BBT]
[Critic's Choice; 1987; 1555471706; $3.95] [BB]
* [Result: LY.] A were-panther... -87
Hawks, Lee [??]
0 Night, Winter and Death {/87,154/} [??] [BBT]
[Ballantine; 1990; 0345357841; $3.95] [BB]
* [Result: LY.] Lycanthropy. -154 (98/02/13)
Hazard, Adams [??]
0 The Truth About Dragons: an anti-romance {/99/} [BBT]
[Harcourt Brace; 1971; 015191320X; $?] [BB]
* [Cause: MA?/NA? Result: BX/IN.] I remember this as being a
marvelous The human main character gets turned to stone, and the
dragon main character appears as any number of things. -99
Heinlein, Robert A. [SS] [AL] [BL] [BR]
0 I Will Fear No Evil {/11/} [BBT]
[Ace; 1970; 0441359175; $4.95] [BB]
* Rating: 3 Result: BT/GC Significance: 0 Description: + Saturation:
0. SF; brain transplant... The story of a wealthy, corrupt
industrialist who has his brain transplanted into his secretary's
body. -11
0 Stranger in a Strange Land {/15/} [RR] [BBT]
[Berkley; 1968; 425-02202-150; $1.50]
Herbert, Frank [AL] [BR]
0 Children of Dune {/43/} [BBT]
[New English Library; 1990; 0450034275; $4.50?] [BB]
0 God-Emperor of Dune {/42,43/} [BBT]
[New English Library; 1990; 0450052621; $4.99?] [BB]
On both of the above:
* [Cause: SY Result: BX/AN.] The multi-millennium transformation of
a boy into a sandworm. -42
* Children of Dune has Leto going into symbiosis with sandtrout to
become/get the giant worm-like body of God-Emperor of Dune. -43
? The Dosadi Experiment {/11/} [BBT]
[Berkley; 1983; 0425062368; $2.95] [BB]
* SF; Result: MT/GC; not read. -11
0 The Godmakers {/42/} [BBT]
[Berkley; 1978; 0425039196; $1.95] [BB]
* The transformation of a man into a god. -42
Herbert, Frank; Herbert, Brian
0 Man of Two Worlds {/54/} [BBT]
[Ace; 1987; 0441518575; $3.95] [BB]
* [Cause: NA Result: BX/SC.] An alien race can shapeshift at will to
any form, with mass restrictions--[they] must absorb organic
material (i.e. dead mice) to grow. (Important to plot of the
story.) -54
Herbert, James
+ Fluke {69//} [BBT]
[?]
* [Cause: RE Result: BX/AN.] Main character reincarnated as dog.
Book about what it's like to have a human brain in a dog's body.
-69
Hill, E. S. [??]
0 Fangs Aren't Everything {/87/} [??] [BBT]
[?]
* [Result: LY?.] -87
Hodgell, PC [BL] [BR]
0 Dark of the Moon {/42/} [BBT]
[Berkley; 1987; 0425095614; $3.50] [BB]
* [Result: SC.] The bad guys are shape-changers. Sequel to the
superb God Stalk. -42
Hoffman, Nina Kiriki [??]
0 The Silent Strength of Stones {/154/} [??] [BBT]
[Avon; 1995; 0380777606; $4.99] [BB]
* [Result: LY.] Lycanthropy. -154 (98/02/13)
Hogan, James P. [SS] [AL] [BL] [BR]
0 Entoverse {/75/} [BBT]
[Ballantine; 1992; 034537942X; $?] [BB]
* (See Spoiler Section for more info)
? The Multiplex Man {/75,Ph/}
[Bantam; 1993; ?]
* Result: MT? May have some mind transfer, but neither of us have
read it. -Ph
Holt, Tom [BL]
- Expecting Someone Taller {//11,Ph} [RR] [BBT]
[Ace; 1990; 044122332X; $3.95] [BB]
* Cause: MA Result: BX/AN Significance: -. Fantasy/humor. The
protagonist gets the Tarnhelm, which lets him change shape. The
transformation is mostly incidental and played for laughs or a
good punch line, and the changes are very straightforward. -Ph
* Fantasy; Rating: 3 Result: SC Significance: - Description: -
Saturation: -. -11
Homer
- The Odyssey {/Ph/} [BBT]
[trans. Fitzgerald, Robert: Anchor; 1963; 0385050402; $7.95 softcover]
[BB]
* Rating: 3 Cause: MA Result: BX/AN/MD Significance: - Description:
- Saturation: -. The enchantress Circe transforms all the men
arriving at her island (including Odysseus' crew) into animals
(swine in the case of the crew). This scene is retold, in varying
ways, in R. A. Lafferty's Space Chantey and Myers' Silverlock. -Ph
Hoover, H. M. [DZ]
0 The Delikon {/42/} [BBT]
[Avon; 1978; 0380409801; $1.50] [BB]
* [Result: BX.] Well written children's sf about an alien child who
has been transformed into human appearance to better train human
children. -42
Housman, Clemence [??]
0 The Werewolf {/154/} [??] [BBT]
[Arno Press; 1976; 0405081073; $?] [BB]
* [Result: LY.] Lycanthropy. -154 (98/02/13)
Huff, Tanya [BL]
0 Blood Trail {/87,154/} [BBT]
[DAW; 1997; 0886775027; $5.99] [BB]
* [Result: VA/LY.] A continuing series centered on a female private
detective and her vampiric sidekick/lover, this book concerns a
rural family of werewolves that is being picked off one by one.
Other than the werewolves coming across more like a litter of
puppies, it's a good read. -87
* Lycanthropy. -154
Hughes, Robert Don [AL] [BL]
0 The Prophet of Lamath series {/36,39,42,45,75/} [BBT]
[The Forging of the Dragon: Del Rey; 1989; 0345337441; $3.95] [BB]
[BBT]
[The Power and the Prophet: Del Rey; 1985; 0345303539; $2.95] [BB]
[BBT]
[The Prophet of Lamath: Del Rey; 1985; 0345325443; $2.95] [BB] [BBT]
[The Wizard in Waiting: Del Rey; 1982; 0345285743; $2.75] [BB] [BBT]
About The Prophet of Lamath only:
* [Result: PE.] The hero, Pelmen, changes personality when he
travels from one country to another. Very interesting. -75
About all of the above:
* ...a fantasy series...In that set, only (powerful) wizards can
transform themselves and it's a key sign of their power - the
shape sometimes comes as a result of some type of pressure or
danger. -36
Hurwood, Bernhardt
? Vampires Werewolves and Other Demons (anthology) {/Ph/} [BBT]
[Scholastic; 1972; TK1967; $.50]
* Result: LY. Some lycanthropy stories; not read -Ph
Huxley, Aldous
- After Many a Summer {//77} [BBT]
[aka After Many a Summer Dies the Swan]
[Perennial; 1965; P 3046 B; $.60]
* [Cause: CM Result: BX/AN.] I read this a long time ago, but I
recall this had a subplot about an 18th century english nobleman's
quest for immortality. He realised that carp never die of old age
(a recurring theme in Blaylock's stories), and decided that it was
something in their gut that did this. The twentieth century
protagonists, themselves hoping for immortality, find his journals
and manage to track him down. On a diet containing regular doses
of raw fish intestines, once he managed to keep them down, he has
indeed lived two centuries. The catch: Human beings are neotenous
apes. In two hundred years, the embryo ape gets time to grow up.
He's turned into what is, for all practical purposes, an
orang-utan. Marginal transformation story, but it's a good joke.
-77
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Books: I
Ionesco, Eugene
? Rhinoceros {/40,63/} [BBT]
[?]
* [Result: BX/AN.] One man resists the fad to turn yourself into a
rhinoceros. -40
* Rhinoceros is a play originally in French. Absurdist comedy is
probably the literary name. -63
"Iverson, Eric" [SS]
0 Wereblood {/87/} [??] [BBT]
[Belmont Tower; 1979; 0505513544; $1.50] [BB]
0 Werenight {/87/} [??] [BBT]
[Tower; 1979; 050551365X; $1.50] [BB]
On both of the above:
* [Result: LY.] Badly-written sword & sorcery with werewolves as
cannon fodder. -87
* See also Harry Turtledove for information on a later version of
these books.
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Books: J
Jablokov, Alexander [??]
0 Nimbus {/159/} [??] [BBT]
[Avon; 1995; 0380717107; $4.99] [BB]
* Team that advanced current medical technology to the ability to
major transformations has disbanded and is being hunted down one
by one. Includes one character who not only changes her appearance
but creates a series of personalities which she does not just wear
but becomes. Worth a read, Kept a copy for my permanent library.
Rating: 3 Cause: AM Result: GC/MX Significance: 0 Description: -
Saturation: 0. -159 (98/02/14)
Jaccoma, Richard
+ The Werewolf's Tale {88/65,83,154/} [BBT]
[Fawcett; 1988; 0449132900, $3.95] [BB]
* Rating: 2 Result: LY Significance: + Description: + Saturation: +.
A bizarre crossbreed of hard-boiled detective fiction and standard
werewolf story with a dollop of gratuitous sex and violence.
Standard-issue supernatural conspiracies abound, and the double
crosses are no great surprise. The transformation scenes are well
done, though, and that keeps the whole thing from being a total
waste. -88
* Lycanthropy. -154
+ The Werewolf's Revenge {88/65,83/} [BBT]
[Fawcett; 1991; 0-449-14628-6, $4.95] [BB]
* Rating: 1 Result: LY Significance: + Description: 0 Saturation: 0.
The third in the series (I believe). A wretched mishmash of
werewolf and save-the-world-from-evil story. Poorly plotted,
poorly written. -88
? Yellow Peril {/88/} [BBT]
[?]
* Not read -88
Jennings, Phillip
+ The Bug Life Chronicles {103//} [BBT]
[Baen; 1989; 067169801X; $?] [BB]
* [Cause: AS Result: MT.] Rating: 1 Significance: + Description: 0
Saturation: -. A colletion of short stories set in different times
in the same universe. People can have their minds copied into
small computers, or back again. Wide variety of stories, some okay
but most didn't grab me. -103
? Tower to the Sky {/11/} [BBT]
[Baen; 1988; 0671653938; $3.50] [BB]
* [Result: MT.] SF; Mind transfer; not read. -11
John, Anthony [??]
0 The Predator {/154/} [??] [BBT]
[Ballantine; 1983; 0345298888; $?] [BB]
* [Result: LY.] Lycanthropy. -154 (98/02/13)
Johnson, Ken [??]
0 Hounds of Dracula {/87/} [??] [BBT]
[Signet; 1977; 0451077393; $1.75] [BB]
Johnstone, William W. [??]
0 Wolfsbane {/87,154/} [??] [BBT]
[Kensington; 1987; 0821720198; $?] [BB]
* [Result: LY.] Werewolves in the Lousiana bayous. Slow pacing, lays
Satan on thick. Dialects so thick you can cut them with a knife -
'Roogaroo,' for example. -87
* Lycanthropy. -154
0 Watchers in the Woods {/154/} [??] [BBT]
[Kensington; 1991; 0821733680; $?] [BB]
* [Result: LY.] Lycanthropy. -154 (98/02/13)
Jones, Diana Wynne [AL] [BL]
0 Dogsbody {/52,53/} [BBT]
[Dell; 1980; 0440920728; $1.50] [BB]
* [Result: BX/AN.] The guardian of the star Sirius is turned into a
green-eyed, earthbound puppy in punishment for a crime he didn't
commit; he must prove his innocence before his canine lifespan
ends, and someone's trying to kill him... -52
? Fire and Hemlock {/82/} [BBT]
[?]
* A mixture of Tam Lin and Thomas the Rhymer; I'm not sure if it has
the shapechanging. -82
- The Magicians of Caprona {//42} [BBT]
[?]
* [Result: BX/IN.] Incidental transformation of children into
puppets. -42
Jones, Neil [AL]
0 Planet of the Double Sun {/42/} [BBT]
[Ace; 1967; F-420; $.40]
* [Cause: AS Result: BM.] Pulp-age adventures of a cyborg. -42
Jones, Stephen, ed.
0 The Mammoth Book of Werewolves {/97,154,Ph/} [BBT]
[Carroll & Graf; 1994; 0-7867-0087-4; $9.95 trade] [BB]
* Result: LY. Two dozen werewolf stories. Not read. -Ph
* A collection of modern short stories about werewolves.Not a lot of
stories told from the werewolf's point of view, but still worth
seeking out. -97
* Lycanthropy. -154
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Books: K
Kafka, Franz
+ The Metamorphosis {Ph/4,13,22,32,157/} [BBT]
[Bantam; 1988; 0553213695; $5.95] [BB]
[portions in Shape Shifters by Yolen]
* Rating: 4 Result: BX/AN/PE Significance: + Description: +
Saturation: -. A traveling salesman is changed into a giant
cockroach or something similar. Interesting mental transformation
follows the physical one. Will probably be shelved in "literature"
instead of sf/fantasy. -Ph
Keesey, Pam (ed.) [??]
0 Women Who Run with the Werewolves anthology {/132,154/} [??] [BBT]
[Cleis Press; 1996; 1573440574, $12.95] [BB]
* [Result: LY.] [...]Werewolf stories about women's rage. -132
(98/02/06)
* Lycanthropy. -154
Kelly, Erin; Wieck, Stewart (eds.) [??]
0 City of Darkness: Unseen {/154/} [??] [BBT]
[White Wolf; 1995; 1565048105; $?] [BB]
* [Result: LY.] Lycanthropy. -154 (98/02/13)
Kelly, James Patrick [??]
+ Look Into the Sun {104//} [BBT]
[Tor, 1990; 0812542932; $3.95] [BB]
* Rating: 4 Cause: AX/GM Result: BX Significance: + Description: +
Saturation: 0. Phillip Wing, architect, is transformed into a
Chani, a leonine alien introduced in Planet of Whispers (not a
transformation book, but intriguing in its own right), as part of
a commission to design a fitting tomb for the Thearch of the
Chani. As he develops his structure he also comes to accept
himself as being truly Chani, and gives up his human past. The
transformation contains many good insights into how it would feel
to have your body become truly alien. -104 (98/02/06)
+ Wildlife {104//} [BBT]
[Tor, 1994; 0812534158; $4.99] [BB]
[Tor; 1994; 0312855788; ?] [BB]
* [Result: AN/IN.] Rating: 5 Cause: AM/AS/GM/VR Result: BM/BX/ST
Significance: + Description: + Saturation: +. A series of
interconnected novellas about the Cage family over several
generations and centuries, as advances in biochemistry let anyone
take any form they can imagine; among them, one person is
'twanked' to stay physically 12 years old; another becomes a
dinosaur; one becomes a spaceship; perhaps the most striking is
the transformation into a living replica of the Statue of Liberty.
Portions were printed in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine;
I have the copies but have not looked for the original stories.
-104 (98/02/06)
Kelly, Ronald
0 Moon of the Werewolf {/83,154/} [BBT]
[Zebra/Kensington; 1991; 0821736256, $4.50] [BB]
* [Result: LY.] Lycanthropy. -83
* Lycanthropy. -154
Keyes, Daniel [SS]
+ Flowers for Algernon (book and ss) {Ph/11/} [BBT]
[book: Bantam; 1968; S3339; $0.75]
[short story in The Hugo Winners Vol. 1; ed. Asimov, Isaac; Fawcett
Crest; 1973; 449-01811-095; $0.95]
[short story in The Best from F&SF 9; ed. Mills, Robert P.; Doubleday]
* Rating: 5 Cause: AM Result: MP Significance: +. Definitely one of
the classics. A mentally retarded person's intellect is
dramatically increased by an experimental treatment, but the
effect diminishes quickly. I found the short story to have more
impact than the book. -Ph
* Rating: 5 -11
Killough, Lee [SS] [AL]
0 Blood Hunt {/127/} [BBT]
[Tor; 1987; ?; $?]
* [Result: VA.] A cop follows the wrong kind of suspect into a dark
alley, and is turned into a vampire. The last two thirds of this
book follow the hero as he tries to come to terms with his
transformation and get revenge on the woman who changed him. An
enjoyable novel, half police procedural and half vampire story.
The author has a sense of humour and an eye for detail. -127
? The Leopard's Daughter (book and ss) {/Ph/} [BBT]
[book: Questar; 1987; 0445205229; $2.95] [BB]
[short story in Isaac Asimov's Fantasy!; ed. McCarthy, Shawna; Dial
Press; 1985; 0385230176; $12.95 hardcover] [BB] [BBT]
* Cause: NA? Result: PE/AN/BM?. The protagonist of the short story
is apparently part-leopard somehow, and this is key to the plot,
with at least a mental transformation (and possibly a physical
one) at the end. I haven't read the book yet, but I'm told it
expands on this and has some further transformation. -Ph
Kimbriel, Katharine [??]
0 Night Calls {/154/} [??] [BBT]
[Harper; 1996; 0061054119; $5.50] [BB]
* [Result: LY.] Lycanthropy. -154 (98/02/13)
King, Frank [??]
0 Southpaw {/87,154/} [BBT]
[Lynx Books; 1988; 1558020004; $?] [BB]
* [Result: LY.] The Oaktown Wolves, a minor-league baseball team,
has problems with a werewolf stalking the players. Very light read
with some character. -87
* Lycanthropy. -154
King, J. Robert
0 Heart of Midnight {/65,154,Ph/} [BBT]
[TSR; 1992; 1560763558; $4.95] [BB]
* [Cause: NA Result: LY.] The main character is a wolfwere...A
Ravenloft (AD&D) novel. -65
* Lycanthropy. -154
King, Stephen [AL] [BL] [BR]
- Cycle of the Werewolf {/65,87,154,Ph/114} [BBT]
[Signet; 1985; 0451821114; $8.95 softcover] [BB]
[New American Library; 1989; 0451822196; $13.95] [BB]
* Result: LY Significance: 0. A classic werewolf story, well-told,
though rather short (128pp). I believe this was part of the basis
for the film "Silver Bullet," but don't hold that against it; the
screenplay for "Silver Bullet" is much better than the actual
movie too. -Ph
* First of all: I don't like Stephen King's novels, second: It has
exactly the same plot of most of his novels: child (disabled or
with supernatural abilities) reveals the secret of evil and
successfully fights it. Here it is the werewolf, a killer without
any soul, not even recognizing he's cursed. He is just evil,
nothing more. No horror, no thrill, no suspense. Transformation:
Thumb down. Rating: 1. -114
* Lycanthropy. -154
+ It {69//} [BBT]
[Signet; 1987; 0451169514; $5.95] [BB]
* [Result: BX.] The monster of the title can turn Itself into
anything: clown, Creature from the Black Lagoon, the Mummy, the
Werewolf, etc. -69
King, Stephen; Straub, Peter
0 The Talisman {/65/} [BBT]
[Berkley; 1985; 0425081818; $4.95] [BB]
King, Tabitha
0 Small World {/11,TG/} [BBT]
[?]
* [Result: ZC.] Shrinking; not read. -11
* [Result: GC?.] -TG
Knight, Damon [SS] [AL] [BR]
0 The Other Foot {/77/} [BBT]
[MacFadden-Bartell; 1971; 532-00433-075; $.75]
* [Cause: AS Result: MT.] A time displacement experiment in the far
future causes a rash of random Fortean events (rains of frogs
etc.) throughout history: one such event is the mindswap of a zoo
visitor with the alien specimen he is looking at. They both
eventually adapt to their new circumstances, although the alien in
the human body makes a better job of it. -77
Koontz, Dean [AL] [BL] [SS]
0 Midnight {/28,154/} [BBT]
[Berkley; 1995; 0425118703; $7.50] [BB]
* [Cause: NT Result: LY.] A scientist's dream of using a form of
nanotechnology to improve humanity goes slightly awry. -28
* Lycanthropy. -154 (98/02/13)
0 A Werewolf Among Us {/87/} [??] [BBT]
[?]
* (See Spoiler Section for more information)
Krause, Stanley; Wieck, Stewart (eds.) [??]
0 Strange City anthology {/154/} [??] [BBT]
[Harper; 1996; 0061056685; $5.50] [BB]
* [Result: LY.] Lycanthropy. "World of Darkness" series. -154
(98/02/13)
Krinard, Susan [??]
0 Prince of Wolves {/154,Ph/} [??] [BBT]
[Bantam; 1994; 0553567756; $5.99] [BB]
* Result: LY. Werewolf romance; not read. Got a positive review in
Locus 407 , p.29. -Ph
* Lycanthropy. -154 (98/02/13)
Kriss, M. [??]
0 Werewolves, Shapeshifters and Skinwalkers {/87/} [??]
[?]
* [Result: LY.] -87
Krueger, Terry [??]
0 Night Cries {/154/} [??] [BBT]
[Dell; 1985; 0440163625; $?] [BB]
* [Result: LY.] Lycanthropy. -154 (98/02/13)
Kubasik, Chris
0 Changeling {/Ph/} [BBT]
[ROC; 1992; 0451451635; $4.50]
* Cause: MA Result: BX Significance: 0. Part of the Shadowrun
series. The main character has been "goblinized" into a troll, and
the book mostly deals with his adjusting to this. -Ph
Kurtz, Katherine [AL] [BR]
0 Deryni series {/9/} [RR] [BBT]
[?]
* If you are interested in Paranormal humans, also check [this] out.
-9
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Books: L
Lackey, Mercedes [SS] [AL] [BL]
0 Bardic Voices: The Lark and the Wren {/72/} [RR] [BBT]
[Baen, 1992; 0671720996; $4.95] [BB]
* [Cause: MA Result: BX/AN.] Part of an upcoming series about Bards
and magic, one of the bards ends up being captured by an evil
priest and shifted into a bird. Minor but somewhat important to
the storyline at one point. -72
0 The Fire Rose {/154/} [??] [BBT]
[Baen; 1995; 0671876872; $22.00 hardcover] [BB]
[Baen; 1996; 067187750X; $6.99] [BB]
* [Result: LY.] Lycanthropy. -154 (98/02/13)
- The Oathbound {/38,TG/11} [BBT]
[DAW; 1988; 0886774144; $4.99] [BB]
* (Other books have a little at times.) One villain (male) is cursed
into the appearance of a female. In the course of a deal with a
demon, the illusion is made reality. Fantasy. -38
* Fantasy; Rating: 3 Cause: MA Result: GC Significance: -
Description: 0 Saturation: -. Not worth reading for the
transformation, which is a minor part of the book. -11
Lafferty, R. A. [SS] [AL] [BL]
0 Space Chantey {/3/} [BBT]
[?]!
* [Cause: AS Result: AN/BM?.] ...A science-fiction version of
[Homer's] Odyssey (although the science is VERY loose :-) );
there's a Circe section, in which the circe changes all the crew
members into different animals (sort of). -3
* Gavin also mentioned that some other Lafferty books might qualify.
-Ph
Lake, David J.
0 The Right Hand of Dextra {/103/} [BBT]
[DAW; 1977; ?]
* [Cause: AX.] Rating: 2 Significance: 0 Description: 0 Saturation:
-. Story set on the planet Dextra, colonized by humans but then
cut off. The planet's ecology is entirely based on amino acids of
the wrong chirality, meaning that humans can't eat anything
native. At the end of the book, there is an intelligent plant that
can biologically transform people. -103
0 The Wildings of Westron {/103/} [BBT]
[DAW; 1977; ?]
* [Cause: AX Result: BX.] Rating: 3 Signifigance: 0 Description: +
Saturation: 0. Sequel to The Right Hand of Dextra, makes more use
of those intelligent plants. the main character spends most of the
book transformed into a nymph. -103
Laumer, Keith [SS] [AL] [BR] [DZ]
+ A Plague of Demons {103//} [BBT]
[Warner; 1971; ?; $?]
* [Cause: AX Result: BT/IN.] Rating: 3 Significance: + Description:
+ Saturation: 0. A good story about aliens covertly harvesting
human brains. The protagonist tries to work against them, but they
catch him and take his brain too. They are using the brains to run
huge cyborg tanks in a war they're fighting across the galaxy. The
protagonist breaks his conditioning, and leads a tank revolt
against the aliens. -103
- Time Trap {/3,TG/11} [BBT]
[Baen; 1970; 0671653407; $2.95] [BB]
* All mind transfers--the hero ends up in a farmhand's body, then
inside a horse, then switches bodies with the heroine. (All played
for laughs, incidentally.) The book's not fantastic, but not bad
either. The transformations take up about three chapters, so
they're pretty significant, I guess. -3
* SF; Rating: 3 Result: MT/GC Significance: - Description: -
Saturation: -. -11
0 The World Shuffler {/3/} [BBT]
[Berkley; 1970; 425-01895-5-075; $.75]
* [Result: MT?.] The hero ends up switched into the body of a
notorious criminal. I don't remember much more than that about it,
although he is in that body for most of the book, making it a
significant change. -3
Le Guin, Ursula K. [SS] [AL] [BL] [BR] [DZ]
0 Earthsea series {/20,64/}
[A Wizard of Earthsea: Bantam; 1975; 553-02168-150; $1.50] [BBT]
[The Tombs of Atuan: Bantam; 1971; 0553101323; $1.75] [BB] [BBT]
[The Farthest Shore: Bantam; 1975; 0553101315; $1.75] [BB] [BBT]
[Tehanu: Bantam; 1990; 0553288733; $?] [RR] [BB] [BBT]
* The second favorite series of my youth -20
* [Cause: MA Result: AN/PE.] [Tehanu was] published much later, not
thematically part of the set, and not a juvenile (though the
others are, but are also eminently readably by adults). Rating: 4
Result: BX Significance: + Description: 0 Saturation: 0.
Transformation is one the the types of magic practiced by the
mages of Earthsea. Ged, the protaganist, does so and at one point
loses his identity in that of a hawk while transformed into one.
Transformations play a larger part in the first book than in the
other two. They play almost no part in the 4th book. -64
0 The Lathe of Heaven {/47/} [BBT]
[Avon; 1973; 0380435470; $2.95] [BB]
* Transformation of a person? This book is about transformation of
the world. When George Orr sleeps the world changes into a new and
different place. Doctor Haber induces dreams into George "for the
good of all people" creating strange and bizarre worlds that are
not quite as utopian as might be expected. -47
+ The Left Hand of Darkness {TG/6,11} [BBT]
[Ace; 1972; 0441478123; $4.50] [BB]
* [Result: TG.] The transformations between the sexes there are more
for anthropological reasons: a study of how a genderless society
would work. -6
* Rating: 4 Result: BM Significance: + Description: 0 Saturation: -
-11
Lee, Tanith [SS] [AL] [BR]
+ Books of the Flat Earth {3/TG/} [BBT]
[Night's Master: DAW; 1978; 0879974141; $1.75] [BB] [BBT]
[Death's Master: DAW; 1979; 0879977418; $2.95] [BB] [BBT]
[Delusion's Master: DAW; 1981; 0879976527; $2.25] [BB] [BBT]
[Delirium's Mistress: DAW; 1986; 0886771358; $3.95] [BB] [BBT]
[Night's Sorceries: DAW; 1987; 0886771943; $3.50] [BB] [BBT]
* [Result: GC?.] -TG
* [Saturation: +.] ...Tons of transformations...they range from
really minor to pretty important. -3
0 Don't Bite the Sun {/11,TG/} [BBT]
[DAW; 1976; UY1221; $1.25]
* Rating: 3 Result: MT Significance: 0 Description: - Saturation: 0
-11
0 Drinking Saphire Wine {/11,26,TG/} [BBT]
[DAW; 1977; 0879975652; $1.75] [BB]
* SF; Suicide --> New body; Rating: 3 -11
* [Cause: RE? Result: BX/TG .] Teenagers frequently suicide so they
can have new bodies, sometimes designed by themselves. Frequent
sex changes, occasional non-human forms. -26
On Don't Bite the Sun and Drinking Saphire Wine:
* ...I'll just say that I found them weaker than the other books
I've listed. -3
0 The Dragon Hoard {/3/} [BBT]
[Tempo; 1984; 0441186211; $2.25] [BB]
* [Cause: MA? Result: BX/AN.] A children's book...about a prince who
is cursed to change into a raven every day. -3
+ Heart-Beast {141/154/} [??] [BBT]
[Headline Book Publishing PLC; 1992; 0747239169; 4.99 pound sterling]
[BB]
[Dell; 1993; 0440214556; $?] [BB]
* [Result: LY.] A young man occasionally turns into a werewolf-like
monster because of a cursed diamond. While in monster form he
savagely kills a fair number of people, until killed himself by
the woman he loves. The story is hardly original, and overly
violent and pornographic. Rating: 1; Cause: MA(Curse) Result: BM
Significance: + Description: 0 Saturation: +. -141 (98/02/08)
* Lycanthropy. -154
0 Lycanthia (aka The Children of Wolves) {/87,154,Ph/} [BBT]
[DAW; 1981; 0879976101; $2.25] [BB]
* Result: LY. Lycanthropy; not read -Ph
* Heavy going, but memorable. -87
* Lycanthropy. -154
? Red as Blood (anthology) {/3,Ph/} [BBT]
[DAW; 1983; 0879977906; $2.50] [BB]
* A book of short stories which are retellings of fairy tales,
usually with a macabre twist. To tell the truth, I don't remember
any shapeshifting in that book, but I don't have the book handy as
a reference. -3
* The book was reviewed in OtherRealms, and something in the review
there led me to believe transformation was involved. Anybody? -Ph
0 The Secret Books of Paradys {/3,TG/} [BBT]
[Overlook Press; 1990; ?]
[Guild America; SFBC]
* ...Also have one or two strange [transformations]. -3
* Result: TG. The TG SF list has a long description of this, which
I'm leaving out because it sounds like it comes from a review that
I don't have permission to include. -Ph
0 Tamastara (anthology) {/3/} [BBT]
[aka The Indian Nights] [BBT] [BB]
[DAW; 1984; 0879979151; $2.50]
* [Cause: NA? Result: BX/AN.] A book of short stories, set in India.
One story features beings which can shift between being snakes and
humans. -3
Leiber, Fritz [SS] [AL] [BR]
0 The Big Time {/Ph/} [DZ] [BBT]
[Ace; 1982; 0441062237; $2.50] [BB]
* A war being fought through time, trying to alter history to
benefit the combatants. -Ph
Leiber, Justin
0 Ishmael/Sally Forth series {103/TG/11}
[Beyond Rejection: Del Rey; 1980; 0345290542; $2.25] [BB] [BBT]
[Beyond Humanity: Tor; 1987; 0812544331; $2.95] [BB] [BBT]
[Beyond Gravity: Tor; 1988; 0812544358; $3.50] [BB] [BBT]
* [Result: BT.] Rating: 3 Result: MT Significance: - Description: 0
Saturation: -. A questionable one; it really, like I Will Fear No
Evil, isn't a transformation story, but they are both related
(mental transformations as the result of brain transplants). SF;
Mind transfer. -11
* [On Beyond Rejection only:] Rating: 2 Significance: + Description:
+ Saturation: -. The protagonist (male) gets killed, and his mind
is transplanted into the body of a woman who has a tail, to boot.
The story is about her aclimatizing to her new body. -103
Leigh, Stephen [??]
0 Robots and Aliens (Isaac Asimov's Robot City series) {/154/} [??] [BBT]
[Ace; 1989; 0441731279; $?] [BB]
* [Result: LY.] Lycanthropy. -154 (98/02/13)
Levy, Edward [??]
0 The Beast Within {/87,154/} [??] [BBT]
[Berkley; 1981; 0425052222; $2.95] [BB]
* Basis for a really cheesy movie; the novel isn't much better. -87
* [Result: LY.] Lycanthropy. -154 (98/02/13)
Lewis, C. S. [AL]
- Prince Caspian {//75} [BBT]
[Collier; 1970; 0020442408; $2.95] [BB]
* [Result: LY/BX/AN.] ...Has some incidental transformation: there's
a werewolf in it, and some naughty little boys are turned into
pigs near the end. -75
- The Silver Chair {//75} [BBT]
[Collier; 1970; 0020442505; $2.95] [BB]
* [Cause: MC? Result: BM.] ...I think The Silver Chair had a witch
that changed her shape several times in the final battle. -75
0 Till We Have Faces {/6/} [BBT]
[?]
* One very good novel that has transformations as the central theme
(though not overtly)...a retelling of the Psyche-Cupid myth, from
the vantage point of one of the evil sisters. -6
- Voyage of the "Dawn Treader" {/43/11} [BBT]
[Collier; 1970; 0020442602; $2.95] [BB]
* [Result: AN.] Rating: 5 Result: BM Significance: - Description: -
Saturation: -. Do not read this for the transformation--it's an
extremely minor part of a significant fantasy series. Lewis'
Narnia series is, in my opinion, a great children's book, and a
wonderful example of Christian Fantasy for adults. The religious
tones are rather heavy, though, so be forewarned. -11
* One character gets transformed into dragon. (Children's book.) -43
Lichtenberg, Jacqueline [AL]
0 Sime/Gen series {/42/}
[First Channel (coauthor Lorrah, Jean): Playboy; 1981; 0872167720;
$2.50] [BB] [BBT]
[House of Zeor: Playboy; 1981; 0872168018; $2.25] [BB] [BBT]
[Unto Zeor, Forever: Playboy; 1980; 0872165981; $2.25] [BB] [BBT]
* [Cause: NA? Result: VA.] Every adolescent goes through a
changeover into either an energy vampire or an energy generator.
Makes for a tense childhood. -42
Lindsay, David
0 A Voyage to Arcturus {75/Ph/64} [BBT]
[Ballantine; 1974; 345-24681-0-150; $1.50]
* Cause: AX Result: GC Significance: X Description: X Saturation: X.
* Reviewed in OtherRealms 8.2; not read, but the blurb promises
"countless physical transformations," among other things... -Ph
* Rating: 2 Result: BM Significance: -. This was a weird book. I
finished it but I didn't like it much. The land itself seems to
undergo changes as does the protagonist and most other things; it
is hard to be sure exactly what is going on. -64
* Cause: AS/MA Significance: +. All kinds... Has a lot of
transformations, both spiritual and physical. On arriving on
Arcturus, Maskull gets a blood transfusion from a native woman and
grows several new sensory organs which the natives have. Later,
there is a story of a baby who couldn't decide whether to be a boy
or a girl. There are lots more. It's a very, very weird book. -75
Locke, Joseph [??]
0 Kiss of Death {/87,154/} [??] [BBT]
[Starfire; 1992; 0553296531; $?] [BB]
* Young adult novel, quick but fun read with predictable outcome.
-87
* [Result: LY.] Lycanthropy. -154 (98/02/13)
Logston, Anne [??]
? Dagger's Point {/Ph/} [??] [BBT]
[Ace; ?]
* Result: SC. Shapechangers; not read. -Ph
Lorenzini, Carlo
0 Pinocchio {/32/} [BBT]
[?]
* [Cause: MA Result: BX/AN/IN.] ...By Carlo Lorenzini (known as
'Collodi'). At the end of the story the puppet Pinocchio becomes a
child, and during it Pinocchio and his (its?) friend Licignolo,
who are in the Paese dei belocchi (Toyland), are transformed into
monkeys. I think Pinocchio is widely translated, so you should
find an English version... -32
Lumley, Brian [??]
0 Necroscope II: Vamphyri! {/154/} [??] [BBT]
[Tor; 1995; 0812521269; $6.99] [BB]
* [Result: LY.] Lycanthropy. -154 (98/02/13)
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Books: M
MacAvoy, R. A. [AL] [BL] [BR]
0 The Grey Horse {/42/} [BBT]
[Bantam Spectra; 1987; 0553265571; $3.95] [BB]
* [Cause: NA Result: BX.] The protagonist is a kelpie -- a
shapechanging sea-horse. -42
0 Tea with the Black Dragon {/42/} [BBT]
[Bantam; 1983; 0553232053; $2.75] [BB]
* [Result: BX Saturation: -.] The protagonist is a dragon who has
been transformed into a human. No shapechanging takes place in the
novel proper. Excellent. -42
MacBeth, George [??]
0 The Transformation {/94/} [??] [BBT]
[Gollancz; 1975; 0575019204; UK2.20] [BB]
* Rating: 3 Result: MT/GC Significance: + Description: - Saturation:
-. Guy Sebring wakes up one morning as Alcestis, the woman he
loves. Surrealist non-SF, with a touch of Moorcock. Very short
(100 pages). -94
MacDonald, Ian [SS] [??]
+ Evolution's Shore {144//} [??] [BBT]
[Bantam Spectra; 1997; 0553573098; $5.99] [BB]
* Moderate complication: the events narrated in "Towards
Kilimanjaro" [also by Ian MacDonald, in the Stories section] show
up as a diary in ES. ALso the narrator of "TK" appears in ES and
explains what happened after. Each can be read alone, but "TK" has
a definite sense of nonresolution.
The story in both reminds me of one of J.G. Ballard's "disaster"
novels. An alien object falls on the slopes of Mount Kilimanjaro
and begins to alter Earth's biosphere. The transformations spread
rapidly. People and animals who enter the transformation zone
(called the Chaga, after an indigenous tribe in the Kilimanjaro
region) are changed in profound, unpredictable,
beautiful/grotesque ways. Changes are primarily physical, but the
consequent alteration of self-image has extensive psychological
consequences (for some). Rating: 4 Cause: AX/EM? Result: BM/PE
Significance: + Description: + Saturation: +. -144 (98/02/09)
MacDonald, John D.
0 Wine of the Dreamers {/11,42/} [BBT]
[Fawcett; 1951; 449-03263-125; $1.25] [DZ]
* SF; Rating: 3 Result: MT Significance: 0 Description: - Number: 0
-11
* A decadent planet inhabited by voyeurs who get their kicks from
taking over the bodies of Earthlings to carry out atrocities. -42
Mahy, Margaret
0 The Changeover {/42/} [BBT]
[?]
* [Cause: MA?.] Teen fiction about a girl who needs to become a
witch in a hurry. -42
Martin, George R. R. (ed.) [AL] [BL] [BR]
+ Wild Cards series {11/13,TG/}
[1: Wild Cards: Bantam Spectra; 1987; 0553261908; $3.95] [BB] [BBT]
[2: Aces High: Bantam Spectra; 1987; 0553264648; $3.95] [BB] [BBT]
[3: Jokers Wild: Spectra; ?; 0553266993; $4.50] [BB] [BBT]
[4: Aces Abroad: Spectra; ?; 055327628X; $4.50] [BB] [BBT]
[5: Down and Dirty: Spectra; ?; 0553274635; $4.50] [BB] [BBT]
[6: Ace in the Hole: Spectra; ?; 0553282530; $4.50] [RR] [BB] [BBT]
[7: Dead Man's Hand: Spectra; ?; 055328569X; $4.50] [RR] [BB] [BBT]
[8: One-eyed Jacks: Spectra; ?; 0553288520; $4.50] [RR] [BB] [BBT]
[9: Jokertown Shuffle: Spectra; ?; 0553291742; $4.99] [RR] [BB] [BBT]
[10: Double Solitaire: ?] [BBT]
[2/1: Card Sharks: Baen; 1993; 0671721593; $5.99] [??] [BB] [BBT]
[2/2: Marked Cards: Baen; 1994; 0671722123; $5.99] [??] [BB] [BBT]
* [Cause: AX/VI.] Rating: 4 Result: BM Significance: + Description:
+ Saturation: +. Basic plot: in 1945, an alien lands on the earth,
trying to save it from a virus his people intend to release upon
the unsuspecting planet. The virus ends up being released anyway
over New York City, resulting in death for 90%, horrible mutations
for 9%, and superhero-like powers for 1% for those infected. In
addition, one character's ability is shapechanging, and another
passes on the ability to swap minds. -11
Martindale, T. Chris [HP]
0 Curse of the Werewolf {/Ph/} [BBT]
[TSR; 1987; 0880384328; $2.95] [BB]
* Rating: 3 Cause: MA Result: BX/AN Significance: 0 Description: +
Saturation: -. One of those old "choose-your-own-adventure" books.
In this case, a wizard has just cursed you into a wolfish form,
and you're trying to find a cure before it becomes permanent and
you lose your identity. -Ph
- Demon Dance {//112} [BBT]
[Pocket; 1991; 0671704524; $4.95]
* [Result: MU?.] Horror western; had a scene of Indian demons
stealing a man's flesh to become corporeal. -112
- Nightblood {//112} [BBT]
[Warner; 1990; 0446355305; $4.95] [BB]
* [Result: VA.] Action/Horror: Vietnam vet battles vampire as whole
town changes into Undead. -112
0 Where the Chill Waits {/112/} [BBT]
[Warner; 1991; ?; $4.95]
* [Cause: MA?.] It's about four businessmen who go on a hunting trip
in the wilds of Canada, wander into the wrong part of the forest,
and are cursed by the Indian demon known as the windigo. -112
Martine-Barnes, Adrienne
0 The Fire Sword and series {/42/}
[The Fire Sword: Avon; 1984; 038087718X; $3.75] [BB] [BBT]
[The Crystal Sword: Avon; 1988; 0380754541; $3.50] [BB] [BBT]
[The Rainbow Sword: Avon; 1988; 038075455X; $3.50] [BB] [BBT]
[The Sea Sword: Avon; 1989; 0380754568; $3.50] [BB] [BBT]
* A moderate amount of shapechanging occurs in all the books of this
series, but more in these first two. -42
Massa, Jack
+ Mooncrow {64//} [BBT]
[Berkeley; 1979; 0425042871; $1.95] [BB]
* [Cause: MC.] Rating: 3 Result: BM Significance: + Description: +
Saturation: +. Protaganist is an adept (mage), one of whose main
powers is self-transformation, and he uses this power frequently.
-64
Masterton, Graham [??]
0 Hymn {/136/} [??] [BBT]
[also known as The Burning] [BBT]
[Tor; 1992; 0812522079; $?] [BB]
* A lost Wagner opera allows people to transform into immortal
Salamanders. -136 (98/02/07)
0 The Wells of Hell {/136/} [??] [BBT]
[Tor; 1989; 0812522117; $?] [BB]
* [Result: BM.] A number of people are transformed into crustaceous
creatures by some well water. -136 (98/02/07)
Matheson, Richard [AL]
+ The Shrinking Man {74//} [BBT]
[Berkley; 1979; 0425040216; $1.95] [BB]
* [Cause: AS Result: ZC.] The main character is slowly shrinking
after exposure to radioactive fallout...The 1950s movie The
Incredible Shrinking Man was made after this novel. -74
Maxwell, Ann [AL]
0 The Jaws of Menx {/AHW/} [BBT]
[?]
* [Cause: NA? Result: BX.] There's a planet with nearly omniscient,
nearly omnipotent beings on it -- called, not unreasonably, gods.
And the entire planetary culture (even the ecology) is devoted to
staying the hell out of their way. If you attract a god's
attention, you're likely to be turned into something random (and
not necessarily physically possible)... -AHW
May, Julian [AL] [BL] [BR]
0 Pliocene Saga {/36/} [BBT]
[1: The Many-Colored Land: Del Rey; 1984; 0345309898; $2.95] [BB]
[BBT]
[2: The Golden Torc: Del Rey; 1983; 0345308387; $2.95] [BB] [BBT]
[3: The Nonborn King: Del Rey; 1984; 0345314212; $3.50] [BB] [BBT]
[4: The Adversary: Del Rey; 1985; 0345314220; $3.50] [BB] [BBT]
* [Result: BX.] One of the (anti)heroes, Marc Remillard, becomes a
pure-mind type entity. -36
McCaffrey, Anne [SS] [AL] [BL] [BR]
0 Dragonriders of Pern series {/54/}
[Dragonflight: Del Rey; 1989; 0345335465; $4.95] [BB] [BBT]
[Dragonquest: Del Rey; 1989; 0345335082; $4.95] [BB] [BBT]
[The White Dragon: Del Rey; 1990; 0345341678; $5.95] [BB] [BBT]
[Dragonsong: Bantam Spectra; 1988; 0553258524; $3.95] [BB] [BBT]
[Dragonsinger: Bantam Spectra; 1989; 0553258540; $3.95] [BB] [BBT]
[Dragondrums: Bantam Spectra; 1990; 0553258559; $4.50] [BB] [BBT]
[Moreta: Dragonlady Of Pern: Del Rey; 1990; 034529873X; $4.95] [BB]
[BBT]
[Nerilka's Story: Del Rey; 1989; 0345339495; $4.95] [BB] [BBT]
[Dragonsdawn: Del Rey; 1989; 0345362861; $4.95] [BB] [BBT]
[The Renegades Of Pern: Del Rey; 1990; 0345369335; $5.95] [BB] [BBT]
[All the Weyrs of Pern: Del Rey; 1992; 0345368932; $5.99] [BB] [BBT]
[?]
* [Cause: GM Result: RM.] Genetic manipulation was performed on the
fire lizards to form the dragons (detailed in Dragonsdawn). (If
you've read any of the books, you know that this is crucial to the
survival of the planet.) -54
- Restoree {/42/11} [BBT]
[Del Rey; 1967; 0345351878; $4.95] [BB]
* A woman kidnapped by space aliens is skinned alive, but winds up
with a better body. Straddles the line between sf and
bodice-ripper. -42
* SF; Rating: 2 Cause: AM Result: MX Significance: - Description: 0
Saturation: -. Plain looking woman wakes up to find herself
beautiful, but on an alien planet. -11
McCaffrey, Anne; Ball, Margaret
? PartnerShip {/Ph/} [RR] [BBT]
[Baen; 1992; 0671721097; $5.99] [BB]
* Cause: AS? Result: BX?/IN?. A sequel to McCaffrey's "The Ship Who
Sang". -Ph
McCammon, Robert [SS] [AL]
0 The Wolf's Hour {/10,11,87,154/} [BBT]
[Pocket; 1989; 0671664859; $4.95] [BB]
[Pocket; 1989; 0671731424; $6.99] [BB]
* [Result: LY.] It's 500+ pages long and god-awful. In my humble
opinion, of course. -10
* Horror; lycanthropy; not read -11
* I've heard better things about this book from the alt.horror
readers, but I still haven't gotten around to reading it myself.
-Ph
* A wonderful short story about an adolescent werewolf growing up
with a pack of werewolves, told as flashbacks and padded to a
bloated novel with the adult werewolf - now a British secret agent
on a mission in Germany against the Nazis during WWII. Read the
flashbacks, skip the rest. Disappointing. -87
* Lycanthropy. -154
McCammon, Robert (ed.) [AL]
0 Under the Fang (anthology) {/Ph/} [BBT]
[?]
* Result: VA. I'm told that the stories in this anthology all deal
with mankind under the rule of vampires. -Ph
McDonald, Ian [BL]
0 King of Morning, Queen of Day {/40/} [BBT]
[Bantam Spectra; 1991; 0553290495; $4.99] [RR] [BB]
* Support characters in the last part get transformed every night.
Space Invaders from the game get transformed into real. Etc. -40
McElroy, Joseph
0 Plus {/40/} [BBT]
[Knopf; 1977; 394-73268-5; $4.50 softcover]
* [Cause: AS Result: BT/IN/PE?.] A man's brain is the control system
for a satellite. It takes a lot of "literary machismo" to read
this book--it's an exploration of a very altered state of
consciousness, and not a story per se. -40
McHargue, G. [??]
0 Meet the Werewolf {/87/} [??] [BBT]
[?]
* [Result: LY?.] -87
McIntosh, J. T.
0 Transmigration {/42,TG/} [BBT]
[Avon; 1970; 380-02375-075; $.75]
* [Cause: RE? Result: ST?.] Following his death, the protagonist
coinhabits a series of bodies of people he met shortly before that
incident. -42
McIntyre, Vonda [AL] [BL] [BR] [DZ]
0 Fireflood {/42/} [BBT]
[Pocket; 1981; 0671836315; $2.75] [BB]
* [Cause: GM.] A collection of stories placed in a future in which
humanity has turned to genetic manipulation for colonization and
other purposes. The novel Superluminal (an expansion of the story
"Aztecs") takes place in the same universe. -42
McKenney, Kenneth
0 The Changeling {/154,Ph/} [BBT]
[Ballantine; 1989; 0345359909; $3.95] [BB]
0 The Moonchild {/154,Ph/} [BBT]
[Ballantine; 1989; 0345359895; $3.95] [BB]
[Simon & Schuster; 1978; 0671228870; $?] [BB]
On both of the above:
* Both of these appear to be lycanthropy or something similar, but
not read. -Ph
* [Result: LY.] Lycanthropy. -154 (98/02/13)
McKillip, Patricia [AL] [BL] [BR]
? The Changeling Sea {/Ph/} [BBT]
[Del Rey; 1989; 0345360400; $3.95]
* Not read -Ph
0 Harpist in the Wind series {/20,36/}
[Harpist in the Wind: Del Rey; 1980; 0345274695; $2.25] [BB] [BBT]
[Heir of Sea and Fire: Del Rey; 1981; 0345288823; $2.25] [BB] [BBT]
[The Riddle-Master of Hed: Del Rey; 1980; 0345288815; $2.25] [BB]
[BBT]
* The favorite series of my youth -20
* [Rating: 5 Result: BX/AN/IN.] Has a lot of physical shape-changing
into various creatures and other forms (tree, wind, etc.). This is
one of my all-time favourite sets which I re-read every few
years... -36
Meade, Richard [??]
? The Sword of the Morning Star {/154/} [??] [BBT]
[1968; ?]
* [Result: LY.] Lycanthropy. -154 (98/02/13)
Michaels, Barbara
? Sons of the Wolf {/Ph/} [BBT]
[Berkley; 1967; 0425116875; $3.95] [BB]
* Result: LY. Lycanthropy; not read -Ph
Miesel, Sandra
0 Dreamrider {/72/} [BBT]
[Ace; 1982; 0441156797; $2.75] [BB]
* [Cause: DT? Result: MT/AN.] Not a transformation story per se,
however the main character can psionically travel through
alternate timelines, inhabiting other people for a short time, and
later shares the body of a 'perfur' (otter). Not a bad read. [Book
has been renamed, my copy is the original printing.] -72
Moorcock, Michael [AL] [BR]
0 Blood: A Southern Fantasy {/136/} [??] [BBT]
[Avon; 1996; 038078078X; $12.00 softcover] [BB]
[William Morrow; 1995; 0688143628; $22.00 hardcover] [BB]
* [Cause: DT Result: BM/GC/PE?/BC?.] All the main characters are
transformed into "fictional" archetypes when they shift to the
second ether, and take part in the game of time. There is gender
switching, people combining into one (which brings the final
resolution between chaos and the singularity), etc.-136 (98/02/07)
0 Castle Brass series {/54,64,TG/} [BBT]
[Count Brass: Berkeley; 1985; 0425075141; $2.75] [BB] [BBT]
[The Champion of Garathorn: Berkeley; 1985; 0425076466; $2.75] [BB]
[BBT]
[The Quest for Tanelorn: Berkeley; 1985; 0425077071; $2.75] [BB] [BBT]
* [Result: GC.] The second Hawkmoon series. Hawkmoon is transformed
into (name forgotten), a female incarnation of the Eternal
Champion. Actually, all of his Eternal Champion books could be
interpreted this way (Erekase transforms into Hawkmoon into Elric
into Jerry Cornelius...) -54
? Cornelius Quartet series {/136/} [??] [BBT]
[Phoenix House; ?; 189758055X; $?] [BB]
* [Result: PE?.] The Cornelius Quartet - a transformation of sorts
over four novels, with Jerry Cornelius tranforming from Harlequin
to Pierrot, and Una Persson from Pierrot to Harlequin, over the
series of the four books. Though it is only really made clear in
The Condition of Muzak. -136 (98/02/11)
- Dancers at the End of Time series {//79} [BBT]
[An Alien Heat:?] [BBT]
[The Hollow Lands:?] [BBT]
[The End of All Songs:?] [BBT]
[all in omnibus: Grafton; 1988; 0583136397; $3.95?] [BB]
* [Cause: MA?/MC? Result: BM/GC.] SF trilogy. People can do almost
anything with their rings of power. Some sex changes. -79
0 The Final Programme {/136/} [??] [BBT]
[Gregg Press; 1976; 0839823355; $?] [BB]
* [Cause: AS? Result: BC/HG.] Jerry Cornelius & Miss Brunner are
joined in her machine, becoming a hermaphodite called Cornelius
Brunner which eats everyone in the world. -136 (98/02/11)
0 The Fireclown (or, The Winds of Limbo) {/136/} [??] [BBT]
[?]
* [Result: BM?.] Immanual Bloom is changed into the Fireclown when
his spacecraft falls into the sun. -136 (98/02/07)
0 The Transformation of Miss Mavis Ming {/136/} [??] [BBT]
[also known as A Messiah at the End of Time; also known as Constant
Fire]
[Ace; 1988; 0441136648; $?] [BB]
* Miss Mavis Ming is burnt by the touch of the Fireclown at the end
but this leads to a transformation. -136 (98/02/07)
Moore, Christopher [??]
- Coyote Blue {//Ph} [??] [BBT]
[Simon & Schuster; 1994; 0671881884; $21.00 hc] [BB]
* Rating: 5 Cause: MA/MC Result: BX/AN Significance: - Description:
0 Saturation: -. I'm still not entirely sure how to summarize this
story properly; as the title implies, it's a Coyote story, about
the Native American trickster (among others). Physical
transformation plays a very small role, and the other
transformation that occurs isn't really abrupt or unnatural, which
is why I have to give it a -. But if you're reading this list, go
out, buy this book, and read it. I think you'll thank me later.
Received a pretty positive review in Locus 403, p.37. -Ph
Morgan, Robert [??]
? All Things Under the Moon {/Ph/} [??] [BBT]
[Berkley Prime Crime; 1994; 0423143023; $4.99] [BB]
* Result: LY. Lycanthropy; not read. -Ph
Morressy, John [AL] [BR]
0 A Voice for Princess {/42/} [BBT]
[?]
* [Cause: MA? Result: BX/AN.] A frog-princess needs to be changed
back to human. -42
Mullen, Victor [??]
0 Tree House {/87/} [??] [BBT]
[?]
* [Result: SC?.] A shapeshifter/horror novel, with the 'shifter
bound up with an oak tree. Forgettable. -87
Munn, H. Warner
0 Merlin series {/20,42/} [BBT]
[Merlin's Godson: Del Rey; 1976; 0345304993; $2.95] [BB] [BBT]
[Merlin's Ring: Ballantine; 1975; 345-24010-3-195; $1.95] [DZ] [BBT]
* [Result: MT.] Has a woman, the last survivor of Atlantis, who is
able to transfer her consciousness from one body to the next. At
one part she speaks to Joan of Arc. -20
0 Tales of the Werewolf Clan {/87/} [??] [BBT]
[?]
* [Result: LY.] Reprints of 1920's and 1930's werewolf-related short
stories. In two volumes. -87
0 The Werewolf of Ponkert {/83/} [BBT]
[Centaur Books; 1976; 0878180125, $1.50] [BB]
* [Result: LY.] Lycanthropy -83
Myers, John Myers
0 Silverlock {/18,42,Ph/} [BBT]
[Ace; 1984; 0441766749; $3.95] [DZ] [BB]
* [Cause: MA Result: BX/AN.] Has a character that is turned into an
ass by an evil prince who wants the hand of the character's lover
in marriage -18
* Silverlock is one of the best fantasies ever written. The
'gimmick', and I don't mean the term perjoratively, is that every
character in the book is taken from a literary classic. Read this
book, but don't read it for the minor amount of shapeshifting that
takes place, since that is simply borrowed from the originals: The
episode in which the protagonist is turned into a pig comes from
the Odyssey, by Homer, and the incident referred to above comes
from The Golden Ass, by Apulius. -42
* The transformation aspects are pretty minor (though explored well
enough to save the book from a -), but I agree, the book is a
can't-put-downer, more so the more classics you've read
previously. -Ph
0 The Moon's Fire-Eating Daughter {/72/} [BBT]
[Ace, 1984; 0441541720; $2.75] [BB]
* [Cause: MA Result: BX/AN?.] The 'sequel' to Silverlock, has a
professor of Economic Geography go off to the Commonwealth on a
survey requested by Venus herself. Some transformations
(particularly of George in the Goof Stream into various aquatic
forms), minor to the story. Still a worthwhile read if you loved
Silverlock. -72
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Naha, Ed [BR]
0 Robocop {/Ph/} [BBT]
[Dell; 1987; 0440174791; $3.50] [BB]
* Cause: AS Result: BM/PE. Novelization of the movie. Future street
cop gets blown away, pieced back together as a cyborg, with some
mental reprogramming as well. -Ph
Neville, Kris
0 Bettyann (book and ss) {/42/} [DZ] [BBT]
[?]
* [Cause: NA Result: SC.] A pair of alien shapechangers die in an
accident, and their apparently-human daughter is adopted and
raised as human. An expansion of the superb short story of the
same title. -42
Niles, Douglas
0 Maztica series (Forgotten Realms) {/54/}
[Ironhelm: TSR; 1990; 0880389036; $4.95] [BB] [BBT]
[Viperhand: TSR; 1990; 0880389079; $4.95] [BB] [BBT]
[Feathered Dragon: TSR; ?; 1560760451; $?] [BB] [BBT]
* [Cause: MA/MC? Result: BX/AN Saturation: +.] Lots of
transformation by magic (human <-> eagle; human <-> jaguar); not
crucial to plot. (more information in Spoiler Section) -54
Niven, Larry [SS] [BL] [BR] [GS]
0 Protector {/22,23/} [BBT]
[Ballantine; 1987; 0345353129; $5.99] [BB]
0 The Ringworld Engineers {/4/} [BBT]
[Ballantine; 1981; 0345260090; $2.50] [BB]
* Teela Brown becomes a Pak protector. -4
0 World of Ptavvs {/23,75/} [BBT]
[Del Rey; 1982; 0345300548; $2.25] [BB]
* [Cause: AX? Result: MT?/PE?.] Has some mental transformation in
it; a human telepath meets a powerful alien telepath, and their
minds are sort of mixed up together in the human's brain. -75
Niven, Larry; Pournelle, Jerry
0 Inferno {/38/} [BBT]
[Pocket; 1976; 0617497669; $3.50] [BB]
* [Cause: MA Result: BX/AN.] ...In the circle of hell devoted to
thieves, there are a number of little lizards/snakes running
around. If they bite someone, that person becomes a lizard, while
the original lizard returns to his or her original human form...
-38
Noon, Jeff [??]
0 Pollen {/144/} [??] [BBT]
[Ringpull; 1995; 1857023986; $?] [BB]
[Crown; 1996; 0517599902; $23.00 hardcover] [BB]
* Pollen is one of three novels apparently set in the same universe,
a sort of alternate near-future Manchester. I haven't read the
first novel, Vurt [Crown; 1995; 0-517-59991-0; $22 hardcover]
[BBT], or the third novel, which just came out recently, but
Pollen stood alone quite well.
The idea is that some of the boundaries between our reality and
various other realities are breaking down. In particular, bits of
dreamworld stuff that look like feathers are invading/intruding,
with results that are unpredictable and implications that are
extensive but unclear. Noon is not an explain-it-all kind of
author.
Pollen features, among other transformations, a cab driver who
dies and comes back to life as sort of a vegetative entity, a
young woman whose memory has been erased, and... (See Spoiler
Section for more information)
[Result: BX/PE?] Rating: 4 Cause: DT Significance: 0 Description:
0 Saturation: +. Result: Almost everything you can possibly
imagine. Some of the transformations are described in pretty
extensive detail, but Noon's prose is more evocative than
descriptive. -144 (98/02/10)
Norton, Andre [AL] [BL] [DZ]
? Dare to Go a-Hunting {/Ph/} [BBT]
[TOR; 1990; 0812547128; $3.95] [BB]
* I have it marked as "transformation" in my files; I don't own the
book, so I have no idea why. :-) -Ph
0 Dread Companion {/42/} [BBT]
[Fawcett; 1980; 0449243214; $1.95] [BB]
0 Exiles of the Stars {/28/} [BBT]
[Ace; 1972; 441-22365-095; $0.95]
* [Sequel to Moon of Three Rings;] Both are good solid Andre Norton
books. -28
? Flight in Yiktor {/Ph/} [BBT]
[TOR; 1986; 0812547217; $2.95] [BB]
* Like Dare to Go a-Hunting, it's marked as "transformation" in my
files, but I don't know why. -Ph
0 Fur Magic {/87,Ph/} [BBT]
[Pocket; 1978; 0671299026; $1.50] [BB]
[in The Magic Books; Signet; 1988; 0451152328; $3.95] [BB]
* Cause: MA/DT? Result: BX/AN. Boy winds up in a sort of alternate
world based on Native American mythology, changed into a beaver in
the process. -Ph
0 Horn Crown {/24/} [BBT]
[DAW; 1981; 0879976357; $2.95] [BB]
0 The Jargoon Pard {/3,21/} [BBT]
[Fawcett; 1975; 449-02657-150; $1.50]
* [Cause: MA Result: BX/AN.] The protagonist finds a magic amulet
that changes him into a leopard. -3
+ Judgement on Janus {103//} [BBT]
[Ace; 1963; ?]
* [Cause: MA? Result: BM/PE?] Rating: 1 Significance: + Description:
0 Saturation: -. The prequel to Vengeance on Janus. I haven't read
it completely. A slave laborer on a farm finds a cache of
forbidden treasure, which transforms him into a green-skinned
pointy-eared forest dweller. he seems to also get the memories of
a forest dweller, in addition to his own. Others have also been
changed before. -103
? Merlin's Mirror {/Ph/} [BBT]
[DAW; 1975; 0879973404; $1.50] [BB]
* Merlin stories often have transformations, and Norton stories
often do, so I have strong suspicions that this does. :-) Haven't
read it, though. -Ph
0 Moon of Three Rings {/27,28,87,150/} [BBT]
[Ace; 1987; 0441539009; $2.95] [BB]
* [Cause: MA Result: BX/AN/MT?/PE?/MD?.] About a man who intervenes
in the destruction of an animal and is killed by the 'owner'. A
witch transfers his essence into the animal. They search for a
human(esque) body for him before he becomes the animal for real.
The story is told from three different perspectives. -27
* Young adult sci-fi; main character is transformed into a beast.
-87
* About a man who was kept prisoner and almost dies, but is saved
when magician swaps his body/mind with one of the beasts in her
menagerie. He gets his body back in the end. -150
0 Steel Magic {/24/} [BBT]
[?]
[in The Magic Books; 1988; 0451152328; $3.95] [BB]
0 Victory on Janus {/24/} [BBT]
[Ace; 1966; 441-86323-150; $1.50]
* There is also a prequel to this but I don't remember the name of
it. -24
0 Warlock of the Witch World {/42/} [BBT]
[Tandem; 1967; 4260-5047-9; $2.50]
* [Cause: MA? Result: BM?.] The hero's sister is changed into a
monster. -42
0 Year of the Unicorn {/21,24/} [BBT]
[Ace; 1979; 0441942547; $1.95] [BB]
Norton, Andre; Lackey, Mercedes
0 The Elvenbane {/28/} [BBT]
[TOR; 1993; 0812511751; $5.99] [BB]
* [Cause: NA Result: SC.] Has a race of shapechanging dragons in it.
(Not yet read.) -28
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Books: O
O'Brien, Robert C. [??]
0 Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH {/104/} [BBT]
[Aladdin Paperbacks; 1986; 0689710682; $4.50] [BB]
* Rating: 5 Cause: CM Result: MP Significance: 0 Description: +
Saturation: 0. A research experiment tests ways to expand the
mental abilities of rats and mice, as well as extending their
lifespans. It succeeds. The rats and mice escape and start
building their own civilization. As with all classic children's
books it is a delight to read even as an adult. Basis for the
movie "The Secret of NIMH." -104 (98/02/06)
O'Donnell, E. [??]
0 Werewolves {/87/} [??] [BBT]
[?]
* [Result: LY.] -87
O'Keefe, Claudia
0 Black Snow Days {/56,TG/} [BBT]
[Ace; 1990; 0441066895; $3.95] [BB]
* (see Spoiler Section for more info) -56
Ore, Rebecca [BL]
- Becoming Alien {//42} [BBT]
[Tor; 1988; 0812547942; $3.50] [BB]
* [Cause: AM? Result: MX?/PE.] Except for minor surgery, this is
mostly a matter of attitude transformation. -42
Orr, A.
0 The World in Amber {/3/} [BBT]
[TOR; 1986; 0812548000; $2.95] [BB]
* [Cause: MA? Result: BX/AN.] ...A kind of fable about a royal
family who find out how to run their own lives better. There's
three parts, one for each member of the family. In the middle
section, the queen is changed into a cat, so that she can see what
people really think of her. It was a pretty good book, and
actually not very preachy (although my little summary may make it
seem a little so). -3
Otten, Charloette F. (ed.) [??]
+ A Lycanthropy Reader: Werewolves in Western Culture {104/154/} [BBT]
[Syracuse University Press; 1986; 0815623844; $17.95] [BB]
* Rating: 4 Cause: Varied Result: LY Significance: + Description:
Varied Saturation: +. Not itself a transformation book, but rather
a collection of samples of texts about werewolves, lycanthropy and
shapeshifting in general over the past few thousand years. It
includes various reports, pieces of myth, scholarly essays about
the problems of werewolves, studies of lycanthropy as allegory.
Some of it's compelling; some of it dull, but probably anyone
would find something of interest. -104 (98/02/07)
* Lycanthropy. -154
Ovid
0 Metamorphoses {/16,71,157/} [BBT]
[Mentor; 1960; 0451626222; $6.99] [BB]
* [Result: BX.] This work was composed around the first century
A.D., and was written as a sort of history of the world according
to (Greek- influenced) Roman mythology. To give coherence to what
was essentially a collection of short tales, Ovid chose those
stories with the common theme of transformation of people or
things into something else. Thus, the title... -16
* Not exactly werewolf stuff, but it pretty much started the ball
rolling... -71
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Books: P
Packard, Edward [??]
0 Night of the Werewolf {/154/} [??] [BBT]
[Bantam; 1995; 0553482297; $3.50] [BB]
* [Result: LY.] Lycanthropy. -154 (98/02/13)
Paiva, Jean
? The Lilith Factor {/11,94/} [BBT]
[NAL (ONYX); 1989; $?]
* Result: SP/GC; not read. -11
Palmer, David R. [BR]
0 Threshold {/42,Ph/} [BBT]
[Bantam Spectra; 1986; 0553248782; $2.95] [BB]
* [Rating: 1.] The protagonist finds himself on a world of monsters,
and survives by tailor-transforming himself into worse monsters.
Hard to believe that the author of Emergence could write such a
bad book. -42
* Rating: 1 Result: BX/AN. I'm glad to hear that someone else agrees
with me on this one... Emergence was one of the top five books
I've ever read, and after about fifty pages of Threshold I came to
the conclusion that the cover must be a misprint--these two books
couldn't possibly be by the same person. I must admit there's
quite a bit of shapechanging, though. -Ph
Palmer, Jessica [??]
0 Shadow Dance {/154/} [??] [BBT]
[Pocket; 1994; 0671787152; $5.50] [BB]
* [Result: LY.] Lycanthropy. -154 (98/02/13)
Park, Paul [??]
+ Celestis {144//} [??] [BBT]
[Tor; 1997; 0312862857; $13.95 softcover] [BB]
* Rating: 4 Cause: AM Result: BM/PE Significance: + Description: +
Saturation: -. This book is a look at old-fashioned, British-style
colonialism with humans as the colonial power and the natives of
Celestis as... the natives. At least, that's what you think to
begin with: Park gives it some very disturbing spins. (This man's
mind is very strange). Some natives of Celestis "humanize"
themselves physically (minor surgery) and mentally (truly awful
drug treatments). One of the main plot threads concerns a native
woman from the "upper crust" ie. most humanized layer of native
society, who is kidnapped to the interior and deprived of the
drugs that keep her humanlike. She reverts. Again I'm only
scratching the surface. [...] The really interesting
transformation is the mental one. It's not a transfer, or an
increase in mental power...(See Spoiler Section for more
information) -144 (98/02/09)
+ The Starbridge Chronicles series {144//} [??]
[Soldiers of Paradise: Avon; 1989; 0380705818; $?] [BB] [BBT]
[Sugar Rain: Avon; 1990; 0380711796; $?] [BB] [BBT]
[The Cult of Loving Kindness: Avon; 1991; 0380718197; $?] [BB] [BBT]
* This series is mind-boggling. Poul Anderson (I think) described it
as "a trip to somewhere else that's really Somewhere Else". The
setting is a planet with very long years, somewhat like the
Helliconia books by Aldiss. As a biologist, I found the Helliconia
books very weak, and much prefer Park. The seasons last roughly a
human (?) lifetime, and as they shift the world's creatures go
through some fairly profound physical, physiological, behavioral,
and in the case of humans social and cultural changes. Only
problem is, since these changes take place from generation to
generation, you really have to read the whole series to get the
idea of what's going on. Park's prose is dense, and you may find
yourself at the end of the first book going: "wha..?" I'm only
scratching the surface of the weirdness here. Park is not an easy
read, but oh Lord is he worth the effort! Rating: 5 Cause: EC/CM
Result: EA/MX/ST? Significance: + Description: 0 Saturation: +.
-144 (98/02/09)
Pascal, Francine [??]
0 Sweet Valley High books 104-106 {/154/} [??]
[104: Love and Death in London: Bantam; 1994; 0553562274; $3.50] [BB]
[BBT]
[105: Date with a Werewolf: Bantam; 1994; 0553562282; $3.99] [BB]
[BBT]
[106: Beware the Wolfman: Bantam; 1994; 0553562347; $3.99] [BB] [BBT]
* [Result: LY.] Lycanthropy. -154 (98/02/13)
Paxson, Diana [??]
0 The Wolf and the Raven {/154/} [??] [BBT]
[Avon; 1994; 0380765268; $5.99] [BB]
* [Result: LY.] Lycanthropy. -154 (98/02/13)
Peel, John [??]
0 Dances With Werewolves {/154/} [??] [BBT]
[Archway; 1995; 0671535293; $3.99] [BB]
* [Result: LY.] Lycanthropy. -154 (98/02/13)
Peirce, Hayford [BL]
0 Phylum Monsters {/11,TG/} [BBT]
[TOR; 1989; 0812548949; $3.95] [BB]
* Rating: 2 Result: MT Significance: 0 Description: 0 Saturation: -.
The story of a successful middle-aged body designer who, over the
course of too few pages to make sense, is sued, hunted, made the
emancipator-to-be of the Martians, and has his mind moved into a
famous singer's body. -11
Philbrick, Rodman [??]
0 The Werewolf Chronicles series {/154/} [??]
[1: Night Creature: Apple; 1996; 0590689509; $3.99] [BB] [BBT]
[2: Children of the Wolf: Scholastic; 1996; 0590692402; $3.99] [BB]
[BBT]
[3: The Wereing: Scholastic; 1996; 0590692410; $3.99] [BB] [BBT]
* [Result: LY.] Lycanthropy. -154 (98/02/13)
Phillifent, John T.
0 King of Argent {/42/} [BBT]
[DAW; 1973; 0879976497; $2.25] [BB]
* [Cause: AS Result: BM?.] A couple is bioengineered for a
mineral-rich world. -42
Piserchia, Doris [DZ]
+ A Billion Days of Earth {104//} [??] [BBT]
[Bantam, 1976; 055308805X; $1.50] [BB]
* Rating: 3 Cause: AX Result: RM/SP Significance: + Description: 0
Saturation: 0. In the far distant future humans have transcended
Earth and left it to a species of intelligent rats. Sheen, a fluid
metallic being, is born from a volcano and gradually absorbs most
of the new world, promising (and giving) those who become him
their fondest dreams. These absorptions are mostly left off-camera
but when they are given attention they can be compelling. -104
(98/02/06)
0 DoomTime {/104/} [??] [BBT]
[DAW; 1981; 0879976195; $2.25] [BB]
* Rating: 2 Cause: AX Result: BM Significance: 0 Description: 0
Saturation: 0. In the far future the world is dominated by the
sentient trees, and particularly two giant trees whose roots span
most of the globe. The story is about the humans who learn of the
past and the effort to bring back humanity's former glories. Along
the way some humans are turned into trees or human-fungi, but not
much is told from this perspective. -104 (98/02/07)
0 Spaceling {/42,Ph/} [BBT]
[DAW; 1978; 0879974605; $1.75] [BB]
* A delightful novel about a somewhat delinquent juvenile who has
the ability to transport herself into alternate dimensions. Part
of the ability is a transformation into a life-form that can
survive on whatever world she finds herself. -42
* Rating: 4 Cause: DT Result: BX/AN Significance: 0 Description: 0
Saturation: +. This dimension-hopping is through rings that only
certain individuals can see and use. One of the favorite novels
from my childhood. -Ph
+ StarRider {104//} [??] [BBT]
[Bantam; 1974; 0553232177; $2.75] [BB]
* Rating: 3 Cause: EC/NA/AS Result: AP/MT Significance: +
Description: + Saturation: 0. In the far future humans have
evolved into jaks, who have the ability to skip dimensionally
through vast distances in space (as well as having other mentallic
powers), with the aid of their mounts (dogs who have coevolved to
this purpose). Some are trying to learn ways to bypass the need
for the mounts and skip through space by themselves, either adding
the ability to themselves or swapping bodies with the varks who
can. A device is put on Jade that causes her to lose these powers,
which are so essential to her personality that it counts as a
transformation to me; and later, she (temporarily) swaps bodies
with a vark, and a few acquaintances of hers swap permanently. An
enjoyable book with much to commend it. -104 (98/02/07)
Platt, Charles [??]
+ The Silicon Man {104//} [??] [BBT]
[Bantam Spectra, 1991; 0553289500; $4.50] [BB]
[Tafford; 1993; 0962371270; $19.95] [BB]
* Rating: 4 Cause: AS/NT/VR Result: MR/MU Significance: +
Description: + Saturation: 0. A technique is discovered to
transfer human minds into a computer, allowing people to live out
lives as gods of their own worlds. The technique requires the
person being transferred to die, however; an FBI agent
investigating it is transferred into the system against his will.
Rather effective in describing the shock and adjustment process to
this new life. -104 (98/02/06)
Pohl, Frederik [SS] [AL] [BL] [BR] [DZ]
+ Man Plus {Ph,55//} [BBT]
[Bantam Spectra; 1986; 0553260642; $3.50] [BB]
* Rating: 5 Cause: AS Result: BX/PE Significance: + Description: +
Saturation: 0. Another classic. A man's body is surgically altered
radically to let him survive on Mars. -Ph
* One of the best novels on the transformation from 'man' to
'not-man'. It really gets into the psychological effects of the
change. -55
Pohl, Frederik; Thomas, Thomas T.
? Mars Plus {/Ph/} [??] [BBT]
[?]
* Sequel to Man Plus; not read. -Ph
Pohl, Frederik; Williamson, Jack
- Farthest Star {//77} [BBT]
[Del Rey; 1983; 0345307003; $2.75] [BB]
* [Cause: AS Result: MX.] Interstellar travel and exploration is
done by duplicative matter transmission. Bodies are edited in the
receiver to cope with the vagaries of the local environment. This
is a marginal transformation story, as it is more concerned with
the fact that the duplicates are expendable and they know it. The
only significant bodily changes we see in the story are some
changes in bodily proportions and reflexes to cope with a low-G
environment. -77
Pollotta, Nick [??]
+ Doomsday Exam {94//} [??] [BBT]
[Ace; 1992; 0441158668; $3.99] [BB]
* Rating: 2 Cause: AS/MA/EM Result: VA/MT/GC Significance: +
Description: 0 Saturation: -. Mad magician tries to take over the
world with undead football team and a sentient aircraft carrier
(plus sentient aircraft). IKYN. -94
0 Full Moonster {/94,154/} [??] [BBT]
[Ace; 1993; 0441084214; $?] [BB]
* Rating: 2 Cause: MA Result: LY Significance: 0 Description: 0
Saturation: -. FBI try to stop biker werewolf pack before they
destroy Chicago. IKYN. The Bureau 13 books are based on a game
from TriTac Systems - Stalking the Night Fantastic. -94
* Lycanthropy. -154
Powers, Tim [AL] [BL] [BR]
+ The Anubis Gates {30//} [BBT]
[Ace; 1983; 0441023827; $4.95] [BB]
* [Cause: MA Result: BX/AN/MU/ST.] One of the bad guys, in an
attempt to revive the long-dead Egyptian gods, gets in over his
head and is slapped with the 'mark' of Anubis, the jackal god --
i.e., he begins to turn into one. He finds the gradual physical
changes very annoying, but being a resourceful sorcerer he devises
a way of 'swapping souls' with other people. The catch is, the
curse follows his soul; the net result is that after a few weeks,
when he is really starting to look unhuman, he 'swaps' with an
innocent person. He gets a new body, and the other person is left
in the body of a were-jackal. Of course, he usually sees to it
that the body he leaves does not hold out for very long... After a
few weeks, he's messed up his new body and has to do the whole
thing again. Besides being an interesting concept, Powers turns it
into a powerful plot device which he employs in pulling off
massive coups on the reader. Made for some really good plot
twisting, and since the book is primarily a time-travel story it
also lent itself to some interesting paradoxes. I highly recommend
it. -30
0 Last Call {/75,TG/} [BBT]
[Avon; 1993; 0380715570; $4.99] [BB]
* [Cause: MA/MC? Result: MU?.] About, among other things, a man who
obtains new bodies for himself by playing poker (using Tarot
cards) with their former owners. He doesn't swap minds with them;
he gains their bodies without losing his old one. He shuttles
about from one body to another, consciously controlling one while
the others run on automatic. -75
Pratchett, Terry [AL] [BL]
- Discworld series {//50} [GS] [BBT]
[The Colour of Magic: Signet; 1985; 0451135776; $2.95] [BB] [BBT]
[Guards! Guards!: ROC; 1991; 0451450892; $4.99] [BB] [BBT]
[The Light Fantastic: Signet; 1988; 0451152972; $3.50] [BB] [BBT]
[Mort: Signet; ?] [BBT]
[Moving Pictures: ROC; 1992; 0451451317; $4.99] [BB] [BBT]
[Pyramids: ROC; 1989; 0451450442; $4.95] [RR] [BB] [BBT]
[Reaper Man: ROC; 1992; 0451451686; $4.99] [BB] [BBT]
[Sourcery: Signet; 1989; 0451162331; $3.95] [BB] [BBT]
[Wyrd Sisters: ROC; 1990; 0451450124; $4.95] [BB] [BBT]
* [Cause: MA Result: BX/AN.] Incidental transformations are
scattered throughout most of the books. A recurring character is
the Librarian of Wizard's University who was transformed into an
orangutan and decided not to change back. -50
Pratchett, Terry; Gaiman, Neil
0 Good Omens {/50/} [RR] [BBT]
[Workman; ?; 0894808532; $18.95 hardback] [BB]
* [Cause: MA Result: BM.] An angel and a devil both in the guise of
respectable businessmen, and a cute little, raggedy-haired mutt
that's really a hellhound put into this undignified form by the
misguided preconceptions of an eight-year-old antichrist. -50
Preiss, Byron (ed.)
+ The Ultimate Werewolf (anthology) {Ph/28,66,154/} [BBT]
[Dell; 1991; 044050354X; $10.00 softcover] [BB]
* Rating: 4 Result: LY Significance: + Description: + Saturation: +.
Has 20 lycanthropy-related stories in it, including some real
classics in the field. Many of the stories are listed elsewhere in
this file. Note that Byron Preiss' name is not on the cover;
Harlan Ellison is the first author listed there, so you may find
this book filed under "Ellison" in an alphabetical-by-author
collection. It's very much worth seeking out. -Ph
* Lycanthropy. -154
* Stories listed in story section: Kevin J. Anderson's "Special
Makeup"; Kim Antieau's "Mark of the Beast"; Jerome Charyn's "At
War With the Wolf Man"; Nancy Collins' "Raymond"; A. C. Crispin
and Kathleen O'Malley's "Pure Silver"; Harlan Ellison's "Adrift
Just Off the Islets of Langerhans: Latitude 38 54' N Longitude 77
00'13" W"; Philip Jose Farmer's "Wolf, Iron, and Moth"; Craig Shaw
Gardner's "Day of the Wolf"; Mel Gilden's "Moonlight On the
Gazebo"; Nina Kiriki Hoffman's "Unleashed"; Stuart Kaminsky's
"Full Moon Over Moscow"; Kathe Koja's "Angels' Moon"; Brad
Linaweaver's "Close Shave"; Pat Murphy's "South of Oregon City";
Larry Niven's "There's a Wolf In My Time Machine"; Bill Pronzini's
"Ancient Evil"; Robert J. Randisi's "Partners"; Robert
Silverberg's "The Werewolf Gambit"; Brad Strickland's "And The
Moon Shines Full And Bright"; Robert Weinberg's "Wolf Watch"
Preussler, O. [??]
? Krabat {/141/} [??] [BBT]
[Arena-Verlag Georg Popp, Wurzberg; 1971; ISBN 9060691288; $?] [BB]
* Young boy becomes an apprentice to a miller who has sold his soul
to the devil (who stops by every full moon to grind bones into
flour) and teaches magic at his mill. This is a children's book
and ultimately is about The Power Of Love, but it has several
transformations in it. For instance, during class the miller's
apprectices are turned into crows, and the miller lets his
apprentices pull off an interesting scam, involving one of them
being turned into a horse and sold. Rating: 4 Cause: MA/MC Result
BX/AN Significance: 0 Description: + Saturation: 0. -141
(98/02/08)
Price, E. Hoffmann [BR] [DZ]
0 The Devil Wives of Li Fong {/42/} [BBT]
[Del Rey; 1979; 0345284488; $1.95] [BB]
* [Cause: MA?/NA? Result: BM.]
* A pair of spirits take human form and find themselves a husband.
-42
Pronzini, Bill (ed.)
+ Werewolf! (anthology) {Ph/28,87,154/} [BBT]
[Harper & Row; 1980; 0060805048; $2.25] [BB]
[also printed by SFBC, though out-of-print there]
* Some very good ones in it. -28
* Rating: 4 Result: LY Significance: + Description: + Saturation: +.
Contains 13 good-to-very-good stories, mostly of much older
vintage than those in The Ultimate Werewolf. The two together make
an extremely interesting comparison. -Ph
* Lycanthropy. -154
* Story listed in book section: Peter Beagle's "Lila the Werewolf"
* Stories listed in story section: Brian Aldiss' "Full Sun"; James
Blish's "There Shall Be No Darkness"; Avram Davidson's
"Loups-Garous"; Guy du Maupassant's "The Wolf"; Bruce Elliott's
"Wolves Don't Cry"; Clemence Housman's "The Were-Wolf"; Rudyard
Kipling's "Mark of the Beast"; Fritz Leiber's "The Hound"; Barry
Malzberg's "Nightshapes"; Saki's "Gabriel-Ernest"; Clark Ashton
Smith's "A Prophecy of Monsters"; Bram Stoker's "Dracula's Guest"
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Books: Q
Quinn, Seabury [SS]
0 Alien Flesh {/TG,73,94/} [BBT]
[1977 Train (Publishers address: Oswald Train, Box 1891 Philadelphia
PA 19105)]
* [Cause: MA Result: BX/GC/AR?.] Despite the date, the novel gives
every indication of having been written in the fifties; Quinn died
in 1969; the copyright is in his wife's name. Sometime in the late
'30's, a man runs over and kills an Egyptian girl. As reparation
to his father, (and not really believing it), he agrees to be
magically transformed into the daughter, and to take her place.
The book describes the next dozen years of her life. Be warned
that this is the most sexist fantasy I have ever read. On the
other hand, if it is, as I suspect, a trunk book, it is the
earliest non-satirical (i.e. not Thorne Smith) sex-change book
that I am aware of. -73
* It's a longer version of the Weird Tales novella entitled "Lynne
Foster is dead!", with more detail of Arab life in the
mid-thirties. It degenerates into melodrama, with spies, murder,
narrow escapes and finally true love (aaaaaah). Interesting,
though, and probably unique. -94
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Books: R
Rackham, John
0 Time to Live {/42/} [BBT]
[?]
* [Result: MU?.] A man wakes up in the wrong body. -42
Ramsey, Jay [??}
0 Night of the Claw {/87/} [??] [BBT]
[TOR; 1985; 0812525000; $3.95] [BB]
* [Result: LY.] Were-panther. -87
Rayner, William
+ Stag Boy {/108/} [BBT]
[?]
* [Result: AN.] Rating:4 Cause: MA Result: MT/MU Significance: +
Description: + Saturation: +. One of my favorite books... It's
about a British youth who is sent to the country for reasons of
health, and while there he discovers an ancient Celtic helmet
which allows his consciousness to enter into the body of a black
stag. As the story progresses, the stag gradually takes control,
and the boy's spirit becomes trapped in the deer's body until...
Well, you'll just have to read the book to find out! :-) -108
Reaves, Michael
0 The Shattered World {/4,19,Ph/} [BBT]
[Baen; 1985; 0671559516; $3.50] [BB]
* Main character becomes a bear. -4
* ...A fantasy novel with an interesting twist. It is one of the
truly 'original' books I have read recently. There is a fair
amount of shapechanging both voluntary, and involuntary in it. -19
* Rating: 4 Cause: MA Result: LY/PE/MD Significance: 0 Description:
+ Saturation: 0. The protagonist is a sort of cursed version of a
werebear, but the longer he stays in bear form the more bearlike
he acts and thinks, and the longer he stays human the harder it is
to control the bear when he eventually changes into it. -Ph
Reed, Robert [??]
? Beyond the Veil of Stars {/Ph/} [??] [BBT]
[Tor; 1994; 0312857306; $21.95 hc] [BB]
* Cause: AS Result: MT. One plot element is characters' minds being
transferred into alien bodies on other planets, a la Simak's
"Desertion". Not read; received a mixed review in Locus 402, p.25.
-Ph
Reeves-Stevens, Judith and Garfield
0 Chronicles of Galen Sword series {/28,87,154/} [BBT]
[1: Shifter: Roc/New American Library; 1990; 0451450183; $3.95] [BB]
[BBT]
[2: Nightfeeder: Roc/New American Library; 1991; 0451450760; $3.99]
[BB] [BBT]
* [Result: LY/SC.] One of the assistants to the hero is a half-breed
werewolf, and the first book pits him against a whole clan of
shapechangers. -28
* Doc Savage is crossed with the Highlander and meets various
supernatural secret societies. Diverting reading but heavy handed
and ultimately silly; one of the main sidekicks is a werewolf. -87
* [On Nightfeeder:] Lycanthropy. Alien living in New York City
trying to return to his own world. To do it, he must capture a
fellow alien who's in NY to hunt a werewolf. -154
Resnick, Mike [??]
+ A Miracle of Rare Design: A Tragedy of Transcendence {160/150/} [??] [BBT]
[Tor; 1996; 0812524241; $?] [BB]
* A man goes through a series of physical changes to blend in with
alien races; he becomes addicted to the process. -150 (98/02/11)
* A man who studies aliens is recruited by the government as a
secret "agent". The man is surgically altered to resemble the
aliens he is to be among on each of his separate missions. Rating:
4 Cause: AM Result: BX Significance: +. -160 (98/02/14)
Resnick, Mike; Greenberg, Martin (eds.)
0 Dinosaur Fantastic {/Ph/} [BBT]
[DAW; 1993; 0886775663; $4.99] [BB]
* Rating: 3 Result: BX/AN Significance: 0 Description: 0 Saturation:
-. Has the short stories "Dino Trend" by Pat Cadigan, "Shadow of a
Change" by Michelle Sagara, and "Just Like Old Times" by Robert J.
Sawyer, all listed in the short story section. -Ph
0 Witch Fantastic {/Ph/} [BBT]
[DAW; 1995; 0886776406; $4.99] [BB]
* Has the short stories "The Swineherd" by Lois Tilton, "Wooden
Characters" by Roland J. Green, and "Stock Answer" by Leah Zeldes,
all listed in the short story section. -Ph
Reynolds, G. W. M. [BL]
0 Wagner, the Wehr-Wolf {/154,Ph/} [BBT]
[Dover; 1978; 0486220052; $?] [BB]
* Lycanthropy; not read. -Ph
* [Result: LY.] Lycanthropy. -154 (98/02/13)
Rhodes, Russell
? The Styx Complex {/11/} [BBT]
[?]
* Cause: AM(serum) Result: GC; not read. -11
Rice, Anne [BL]
+ Vampire Chronicles series {64/36/} [BBT]
* [Cause: NA? Result: VA.] The vampires in these novels don't have
the traditional vampire shapechanging powers, but the
transformation from living human to vampire is an important
element in these stories so they still qualify as transformation
stories. -64
[1: Interview with the Vampire: Ballantine; 1994; 0345337662; $6.99]
[BB] [BBT]
* Rating: 4 Significance: + Description: 0 Saturation: -. -64
[2: The Vampire Lestat: Ballantine; 1993; 0345313860; $6.99] [BB]
[BBT]
* Rating: 5 Significance: + Description: 0 Saturation: -. -64
[3: The Queen of the Damned: Ballantine; 1993; 0345351525; $6.99] [BB]
[BBT]
* Rating: 3 Significance: + Description: 0 Saturation: -. -64
[4: The Tale of the Body Thief: Ballantine; 1993; 034538475X; $6.99]
{/150/} [BB] [BBT]
* [Result: MT.] Lestat changes bodies with a man capable of changing
bodies, who runs off with it. -150 (98/02/11)
[5: Memnoch the Devil: Ballantine; 1996; 0345389409; $14.00 softcover]
[BB] [BBT]
Robbins, David
0 The Wereling {/83,87,154,Ph/} [BBT]
[Leisure; 1983; 0843920327, $3.50] [BB]
[Leisure; 1986; 0843923431; $?] [BB]
* [Result: LY.] Lycanthropy. -83
* Sort-of-in-a-way-kind-of. A man under the influence of an evil
spirit orders a very convincing werewolf costume. According to the
spirit, no physical transformation is involved; the 'vessel'
manages quite well without it... -Ph
* Well, it's sort-of about a werewolf... predictable but decently
written; I still like this one. If you ignore the preface and
epilogue, its about a boy and his costume ... deja vu, eh? -87
* Lycanthropy. -154
? The Wraith {/154/} [??] [BBT]
[1988; ?]
* [Result: LY.] Lycanthropy. -154 (98/02/13)
Roberson, Jennifer [AL] [BL]
0 Chronicles of the Cheysuli series {/9,20,42,83,154/} [BBT]
[1: Shape-Changers: DAW; 1992; 0886771404; $5.99] [BB] [BBT]
[2: The Song of Homana: DAW; 1984; 0886773172; $3.95] [BB] [BBT]
[2: The Song of Homana: DAW; 1992; 0886774349; $5.99] [BB]
[3: Legacy of the Sword: DAW; 1992; 0886773164; $4.99] [BB] [BBT]
[4: Track of the White Wolf: DAW; 1992; 0886771935; $?] [BB] [BBT]
[5: A Pride of Princes: DAW; 1992; 0886772613; $6.99] [BB] [BBT]
[6: Daughter of the Lion: DAW; 1992; 0886773245; $5.99] [BB] [BBT]
[7: Flight of the Raven: DAW; 1992; 0886774225; $5.99] [BB] [BBT]
[8: A Tapestry of Lions: DAW; 1992; 0886775248, $6.99] [BB] [BBT]
* Quite good, but not fantastic. -9
* [on Shape-Changers and Track of the White Wolf only:] [Result:
LY.] Lycanthropy. -154
Robeson, K. [??]
0 Brand of the Werewolf {/87/} [??] [BBT]
[?]
* Result: LY. One of the Doc Savage books. -Ph
Robinson, Spider [AL] [BL] [BR]
- Callahan's Lady {/TG/11,Ph} [RR] [BBT]
[Ace; 1990; 0441090729; $3.95] [BB]
* Rating: 3 Result: LY Significance: - Description: - Saturation: -.
SF; Werebeagle. Has a werebeagle as a minor character. -11
* I withdraw my previous comment; the shapechanging is not totally
incidental. It's only mostly incidental. ;-) -Ph
0 Deathkiller {/142/} [??] [BBT]
[Baen; 1996; 0671877224; $5.99] [BB]
* [Result: BC/GC.] Four personalities transform into one female
person; maybe that could work for your list too? -142 (98/02/09)
Robinson, Spider; Robinson, Jeanne
0 Stardance {/42,142/} [BBT]
[Tor; 1984; 0812552253; $2.95] [BB]
[Doubleday; 1979; 0385271166; $?] [BB]
* [Result: BM.] The book ends with the transformation of the
protagonists into a space-dwelling life-form. There's a sequel.
-42
* Just a little thing really. Stardance is a trilogy, it has two
sequels, not just one. -142
Rohan, Michael S. [BL]
0 Winter of the World series {/45/}
[The Anvil of Ice: Avon; 1989; 0380705478; $3.50] [BB] [BBT]
[The Forge in the Forest: Futura; 1989; 0708882544; $3.50] [BB] [BBT]
[The Hammer of the Sun: Avon; 1990; 0380705494; $3.95] [BB] [BBT]
* [Cause: MA Result: BX.] The mastersmith of the story forges the
Tarnhelm, the helmet with which the user can change his shape. I
liked this trilogy--perhaps because it uses quite a lot of Finnish
mythos at its background. :-) -45
Rosenberg, Joel
0 Guardians of the Flame series {/54/}
[The Sleeping Dragon: Signet; 1983; 0451125746; $2.95] [BB] [BBT]
[?]
* [Cause: DT.] Characters transformed when they jump between worlds.
-54
Ross, Marilyn [??]
0 Barnabas Collins and Quentin's Demon {/87/} [??] [BBT]
[?]
* [Result: LY.] Standard old-style Hollywood werewolf. If you
watched Dark Shadows when it was a soap opera, you'll know the
story. -87
Roth, Philip
- The Breast {//11} [BBT]
[Penguin; 1972, 1980; 0 14 00.76794; $5.95]
* Rating: 2 Result: BM Significance: - Description: - Saturation: -.
Another questionable one; it is not 'fantastic fiction' of any
sort, and isn't worth seeking out in any case, but does involve a
transformation. -11
Rubie, Peter [??]
0 Werewolf {/87,154/} [??] [BBT]
[Longmeadow; 1991; 0681413948; $?] [BB]
* [Result: LY.] Confusing mishmash about one or more werewolves in
WWII London. -87
* Lycanthropy. -154
Rucker, Rudy [SS] [AL] [BL] [BR]
0 Master of Space and Time {/11,22,TG/} [BBT]
[Baen; 1985; 0671559974; $2.95] [BB]
* SF; Rating: 4 Cause: AX Result: BX Significance: + Description: 0
Saturation: 0. -11
* Whimsical fancy, mainly, with some wish-list body changes. -22
- Software {/44,64/11} [BBT]
[Avon; 1982; 0380701774; $2.95] [BB]
* Rating: 4 Result: MT Significance: - Description: 0 Saturation: -.
-11
* [Cause: AS Result: IN.] ...Has a person moved into a computer and
he then has a body that can be made into any shape. -44
- Wetware {/44/11} [BBT]
[Avon; 0380701782; $3.50] [BB]
* [Cause: AS Result: BC.] Rating: 3 Result: BX Significance: -
Description: 0 Saturation: -. The transformations here are more
interesting than those in Software, but do not justify seeking the
novel out for them alone. The drug merge allows people (and other
beings) to temporarily merge together. Longer mergings can cause a
blending of the participants. -11
* ...Has a drug that temporarily melts bodies (I think it had some
curious side-effects as well). Both books [this and Software] are
better than Master of Space and Time. -44
Rusch, Kristine K.; Anderson, Kevin J. [BL]
0 Afterimage {/11,58,59/} [BBT]
[ROC; 1992; 0451451759; $4.99] [BB]
* Fantasy; Rating: 2 Cause: MA Result: BX/SC Significance: +
Description: 0 Saturation: 0. First (apparently) in a series. A
race of shapechangers lives side by side with the humans they
resemble, and to save a rape victim on the edge of death,
transform her into the image of their attacker. -11
* Synopsis: Woman is raped, beaten, and burned. She is saved by
'darklings' who lived in redwood forest, One of them changed her
to save her. She is changed into the image of her rapist. These
'darklings' are sort of like faeries. They shapechanged every time
someone is killed in the forest and they are within range. They
shapechange within the same sex. The execption was the human who
was changed from female to male. -58
* The cover reads "Marooned in the body of a mysterious psycho. A
woman must use magic to bring a serial killer to justice." -59
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Books: S
Saberhagen, Fred [AL] [BL] [BR]
0 Berserker Base {/103/} [BBT]
[Tor; 1985; 0812553276; $?] [BB]
* [Cause: AS Result: IN.] Rating: 3 Significance: 0 Description: -
Saturation: -. This is a collaborative Berserkers novel, with
parts by Poul Anderson, Edward Bryant, Stephen R. Donaldson, Larry
Niven, Fred Saberhagen, Connie Willis and Roger Zelazny. There is
one bit with a transformation: a dead human's mind is in a
computer running a terraforming project, and then manages to
transfer itself into a Berserker that attacks it. -103
0 Dancing Bears {/154/} [??] [BBT]
[Tor; 1996; 0312857985; $23.95 hardcover] [BB]
[Tor; 1997; 0812550048; $6.99] [BB]
* [Result: LY.] Lycanthropy. -154 (98/02/13)
* Ursanthropy, to be exact. :-) -Ph
0 Dracula series {/42,64/} [BBT]
[The Holmes-Dracula File: Tor; 1992; 0812523849; $] [BB] [BBT]
[An Old Friend of the Family: Ace; 1979; 0441621600; $1.95] [BB] [BBT]
[The Dracula Tape: Ace; 1980; 0441166008; $1.95] [BB] [BBT]
* [Result: VA.] These books tell Dracula's side of the story, and
later other stories featuring the same vampire. -42
* Rating: 3 Result: BM Significance: 0 Description: - Saturation: -.
Vlad Tepes, aka Count Dracula is the main character in these
novels and he has the traditional powers of a vampire. The third
(The Dracula Tape) is a retelling of the events of Bram Stoker's
Dracula from Dracula's point of view. I liked An Old Friend of the
Family best. -64
Sackett, Jeffrey
0 Mark of the Werewolf {/65,87,154,Ph/} [BBT]
[Bantam; 1990; 0553284509; $3.95] [BB]
* Result: LY. Lycanthropy; not read; reviewed in OtherRealms 27.04.
-Ph
* Lycanthropy. -154
Sarrantonio, Al
0 Moonbane {/87,154/} [BBT]
[Bantam Spectra; 1989; 0553281860; $3.95] [BB]
* [Cause: NA Result: LY.] Mankind is actually just immature werewolf
larvae, fled here from the moon to escape an ancient war that
rendered the moon lifeless. Now, lunar rock turns us into
werewolves... really weird, fairly violent. If you can get past
the premise it's not bad. -87
* Lycanthropy. -154
Saul, John
0 Guardian {/114/} [BBT]
[?]
* [Result: LY.] Basically the same plot as almost every John Saul
novel: A broken family moves from the city to the country-side --
and into their own apocalypse. Most members of the family get
murdered by a being; in Guardian it's a werewolf. Transformation
scenes: thumb slightly up. Rating: 2 (4 if you don't know other
novels by that author) -114
Scarborough, Elizabeth [SS] [AL]
+ Goldcamp Vampire {50//} [BBT]
[Spectra; 1987; 0553267175; $3.50] [BB]
* [Result: VA.] The title speaks for itself. -50
? Wolf from the Door {/11/} [BBT]
[?]
* [Result: LY.] Horror; lycanthropy; not read -11
Schmitz, James [SS] [AL] [BL] [DZ]
0 The Lion Game {/42/} [BBT]
[DAW; 1973; 451-UQ1038-095; $.95]
* [Cause: NA Result: RM.] The bad guys belong to a race that
undergoes metamorphosis. -42
Scotch, Cheri
0 The Werewolf's Kiss series {/83,87,154/}
[1: The Werewolf's Kiss: Diamond; 1992; 1557738017, $4.99] [BB] [BBT]
* [Result: LY.] Lycanthropy. -83
* Remarkably good story of modern Louisiana loups-garou, if a bit
disjointed at times. Overly influenced by Interview with a
Vampire... The author is on GEnie. -87
[2: The Werewolf's Touch: Diamond; 1993; 1557739056, $4.99] [BB] [BBT]
* [Result: LY.] Lycanthropy. -83
* Lycanthropy. -154
[3: The Werewolf's Sin: Diamond; 1994; 1557739730, $?] [BB]
* Result: LY. Lycanthropy. Not read. -Ph
Scott, Jody
0 I, Vampire {/43/} [BBT]
[?]
0 Passing for Human {/43/} [BBT]
[DAW; 1977; 0879973307; $1.50] [BB]
On I, Vampire and Passing for Human:
* [Result: MT.] ...Feature aliens (and the occasional human) who
change bodies. -43
Senn, Steve [??]
0 A Circle in the Sea {/162/} [??] [BBT]
[Scribner; 1981; 0689308612; $?] [BB]
* [Rating: 5 Cause: MA? Result: MT/AN Significance: 0.] This is the
best book I have ever read, but I have not been able to find it
anywhere except the library. It is about a girl whose father works
for the military and comes home one day with a ring taken from
what could be part of Atlantis. This ring allows the girl to
switch places with a dolphin. It is very good. -162 (98/02/14)
Serling, Carol (ed.)
? Journeys to the Twilight Zone (anthology) {/Ph/} [BBT]
[DAW; 1993; 0886775256; $4.99] [BB]
* Result: LY. I have this one flagged as having at least one
lycanthropy story. -Ph
Setlowe, Richard [??]
+ The Experiment {148//} [??] [BBT]
[Holt, Rinehart & Winston; 1980; 0030417457; $?] [BB]
[Kensington; 1986; 0821718851; $?] [BB]
* [Rating: 4 Cause: AS Result: BM.] Summary: (partially from front
dust cover flap) Harry Styles is thirty-siz years old; he has a
wife and three young children he loves. And he is dying of lung
cancer. When Dr. Karl Steienhardt asks him to volunteer for a
revolutionary operation--his lungs to be replaced by gills--he
accepts with terror and pride, knowing that near the moment of his
death he will be making a mark on science. He lives--to find
himself submerged in water, that water now his only world, the
element he must "breathe" to exist.
Personal Opinion: I read this long ago on a vacation. It was at
the time when a 299 page book as it is would take a kid like me
weeks to read. I finished it in three days. It was so riveting I
spent hours each day reading nonstop. It is truly Science Fiction,
very believable. The details are immense and realistic. The book
deals with technical aspects of the gill lung replacement, the
mental and physical condition of Harry, reactions of his family
and the staff that performed the surgery. Everything seems to have
been taken into consideration. Highly recommended. 4/4. -148
(98/02/11)
Severance, Carol
0 Reefsong {/104/} [BBT]
[Del Rey; 1991; 034537231X; $4.99] [BB]
* Rating: 3 Cause: AM Result: BM Significance: 0 Description: +
Saturation: 0. A troubleshooter is surgically modified, against
her will, to adapt to an amphibious lifestyle. Several passages
are very good at describing the feeling of the transformation.
There are several other books by Severance that appear to be in
the same continuity, but I've not read them. -104
Shakespeare, William
0 A Midsummer Night's Dream {/40/} [FT] [BBT]
[?]
* [Cause: MA Result: BM/AN.] Bottom gets turned into a donkey at one
point. -40
Shaw, Frederick L.
0 Envoy to the Dog Star {/42/} [BBT]
[Ace; 1967; G-614; $.50; Ace Double w/Shock Wave]
* [Cause: AM Result: BT/AN.] Brain transplant. The
narrator/protagonist is a dog. -42
Sheckley, Robert [SS] [AL] [BR]
0 The Alchemical Marriage of Alistair Crompton (aka Crompton Divided
{/77,116/} [BBT]
[Crompton Divided: Bantam; 1979; 0553129007; $1.95] [BB]
* [Result: PE?/BC?.] Alistair Crompton, chief tester for Psychosmell
Inc, cured schizophrenic, and extremely boring person, goes on a
galaxy-wide quest to recover his missing personality fragments
that had been given their own bodies; having eventually recovered
them, he then has to try and integrate them. -77
* Crompton Divided was the title on the American release, and The
Alchemical Marriage... was the title of the British release. -116
0 Mindswap {/34/} [BBT]
[Grafton; 1986; 0586066950; $3.95] [BB]
* [Result: MT?.] -34
Sheffield, Charles [SS] [AL] [BL]
0 Proteus Unbound {/13/} [BBT]
[Del Rey; 1989; 0345344340; $3.95] [BB]
0 Sight of Proteus {/5,13,TG/} [BBT]
[Del Rey; 1989; 0345344332; $3.95] [BB]
[Proteus Unbound and Sight of Proteus combined as Proteus Combined; ?]
[BBT]
* [Cause: AS Result: BX.] This book is ok, better if you like
Sheffield. You might have a hard time finding it though. I rarely
see any of his older stuff around. -5
* ...About a society in which 'form-change' is common technology.
-13
* A short story "Legacy," on which Sight of Proteus was based, is in
Changes, by Bishop and Watson. -Ph
Shepard, Lucius [BL] [BR]
0 Green Eyes {/144/} [??] [BBT]
[Ace; 1984; 0441302742; $?] [BB]
* This is a weird-ass book. Briefly, a doctor (perhaps mad,
certainly obsessive and paranoid) finds a way to revive dead
people whose bodies aren't too badly damaged. The catch is, the
revivees have brand new personalities, new memories, everything.
[...] For experimental reasons most of the revivees aren't aware
of their true nature, but many of them come to suspect it. This
forms a small but significant part of the story. Of course, the
reader is continually aware of just how weird these people are...
[Result: PE.] Rating: 4 Cause: AM Significance: 0 Description: +
Saturation: + (See Spoiler Section for more information) -144
(98/02/09)
? Kalimantan {/Ph/} [BBT]
[TOR; 1993; 0812530047; $3.99] [BB]
* Not read. -Ph
0 Life During Wartime {/144/} [??] [BBT]
[Bantam; 1991; 0553290665; $?] [BB]
* Another weird-ass book. There's a war going on in Guatemala, and
both sides (US vs. Commies, that is to say Cubans, Nicaraguans,
local insurgents) are developing psychically powered special
operatives. [...] The drug used to trigger psychic development is
derived from a traditional hallucinogen. [...] The story is really
an odyssey by two defectors from the psychic armies (one of ours,
one of theirs). Rating: 5 Cause: AM Result: MP/TT Significance: 0
Description: + Saturation: +. -144 (98/02/09)
Sherman, Josepha [??]
0 The Shining Falcon {/88/} [BBT]
[Avon; 1989; 0380754363; $3.50] [BB]
* [Result: AN.] Rating: 2 Result: SC Significance: 0 Description: -
Saturation: 0. Fantasy; shape-changing prince (changes into a
falcon) woos beautiful princess. -88
Shinn, Sharon [??]
+ The Shape-Changer's Wife {144//} [??] [BBT]
[Ace; 1995; 0441002617; $4.99] [BB]
* This is a very good book. Shape-Changer's Wife is a fairy tale
much like something Peter Beagle might have written. Aubrey, a
young student of sorcery, goes to study with a wizard of great
power and dubious character, a specialist in shape-changing (both
himself and others). It develops that the shape-changer's wife and
all his servants are transformed forest creatures, all more or
less miserable in human form. Not only do we get to hear what life
is like for the transformed, we get description of transformative
magic and the mental states necessary to perform it. As Aubrey
masters the subject we get to see him go through his own
transformations. Rating: 3 Cause: MA/MC Result: BX/SC
Significance: + Description: + Saturation: +. (See Spoiler Section
for more information) -144 (98/02/09)
Shirley, John [AL]
0 A Splendid Chaos {/77,TG/} [BBT]
[Franklin-Watts; 1988; ?]
* [Result: BM.] People and aliens abducted to a planet where
occasional strange fluxes cause alterations of body form. Reads
rather like a sort of punk Philip Jose Farmer meets the Wild
Cards. -77
Shwartz, Susan
0 Moonsinger's Friends {/Ph/} [BBT]
[Tor; 1985; 0-812-5546-9; ?]
* Contains three stories people have listed here: "Lior and the Sea"
by Diane Duane, "The Woman Who Loved Reindeer by Meredith Ann
Pierce, and "The Foxwife" by Jane Yodel. -Ph
Silverberg, Robert [SS] [AL] [BL] [BR]
+ Downward To the Earth {79//} [BBT]
[Gollancz; 1990; 0575047348; $3.50?] [BB]
* [Cause: NA? Result: RM? Saturation: +.] Classic SF novel. Two
native species can transform into each other. Has many major
transformations. Worth looking for. -79
- Lord Valentine's Castle {/41,42/64} [BBT]
[HarperCollins; 1995; 0061054879; $5.99] [BB]
* An excellent book, but the personality transfers, though crucial
for motivating the plot, are peripheral to the story. -42
* ...There was [also] a [shapeshifting] native race on the
planet...and they played a large role later. -41
* Rating: 4 Significance: 0 Description: - Saturation: -. The native
race is called Metamorphs. -64
- Majipoor Chronicles {//64} [BBT]
[sequel to Lord Valentine's Castle]
[Ballantine; 1983; 0553229281; $3.50] [BB]
* Rating: 3 Significance: 0 Description: - Saturation: -. -64
- Valentine Pontifex {//64} [BBT]
[sequel to Majipoor Chronicles]
[Ballantine; 1984; 0553244949; $3.95] [BB]
* Rating: 2 Significance: 0 Description: - Saturation: -. The
Metamorphs become more important... -64
0 Son of Man (After Man) {/11/} [BBT]
[Warner; 1987; 0446345113; $3.95] [BB]
* Rating: 2 Result: BM Significance: 0 Description: 0 Saturation: -.
SF; Advanced humans. A modern man, transported into the far
future, undergoes a few changes over the course of this rather odd
book. -11
0 Thorns {/43/} [BBT]
[Del Rey; 1967; 0345279689; $1.95] [BB]
* [Cause: AX Result: BM.] One of the protagonists is an astronaut
whose body has been altered by aliens to make it more efficient,
but grotesque. -43
Simak, Clifford [SS] [AL] [BR] [DZ]
0 City {/42/} [BBT]
[Ace; 1952; 441-10624-175; $1.75]
* [Result: RM Saturation: -.] One of the classics of science
fiction. This collection of connected stories features the mass
transformation of the human race into Jovian monsters, but that's
peripheral to the story. -42
+ Now, I ask you, how often do you hear that statement? ;-) -Ph
+ Time is the Simplest Thing {103//} [BBT]
[Doubleday; 1961; ?]
* [Cause: AX? Result: PE?.] Rating: 4 Significance: + Description: 0
Saturation: -. The protagonist is exploring a distant planet
through technologically boosted astral projection (the only known
way to safely leave the earth); he encounters an ancient,
knowledgeable entity. It trades a copy of the sum of its knowledge
for a copy of the sum of his, "contaminating" his mind with alien
ideas. He flees the athorities and joins with a bunch of outcast
espers. -103
0 They Walked Like Men {/41/} [BBT]
[Manor; 1962; 532-95390-095; $.95]
0 The Werewolf Principle {/24,36,66,154/} [BBT]
[DAW; 1982; 0879977086; $2.50] [BB]
[Carroll & Graf; 1994; 0786701005; $3.95] [BB]
* This was one I fondly remember from my youth. Turns out that the
hero has the capability to turn into several different life-forms.
Much of the story is about him trying to find out why he has this
capability. -36
* [Result: LY.] Lycanthropy. -154
Simmons, Dan [BL]
0 Hyperion series {/40/}
[Hyperion: Bantam Spectra; 1990; 0553283685; $4.95] [BB] [BBT]
[Fall of Hyperion: Bantam Spectra; 1991; 0553288202; $5.95] [RR] [BB]
[BBT]
* [Cause: GM?.] Genetic takeover plays a bit role. But what a role!
-40
0 Song of Kali {/40/} [BBT]
[TOR; 1985; 0812515927; $4.99] [BB]
* Extreme horror with ambiguous transformations along the way. -40
Simmons, William Mark [??]
0 One Foot in the Grave {/154/} [??] [BBT]
[Baen; 1996; 0671877216; $5.99] [BB]
* [Result: LY.] Lycanthropy. -154 (98/02/13)
Skipp, John; Spector, Craig
0 Animals {/154,Ph/} [BBT]
[Bantam; 1993; 0553299247; $5.99] [BB]
* Transformation; not read. -Ph
* [Result: LY.] Lycanthropy. -154 (98/02/13)
0 The Cleanup {/11/} [BBT]
[Bantam; 1987; 0553260561; $3.95] [BB]
* Horror; Result: SC Significance: + Description: 0 Saturation: 0.
-11
Smith, Cordwainer [AL] [DZ]
- Norstrilia {/75/42,64} [BBT]
[Ballantine; 1975; 345-24366-8-150; $1.50]
* [Cause: AM Result: BM/AN.] The protagonist has himself surgically
disguised as a genetically constructed cat person. One of the
great sf novels, though it's really not about transformation. -42
* Rating: 5 Result: MT Significance: 0 Description: - Saturation: -.
An excellent book. -64
* Besides the minor transformation you mentioned, one of the
characters, a servant girl, is transformed into the likeness of
the hero, a boy, to serve as a decoy. There is some detail on the
mental changes that result as s/he gets used to it. -75
Smith, George O.
Space Plague (originally Highways in Hiding) {103//} [BBT]
[Avon; 1956]
* Rating: 5 Significance: + Description: + Saturation: 0. (See
Spoiler Section for more information.) -103
Smith, James V., Jr. [??]
0 Almost Human {/154/} [??] [BBT]
[Dell; 1990; 044020450X; $?] [BB]
* [Result: LY.] Lycanthropy. -154 (98/02/13)
Smith, Nyx [??]
0 Who Hunts the Hunter {/154/} [??] [BBT]
[New American Library; 1995; 0451453697; $4.99] [BB]
* [Result: LY.] Lycanthropy. Shadowrun series. (Female weretiger.)
-154 (98/02/13)
Smith, Robert Arthur
0 The Prey {/83,154/} [BBT]
[Fawcett; 1977; 0449139239, $1.95] [BB]
* [Result: LY.] Lycanthropy. -83
* I notice this was copyrighted as Prey of the Werewolves. -Ph
* Lycanthropy. -154
Smith, Stephanie A.
0 The Boy Who Was Thrown Away {/72/} [BBT]
[DAW; 1989; 0886773202; $3.50] [BB]
* [Result: BM.] Amant, a young boy, tries to save his cousin by
learning how to use his abilities. Some shapeshifting of Amant;
haven't fully finished the book yet. -72
* This is the sequel to Snow-Eyes, 0-88677-286-9 [BB] [BBT]. I read
Snow-Eyes as far as the promo inside the front cover, which is a
fine transformation scene, at any rate. :-) -Ph
Smith, Thorne [AL]
0 The Night Life of the Gods {/72,76/} [BBT]
[Del Rey; 1980; ISBN 0345287266; $2.25] [BB]
* Hunter Hawk develops a ray that turns flesh to stone. Along with
Megaera, they sneak into a museum and reverse the process,
bringing a number of Greek gods to life. Again, a very fun read,
if the transformation is not the main part. -72
* [Result: IN.] Rating: 3 Cause: MA/AS Result: BX Significance: 0
Description: 0 Saturation: +. An inventor develops a ray that will
turn living beings into statues. He also learns a magical
technique to turn statues into living beings. The main story
centers around the activities of the Roman/Greek gods/goddesses
between new life and return to statues. -76
0 The Stray Lamb {/37,72,76/} [BBT]
[Del Rey; 1980; 034528724X; $2.25] [BB]
* [Cause: MA Result: BX/AN.] Had a man changing into various
creatures (against his will, of course). -37
* I have a fondness for all of Thorne Smith's works... in this one,
T. Lawrence Lamb gives a lift to a little russet man who proceeds
to give Lamb a trip through a number of animal shapes. Quite
funny, bawdy for its time and still worthwhile. -72
* Rating: 3 Cause: MA Result: BX Significance: 0 Description: 0
Saturation: +. A man alternates between himself and several
different creatures. -76
+ Turnabout {72,76/37,TG/} [BBT]
[Del Rey; 1980; 0345287258; $2.25] [BB]
* [Had] a wife and husband getting trapped in each other's bodies...
(Later made into a Hal Roach movie and a short-lived TV series.)
-37
* Courtesy of a small statue of a god, Tim and Sally Willows (a
couple who bicker constantly) end up trading both bodies and jobs.
Hilarious, especially when Tim finds out he's pregnant. -72
* Rating: 3 Cause: MA Result: MU Significance: + Description: +
Saturation: 0. A husband and wife exchange bodies following an
argument in which both exclaim 'I wish I could be you.' (I
remember seeing the Hal Roach movie (Carole Lombard was the wife,
don't remember the husband) and the TV series (Sharon Gless(sp?)
and John Schuck)). -76
Smith, Wayne [??]
? Thor {/149,154/} [??] [BBT]
[Ballantine; 1994; 0345384555; $5.99] [BB]
* I didn't see "Thor" on your list. I believe that is the title of
the book. This is the book that the recent movie "Bad Moon" is
based on. -149 (98/02/11)
* The person who sent this in didn't know the author. I believe that
Wayne Smith's Thor is the book he's talking about. Thor is a
German Shepherd; the story is told from Thor's perspective. He
tries to defend his human family--his "Pack"--from their evil
Uncle Ted, a werewolf. Does anybody know if there's another Thor
book that might be the one? -Ph
* [Result: LY.] Lycanthropy. -154 (98/02/13)
Snyder, Midori [BL]
0 Soulstring {/38/} [BBT]
[Ace; 1987; 0441775918; $2.95] [BB]
* [Cause: MA Result: BX/AN/PE?/MD?.] A major character gets
transformed (by magic) into a stag. Nearly loses identity. Not
bad, not spectacular. Fantasy. -38
Somtow, S. P. [AL] [BL] [BR]
0 Moon Dance {Ph/36,65,83,87,154/114} [BBT]
[Tor; 1989; 0312932030; $24.95 hardback] [BB]
[Tor; 1991; 0812511271, $5.99] [BB]
* Some people really like this one, I was ambivalent. The basic
idea: what happens when the European werewolves decide to migrate
to North America's West and run into the native werewolves. -36
* Rating: 5 Cause: NA Result: LY Significance: + Description: 0
Saturation: 0. I'm one of the ones who really liked this one; it's
one of the very few books I took the time to find in autographed
hardback. I'm thinking about buying it again in paperback so I can
read it to death without damaging the hardback... Great stuff. -Ph
* Graphic violence and sex; convoluted and fairly depressing story.
I like it, but Lance hates it. Acquired taste, certainly. -87
* Full of cliches about native American and European culture, a
simple bad (European) werewolves against good (Indian) ones story,
full of blood and rape, plundering history, far too long. And more
a vampire plot (at least the European werewolves). Rotten German
translation. Transformation: thumb slightly down Rating: 1. -114
* Lycanthropy. -154
0 Vampire Junction {/36/} [BBT]
[?]
* [Result: VA.] -36
Springer, Nancy [AL] [BL]
? several books and stories {/20/}
[The Black Beast: Pocket; 1982; 0671441175; $2.50] [BB] [BBT]
[The Golden Swan: Pocket; 1983; 0671452533; $2.50] [BB] [BBT]
[The Sable Moon: Pocket; 1981; 0671831577; $2.50] [BB] [BBT]
[The Silver Sun: Pocket; 1980; 0671834967; $2.50] [BB] [BBT]
[The White Hart: Pocket; 1979; 0671831488; $2.25] [BB] [BBT]
* Can someone verify which of these stories have transformation? -Ph
0 Larque on the Wing {/122/} [BBT]
[?]
* [Result: BX/GC/AR.] ...has a middle aged housewife transform into
a lithe, muscular gay teenager. It's rather well written and
engaging. -122
0 Mindbond {/104/} [??] [BBT]
[Tor, 1987; 0812554922; $2.95] [BB]
* Rating: 2 Cause: MA/MC Result: BX/AN Significance: 0 Description:
+ Saturation: 0. Sword-and-sorcery fantasy, this book is in the
middle of a series. The main characters are able to take animal
forms, though Dannoc, the hero, is seduced by a seal maiden and
"permanently" turned into one. (He is made human again, but only
by a chance encounter.) Rad, his companion, was able to take a
seal form temporarily. Also seen are seal folk (who can take
human-seal forms, as the maiden does) and deer folk (who can do
the same, and who turned one of Dannoc's friends into one of them,
apparently in a prior book). Nice if light read, although for some
reason Dannoc (from whose point of view the story is told) always
seemed to me to have the voice of Thundarr the Barbarian. -104
(98/02/06)
Stableford, Brian [??]
0 The Werewolves of London series {/154/} [??]
[1: The Werewolves of London: Carroll & Graf; 1994; 0786701803; $?]
[BB] [BBT]
[2: The Angel of Pain: Carroll & Graf; 1995; 0786702869; $5.95] [BB]
[BBT]
[3: The Carnival of Destruction: Carroll & Graf; 1996; 0786703334;
$6.95] [BB] [BBT]
* [Result: LY.] Lycanthropy. -154 (98/02/13)
Stallman, Robert [BR]
+ Beast trilogy {77/87,154/}
[1: The Orphan: Pocket; 1980; 0671829580; $2.25] [BB] [BBT]
[1: The Orphan: Pocket; 1983; 0671467581; $?] [BB]
[2: The Captive: Pocket; 1981; 0671413821; $2.50] [BB] [BBT]
[3: The Beast: Pocket; 1982; 067141383X; $2.50] [BB] [BBT]
* [Cause: NA/AX? Result: BX/PE.] ...A variant on the werewolf theme.
They concern an extra-dimensional life form that leaves its young
on earth. The young alien has an extreme form of protective
mimicry: it can assume the body and personality of a recently dead
human, like a hermit crab using an abandoned shell. The assumed
personality is human in every respect except that he knows that he
can transform to the alien bear/cat like form. There are conflicts
between the alien and its human personality, with the human
knowing that the alien can drop the current personality and adopt
another. I'd recommend these, particularly the 2nd book, The
Captive. -77
* This trilogy starts out as a really nifty shapeshifter tale, but
in the third book they turn out to be pre-pubescent aliens. The
first two books are very good; the third book reads like it was
written by another person entirely (as it may have been - the last
two are credited to the estate of Robert Stallman). The first book
may be hard to find due to the explicit bestiality at one point.
-87
* [Result: LY.] Lycanthropy. -154 (98/02/13)
Stapledon, Olaf [BL] [DZ]
+ The First and Last Men {42//} [BBT]
[?]
* [Rating: 5 Cause: GM? Result: RM?.] One of the great sf classics.
The transformation is on the grandest of scales, as the human race
keeps redesigning itself over billions of years. -42
Starlin, Jim; Graziunas, Diana
+ Lady El {103//} [BBT]
[Penguin; 1992; ?]
* [Cause: AS Result: BT/IN.] Rating: 4 Significance: + Description:
+ Saturation: -. The protagonist, a black cleaning woman, is
killed in an accident at the beginning of the book. Since she
filled out an organ donor card, the military takes her brain to
run a supercomputer with. Her brain was never expected to regain
conciousness, but it does. The scientist in charge of the project
helps her keep the secret, and she adapts well. I didn't like the
ending, but otherwise an excellent story. -103
Stasheff, Christopher [AL] [BL] [BR]
0 Her Majesty's Wizard {/109,Ph/} [BBT]
[Del Rey; 1989; 0345274563; $4.95]
* Result: LY. One of the characters is a werewolf; it's been too
long since I read it for me to remember how important this was to
the story. -Ph
* The werewolf is a priest who considers the lycanthropy to be due
to his sinning, and for him this is a big deal. The whole book is
like that, written where a Medieval mindset about God and the
World is literally true. The priest is a relatively important
character, and has an interesting relationship with a lust-witch,
who is later reformed, so you have a mental/spiritual change also.
I really enjoy this series, but not for the changes.:) -109
Sterling, Bruce [AL] [BL]
0 Mechanist/Shaper setting {/77/}
[Schismatrix: Arbor House; 1985; ?; $?] [BBT]
[Crystal Express: ?] [BBT]
* [Cause: AS/GM Result: BX/RM.] Feature a human race rapidly
changing under the impact of new technologies and alien contacts.
Genetic engineering and cyborg implants are routine, and by the
end of Schismatrix the human race is diverging into weird clans:
the Spectral Intelligents, the Lobsters (with their integral
spacesuits), the Blood Bathers, and the Lifesiders reengineering
themselves to live in the subsurface ocean of Europa; the
implication is that a Vinge type Singularity is imminent. Most of
the Mechanist/Shaper shorts are in Crystal Express. -77
Stevenson, R. L.
0 The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde {/15/} [FT] [BBT]
[?]
* [Cause: AS Result: BM/PE.] -15
Stewart, Mary [AL]
0 A Walk in Wolf Wood {/87,154/} [BBT]
[Fawcett; 1990; 0449214222; $5.99] [BB]
* [Result: LY.] A children's story, somewhat
Beauty-and-the-Beastish. The werewolf is the good guy. -87
* Lycanthropy. -154
Stine, Hank
0 Season of the Witch {/TG/}
[?]
* [Result: GC.] -TG
Stine, R. L. [??]
0 Bad Moonlight {/154/} [??] [BBT]
[Archway; 1995; 0671894242; $3.99] [BB]
* [Result: LY.] Lycanthropy. -154 (98/02/13)
0 Night in Werewolf Woods (Give Yourself Goosebumps #5) {/154/} [??] [BBT]
[Apple; 1996; 059067319X; $3.99] [BB]
* [Result: LY.] Lycanthropy. Young adult; multi-ending choices. -154
(98/02/13)
0 The Werewolf of Fever Swamp (Goosebumps, #14) {/154/} [??] [BBT]
[Apple; 1995; 059049449X; $3.99] [BB]
* [Result: LY.] Lycanthropy. Young adult. -154 (98/02/13)
Stoker, Bram [SS]
0 Dracula {/42/} [FT] [BBT]
[?]
* [Result: VA.] -42
Stone, Tom B. [??]
0 Little Pet Werewolf (Graveyard School #4) {/154/} [??] [BBT]
[Skylark; 1995; 0553482262; $3.50] [BB]
* [Result: LY.] Lycanthropy. -154 (98/02/13)
Strieber, Whitley [BL]
+ The Wild {114,Ph/87,154/} [BBT]
[TOR; 1991; 0812512774; $5.95] [BB]
* Rating: 5 Result: BX/AN/PE/MD Significance: + Description: +
Saturation: +. An extremely good man-into-wolf novel, with a great
deal of attention paid to the physical and mental aspects of the
change and of life as a wolf. What The Metamorphosis would be if
done in the 90's by a horror writer. A must-read, if you won't be
off-put by the graphic violence and animal sex. -Ph
* An excellent man-info-wolf novel. -87
* It is the best novel of this genre I've ever read. Perhaps the
chase through NY is a bit too long. Remarkable: the ironic
reference to Stephen King's super-intelligent, evil fighting kids.
Transformations: all thumbs up! Rating: 5. -114
* Lycanthropy. -154 (98/02/13)
0 Wolfen {/87,154/114} [??] [BBT]
[Avon; 1988; 0380704404; $4.50] [BB]
* Actually not a shape-shifter story, but with some references to
the werewolf mythology. The "wolfen" are a species of high
intelligent, wolf-like predators. The story is told from both
directions and it is not easy to tell who's evil --- or what evil
is. Transformations: none. Rating: 5. -114
* [Result: LY.] Lycanthropy. -154 (98/02/13)
Sturgeon, Theodore [AL]
0 The Dreaming Jewels {/77/} [BBT]
[?]
* [Cause: AX Result: BM/SC.] The misanthropic, insane master of a
carnival is obsessed by jewel-like alien lifeforms that can
duplicate and rebuild living things, planning to use them for his
revenge on the human race. Unknown to him, a small boy in the
carnival is being restructured by the jewels (acquiring limited
telepathy, shapechanging and regeneration), and eventually foils
his plans. (Any synopsis of the plot sounds silly- it's a lot
better than it sounds!) -77
- Venus Plus X {//84} [BBT]
[Dell; 1979; 0440193605; $1.95] [BB]
* ...A pretty weird story about a guy who wakes up in a very strange
place, which is inhabited by some very strange beings. There is a
good deal of suspense as to whether the story is about time
travel, alien encounter, or neither, or both... -84
Sturluson, Snorri
0 The Elder Edda {/75/} [BBT]
[?]
* [Cause: MA Result: GC.] There's some more minor transformation in
'Loki's Flyting'; Loki and the gods are taunting each other, and
one of them reminds Loki about the time he was a girl in Midgard
for several years, and nursed babies. -75
0 The Younger Edda {/75/} [BBT]
[aka The Prose Edda] [BBT]
* [Cause: MA Result: BX/AN.] Loki and Odin are both shape-changers,
and Loki in particular has one very interesting change when he
becomes a mare in order to distract the mason's stallion; he
succeeds in distracting him, so the mason can't finish the job on
time and has to do it for free, but he comes back several months
later with a colt. :-) -75
Summers, Montague [??]
0 The Werewolf {/87,154/} [??] [BBT]
[Random House; 1998; 0-517-18093-6; $9.99] [BB]
* [Result: LY.] Lycanthropy. -154 (98/02/13)
Sumner, Mark [??]
0 Devil's Tower and Devil's Engine {/144/} [??]
[Devil's Tower: Del Rey; 1996; 034540209X; $5.99] [BB] [BBT]
[Devil's Engine: Del Rey; 1997; 0345402103; $5.99] [BB] [BBT]
* Rating: 4 Cause: MC?/NA? Result: BM/MP/SP Significance: 0
Description: 0 Saturation: 0. These books are set in "an alternate
history of a West that never was." The Civil War (specifically,
the battle of Shiloh) somehow unleashed human magical abilities,
called talents. As a result, civilization pretty much crumbled and
white settlements are withdrawing all over the West. Towns are
protected by powerful (usually talented) sheriffs. One of the
types of talent (and the reason I am including these books) is
being a changer. Changers can voluntarily assume other forms, some
have only one alternate form and some have a repertoire. [...]
These are fascinating books, but changing is one talent among
many. Cause: MC or NA? Since talent is inborn, the distinction
isn't completely clear. -144 (98/02/10)
Swanwick, Michael [BL] [BR]
+ Stations of the Tide {80/77/} [RR] [BBT]
[Avon; 1992; 0380715244; $4.50] [BB]
* [Cause: NA/MA? Result: RM/SC?.] On a planet where the ocean level
is about to rise by a kilometre or so, and most of the native life
has alternate marine and land forms, an unnamed bureaucrat is
searching for a magician who claims to possess (stolen,
proscribed, possibly fictitious) shapeshifting technology from
offworld. -77
* [Cause: NA/NT/VR Result: RM/BM.] Transformation is the major theme
of this book, set in a part of a world where a very long cycle
between wet and dry has evolved animals (and sapients) who can
alternate between land- and water-based forms. Also features
numerous other transformations based on nanotechnology and virtual
reality. -92
0 Vacuum Flowers {/80/} [BBT]
[Ace; 1988; 0441858767; $2.95] [BB]
* [Result: PE?.] ...Centers around the search for a personality that
will remain stable in a world where they tend to decay quickly.
-80
Synge, Ursula [??]
+ Swan's Wing {78//} [??] [BBT]
[Ace; 1985; 0441790941; $2.75?] [BB]
* Rating: 4 Cause: MA Significance: + Saturation: 0 Description: +.
A story loosely based on the old Irish fairy tale about children
turned to swans by an evil stepmother. Basically picks up the
story of Lothar, one of eleven brothers transformed who retained
one wing after the curse was broken, several years after. Told
through the eyes of a traveling companion. A good story, told
seriously with the spirit of classic fairy tales. -78 (98/02/07)
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Books: T
Tabori, Paul [??]
+ The Green Rain {104//} [??] [BBT]
[Pyramid Books, 1961; no ISBN; $0.50]
* Rating: 2 Cause: CS Result: MX Significance: + Description: +
Saturation: +. A rocket intended to make plants grow on the moon
fails to reach a proper orbit and instead causes a worldwide rain
that turns about half the people in the world bright green. As
this might indicate, the book is often very funny. However, Tabori
is hopelessly weighted down by trying to be An Important Statement
About Racism. While the subject matter could not let the story
ignore racism, it is often dealt with in so heavy-handed a matter
as to crush the narrative flat. When it stops trying, it can
address many subjects--including racism--in an often hysterically
funny manner; contains one of the best fictional Presidential
Campaigns I've seen outside Heinlein. -104 (98/02/06)
Tan, Cecelia
0 The Beast Within: Erotic Tales of Werewolves {/113/} [BBT]
[Circlet Press; 1994; 54 pp; ?]
* [Result: LY.] Werewolves and the humans who love them .. an
interesting examination of the emotional and anatomical problems
that would come with such a relationship. I don't know if this is
up your alley for the list, but it definitely caught my eye as
being different. :) -113
Tarr, Judith [AL] [BL]
0 The Hound and the Falcon trilogy {/72/}
[The Isle of Glass: ?] [BBT]
[The Golden Horn: ?] [BBT]
[The Hounds of God: ?] [BBT]
[collected: Orb; 1993; 0312853033; $14.95 softcover] [BB]
* [Cause: MA? Result: BX/AN.] The female character is an elf who
shifts into different forms, and in the third book is being held
by a priest in wolf shape while pregnant, and has her children
(who are born in wolf forms as well). All of her work is worth
tracking down and reading, an excellent historical fantasy writer.
-72
0 A Wind in Cairo {88/42/} [BBT]
[Bantam Spectra; 1989; 0553276093; $3.95] [BB]
* [Cause: MA Result: BX/AN.] Light-weight fantasy about a man
changed into a horse. -42
* Rating: 4 Cause: MA Result: BX Significance: + Description: -
Saturation: 0. Although lightweight and predictable, I enjoyed the
prose well enough to still recommend the book. -88
Tem, Melanie
0 Wilding {/83,87,154/} [BBT]
[Dell Abyss; 1992; 0440212855, $4.99] [BB]
* [Result: LY.] Lycanthropy. -83
* Female werewolves in Denver. I haven't been able to read through
this one either, although the writing and characterization is
fairly good. -87
* Lycanthropy. -154
Tepper, Sheri [AL] [BL] [BR]
0 Grass {/47/} [RR] [BBT]
[Bantam Corgi; 1991; 0552135402; $4.99?] [BB]
[Bantam Spectra; 1993; 0553285653; $5.99] [BB]
* (See Spoiler Section for more information) -47
0 Marianne trilogy {/28/}
[Marianne, The Magus, and the Manticore: Ace; 1985; 044151944X; $2.95]
[BB] [BBT]
[Marianne, The Madame, and the Momentary Gods: Ace; 1988; 0441519628;
$2.95] [BB] [BBT]
[Marianne, The Matchbox, and the Malachite Mouse: Ace; 1989;
0441519644; $3.50] [BB] [BBT]
* [Cause: DT Result: BM.] These three books all have the main action
set in shadow worlds created as traps, beings going there find
themselves bound in forms that fit the local rules. -28
0 Mavin Manyshaped trilogy {/28,38,42,47/}
[The Song of Mavin Manyshaped: Ace; 1985; 0441775233; $2.75] [BB]
[BBT]
[The Flight of Mavin Manyshaped: Ace; 1985; 0441240925; $2.75] [BB]
[BBT]
[The Search of Mavin Manyshaped: ?] [BBT]
* [Result: SC.] ...Tell the story of Peter's mother Mavin
Manyshaped, her origin and history. -28
* It's about the life of a shape shifter in the land of the true
game. Beautiful book. Tepper always has interesting ideas. A good
book 3. -47
0 Raising the Stones {/79/} [RR] [BBT]
[Grafton; 1992; 0586212124; $5.99?] [BB]
[Bantam Spectra; 1993; 0553415109; $5.99] [BB]
* (See Spoiler Section for more info) -79
0 The Revenants {/28/} [BBT]
[?]
* [Result: GC.] This is a very strange and unusual book, but one of
the protagonists is a person who shifts between male and female.
This one was actually Tepper's first book but was published
fourth, after the first three books of the True Game. -28
- Sideshow {//79} [BBT]
[Bantam Spectra; 1993; 0553560980; $5.99] [BB]
* (See Spoiler Section for more info) -79
0 True Game trilogy {/28,38,42,47/}
[King's Blood Four: ?] [BBT]
[Necromancer Nine: ?] [BBT]
[Wizard's Eleven: ?] [BBT]
* [Result: SC.] ...Deal with Peter Mavin's son and the truly shifty
things he got into. For of course he being a shifter could not but
cause trouble. -28
* The sequel to the Mavin Manyshaped chronicles about her daughter,
who is also a shapeshifter. Brilliant book, my first Sheri S.
Tepper book and fell instantly in love with her works. Rating: 5.
-47
- Jinian Footseer trilogy {/38,42/11,28}
[Jinian Footseer: ?]
[Dervish Daughter: ?]
[Jinian Star-eye: TOR; 0-812-55614-3; $2.95]
* [Result: SC.] ...Deal less with shifters and more with the powers
of wizards but since Peter and Mavin both figure in the last three
books they are included. -28
* [on Jinian Star-eye only:] Rating: 3 Result: BX Significance: -
Description: 0 Saturation: -. -11
On Mavin Manyshaped trilogy, True Game trilogy, Jinian Footseer
trilogy:
* [Result: SC.] In the books shifters are shapechangers capable of
changing form from as small as a dog to as large as they can gain
the bulk for. -28
* Two of the main characters of this tri-trilogy are
shapeshifters--able to take on a wide range of forms at will.
(They are, however, restricted by mass--cannot reduce, can absorb
more if needed.) Others in the world have this power, or others.
Fantasy (mostly). -38
* ...All of which take place in the same world. Good stuff. -42
Tessier, Thomas
0 The Nightwalker {/83,154/} [BBT]
[Signet; 1981; 0451097203, $2.50] [BB]
[Berkley; 1989; 0425118924; $?] [BB]
* [Result: LY.] Lycanthropy. -83
* Lycanthropy. -154
Thomas, Dan
+ The Seed {101//} [BBT]
[?]
* A rare book hard to find, but very much worth it. A computer
programmer comes up with an ultimate computer and goes on the
serach for data to input into the computer. He undergoes a
transformation during the process. The computer undergoes a type
of transformation. And... (See Spoiler Section for more
information) -101
Thomas, Elizabeth [BL]
? Reindeer Moon {/Ph/} [BBT]
[Pocket; 1988; 0671648861; $4.50] [BB]
* A Clan of the Cave Bear-like book, supposedly involving
transformation; not read. -Ph
Thomson, Amy [??]
0 The Color of Distance {/159/} [??] [BBT]
[Ace; 1995; 0441002447; $13.00 softcover] [BB]
* [Result: PE?.] Last survivor of exploration party is saved and
transformed by natives. Skin replaced to protect from allergens
and given ability to form colored patterns on skin which is aliens
method of communication. Other minor improvements. Must learn to
live as an alien for years before next mission recovers her. Quite
descriptive of details and the physical and emotional consequences
is a major theme. Rating: 5 Cause: AX Result: MX Significance: 0
Description: +. -159 (98/02/14)
Tilley, Patrick
0 Fade-Out {/96/} [BBT]
[mid-1970s; ?]
* Rating: 2 Cause: AX Result: AT/MP? Significance: 0. The story
concerns an alien spacecraft which lands in a remote area of
Montana and is covertly investigated by a group of scientists. The
main theme of the book is their attempt to analyze the craft,
which actively discourages and sabotages their investigations. The
Transformation element gradually becomes evident towards the end
of the book, as some of the team members realize their proximity
to the craft is endowing them with telepathic powers. This
transformation theme is not central to the story itself, but the
open ending strongly suggests it will be of crucial importance
(See Spoiler Section for more information) -96
Tolkein, J. R. R. [BR]
- The Lord of the Rings {/4,115/64} [BBT]
[Usually published in three volumes:]
[The Fellowship of the Ring: Ballantine; 1977; 0345272587; $2.50] [BB]
[BBT]
[The Two Towers: Ballantine; 1978; 0345272595; $2.50] [BB] [BBT]
[The Return of the King: Ballantine; 1978; 0345272609; $2.50] [BB]
[BBT]
- The Hobbit {/4,75,115/64} [BBT]
[Ballantine; 1976; 0345253426; $1.95] [BB]
* [Result: LY.] Besides Gollum, Tolkein's The Hobbit has Beorn, a
sort of were-bear. -75
On Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit:
* [Cause: MA Result: BM.] And, of course, there's always Gollum from
LOTR. -4
* Rating: 5 Result: BM Significance: - Description: - Saturation: -.
Gollum starts life as a hobbit (like a half-sized human) but, by
the possession of a powerful artifact (the One Ring), gets
transformed into a thin black rubbery-looking creature. -64
* Tolkien's Ring trilogy has a few transformation stories which, for
the most part, are ancillary to the whole but still significant.
Gandalf the Grey becomes Gandalf the White (thus amplifying his
powers) after his battle with the Balrog, in a scene that is most
definitely a sort of death/burial/resurrection allegory of Christ.
In The Fellowship of the Ring, Beorn the Berserker is actually a
wer-bear. We also learn of Gollum's transformation from
proto-Hobbit (? - this is never made clear, although Tolkien
seemed to hint that Gollum was formerly a Hobbit) into what he was
when Bilbo stumbled upon him under the mountain. The evil
influence of the Ring had so twisted his flesh, mind, and soul
that I feel this qualifies as a sort of transformation (albeit it
took place over many years). -115
Toombs, Jane
0 Moonrunner series {/83,87,154/}
[1: Under the Shadow: Roc/New American Library; 1992; 0451451716,
$4.99] [BB] [BBT]
[2: Gathering Darkness: Roc/New American Library; 1993; 0451452372,
$4.99] [BB] [BBT]
* [Result: LY.] Lycanthropy. -83
* Lycanthropic bodice-ripper. If you like Harlequins, and want a
male werewolf lead, this one's for you... -87
* Lycanthropy. -154
0 The Volan Curse (Silhouette Shadows) {/154/} [??] [BBT]
[Harlequin; 1994; 0373270356; $3.50] [BB]
* [Result: LY.] Lycanthropy. Romance. -154
Turtledove, Harry [SS] [BL]
? The Great Unknown {/11/} [BBT]
[?]
* [Cause: NA? Result: SC.] SF; alien shapechanger; not read. -11
- Noninterference {//42} [BBT]
[?]
* [Cause: AM Result: BM.] An unauthorized medical treatment
inadvertently makes the subject immortal. Does that count as a
transformation? -42
+ Kinda, yes. -Ph
? Werenight series {/135/} [??]
[Werenight: Baen; 1994; 0671722093; $4.99] [BB] [BBT]
* [Result: LY.] Re: Werenight and Wereblood by "Eric Iverson": The
author, real name Harry Turtledove, has extensively rewritten the
books, the publisher had meat-axed his first novel into two books
and insisted on the pseudonym, "translated it into English" (his
own words), and republished it as one volume under his own
name[...] I felt it was a pretty good read, in the light fantasy
mode mastered by L. Sprague de Camp. Some interesting
transformations during the werenight (a were-salmon?!?)
Two sequels out: Prince of the North; King of the North[...] -135
(98/02/07)
[Prince of the North: Baen; 1994; 0671876066; $4.99] [BB] [BBT]
* [Result: LY.] There are a couple of minor transformations in the
sequel during a minor "werenight" (when all 4 moons are within a
day or two of full): one minor character turns to a wolfman and a
stranger, stark naked, wanders into their camp. They cannot
communicate with the stranger, and the story's hero, realizing
something strange is going on, manages to get him locked away in a
cellar before dawn. In the morning, there's a bear, somewhat drunk
(they'd given the stranger some ale) in the cellar. A
"bear-were"? -135 (98/02/09)
[King of the North: Baen; 1996; 0671877151; $5.99] [BB] [BBT]
* [To be read; unknown whether transformation is involved.] -135
(98/02/09)
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Books: V
Van Belkom, Edo [??]
0 Wyrm Wolf {/154,Ph/} [??] [BBT]
[Harper; 1995; 0061054399; $4.99] [BB]
* [Result: LY.] Lycanthropy. -154 (98/02/13)
* Another book set in the World of Darkness setting from the White
Wolf roleplaying games. Not read. -Ph
Van Scyoc, Sydney J. [DZ]
0 Darkchild trilogy {/42/}
[Darkchild: Berkley; 1983; 0425061574; $2.75] [BB] [BBT]
[?]
* [Cause: NA?.] Certain members of a race have the ability to
acquire tremendous powers. Unfortunately, it requires deadly
danger to find out. Excellent reading. -42
0 Starmother {/42/} [BBT]
[?]
* [Result: BM.] A planet on which babies can be molded into
duplicates of their caretakers. -42
van Vogt, A. E. [SS] [AL] [BL] [BR] [DZ]
0 The Beast {/42/} [BBT]
[Manor; 1972; 532-00479-075; $0.75]
* An accident turns a man into a superman. -42
0 Computerworld {/130/} [BBT]
[DAW; 1983; 0879978791; $?] [BB] (96/10/15)
* [Cause: NA? Result: BM.] The main thrust of the story is about the
evolution of a sentient computer who runs most of the planet, but
a large subplot exists about a group of people who can transform
themselves into duplicates of anyone else they can observe. Their
transformation skills vary, depending on the amount of "life
force" each has; of course, this force is drained by extended
electronics use. -130
0 The Man With a Thousand Names {/11,TG/} [BBT]
[DAW; 1974; 0879975024; $1.75] [BB]
* SF; Rating: 2 Result: MU/GC Significance: 0 Description: -
Saturation: 0. -11
0 The Mind Cage {/42/} [BBT]
[Pocket; 1978; 0671817701; $1.75] [BB]
* [Result: MT/PE?.] Personality transfer and musical bodies. -42
? The Silkie {/103/} [BBT]
[Ace; 1969; ?; $?]
* [Cause: NA Result: SC.] I haven't read it, but it's about an
artificial shapeshifting race. -103
0 Supermind {/14/} [BBT]
[DAW; 1977; 0879972750; $1.25] [BB]
* [Result: MP?/PE?.] ...Not one of his best books, especially since
it combines some short stories into a kind of novel, but it
describes a quite impressive mental transformation in lots of
detail. It is short and readable, unless you have an allergy to
Van Vogt... I liked it, even though I'm aware of its shortcomings.
-14
- The Universe Maker {//79} [BBT]
[Ace; 1953; 020-07660-050; $.50]
* [Rating: X Cause: NA? Result: BX.]
* SF novel. 'Shadow Men' can change their shape between normal human
and almost immaterial shadow shape. -79
? The War Against the Rull {/Ph/} [BBT]
[Ace; 1959; 441-87180-075; $.75]
* Cause: NA Result: SC. As I recall, the Rull are shapechangers,
able to assume any form. Now, of course, I can't figure out where
I put the book, so I can't check. :-) -Ph
Vance, Jack [SS] [??]
0 The Dying Earth {/141/} [??] [BBT]
[Grafton; 1972; 0583120911; $?] [BB]
[American release: Lightyear Press; 1992; 0899683762; $?] [BB]
* This is a collection of fantasy stories centering around a number
of people living when the sun is old. In one of the stories a man
is given a demon's visage by a witch, but in the end an ancient
shrine sees that justice is done by returning his face to him, and
giving the demon's face to the witch. Rating: 4 Cause: MA Result:
MX Significance: 0 Description: 0 Saturation: -. -141 (98/02/08)
Vance, Steve
0 The Hyde Effect {/11,65,87,154/} [BBT]
[Leisure; 1986; 0843923601; $3.95] [BB]
* Rating: 3 Result: LY Significance: + Description: 0 Saturation: -.
Horror; lycanthropy. Rather a different werewolf tale--very
horrific. -11
* Lycanthropy. -154
- Planet of the Gawfs {//94} [??] [BBT]
[Leisure; 1978; 0843911131; $1.50] [BB]
* [Result: AN.] Rating: 1 Result: MU/GC Significance: - Description:
0 Saturation: -. Genetically affected survivors of a plague
produce mutant offspring. These are rounded up and shipped off to
exile on another planet. There are two instances of bodyswapping -
one animal/girl, one male/female. Hackneyed plot devices
(monstrous evil character is puppetmaster etc.) and poor
characterisation. A one-shot read. -94
0 Shapes {/28,87,154/} [BBT]
[Leisure; 1991; 0843130179; $4.50] [BB]
* [Cause: AS? Result: SC/LY.] This book also explores the nature of
the shapeshifter, but from a more scientific approach. It has some
interesting ideas regarding werewolves and their cause. -28
* Lycanthropy. -154
On The Hyde Effect and Shapes:
* [Result: LY/SC.] The first was an ultra-violent novel about a
single werewolf, the second shows us an underground shapeshifter
society. A third is in the works. Good stuff. -87
Varley, John [SS] [AL] [BL] [BR]
0 several books {/38/}
* [Cause: AS Result: BX/GC.] One major 'universe' has the technology
for extensive physical modification of humans. "Options" is
particularly good, exploring the effects of (fully functional,
reversible) sex-change technology on family structure. -38
- The Ophiuchi Hotline {/42/TG,11} [BBT]
[Berkley; 1984; 0425071928; $2.95] [BB]
* Not as strong as Varley's shorter works; transformations play a
very small role in the story. SF; Rating: 3 Cause: AM
Significance: 0 Description: - Saturation: -. -11
* [Result: BM.] A future in which bodies are made to order, and
changed at will. -42
0 Steel Beach {/11/} [BBT]
[Ace/Putnam; 1992; 0399137599; $22.95 hardcover] [BB]
* Much better than Ophiuchi Hotline; still not up to the level of
his short stories. SF; Rating: 3 Cause: AM Result: GC
Significance: 0 Description: + Saturation: -. -11
0 Titan trilogy {/38,42,44/}
[Titan: Berkley; 1980; 0425044688; $2.25] [BB] [BBT]
[Wizard: Berkley; 1983; 0425064271; $2.95] [BB] [BBT]
[Demon: Ace; 1987; 0441142672; $4.50] [BB] [BBT]
* [Cause: AS? Result: BX.] Another universe (Titan, Wizard, Demon)
has a huge, intelligent orbital space colony with the ability to
alter and create lifeforms. -38
* A space-exploration crew undergoes various transformations on an
intelligent, but insane, worldlet. -42
Vaughn, Evelyn [??]
0 Waiting For the Wolf Moon (Silhouette Shadows) {/154/} [??] [BBT]
[Harlequin; 1993; 0373270089; $?] [BB]
* [Result: LY.] Lycanthropy. -154 (98/02/13)
Vinge, Joan [AL] [BR]
- Ladyhawke {//42,Ph} [BBT]
[Signet/New American Library; 1985; 0451133218; $3.50] [BB]
* A novelization of the movie. Not recommended. -42
* Cause: MA Result: BX/AN. For those who haven't seen the movie, it
involves a cursed couple; the man turns into a wolf by night, and
the woman into a hawk by day. Thus making the relationship
somewhat difficult. -Ph
Vinicoff, Eric [??]
0 The Weighter {/154/} [??] [BBT]
[Baen; 1992; 0671721445; $4.99] [BB]
* [Result: LY.] Lycanthropy. -154 (98/02/13)
von Allmen, Stewart [??]
0 Conspicuous Consumption {/154,Ph/} [??] [BBT]
[Harper; 1995; 0061054712; $4.99] [BB]
* [Result: LY.] Lycanthropy. -154 (98/02/13)
* A book set in the background of the Werewolf: the Apocalypse
roleplaying game from White Wolf. -Ph
Vonarburg, Elizabeth
0 The Silent City {TG//11} [BBT]
[Bantam Spectra; 1981 (trans. 1988); 0553297899; $4.99] [BB]
* [Cause: GM Result: SC.] Originally written in French. The story of
a genetically engineered human shapechanger who must use her
ability to save the remnants of a war-ravaged world. SF; Rating: 4
Significance: 0 Description: - Saturation: -. -11
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Books: W
Wallace, Ian [AL] [DZ]
- Croyd {/42,TG/11} [BBT]
[Berkley; 1967; X1616; $.50]
* Personality transfer. -42
* SF; Rating: 1 Type: MU/GC Significance: - Description: 0
Saturation: -. Sounded interesting - having found it in this list,
I looked for it for a while, and finally came across it in a
little used bookstore for $0.35. I struggled through about 1/2 of
it, and skimmed over the rest. -11
- The Lucifer Comet {//42} [BBT]
[DAW; 1980; 0879975814; $2.25] [BB]
* [Result: BM/MD?.] Incidental transformation when one of the
protagonists turns another into a Neanderthal. -42
Walton, Evangeline
+ The Island of the Mighty {75//} [BBT]
[Ballantine; 1975; 345-24211-4-150; $1.50]
* [Result: AN.] Cause: MA Type: BX. There are several
transformations in it, some crucial to the plot. Two male
characters are transformed into a mated pair of animals, a doe and
stag, then a boar and sow, then a wolf and she-wolf, as punishment
for rape. Their life as animals is described in some detail.
Later, another character is changed into an eagle or hawk (I've
forgotten which) as he is dying. It's the fourth book of a series;
I think the other three may have a little incidental
transformation in them. -75
Warren, Ed; Warren, Lorraine [??]
0 Werewolf: A True Story of Demonic Possession {/154/} [??] [BBT]
[St. Martin's; 1993; 0312928645; $?] [BB]
* [Result: LY.] Lycanthropy. -154 (98/02/13)
Warrington, Freda
0 The Rainbow Gate {/79/} [BBT]
[New English Library; 1990; 0450536262; $3.99?] [BB]
* [Cause: RE.] Contemporary fantasy novel. Humans are the second
part of the reincarnation cycle. -79
Waters, Elisabeth [??]
0 Changing Fate {/Ph/} [??] [BBT]
[DAW; 1994; 0886776082; $4.99] [BB]
* Result: SC. Shapechanger; not read. -Ph
Watson, Ian [SS] [AL]
0 Converts {/77/} [BBT]
[UK: Granada; 1984; 0586058958; UK1.95] [BB]
* [Cause: VI Result: BX.] An experimental virus causes
transformation of humans into what they most deeply desire,
usually with some bizarre superpower. Even Watson's usual
metaphysical speculations don't stop this being rather silly, but
it was probably intended to be tongue in cheek. I was half
expecting to see Picko man, capable of superhuman acts of nasal
digitation. -77
0 The Martian Inca {/77/} [BBT]
[Ace; 1978; 0441520448; $1.95] [BB]
* [Result: MP.] Catalytic agent from a returning space probe
triggers off human 'metamorphosis' The neural reorganisation gives
those affected an unusual handle on human motivation; no
'superpowers' to control people, just insight into exactly what
you have to say to make them do what you want. -77
Weaver, Michael D.
? Wolf-Dreams {/Ph/} [BBT]
[Avon; 1987; 0-380-75198-4; $2.95]
* Result: LY. Lycanthropy; not read. -Ph
Webb, Don [??]
+ Uncle Ovid's Exercise Book {139//} [??] [BBT]
[Fc2/Black Ice Books; 1988; 093251118X; $8.95] [BB]
* [Result: BX/AN?.] If you're interested in fictional
transformations, you should really take a look at Don Webb's work.
Almost all of his stories deal with transformations in one way or
another, especially Uncle Ovid's Exercise Book which, befitting
its riffing off Ovid's Metamorphoses, has transformations in all
of its stories. Other Webb collections with transformative stories
include The Bestseller and Other Tales [BBT], The Seventh Day and
After [BBT], and A Spell for the Fulfillment of Desire [BBT]. -139
(98/02/08)
Weinberg, Robert [SS]
0 The Devil's Auction {/11/} [BBT]
[Leisure; 1988; 0843929979; $3.95] [BB]
* Rating: 4 Result: LY Significance: 0 Description: 0 Saturation: 0.
Horror; Lycanthropy. The story itself is about an auction of
perhaps the most powerful magic item on the Earth. One of the more
involved minor characters is a werewolf. -11
Weis, Margaret; Hickman, Tracy [SS] [AL:Weis] [AL:Hickman]
0 Darksword series {/43/}
[Forging the Darksword: Bantam Spectra; 1988; 0553268945; $3.95] [BB]
[BBT]
[Doom Of the Darksword: Bantam Spectra; 1988; 0553271644; $3.95] [BB]
[BBT]
[Triumph Of the Darksword: Bantam Spectra; 1988; 0553274066; $3.95]
[BB] [BBT]
[Darksword Adventures: Bantam Spectra; 1988; 055327600X; $4.50] [BB]
[BBT]
* [Cause: MA? Result: BX/IN.] The cleric (Saryon rings a bell, but I
could be wrong) gets turned into stone. -43
+ And does he do anything interesting afterward? :-) -Ph
Wells, H. G. [AL]
0 Food of the Gods {/22/} [BBT]
[Berkley; 1967; X1407; $.60]
* [Cause: AS? Result: ZC.] Advanced foodstuffs make superhuman
giants. -22
0 The Island of Dr. Moreau {/42,47,96/} [BBT]
[in The Complete Science Fiction Treasury of H. G. Wells; Wells, H.
G.; Avenel; 1979; 051726188X; $15.00 hardback] [BB]
* [Cause: AM Result: BM.] Surgical transformation of animals into
humanoids. -42
* About a mad scientist stuck away on a deserted island in the
middle of the Pacific, he spends his time making strange and
bizarre surgical modifications to animals in the hope of
discovering some secrets. -47
* There's a fairly recent Bantam Spectra edition which users of the
list may find more easily. Also some red tape: Cause: CM/AM
Result: BM. -96
- Star-Begotten {//96} [BBT]
[UK:Sphere; 1980-ish; ?]
* May not be quite "on topic": it's not as much on transformation
per se, but deals rather with "delusions of transformation".
Throughout the story it is never made quite clear whether any
transformations have actually happened, though several leading
characters come to be convinced of the reality of the
transformation. A word of warning: due to the nature of the work,
the story is heavy on dialogue and VERY spare on action. I didn't
really dislike it personally, but if you don't like philosophical
lectures disguised as fiction, you should definitely skip this
one. Cause: AX(suspected) Result: MP(assumed). -96
- The Time Machine {//96} [BBT]
[in The Complete Science Fiction Treasury of H. G. Wells; Wells, H.
G.; Avenel; 1979; 051726188X; $15.00 hardback] [BB]
* While not central to the story itself, this contains a well known
description of the two races of humanity, the Eloi who live in
idle luxury above ground, and the dark-adapted Morlocks who live
underground. The two races are the product of divergent evolution
over the course of eight hundred thousand years. Cause: EC Result:
RM/BM. (See Spoiler Section for more information) -96
Wescott, Earle [??]
0 Winter Wolves {/87/} [??] [BBT]
[Bantam; 1989; 0553279238; $?] [BB]
* [Result: LY?.] -87
Wheeler, Scott
- Matters of Form {/28/11} [BBT]
[DAW; 1987; 0886772257; $2.95] [BB]
* Uses a very advanced genetic virus to induce shapechanging. -28
* Also includes an alien race of shapechangers. SF; Rating: 2 Cause:
VI Type: GM Significance: 0 Description: - Saturation: -. -11
White, T. H.
0 The Book of Merlyn {/20/} [BBT]
[Berkley; 1977; 0425038262; $2.25] [BB]
0 The Once and Future King {/20,64,75/} [BBT]
[Ace; 1985; 0441627404; $5.50] [BB]
[Canadian edition: Fontana; 1987; 0006153100; $11.95 Cdn.] [BB]
* [Cause: MA Result: BX/IN.] In T.H. White's The Once and Future
King, all the transformation (or nearly all) is in the first book,
The Sword in the Stone [BBT]. This was abridged in the one-volume
Berkley edition! Some of the best transformation scenes were left
out. The unabridged version (on which the Disney movie was based)
is still in print, though, from Dell (with a clip from the Disney
movie on the cover). In any case, most of the transformations
involve Merlyn turning Wart (Arthur) into various animals so that
he can learn from other animals of the same sort. These are very
well-described. Also, there is Merlyn's transformation duel with
Madam Mim (which was left out of the omnibus version). -75
Whitten, Leslie H.
0 Moon of the Wolf {/83,87,154/} [BBT]
[Avon; 1975; 038000285X, $1.50] [BB]
[Leisure; 1992; 0843932953, $4.99] [BB]
* [Result: LY.] Lycanthropy. -83
* Lycanthropy. -154
Wieck, Stewart (ed.) [??]
0 When Will You Rage? anthology {/154,Ph/} [??] [BBT]
[White Wolf; 1994; 1565040872; $5.99] [BB]
* [Result: LY.] Lycanthropy. -154 (98/02/13)
* Stories in the Werewolf: The Apocalypse gameworld. -Ph
Wilhelm, Kate [AL] [BL] [BR]
- Where Late The Sweet Birds Sang {//50} [BBT]
[Pocket; 1977; 0671809121; $1.75] [BB]
* [Rating: X Cause: AS Result: RM?/PE.] I'm not sure this is
appropriate for 'transformation' but: Using cloning techniques,
rather than preserve the human race as intended, the resulting
humans are transformed into a somewhat different species with
radically different mental and emotional makeups and capabilities.
-50
Williams, Charles
0 All Hallows Eve and The Place of the Lion {/75/}
[All Hallows Eve: ?; reprinted by William B. Eerdmans] [BBT]
[The Place of the Lion: ?; reprinted by William B. Eerdmans] [BBT]
* [Result: BM/PE.] ...There are some decidedly odd transformations,
mainly spiritual and some physical. -75
Williams, Tad [BL]
0 Memory, Sorrow and Thorn trilogy {/45/} [RR]
[The Dragonbone Chair: DAW; SFBC] [BBT]
[Stone of Farewell: DAW; SFBC] [BBT]
[To Green Angel Tower: DAW; SFBC] [BBT]
* [Cause: MA.] In the second book, the evil priest of the story
learns the Words of Changing...Really good (IMHO, of course). -45
Williams, Walter Jon [AL] [BL]
0 Hardwired {/42/} [BBT]
[Tor; 1987; 0812557964; $3.50] [BB]
* [Cause: AS?/NT? Result: BM.] Cyborg enhancements. But that's true
of most cyberpunk or related books. A good read. -42
Williamson, Jack [AL] [BR] [DZ]
0 Darker Than You Think {/3,15,22,31,42,87,154/} [BBT]
[Dell; 1979; 0440117461; $1.95] [BB]
[St. Martin's; 1984; 0312940785; $?] [BB]
* [Cause: NA Result: SC.] If you can find it, [it's] very
good...About a reporter in the 50s(?) who discovers that there is
a race of shapechangers that has been around since ancient times.
-3
* ...And it is very good. -42
* Very slightly dated but still excellent novel about shapeshifters.
-87
* [Result: LY.] Lycanthropy. -154
+ Manseed {104//} [??] [BBT]
[Del Ray/Ballantine; 1982; 0345307457; $2.75] [BB]
[Ballantine; 1983; 0345307437; $?] [BB]
* Rating: 4 Cause:AS/GM Result: BX/RM Significance: + Description: +
Saturation: +. A project to seed humans through the stars has many
little seed-ships launched with the genetic materials to create
new humans (adapted as necessary to alien planets) and android
protectors. Technically not a transformation story as the
characters are all newly born; however, they have the memories
from the lives of the humans who designed them and they consider
themselves transformed versions of their creators, which is close
enough. Very well written, and it includes some nice
characterization of Don Brink as the android Defender, with a
golden body misformed due to damage the ship sustained in flight.
-104 (98/02/07)
Williamson, Jack and Ellison, Harlan, eds.
+ Medea: Harlan's World {99//} [BBT]
[Bantam Spectra; 1985; 0553341707; $10.95 softcover] [BB]
* [Cause: NA Result: BM/PE.] An anthology of stories about a shared
world designed one year at WorldCon. The natives of Medea are
fox'taur like creatures that go through several physical and
mental transformations during their lives. I rather enjoyed this
work, a definite plus on my list. -99
Wilson, David H.
0 The Coachman Rat {/Ph/} [RR] [BBT]
[?]
* Cause: MA Result: BX/MP. The rat in the Cinderalla fairy tale, who
is transformed into a coachman and back. In this story, the rat
retains human speech after the transformation. -Ph
Wilson, Robert C. [??]
0 Crooked Tree {/87/} [??] [BBT]
[?]
* [Result: LY.] A werebear[...] an enjoyable read. -87
Wind, D. M. [??]
0 The Others {/154/} [??] [BBT]
[Leisure; 1993; 0843935308; $4.50] [BB]
* [Result: LY.] Lycanthropy. -154 (98/02/13)
Wodehouse, P. G.
0 Laughing Gas {/3/} [BBT]
[?]
* [Cause: CM Result: MU.] A pretty funny novel about an Englishman
who switches bodies with a boy movie star while under the
influence of a dentist's anesthetic. The switch is the whole
reason for the novel, so I guess it fits the saturation quotient.
-3
Wolf, Christa
+ Nachdenken /"uber Christa T. (German) {74//} [BBT]
[1968; ?]
* [Cause: AS Result: GC/PE.] The main character, a female student,
is tranformed into a man as a scientific experiment. The story
focuses on the mental transformation that is slowly brought about
by the physical transformation... East German TV made this into a
TV movie in 1989...I don't know if there's an English translation
of this story... -74
Wolf, Gary [??]
- Who PPPPlugged Roger Rabbit {//11} [??] [BBT]
[Villard; 1991; 067940094X; $17.00] [BB]
* Rating: 3 Result: BX(man-toon) Significance: - Description: -
Saturation: -. Sequel to Who Censored Roger Rabbit; a substance is
found which turns a human into a toon and vice-versa. -11
Wolfe, Gene [SS] [AL] [BL] [BR]
0 Book of the New Sun {/42,64/}
[The Shadow of the Torturer: Timescape; 1980; 0671463985; $2.95] [BB]
[BBT]
[The Claw of the Conciliator: Timescape; 1981; 0671416162; $2.95] [BB]
[BBT]
[The Sword of the Lictor: Timescape; 1981; 0671499459; $3.50] [BB]
[BBT]
[The Citadel of the Autarch: Timescape; 1982; 0671496662; $3.50] [BB]
[BBT]
* [Rating: 5 Result: BM/IN?.]
* One of the best sf/f ever written. Some transformation, including
a robot trapped in humanoid form, but it's not central. -42
? Castleview {/Ph/} [RR] [BBT]
[TOR; 1990; 0812506251; $4.95] [BB]
* Reviewed in OtherRealms 28.16; may have some transformation, but
not read. -Ph
0 The Fifth Head of Cerberus {/64/} [BBT]
[Ace; 1981; 0441235018; $2.50] [BB]
* Rating: 5 Result: BM Significance: + Description: - Saturation: 0.
An excellent, but disturbing read. The aboriginals of Sainte Anne
are definitely shapeshifters, and possibly more. -64
0 Soldier of the Mist {/154/} [??] [BBT]
[Tor; 1986; 0312937342; $?] [BB]
* [Result: LY.] Lycanthropy. -154 (98/02/13)
0 The Werewolf As Hero {/99/} [BBT]
[?]
* ... a pretty standard future dis-utopia SF story. Though it's very
short. -99
Woods, Jack
0 Wolffile {/11,87,154/} [BBT]
[Pageant/Random House; 1988; 0517000431; $3.50] [BB]
* Rating: 2 Result: LY Significance: 0 Description: + Saturation: +.
Horror; lycanthropy. Eh. Nothing special. -11
* Bipedal werewolves, heavy on the splatter with a light dusting of
sex. Surprisingly good read set on a (New England?) island. -87
* Lycanthropy. -154
Woodward, I.
0 The Werewolf Delusion {/87/} [??] [BBT]
[?]
* [Result: LY?.] -87
Woolf, Virginia
+ Orlando {49//} [BBT]
[Granada; 0586044485; 1977] [BB]
* [Result: GC.] A fictional 'biography' spanning four centuries and
many of the royal courts of Europe, featuring an abrupt sexual
transformation in the middle of it. Rather satirical, it's one of
Virginia Woolf's most famous novels. -49
Wrede, Patricia [AL] [BL] [BR]
0 Snow White and Rose Red {/Ph/} [BBT]
[TOR; 1990; 0812558251; $3.95] [BB]
* Cause: MA Result: BX/AN. Part of the Fairy Tales series. One
character is turned into a bear. -Ph
Wylie, Philip [BL] [BR] [DZ]
0 The Gladiator {/77/} [BBT]
[1930s?]
* [Cause: AS Result: MX.]
* I've not read it or ever seen a copy, but it's supposedly one of
the earliest superman stories, as a 97 pound weakling is
transformed by an experimental serum. -77
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back to the V's, on to the X's, on to the short story entries, or on
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Yarbro, Chelsea Quinn [AL] [BL] [BR]
0 A Baroque Fable {/42,Ph/} [BBT]
[Berkley; 1986; 0425090817; $3.50] [BB]
* [Cause: MA Result: BX/AN.] An amusing fantasy featuring a
dragon-slaying prince trying to kill a maiden who has been
transformed into a pint-sized dragon. -42
* Any book that comes with sheet music in the back can't be all bad.
Also, Chuq von Rospach gave this book a ****+ out of 5 stars. -Ph
0 Beastnights {/83,87/} [BBT]
[Warner; 1989; 0446355917, $4.95] [BB]
* [Result: LY.] Lycanthropy. -83
* A werewolf story that never quite becomes a werewolf story. Crazed
lunatic runs around a la Jekyll & Hyde. Disappointing. -87
0 The Godforsaken {/83,87,154/} [BBT]
[Warner; 1983; 0446301027, $3.95] [BB]
* [Result: LY.] Lycanthropy. -83
* Lycanthropy. -154
Yates, Alan [??]
+ Coriolanus, the Chariot {11//} [??] [BBT]
[ACE; 1978; 0441117392; $1.75] [BB]
* SF; Rating: 2 Cause: AS Result: SC/GC Significance: + Description:
0 Saturation: +. Science has provided the ability to change shape;
governments have limited its use to a planet of actors. Lots of
transformations, descriptions are OK, the characters are
frequently unsympathetic, and parts of the book are not for the
faint of heart. -11
Yolen, Jane [SS] [AL] [BL]
0 Tam Lin {/82/}
[?]
* [Cause: MC? Result: BX/AN/IN.] The heroine can get Tam Lin as her
husband (essential; she's pregnant by him) only by holding on to
him while he's shapechanged into a snake, a redhot iron rod, etc.
-82
Yolen, Jane (ed.)
+ Shape Shifters (anthology) {Ph//} [BBT]
[Clarion Seabury; 1978; 0816432120; $8.95 hardcover] [BB]
* A dozen fair-to-excellent transformation stories, listed
elsewhere. -Ph
Yolen, Jane (ed.); Greenberg, Martin (ed.)
+ Werewolves (anthology) {Ph/154/}
[Harper & Row; 1988; 0060267984; $13.95 hardcover] [BB]
[Harpercrest; 1988; 0060267992; $?] [BB]
* Result: LY. A quite good collection of werewolf stories. -Ph
* Lycanthropy. -154
* Stories listed in story section: Bruce Coville's "The Passing of
the Pack"; Anne E. Crompton's "Met By Moonlight"; Marguerite W.
Davol's "Flesh and Blood"; Charles de Lint's "One Chance"; Debra
Doyle and J. D. Macdonald's "Bad Blood"; Ru Emerson's "The
Werewolf's Gift"; Leigh Ann Hussey's "The White Wolf"; Katharine
Kimbriel's "Night Calls"; Elizabeth Scarborough's "Wolf from the
Door"; Susan Shwartz's "The Wolf's Flock"; Sherwood Smith's
"Monster Mash"; Harry Turtledove's "Not All Wolves"; Mary
Whittington's "Wolfskin"; Jane Yolen's "Green Messiah"
Young, Jim
0 Armed Memory {/110/} [BBT]
[Tor; 1995; ?; $21.95 hc]
* [Cause: AS/GM Result: BM/AN/PE.] Change Consumer Genetic
Enginering. Most changes in the book are cosmetic. Green skin look
like Madonna or Elvis. Grow taller, grow hair etc. Main bad guys
are genetically changed lunatics that look like hammerhead sharks
with the sole perpose to kill all land based lifeforms. Not only
are their looks changed; so are their minds. Johnny, one of the
heroes of the book, is just as crazy as the hammerheads' leader. A
must read when it comes out in paper back. -110
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Books: Z
Zahn, Timothy [AL] [BL] [BR]
0 The Blackcollar {/22/} [BBT]
[?]
0 Cobra {/22/} [BBT]
[?]
On both of the above:
* Military enhancements. -22
Zelazny, Roger [SS] [AL] [BL] [BR] [DZ]
0 Amber novels {/4/}
[Nine Princes in Amber: Avon; 1972; 0380014300; $2.25] [BB] [BBT]
[The Guns of Avalon: Avon; 1974; 0380000830; $2.25] [BB] [BBT]
[Sign of the Unicorn: Avon; 1976; 0380008319; $2.50] [BB] [BBT]
[The Hand of Oberon: Avon; 1977; 0380016648; $1.50] [BB] [BBT]
[The Courts of Chaos: Avon; 1979; 0380471752; $2.25] [BB] [BBT]
[Trumps of Doom: Avon; 1986; 0380896354; $3.50] [BB] [BBT]
[Blood of Amber: Avon; 1987; 0380896362; $3.50] [BB] [BBT]
[Sign of Chaos: Avon; 1988; 0380893670; $3.50] [BB] [BBT]
[Knight of Shadows: Avon; 1990; 0380755017; $3.95] [RR] [BB] [BBT]
* [Cause: MC? Result: SC.] The shape change abilities of the chaos
lords... -4
0 Creatures of Light and Darkness {/77/} [BBT]
[Avon; 1970; 0380011220; $1.50] [BB]
* [Result: BX/IN/MU.] One of the characters, the Steel General,
sometimes has a flesh body, sometimes a metal body. Another
character has his enemies' consciousness transferred (with full
sensory equipment) into household items such as rugs, ashtrays and
fireplaces. An oracle machine is actually a cyborged woman. Many
characters have adopted the identities of Egyptian gods, and had
their bodies modified to match. (Is that enough transformations?)
-77
+ Gee, I don't know. :-) -Ph
0 A Dark Travelling {/24,83,87/} [BBT]
[Avon; 1989; 0380705672, $3.50] [BB]
* [Result: LY.] ...Has a lycanthropy one, but no name comes to mind
other than I know it has nothing to do with Amber... -24
+ The Zelazny book you're looking for (the one with
lycanthropy) is A Dark Travelling. A minor work, but fun to
read. -62
* The main character is a werewolf, but it's mostly just for window
dressing to the story. Forgettable. -87
- Doorways in the Sand {//99} [BBT]
[SFBC]
* [Cause: AS.] This is likely stretching things a bit. But there is
a device in here that inverts things in any number of senses of
the word. Also the alien cops hide undercover as local fauna
(definitely not their regular form). -99
0 The Dream Master {/Ph/} [RR] [BBT]
[Baen; 1990; 0671698745; $3.50] [BB]
* [Cause: AS Result: MT.] A therapist uses a device to share and
shape the dreams of his patients. He uses it to show a blind woman
what it's like to see, but her strong will sometimes overpowers
his and controls the dream instead. -Ph
+ Eye of Cat {/64/} [BBT]
[Timescape; 1982; 0671835793; $2.95] [BB]
* Rating: 3 Result: BM Significance: + Description: + Saturation: +.
A hunter-prey reversal story in the future, where the former prey
is a telepathic shape shifter. -64
0 Lord of Light {/11/} [BBT]
[Avon; 1967; 380-00187-095; $.95]
* Result: MT?. SF; body-swapping; not read -11
0 Madwand {/131/} [BBT]
[Ace; 1984; 0441515126; $?] [BB] (96/10/15)
* [Result: BM.] The protagonist is involuntarily transformed (the
first time probably only in a dream, but later for real) into a
creature from a parallel universe. -131
+ Roadmarks {134//} [??] [BBT]
[Del Rey; 1994; 0345345150; $4.99] [BB]
* A man travels the highway which travels through time, looking for
something he doesn't know for sure. He feels like he is on the
edge on a transformation, but he isn't sure how to accomplish the
final stage. Meanwhile, he gets in an argument with someone. This
enemy sends assassins to kill him, which acts as a catalyst. (See
Spoiler Section for more information) -134 (98/02/07)
- This Immortal {/50/11} [BBT]
[Baen; 1989; 0671698486; $3.95] [BB]
* This may be the title Sam Bullard couldn't remember for your list.
It's been a long time since I read it, but I seem to remember that
much of humanity had transformed through radioactive mutation into
all manner of legendary beastie; wolfmen (though not true
lycanthropes), centaurs, satyrs, etc. -50
* SF; Rating: 3 Result: BX(various) Significance: - Description: -
Saturation: -. Hugo winner; didn't do anything special for me,
though it wasn't bad either. Transformations are very incidental.
-11
Zindell, David
0 Neverness {/11/} [RR] [BBT]
[Bantam Spectra; 1989; 0553279033; $4.95] [BB]
* SF; Cause: GM; not read. -11
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Stories: Author Unknown
? "Lucianos is a Donkey" {/141/} [??]
[?]
* [Cause: MA Result: BX/AN.] One entry that your list should
contain, but I can't add is an ancient Greek story about a man
being turned into a donkey by a witch. I know it exists but I
can't remember who the author is. As I recall the story was called
'Lucianos is a donkey' (unfortunately I can't remember the Greek
title either), and it may well be one of the oldest transformation
stories. -141 (98/02/08)
? "The Mummy's Eyes" {/150/} [??]
[?]
* [Cause: MA Result: MU/IN.] Archeologist discovers mummy with
magical eyes that switch spirits, so pharaoh is in archeologist's
body and archeologist is in decaying mummy corpse -150 (98/02/11)
Stories: A
Aickman, Robert
0 "Ringing the Changes" {Ph}
[in Isaac Asimov's Magical Worlds of Fantasy 10: Ghosts; eds. Asimov,
Greenberg and Waugh; Signet; 1988; 0451157230; $4.50] [BB] [BBT]
* Result: MT. Mind-swapping. -Ph
Aldiss, Brian [Bo] [AL] [BR]
0 "Better Morphosis" {/Ph/}
[in Fantasy and Science Fiction, June 1991]
* Result: BX. Kafka's Metamorphosis, only in reverse; the cockroach
transforms into Kafka. -Ph
0 "Full Sun" {/Ph/}
[in Werewolf! by Pronzini]
* [Result: LY.] Werewolf vs. man vs. machine. -Ph
0 "A Kind of Artistry" {/77/}
[in Best from F&SF, 12th Series; ed. Avram Davidson; 1965]
* [Cause: EM Result: RM.] Set in the far future, with humans changed
and evolved as they spread throughout the galaxy. Those on Earth
apparently have not changed, apart from very long life spans, and
an incestuous family structure, but the final scene (borrowed by
Swanwick in Stations of the Tide) puts it in this list. -77
0 "Shards" {/79/}
[in Starswarm; Brian Aldiss; Gollancz; 1990; 057504182X; $3.50?] [BB]
[BBT]
* [Cause: GM Result: MP.] Some fish are genetically engineered to be
more self-aware. Most of the story is told from a fish's
viewpoint. -79
Aldridge, Ray
+ "Hyena Eyes" {Ph//}
[in Fantasy & Science Fiction, June 1990]
* Rating: 4 Cause: AS Result: BM/AN/PE/MD Significance: +
Description: + Saturation: 0. A future world whose residents use
technological means to transform themselves mentally and
physically into beasts to varying degrees. Very interesting. -Ph
Allen, J. B.
- "Wash and Were" {//Ph}
[in Amazing Stories, March 1986]
* Result: LY. Reverse lycanthropy. -Ph
Anderson, Kevin J. [BL]
0 "Special Makeup" {11/28/Ph}
[In The Ultimate Werewolf by Preiss]
* Rating: 3 Result: LY Significance: + Description: X Saturation: X.
-11
* Never get an old gypsy makeup artist mad at you. -28
* It's a great story, but didn't impress me too highly as a
transformation tale. -Ph
Anderson, Poul [Bo] [AL] [BL] [BR] [DZ]
0 "Call Me Joe" {/11,77/}
[In The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, vol. 2A; ed. Bova, Ben; Avon;
1974; 0380000385; $1.75]
[In The Great SF Stories: 19 (1957); eds. Asimov, Greenberg; DAW;
1989; 0886773261; $4.50]
* Short story(?); SF; Result: AT; not read. -11
* A telecontrolled (via artificial telepathy) synthetic lifeform on
Jupiter is apparently becoming independent of its crippled human
controller. Actually, the controllers mind is gradually being
transferred to the healthy alien body. Some aspects are very
similar to Clifford Simak's "Desertion"; I suspect it was
published at almost the same time. -77
0 "The Star Beast" {/77/}
[in Award Science Fiction Reader; ed. Alden H. Norton; Award; 1966]
[BBT]
[in Super Science Stories, 1950] [BBT]
[in Strangers from Earth; Mayflower-Dell (UK); 1965] [BBT]
* [Cause: AS Result: BX/AM.] A man has his mind transferred into a
tiger, but civilization is destroyed while he is in the animal
body. -77
* Note: Don't get this confused with the book The Star Beast by
Heinlein. -Ph
Antieau, Kim
+ "The Mark of the Beast" {11,Ph/28/}
[In The Ultimate Werewolf by Preiss]
* Rating: 3 Result: LY Significance: +. -11
* An interesting gothic style story. -28
* A very good older lycanthropy tale (though the lycanthropy isn't
conventional), with some interesting psychological aspects. -Ph
Asimov, Isaac [Bo] [AL] [BL] [BR]
+ "The Bicentennial Man" {75//}
[in The Bicentennial Man; Isaac Asimov; ?; $?] [BBT]
* [Result: BM/IN.] A very good story, in which a robot transforms
himself into a human over the course of two centuries. Rating: 4
or 5. -75
Asimov, Isaac; Asimov, Janet
+ "Norby and the Lost Princess" {103//}
[in Norby: Robot for Hire; Ace; 1987; 0-441-58635-X]
* [Cause: NA/AX Result: MT.] Rating: 1 Significance: + Description -
Saturation: -. Norby and friends need to rescue a lost princess
from an alien planet. One major problem: she's been eaten by a
talking tree, which now has her mind. A reasonably good story, but
I think it's aimed at a youngish audience. -103
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Stories: B
Baker, James
0 "The Jamesburg Incubus" {/11/}
[in Alien Sex; ed. Ellen Datlow; ROC; 1990; 0451451422; $4.99] [BB]
[BBT]
* [Cause: NA Result: BM.] A man discovers that he's an incubus, with
the ability to change his body as he wills. SF; Rating: 3
Significance: 0 Description: 0 Saturation: +. -11
Baker, Russell
- "A Sinister Metamorphosis" {//Ph}
[in Shape Shifters by Yolen]
* Result: PE/MD. Humans try to mentally transform themselves into
machines. Funny, but very borderline for a shapeshifting
anthology. -Ph
Barker, Clive [Bo] [BL] [BR]
0 "The Madonna" {/11,Ph/}
[in In the Flesh; Barker, Clive; Pocket; ?; 0671612700; $3.95] [BB]
[BBT]
* Rating: 3 Result: BM Significance: 0 Description: + Saturation: 0.
Horror; creature changes men. -11
? "Twilight at the Towers" {/154,155/} [??]
[in Cabal; ?]
[in Rawhead Rex (Clive Barker, illus. Les Edwards); Eclipse; 1993;
1-560-60182-5; $?] [BB]
* [Result: LY.] Lycanthropy. -154
* I can't find a book entitled just Cabal. There's a book listed on
Amazon.com: Cabal/Lord of the Illusions; Pocket; 1996;
0-671-74288-4; $6.99 [BB]. Does anyone know whether this is the
same one? -Ph
* [...]In (I think) the Books Of Blood Six. It is a great werewolf
tale around the idea of government agencies suppressing
Lycanthropy to be unleashed for their own desires; it is also a
short graphic novelette along with Rawhead Rex (also the title)
with some good art work. (a couple dodgy pics, though) -155
(98/02/14)
Baxter, Stephen [BL]
0 "Planck Zero" {/40,11/}
[in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine; ?]
* [Result: BM Saturation: +.] The most recent IASFM has a story
'Planck Zero' involving an extreme amount of bodily
remaking/enhancement. It is part of the author's Xeelee series,
which I have not seen. -40
* Joe Huber was nice enough to provide the author's name. -Ph
Bayley, Barrington [AL]
+ "Sporting with the Chid" {Ph//}
[in Changes, by Bishop and Watson]
* Cause: AM/AX Result: BX. Humans contact a little-understood alien
race known to be excellent at surgery, trying to get their injured
comrade patched up. Unfortunately, the aliens have more radical
changes in mind. -Ph
Beagle, Peter S. [Bo] [BL]
0 "Come, Lady Death" {/3/}
[?]
* (See Spoiler Section for more info)
Bear, Greg; Stirling, S. M. [AL] [BL:Bear] [BR:Bear]
0 "The Man Who Would Be Kzin" {/Ph/}
[In The Man-Kzin Wars IV; Baen; 1991; 0671720791; $4.95] [BB] [BBT]
* [Result: TD/PE?.] A human uses a sort of telepathic disguise
ability to infiltrate the Kzinti, and some interesting further
changes result. -Ph
Bishop, Michael [AL] [BL] [BR]
- "The Monkey's Bride" {//Ph}
[in Heroic Visions; ed. Salmonson, Jessica Amanda; Ace; 1983;
0441328210; $2.75] [BB] [BBT]
* A woman is forced to marry an ape-man. Semi-incidental
transformation near the end. -Ph
0 "Rogue Tomato" {/Ph/}
[in Changes, by Bishop and Watson]
* [Result: BX/IN/ZC.] A man changes into a planetary-sized tomato.
-Ph
Bixby, Jerome
+ "It's a GOOD Life" {Ph//}
[in Mutants; ed. Silverberg, Robert; Corgi; 1977; 055210387X; 60p(UK)]
[BB] [BBT]
[in The Science Fiction Hall of Fame; ed. Silverberg, Robert; Avon;
1971; 380-00115-150; $1.50]
* [Result: BX.] A boy is born who can change everything around him,
and his entire town becomes a hostage to him. -Ph
Blackwood, Algernon
0 "The Valley of the Beasts" {/Ph/}
[in The Phoenix Tree; eds. Boyer, Robert and Zahorski, Kenneth; Avon;
1980; 038076380X; $2.50] [BB] [BBT]
* [Result: BM?/PE?.] Definitely has transformations; make up your
own mind as to whether they're mental or physical. -Ph
Blish, James [Bo] [AL] [BR] [DZ]
0 "Surface Tension" {/11,42,Ph/}
[In Analog 88/01]
[In The Science Fiction Hall of Fame Vol. 1; Avon; 1971;
380-00115-150; $1.50]
[In The Seedling Stars; ?] [BBT]
* SF; Cause: GM; not read. -11
* One of Blish's best works. This story, and several others--all
about a future in which Man turns to genetic manipulation to
colonize other planets--was collected in The Seedling Stars. -42
* Note that, as I recall, no transformations take place during the
story itself; all of it happened some time before the story
begins. Still an interesting look at the results, though. -Ph
+ "Solar Plexus" {104//}
[in Human Machines: An Anthology Of Stories About Cyborgs, ed.
Scortia, Thomas N; Vintage Books; 1975; ?] [BBT]
* [Result: IN.] Rating: 2 Cause: AM Type: BX Significance: +
Description: + Saturation: 0. A man's brain cybernetically takes
over a spaceship. Technically very crude story (only Blish's ninth
published story, originally published in 1941) and the style is
very pulp-ish, but it contains a number of fascinating details and
foreshadows other cybernetic spaceships (such as Anne McCaffrey's
The Ship Who Sang series) by decades. SF critic Damon Knight notes
the story, like several of Blish's, can be convincingly
interpreted as a symbolic description of sexual intercourse. -104
+ "There Shall Be No Darkness" {Ph//}
[in Werewolf! by Pronzini]
* Result: LY. In his introduction, Pronzini calls this his "personal
favorite" werewolf short story; it's probably mine too. An
interesting scientific "explanation" for lycanthropy, and an
excellent story besides. Filmed as The Beast Must Die. -Ph
+ "A Work Of Art" {104//}
[in A Work Of Art and Other Stories; Faber & Faber; 1993 (?)] [BBT]
* [Result: PE.] Rating: 5 Cause: AM Significance: + Description: +
Saturation: 0. In the 22nd century, a man's mind is sculpted so
that he becomes the reincarnation of composer Richard Strass [who
composed the Also Sprach Zarathustra--the theme from "2001: A
Space Odyssey" and was probably Blish's favorite musician]. One of
Blish's masterpieces and one of the definitive explorations into
the creative mindset. -104
Bloch, Robert [??]
? "The Bogey Man Will Get You" {/154/} [??]
[in Final Reckoning; ? ] [BBT]
* [Result: LY.] Lycanthropy. -154 (98/02/12)
Boucher, Anthony
0 "The Ambassadors" {/Ph/}
[in Fifty Short Science Fiction Tales; eds. Asimov, Isaac and Conklin,
Groff; Collier; 1963; 0020163908; $2.95] [BB] [BBT]
[in The Shape of Things by Asimov and Conklin]
* [Cause: NA Result: LY.] Mankind makes contact with Martians, who
turn out to be sentient wolfmen, thus finally giving our
much-suffering werewolves stable employment in the diplomatic
sector. -Ph
+ "The Compleat Werewolf" {Ph/10,11,65,87,154/}
[in The Compleat Werewolf; Boucher, Anthony; Ace; 1969; 441-11622-075;
$.75] [BBT]
[in The Compleat Werewolf; Boucher, Anthony; Carroll & Graf; 1990;
0881845574; $4.50] [BB]
* [Result: LY.] [One of] the two classic werewolf-as-hero stories...
-10
* Rating: 3 Result: LY Significance: X Description: X Saturation: X.
-11
* A very interesting mix of elements (romance, intrigue, magic, the
everyday problems of life, etc.), with the lycanthropy element
tied in to all of them. Not spectacular, but well worth seeking
out. -Ph
* Fun short story, very tongue-in-cheek. -87
* Lycanthropy. -154
Bova, Ben [AL] [BL] [BR]
- "Sepulcher" {//79}
[in Asimov's Science Fiction, November 1992]
* [Cause: AM Result: BM.] Ex-mercenary has got cyborg replacements
after being wounded. -79
Boyd, John [Bo] [AL] [DZ]
- "The Werebear and the Rainbow" {//Ph}
[in Amazing Stories, May 1985]
* [Result: LY.] Takes place at a school of magic. A werebear
persuades a friend to make an amulet that will stop him from
changing. Unfortunately, the magic of the amulet interacts badly
with other spells. The ursanthropy is very secondary to the rest
of the magic, but it's a fun read. -Ph
Brennert, Alan
+ "The Third Sex" {TG/11/}
[in Pulphouse 3; ed. Kristine Kathryn Rusch] [BBT]
[in The Year's Best Science Fiction, Seventh Annual Collection; ed.
Gardner Dozois; St. Martin's; 1990; ?] [BBT]
* A person who is neither male nor female searches for their role in
society. -11
Briggs, Pamela [??]
+ "Lunch with Janoscz, the Deconstruction Worker" {165//} [??]
[in The Urbanite #7: Strange Transformations, ed. Mark McLaughlin;
Urban Legend Press, Davenport, IA; $5] [BBT]
* Rating: I can't be objective here; however, the story got
excellent reviews in Tangent, Deathrealm, and the British Fantasy
Society Newsletter.
A woman begins to hear voices, and attributes this to a side
effect of her medication. However, an enigmatic man appears to let
her know that because she is unusually sensitive, she is
perceiving an activity going on nearby that is meant to be a
secret. Since he can't hide it from her, he shows her what's
happening so she won't be afraid or make problems. This is a "how
the universe really works" story. Cause: DT Result: TT
Significance: + Description: 0 Saturation: 0. -165 (98/02/14)
Brown, Fredric [??]
? "Abominable" {/141/} [??]
[in The Best Short Stories of Fredric Brown; New English Library;
1982; 0450055019; $?] [BB] [BBT]
[in Nightmares and Geezenstacks, Bantam, 1961; or in Space on my
Hands, Bantam, 1953; unsure which]
[in The Best of Fredric Brown; Del Rey; 1977; 0345257006; $1.95] [BB]
[BBT]
* (See Spoiler Section for more information) -141 (98/02/08)
? "Bear Possibility" {/141/} [??]
[in The Best Short Stories of Fredric Brown; New English Library;
1982; 0450055019; $?] [BB] [BBT]
[in Nightmares and Geezenstacks, Bantam, 1961; or in Space on my
Hands, Bantam, 1953; unsure which]
* (See Spoiler Section for more information) -141 (98/02/08)
? "Cartoonist" {/141/} [??]
[in The Best Short Stories of Fredric Brown; New English Library;
1982; 0450055019; $?] [BB] [BBT]
[in Nightmares and Geezenstacks, Bantam, 1961; or in Space on my
Hands, Bantam, 1953; unsure which]
* (See Spoiler Section for more information) -141 (98/02/08)
? "Fish Story" {/141/} [??]
[in The Best Short Stories of Fredric Brown; New English Library;
1982; 0450055019; $?] [BB] [BBT]
[in Nightmares and Geezenstacks, Bantam, 1961; or in Space on my
Hands, Bantam, 1953; unsure which]
* (See Spoiler Section for more information) -141 (98/02/08)
Budrys, Algis [AL]
0 "Between the Dark and the Daylight" {/Ph/}
[in Changes, by Bishop and Watson]
* [Cause: GM Result: BX/RM.] Humanity adapts itself, over
generations, to a new world. We see the parents of the final
generation. -Ph
Busby, F. M. [Bo] [AL] [BL] [BR]
0 "First Person Plural" {/11,TG/}
[in Universe 10; ed. Terry Carr; Doubleday; ?; 1155; $1.00] [BBT]
* For an unexplained reason, a man finds himself in the body of a
young woman. After going to sleep that night, he finds himself
back in his own body--but reliving the same day from a different
perspective. He continues to live each day twice until he (they?)
decides to attempt to shift which day he lives first. SF; Rating:
3 Result: TT/MT/GC Significance: 0 Description: 0 Saturation: 0.
-11
0 "Getting Home" {/11,78/}
[in Getting Home; ?] [BBT]
* SF; Rating: 4 Result: MT/GC Significance: 0 Description: -
Saturation: +. -11
* A person is leaping between the bodies that he falls asleep near.
The method of swapping and who he is are a big spoiler to the
story. -78
0 "Road Map" {/11,78/}
[in Getting Home; ?] [BBT]
* SF; Rating: 3 Result: TT/GC Significance: 0 Description: 0
Saturation: -. -11
* A story about a man who dies and finds himself in the body of his
previously dead wife at the time of her birth. -78
Byers, Edward [BR]
+ "The Disconnect" {11//}
[?]
* A group of people have the ability to be possessed. A youn woman
in such a state kills an influential scientist's son, leaving few
clues as to the guilty party. SF; Rating: 3 Result: RP/GC
Significance: + Description: - Number: -. -11
Byram, George
- "The Wonder Horse" {//Ph}
[in Mutants; eds. Asimov, Greenberg, and Waugh; Harper; 1988;
0694056294; $2.95] [BB] [BBT]
* [Cause: EM Result: MX.] A mutation produces a horse capable of
running like none before. Borderline for a transformation list,
but an interesting story anyway. -Ph
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Stories: C
Cadigan, Pat [Bo]
+ "Dino Trend" {78//}
[in Dinosaur Fantastic; eds. Mike Resnick and Martin Greenberg]
* [Result: AN.] Rating: 2 Cause: NT Type: BM Significance: +
Description: 0 Saturation: -. Becomeing a human sized dino is the
latest fad in the nanotechnologically driven future. -78
Campbell, John Jr. [AL] [DZ]
0 "Who Goes There?" {/81/}
[?]
* ...An Antarctic base that discovers a frozen alien... -81
Canon, Rachel Susan (with Ellison, Harlan) [??]
0 "Unwinding" {/94/}
[in Unearth Magazine; Winter 1979]
* Rating: 1 Cause: AS Result: MT/GC Significance: 0 Description: 0
Saturation: 0. Mort wakes up one morning as Melanie, his
girlfriend. A mad scientist with a brain analysing machine makes
an appearance. This was a story competition winner; Howlin' Harlan
wrote the first four pages and Canon finished it. Pretty poor. -94
Card, Orson Scott [Bo] [AL] [BL] [BR]
0 "The Princess and the Bear" {/75/}
[in Maps in a Mirror; Ballantine?] [BBT]
* (see Spoiler Section for more info) -75
Carlson, William
0 "Dinner at Helen's" {/11/}
[?]
* SF; Rating: 3 Result: GC Significance: 0 Description: -
Saturation: -. -11
Carr, Terry [BR]
0 "The Dance of the Changer and the Three" {/Ph/}
[in Terry's Universe; TOR; 1989; 0812545923; $3.95] [BB] [BBT]
* [Rating: X Cause: NA?/RE? Result: BX.] A world of energy-beings
who change into new forms with the same memories when they die;
three of them attempt to bring something new to the cycle. -Ph
Carter, Angela [Bo] [AL]
- "The Bloody Chamber" {//114}
[in The Bloody Chamber; by Angela Carter]
* No transformation in it. Never trust a good-looking, they have
something to hide. -114
0 "The Company of Wolves" {/114/}
[in The Bloody Chamber; by Angela Carter]
* [Result: LY?.] The story behind the movie of the same name.
Another Little Red Riding Hood story, in a way the Grimm brothers
would never have dared to write down. But a good hint on (and
protest against) the meaning of Grimm's version of that fable,
which tells people to stay away from strangers, because they are
almost certainly evil. Angela Carter's version proves it wrong.
-114
0 "The Courtship of Mr. Lyon" {/114/}
[in The Bloody Chamber; by Angela Carter]
* [Cause: MA? Result: BM?.] "Beauty and the Beast", in our time.
Romantic. -114
0 "The Erl-King" {/114/}
[in The Bloody Chamber; by Angela Carter]
* Kind-of transformation mentioned; the story is about incest (I
think). Very strange. -114
0 "The Lady of the House of Love" {/114/}
[in The Bloody Chamber; by Angela Carter]
* [Result: VA.] Vampire story: Lady vampire wants to become human.
-114
0 "Master" {/Ph/}
[in Changes, by Bishop and Watson]
* A big game hunter is brought down by the jungle and his
transformed servant. -Ph
- "Puss-in-Boots" {//114}
[in The Bloody Chamber; by Angela Carter]
* No transformation; satire. -114
0 "The Snow Child" {/114/}
[in The Bloody Chamber; by Angela Carter]
* [Cause: MA? Result: BX?.] Transformation: Like the original tale.
A child made of snow, a bird's feather and the blood of a fox's
kill. Disturbing. -114
0 "The Tiger's Bride" {/114/}
[in The Bloody Chamber; by Angela Carter]
* [Cause: MA? Result: BM?.] "Beauty and the Beast" again; very
erotic and romantic. -114
0 "The Werewolf" {/114/}
[in The Bloody Chamber; by Angela Carter]
* [Result: LY.] Little Red Riding Hood cuts the paw off a werewolf.
-114
- "Wolf Alice" {//114}
[in The Bloody Chamber; by Angela Carter]
* A wolf-raised girl and a man believing he's a werewolf put
together. No real transformation, the man only believes he
transforms, and the transformation at the end is one from child to
woman. But very poetic. -114
Castro, Adam-Troy [??]
0 "The Funeral March of the Marionettes" {/159/} [??]
[in Fantasy & Science Fiction, July 1997]
* [Result: BM.] The central character of the story has had herself
considerably transformed to be able to join an alien culture's
religious dance. [Transformation:] Body completely transformed
internally and in ability to move. Appearance not noticeably
changed until she moves. Rating: 3 Cause: AM Result: BX
Significance: 0 Description: 0 Saturation: -. -159 (98/02/14)
Chalker, Jack [Bo] [AL] [BL] [BR]
- "Dance Band on the Titanic" {//78}
[in Dance Band on the Titanic; Ballantine; 1988; 0345348583; $3.95]
[BB] [BBT]
* [Cause: DT Result: MX.] Marginally a transformation story about a
ferryboat that goes between alternate realities. The crew changes
slightly every time they go between realities, but in really minor
ways, and is only incidental to the story. -78
0 "In the Dowaii Chambers" {/78/}
[in Dance Band on the Titanic; Ballantine; 1988; 0345348583; $3.95]
[BB] [BBT]
* [Cause: AS Result: VR?.] A story of a group of college researchers
that find an ancient computer. They have to live the lives of
people in different periods of history before they are let out.
-78
0 "Moths and Candle" {/75,78/}
[in Dance Band on the Titanic; Ballantine; 1988; 0345348583; $3.95]
[BB] [BBT]
* A fair transformation story with an interesting premise. It
involves the reaction of an interplanetary research group to the
transformation of a princess of a planet they are studying. -78
* (See Spoiler Section for more info) -75
0 "On Transformations and Other Last Words" (essay) {/75/}
[in Dance Band on the Titanic; Ballantine; 1988; 0345348583; $3.95]
[BB] [BBT]
* ...Largely about why he uses transformation as a theme in so many
stories. -75
Charnas, Suzy [AL]
+ "Boobs" {11//}
[in Skin of the Soul; ed. Lisa Tuttle; Pocket; 1990; 067170334X;
$4.50] [BB] [BBT]
* Rating: 3 Result: LY Significance: + Description: 0 Saturation: +.
The story of a teen for whom adolescence brings more changes than
normal. -11
Charyn, Jerome
0 "At War With the Wolf Man" {/11,28/}
[In The Ultimate Werewolf by Preiss]
* Rating: 3 Result: LY Significance: + Description: - Saturation: -.
-11
* [Result: PE?.] Odd story, am still unsure if the changes are
mental or physical. -28
Cogswell, Theodore R. [??]
+ "Thimgs" {78//} [??]
[in Smart Dragons, Foolish Elves, eds. Foster and Greenberg; Ace;
1991; 0441184812; $4.95] [BB] [BBT]
* (Note: that's the right spelling, not a typo.) Rating: 3 Cause: MA
Significance: + Saturation: 0 Description: 0. A somewhat new take
on the classic tale of finding a mysterious object (here a bottle)
from an even more mysterious shop. In this case, a lewd, shister
P.I. discovers the dangers of getting your wish. -78 (98/02/07)
Collins, Nancy [BL]
+ "Raymond" {11/28/}
[In The Ultimate Werewolf by Preiss]
* Rating: 4 Result: LY Significance: + Description: + Saturation: +.
-11
* Story of an abused young werewolf. -28
Collyn, George [??]
+ "Mix-Up" {94//} [??]
[in New Worlds Magazine #145 (Nov. 1964)]
* Rating: 1 Cause: AS Result: MT/GC Significance: + Description: 0
Saturation: 0. Matter transmitter goes wrong, swaps two
minds/brains over. The victims have to come to terms with it, end
up getting married. One-gag story. -94
Coney, Michael [AL]
- "The Byrds" {//Ph}
[in Changes, by Bishop and Watson]
* Cause: AS Result: PE. People with antigravity belts decide to live
like birds. No actual physical transformation, though. -Ph
0 "Die, Lorelei" {/79/}
[in Fantasy & Science Fiction, May 1993]
* [Cause: GM Result: RM?.] Fishes and other sea creatures are
engineered to be people's pets on land. -79
Coville, Bruce
0 "The Passing of the Pack" {/Ph/}
[in Werewolves, by Yolen and Greenberg]
* Result: LY. A father passes on his curse and his pack to his son.
-Ph
Cowper, Richard [AL] [BR]
0 "The Tithonian Factor" {/Ph/}
[in Changes, by Bishop and Watson]
* Result: BM? Immortality, as well as some sort of formchanging or
astral projection, I can't quite figure out which. -Ph
Crispin, A. C.; O'Malley, Kathleen
0 "Pure Silver" {/28/}
[In The Ultimate Werewolf by Preiss]
* [Result: LY.] A Jewish concentration camp survivor is hunting
Nazis as a werewolf. -28
Crompton, Anne E.
0 "Met By Moonlight" {/Ph/}
[in Werewolves, by Yolen and Greenberg]
Culbreath, Myrna; Marshak, Sandra
+ "The Procrustean Petard" {3/60,94/}
[in Star Trek: The New Voyages 2; Corgi; 1978; 0552107212; 95p] [BB]
[BBT]
* [Result: GC Saturation: +.] A Star Trek story...where all of the
crew except Spock change sexes. Not a great story, but the concept
is cute. Saturation/significance is, of course, ++. -3
* It was OK. Nothing great... -60
* Typical ST fan fiction, but what would you have given to see Kirk
in one of those little gold mini-dresses? -94
Curtis, Richard
+ "The Boy Who Would Be Wolf" {Ph//}
[in Shape Shifters by Yolen]
* Cause: AS Result: BX/AN. A fourteen-year-old manages to make
himself a wolf, after several false starts. Very good ending. -Ph
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Stories: D
D'Ammassa, Don
+ "The Splicer" {11//}
[in Hotter Blood, by Gelb]
* A young man who has the ability to change movies (making them more
sexual and violent) is found out by a theater worker, only to
display even more ability to change things. Horror; Rating: 2
Result: BX/GC Significance: + Description: 0 Saturation: 0. -11
Davidson, Avram [Bo] [AL] [BR]
0 "Duke Pasquale's Ring" {/75/}
[in The Adventures of Doctor Eszterhazy; Owlswick; 1990; 0913895284;
$?] [BB] [BBT]
* (See Spoiler Section for more info) -75
0 "Loups-Garous" (short verse) {/Ph/}
[in Werewolf! by Pronzini]
* Result: LY. A doctor has no problem empathizing with his patient.
-Ph
Davol, Marguerite W.
0 "Flesh and Blood" {/Ph/}
[in Werewolves, by Yolen and Greenberg]
de Camp, L. Sprague [Bo] [AL]
0 "Hyperpilosity" {/Ph/}
[in The Best of L. Sprague de Camp; Del Rey; 1986; 0345329309; $3.50]
[BB] [BBT]
[in The Omnibus of Science Fiction; ed. Conklin, Groff; Chatham River;
1984; 0517453703; $9.00 softcover] [BB] [BBT]
* Cause: EM? Result: MX/PE?. All of humanity suddenly starts
sprouting fur due to a genetic change. Interesting social changes
result. -Ph
de Camp, L. Sprague; Pratt, Fletcher [Bo]
0 "Here Putzi!" {/77/}
[in Tales from Gavagan's Bar; 1980; Bantam; 0553131273; $?] [BB] [BBT]
* [Result: LY.] The story of Mrs. Vacarescu and her husband Putzi,
the were-dachshund. -77
de Lint, Charles [Bo] [AL] [BR]
0 "One Chance" {/Ph/}
[in Werewolves, by Yolen and Greenberg]
de Maupassant, Guy
- "The Wolf" {//Ph}
[in Werewolf! by Pronzini]
* Hard to tell where the transformation is in this one, if any. An
interesting read, though. -Ph
Dee, Ron
- "Genderella" {//11}
[in Hottest Blood, edited by Gelb]
* Not very good. A gay teen boy is transformed into a girl for a
night to win the love of his straight classmate he loves; midnight
strikes at a most inopportune time. Horror; Rating: 1 Cause: MA
Result: BX/GC Significance: 0 Description: - Saturation: -. -11
deFord, Miriam Allen [??]
0 "Henry Martindale, Great Dane"/"Gone to the Dogs" {/135/} [??]
[in "Beyond", March 1954 (as "Henry Martindale, Great Dane") ]
[in Elsewhere, Elsewhen, Elsehow, by Miriam Allen deFord; Walker;
1971; 0-8027-55402; $? (as "Gone to the Dogs")] [BB] [BBT]
* [Result: BX/AN Description: -.] Lida Martindale wakes up one
morning to find her husband Henry has turned into a Great Dane.
Mechanism: Not specified, possibly lycanthropic. Type of
transformation: Total physical, permanent, but intellect, vision,
and voice are unchanged. Description: Transformations occur
off-stage. [...] A cute, fairly lightweight story. (See Spoiler
Section for more information) -135 (98/02/07)
del Rey, Lester [AL]
+ "Reincarnate" {Ph//}
[in The Early Del Rey 1; Ballantine; 1976; 034525063X; $1.95] [BB]
[BBT]
* Rating: X Cause: AS Result: BT/IN. A man's brain is transplanted
into a prototype robotic body after an accident. He has to relearn
how to use his senses, speak, and get along in society; and, of
course, society has to get used to him too. -Ph
Dick, Philip K. [Bo] [AL] [BR]
0 "Beyond Lies the Wub" {/77/}
[in Alpha 3; ed. Robert Silverberg; Ballantine; 1972; 034502883X;
$1.25] [BB] [BBT]
* A Wub, a Martian pig-like animal, drives a space crew wild during
a long voyage with its incessant discussion of metaphysics and
metempsychosis. (See Spoiler Section for more info) -77
0 "Colony" {/77/}
[in Robert Silverberg's Worlds of Wonder; ed. Robert Silverberg;
Warner; 0446513695; $17.95 hardcover] [BB] [BBT]
* [Cause: NA? Result: SC/IN.] An earth colony on an alien world is
threatened by shapechanging monsters that imitate household
appliances, vehicles, etc. Nice twist at the end. -77
- "Imposter" {//77}
[in The Great SF Stories 15; eds. Asimov, Greenberg, Waugh; DAW; 1986;
0886771714; $3.50] [BB] [BBT]
* [Cause: AS? Result: MU?/IN?.] A man is told that he is an android
replica intended for sabotage: the original has been murdered. He
tries to prove his innocence. -77
0 "Not by its Cover" {/77/}
[?]
* [Cause: MA?/NA?.] A publisher discovers that the texts of books
bound in wub fur change mysteriously; even the Bible gains extra
passages referring to eternal life. Anything enclosed in the fur
is strangely improved; the publisher decides to have his funeral
casket lined with wub fur. -77
0 "Oh to be a Blobel!" {/77/}
[in World's Best Science Fiction: 1965; eds. Donald Wollheim and Terry
Carr; Ace; 1965; G-551; $.50] [BBT]
* [Cause: AS Result: BX.] With the war over, an ex-spy who was
modified to infiltrate the amoeboid Blobels has difficulties
settling back into normal human society, as he is liable to revert
to Blobel form without warning. He eventually marries a female
Blobel spy who had been modified to pass for human, and who
suffers from reversion to human form. -77
Dickson, Gordon R. [Bo] [AL] [BL] [BR]
0 "Tiger Green" {/Ph/}
[in Gordon R. Dickson's SF Best; Dell; 1978; 0440131812; $1.75] [BB]
[BBT]
* [Cause: AX?.] An alien race and planet tries to transform human
visitors into thinking its way. -Ph
Dinesen, Isak
0 "The Sailor-Boy's Tale" {/Ph/}
[in Shape Shifters by Yolen]
* [Cause: NA? Result: BX/AN.] The protagonist rescues a falcon, and
the falcon later returns the favor as a woman. -Ph
Disch, Thomas [AL] [BL]
- "The New Me" {//Ph}
[in Changes, by Bishop and Watson]
* Result: PE. Sort of self-help groups taken to their ridiculous
conclusion. Mental transformation, more or less. -Ph
Donaldson, Stephen [AL] [BL] [BR]
0 "Daughter of Regals" {/4,11,21/}
[in Daughter of Regals & Other Tales; Del Rey; 1990; 0345314433;
$5.95] [BB] [BBT]
* (From the anthology of the same name) - Weredragon! -4
* Rating: 4 Result: LY Significance: + Description: 0 Saturation: -.
-11
+ "Mythical Beast" {11//}
[in Daughter of Regals & Other Tales; Del Rey; 1990; 0345314433;
$5.95] [BB] [BBT]
* Rating: 4 Result: LY Significance: + Description: + Saturation: 0.
(See Spoiler Section for more info) -11
Doyle, Debra; Macdonald, J. D.
0 "Bad Blood" {/Ph/}
[in Werewolves, by Yolen and Greenberg]
Duane, Diane [Bo] [AL] [BL]
0 "Lior and the Sea" {/72/}
[in Moonsinger's Friends; ed. Susan Shwartz]
* [Cause: MA?/NA? Result: BX?/IN?.] Lior, a Rodmistress, challenges
the Sea one stormy night and discovers that the Sea has its own
life. Transformation only in that the Sea takes a Seahorse
(mythic) form, then later takes a human form. Very nicely done.
-72
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Elliott, Bruce
+ "Wolves Don't Cry" {Ph//}
[in Werewolf! by Pronzini]
* [Result: LY.] An extremely interesting story of "reverse
lycanthropy". There's very little actual transformation seen, but
it's fascinating to see how the wolf copes with human form and
culture. -Ph
Ellison, Harlan [AL] [BL] [BR]
0 "Adrift Just Off the Islets of Langerhans: Latitude 38 54' N Longitude 77
00'13" W" {/28/}
[In The Ultimate Werewolf by Preiss]
* [Result: LY.] A different look at 'The Wolfman' seeking help from
his old scientist buddy, Victor. Not bad, but a bit odd. -28
0 "Basilisk" {/64/}
[in Study War No More; ed. Joe Haldeman; Avon; 1977; 0380405199;
$1.95] [BB] [BBT]
[in Deathbird Stories; Collier Books; 1990; 002028351X; $4.95] [RR]
[BB] [BBT]
* Rating: 3 Significance: + Description: 0 Saturation: -. A man is
transformed into a basilisk/avatar of death. (Personal opinion:
story would be one rating better if it weren't for the last line,
just ditch it.) -64
0 "Footsteps" {/11,154/}
[in Hot Blood, by Gelb]
* [Result: LY.] Any decent description would spoil it; suffice it to
say a very different werewolf story. -11
* Lycanthropy. -154
0 "I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream" {/51,Ph/}
[in I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream; Ace; 1983; 0441363946; $2.95]
[BB] [BBT]
[in Survival Printout; by Total Effect; Vintage; 1973; 0394718577;
$1.95] [BB] [BBT]
* [Cause: AS Result: BM.] Psychotic world-computer AM uses physical
transformations as torture, and as a method to keep its prisoners
alive indefinitely. -51
* A colossal computer tortures the last few survivors of mankind,
through means including transformation. -Ph
0 "'I'm Looking for Kadak'" {/40/}
[In Wandering Stars; ed. Jack Dann; Pocket; 1975; 671-78789-6-150;
$1.50] [BB] [BBT]
* [Result: BX/AN.] A nogoodnik gets turned into a butterfly. -40
* Among other things. -Ph
- "L is for Loup-Garou" {//Ph}
[in One Hundred Great Fantasy Short Short Stories; eds. Asimov, Carr,
Greenberg; Avon; 1985; 0380699176; $2.95] [BB] [BBT]
* Result: LY. If you're going to kill a werewolf, you'd better keep
up with the times. -Ph
+ "Shattered Like A Glass Goblin" {64//}
[in The Beast That Shouted Love at the Heart of the World; Avon; 1969;
0-AVON-V2300; $.75] [BBT]
* Rating: 4 Result: BM Significance: + Description: 0 Saturation: +.
A household full of drug-taking hippies results in transformations
of all the occupants. -64
Emerson, Ru [BL]
0 "The Werewolf's Gift" {/Ph/}
[in Werewolves, by Yolen and Greenberg]
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Stories: F
Fahy, Christopher
0 "Transformations" {/Ph/}
[in Isaac Asimov's Magical Worlds of Fantasy 11: Curses; eds. Asimov,
Greenberg, Waugh; Signet; 1989; 0451163052; $4.50] [BB] [BBT]
* [Cause: AS?/MA?.] A copy machine that can extract and purify the
goodness out of anything it copies, and leave the mediocrity
behind. -Ph
Farmer, Philip Jose [Bo] [AL] [BR] [DZ]
0 "Wolf, Iron, And Moth" {/11,28/}
[In The Ultimate Werewolf by Preiss]
* Rating: 3 Result: LY Significance: 0 Description: X Saturation: X.
-11
* An interesting story of a werewolf and the local sheriff. -28
Fast, Howard
+ "The Mouse" {Ph//}
[in Flying Saucers; eds. Asimov, Greenberg and Waugh; Fawcett; 1987;
0449214001; $3.95] [BB] [BBT]
* Rating: 5 Cause: AX Result: MP Significance: + Description: +
Saturation: 0. Aliens give a mouse the "gift" of intelligence--but
it turns out to be a terrible curse. A fascinating story on
several levels. -Ph
Flynn, Michael [Bo] [BL]
? "Great, Sweet Mother"[?] {/75/}
[in Analog, May or June 1993]
* [Cause: NT Result: BX/AN.] ...Two genetic researchers are studying
discarded genes, and one of them accidentally injects herself with
some nanomachines she was about to inject in a rabbit, and begins
changing into a sort of proto-fish. Her partner injects himself so
he can join her in the sea. -75
+ "Werehouse" {11/28,87,Ph/}
[In The Nanotech Chronicles, by Michael Flynn]
[in New Destinies IX; ed. Jim Baen; Baen; 1990; 0671720163; $3.50]
[BB] [BBT]
* SF; Rating: 4 Cause: NT Result: BX/LY/GC Significance: +
Description: 0 Saturation: +. -11
* ...Explores the uses of nanotechnology to induce shapeshifting.
-28
* A sort of cyberpunk lycanthropy. -Ph
* A neat little story involving high-tech lycanthropy. -87
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Stories: G
Gardner, Craig Shaw [Bo] [AL] [BL]
0 "Day of the Wolf" {Ph/11,28/}
[In The Ultimate Werewolf by Preiss]
* Rating: 4 Result: LY Significance: + Description: - Saturation: -.
-11
* I laughed out of sheer admiration of this one for hours. I
couldn't even really tell you why, but I did. -Ph
* (See Spoiler Section for more info) -28
Gerrold, David [Bo]
+ "Franz Kafka, Superhero!" {78//}
[in By Any Other Fame; eds. Mike Resnick and Martin H. Greenberg; DAW;
1994; 0886775949; $4.99] [BB] [BBT]
* [Result: AN?.] Rating: 4 Cause: NA Result: BM Significance: +
Decsription: 0 Saturation: 0/+. The great Czech superhero Franz
Kafka goes against his greatest rival, PsychMan (Sigmund Freud).
If you have any familiarity with Kafka, you can probebly guess his
superhero ability. (see The Metamorphosis). -78
Gilden, Mel
0 "Moonlight On the Gazebo" {/11,28/}
[In The Ultimate Werewolf by Preiss]
* Rating: 4 Result: LY Significance: + Description: 0 Saturation: -.
-11
* A well written alternate world story with the shapechanger being
the public executioner. -28
Gold, Horace L.
0 "No Charge for Alterations" {/Ph/}
[in The Best from Amazing Stories; ed. White, Ted; Manor; 1973;
532-00225-095; $0.95] [BBT]
* Cause: AS Result: BM/PE. Physical and mental alterations through
advanced science, to change space colony residents to fit the
colony. -Ph
Goldman, E. M.
0 "Metastasis" {/79/}
[in Fantasy & Science Fiction, June 1993]
* [Result: IN.] Some people turn to inanimate objects. -79
Goulart, Ron [Bo] [AL]
0 "Change Over" {/Ph/}
[in The Chameleon Corps and Other Shape Changers, by Goulart]
* [Cause: AS? Result: BM.] A king is addicted to a drug that
triggers shapechanges, which makes things rather unpleasant for
those around him. -Ph
0 "Ignatz" {/Ph/}
[in The Chameleon Corps and Other Shape Changers, by Goulart]
* [Result: BX/AN.] A town is revitalized by a "temple" where people
can turn into cats for recreation, but as always, there's one town
resident out to stop it. -Ph
- "Looking Into It" {//Ph}
[in The Chameleon Corps and Other Shape Changers, by Goulart]
* No real transformations, except a lot of clever mikes and
disguises. -Ph
0 "Please Stand By" {/Ph/}
[in The Chameleon Corps and Other Shape Changers, by Goulart]
[in Smart Dragons, Foolish Elves, eds. Foster and Greenberg; Ace;
1991; 0441184812; $4.95] [BB] [BBT]
* [Result:BX/AN.]A man changes into an elephant. On all national
holidays. I am not making this up. -Ph
0 "Shandy" {/Ph/}
[in The Chameleon Corps and Other Shape Changers, by Goulart]
* [Cause: NA? Result: BX.] A strange pet that can change into
assorted animal shapes, and eventually human. -Ph
0 "Subject to Change" {/Ph/}
[in The Chameleon Corps and Other Shape Changers, by Goulart]
* A kleptomaniac actress finds a way to really live her parts. -Ph
Green, Roland J.
0 "Wooden Characters" {/78/}
[In Witch Fantastic; eds. Mike Resnick and Martin Greenberg]
* Rating: 3 Cause: MC Result: BM Signifigance: 0 Description: +
Saturation: -. A witch is paid to ruin the performance of an
actor. Unfortunatly, her spell goes horribly wrong. -78
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Stories: H
Hall, Donald
0 "The Wonderful Dog Suit" {/Ph/}
[in Shape Shifters by Yolen]
* [Rating: X Cause: X Result: X Significance: X Description: X
Saturation: X.]
* Moral: Don't give your brilliant child a dog suit as a present.
-Ph
Hamilton, Edmond [AL]
- "He That Hath Wings" {//Ph}
[in Mutants; eds. Asimov, Greenberg, and Waugh; Harper; 1988;
0694056294; $2.95] [BB] [BBT]
* [Cause: EM? Result: BM.] A mutation gives a boy wings. The
"scientific explanation" strains disbelief to the breaking point,
but it's still interesting exploring the social consequences. This
volume has some other interesting mutation stories. -Ph
- "The Man Who Evolved" {//Ph}
[In Before the Golden Age; Asimov, Isaac (ed.); Doubleday; 1974;
0385024193; $16.95 hardback] [BB] [BBT]
[In The Best of Edmond Hamilton; Doubleday; SFBC; 1977] [BBT]
* [Cause: EM Result: BM.] Transformation through rapidly-accelerated
evolution. Rather stereotypical, but still interesting, though
probably not worth digging up the book. -Ph
Hamilton, Laurell
0 "Geese" {/72/}
[in Sword and Sorceress VII; ed. Marion Zimmer Bradley]
* [Result: BX/AN.] A young woman who hid in the shape of a goose
returns to claim vengeance against the one who killed her family.
A bit of shapeshifting in the story; quite an interesting read.
-72
Hamlet, Ova (pseud.) [??]
- "The Nosepickers of Dawr" {//94} [??]
[in Amazing/Fantastic, July 1981]
* Rating: 2 Cause: AS Result: MT/GC Significance: 0 Description: -
Saturation: -. Gor parody probably by Richard A. Lupoff. There is
a little transvestism at the beginning of the story and a bodyswap
at the end ("Stop!" hologrammed Thorin the smith, "that corona is
my experimental turnabout model!"). Pretty heavy-handed effort,
but somewhat funny if you've read some of the Gor books. (Doncha
wish it had happened to Tarl Cabot?) B/W illustration by Alicia
Austin. -94
Hand, Elizabeth [BL]
0 "Snow on Sugar Mountain" {/72/}
[In Full Spectrum 3; eds. Lou Aronica, Amy Stout, & Betsy Mitchell; ?;
$?] [BBT]
* [Result: AN.] Rating: 3 Cause: MA Result: BX Significance: +
Description: O Saturation: O. A boy discovers his mother has a
talisman that allows a person to shapeshift. After her death, he
takes the talisman and lives for a while as a fox. After a
snowstorm, he's discovered (in human form) by a retired astronaut,
who gives him a home. Interesting read. -72
Hasse, Harry
0 "He Who Shrank" {/Ph/}
[in Before the Golden Age; ed. Asimov, Isaac; Doubleday; 1974;
0385024193; $16.95 hardback] [BB] [BBT]
[in Adventures in Time and Space; eds. Healy, Haymond L. and McComas,
J.F.; Ballantine; 1979; 0345289250; $9.95 softcover] [BB] [BBT]
[in Isaac Asimov's Magical Worlds of Fantasy 5: Giants; eds. Asimov,
Greenberg and Waugh; Signet; 1985; 0451139224; $3.95] [BB] [BBT]
* Cause: AS Result: ZC. A man is injected with a chemical that
causes him to continually shrink, eventually entering subatomic
universes. -Ph
Heinlein, Robert A. [Bo] [AL] [BL] [BR]
0 "All You Zombies" {/11,TG/}
[in Fantasy & Science Fiction, March 1959]
[in 6 X H; Heinlein, Robert A.; ?; $?] [BBT]
* SF; Cause: AM Result: TT/GC; not read. -11
Heydron, Vicki Ann
0 "Cat Tale" {/Ph/}
[in Greyhaven; ed. Bradley, Marion Zimmer; DAW; 1983; 0879978155;
$2.50] [BB] [BBT]
* Cause: MA Result: BX/AN. A woman rescues a magical creature and
unknowingly gets a wish. As fate would have it, her next wish is
to be a cat. -Ph
Heym, Stefan
+ "The Wachsmuth Syndrome" {11,76/75/}
[in Playboy; September 1972]
[in The Queen Against Defoe and Other Stories; 1974; Lawrence Hill &
Co.; 0882080415; $?] [BB] [BBT]
* Rating: 3 Cause: VI Significance: + Description: 0 Saturation: +.
A man wakes up to find himself female, and becomes a celebrity
until it starts happening to other men... -11
* Rating: 3 Cause: OT(Spontaneous_Mutation) Result: GC Significance:
+ Description: 0 Saturation: +. A man mutates into a woman
overnight, and becomes a celebrity. Other men eventually begin to
mutate. The original entry marked this as virus induced, but I'm
not sure the story ever made this statement. I think spontaneous
mutation was the reason (I'll have to reread this and find out).
(See the Spoiler Section for more information) -76
Hoffman, Nina Kiriki [BL]
+ "Unleashed" {11/28/}
[In The Ultimate Werewolf by Preiss]
* Rating: 5 Result: LY Significance: + Description: 0 Saturation: +.
(See Spoiler Section for more information) -11
* Very good, The transformations in this one are not what you would
expect. -28
Hogan, James P. [Bo] [AL] [BL] [BR]
0 "Identity Crisis" {/TG,11/}
[in Stellar 7; ed. Judy-Lynn Del Rey; Del Rey; 1981; 0345294734;
$2.50] [BB] [BBT]
* SF; Rating: 4 Result: ST Significance: + Description: 0
Saturation: 0. Travel in the future - rent a body. You never can
tell who you've run into, though... -11
0 "Till Death Do Us Part" {/75/}
[in Stellar 6; ed. Judy-Lynn Del Rey; Del Rey; ?] [BBT]
* [Result: ST.] In Stellar 6, there was one...with the same plot [as
'Identity Crisis'], so I don't think such a similar one by the
same author would be in Stellar 7... -75
* Actually, I have both stories in my database, though I don't have
the books themselves available right now. It's entirely possible
that "Till Death Do Us Part" is a sequel; I seem to recall that
happening more than once in the Stellar series. -Ph
Housman, Clemence
0 "The Were-Wolf" {/Ph/}
[in Werewolf! by Pronzini]
* Result: LY. A classic werewolf tale, with some tragic romance
thrown in. -Ph
Hussey, Leigh Ann
0 "The White Wolf" {/Ph/}
[in Werewolves, by Yolen and Greenberg]
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Ingalls, Rachel
0 "Blessed Art Thou" {/3,TG/}
[in I See a Long Journey; Ingalls, Rachel; Simon & Schuster; 1985;
0671627821; $6.95] [BB] [BBT]
* [Result: GC.] About a monk who claims to have sex with the
archangel Gabriel, following which he becomes female and pregnant.
An interesting story, although I'm not sure about the ending. -3
Ings, Simon D.
0 "Grand Prix" {/79/}
[in Omni, June 1993]
* [Cause: AS Result: BM?/IN?.] "Formula Zero" driver gets a
cybernetic link to his car after a racing accident. -79
"Iverson, Eric" [Bo]
0 "Blue Fox and Werewolf" {/Ph/}
[in Amazing Stories, September 1983]
* [Result: LY.] Lycanthropy. -Ph
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Stories: J
Nothing yet...
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Stories: K
Kaminsky, Stuart
0 "Full Moon Over Moscow" {/28/}
[In The Ultimate Werewolf by Preiss]
* [Result: LY.] Now that the party has erased tradition who
remembers the warnings about werewolves? -28
Keillor, Garrison
0 "Zeus the Lutheran" {/102/}
[in The New Yorker]
[reprinted in The Book of Guys; Keillor, Garrison; ?] [BBT]
* [Cause: MA? Result: MU/AN.] Zeus becomes trapped in the body of a
vacationing Lutheran minister, while the minister's consciousness
goes into the body of a stray dog. Not a bad little story, and the
minister's perspective on this is fairly central to the story.
-102
Keizer, Gregg
? "What Seen But the Wolf" {/Ph/}
[in Isaac Asimov's Fantasy!; ed. McCarthy, Shawna; Dial Press; 1985;
0385230176; $12.95 hardback] [BB] [BBT]
* Result: LY?. Not read, but appears to be an interesting Viking
lycanthropy story -Ph
Keyes, Daniel [Bo]
+ "Flowers for Algernon" (book and ss) {Ph//}
(see book list for info)
Killough, Lee [Bo] [AL]
0 "The Leopard's Daughter" (book and ss) {/Ph/}
(see book list for info)
Kimbriel, Katharine
0 "Night Calls" {/Ph/}
[in Werewolves, by Yolen and Greenberg]
Kingsbury, Donald
? "The Survivor" {/Ph/} [RR]
[?]
* [Cause: GM?.] The Raymond's Review hints that transformation
through bioengineering may take place. -Ph
Kipling, Rudyard
+ "Mark of the Beast" {Ph//}
[in Werewolf! by Pronzini]
* [Rating: X Cause: X Result: X Significance: X Description: X
Saturation: X.]
* One of the classics. Lycanthropy through a curse. -Ph
Knight, Damon [Bo] [AL] [BR]
0 "Four in One" {/77/}
[in Galaxy, 1957]
[in In Deep; Victor Gollancz,(UK) 1964]
* [Cause: AX? Result: BX/BC.] On a newly discovered planet, four
explorers end up in the body of a large amoeboid creature; all but
their nervous systems has been digested, but the amoeboid body
appears to be under their control, and communication is possible
between them. There is conflict about what they are to do with
their new body... -77
0 "Maid to Measure" {/38/}
[in 100 Great Science Fiction Short Short Stories; eds. Asimov,
Greenberg, Olander; Avon; 1980; 0380507730; $2.95] [BB] [BBT]
* Short, but worth it. Fantasy. -38
Koja, Kathe [BL]
0 "Angels' Moon" {/11,28/}
[In The Ultimate Werewolf by Preiss]
* Rating: 3 Result: LY Significance: + Description: 0 Saturation: -.
-11
* A very strange short story from a werewolf's point of view. -28
Koke, Jak; Koke, Jonathan
0 "Deadwise" {/79/}
[in Amazing Stories, August 1992]
* [Cause: AS? Result: IN?.]
* AI planted in clone body. Cyberpunk. -79
Koontz, Dean [Bo]
+ "Hardshell" {78//}
[In Predators; eds. Ed Gorman, Martin Greenberg; Roc; 1994;
0451452267; $4.99] [BB] [BBT]
* Rating: 5 Cause: NA Result: BM Signifigance: + Description: +
Saturation: +. An excellent story! A lone LAPD detective follows a
suspect wanted in a string of murders into a warehouse on a rainy
night, only to find that he is a great deal more than a
psychopath. Terrific writing, reads like the climax of many of
Koontz's books. -78
Kuttner, Henry [AL]
0 "A Gnome There Was" {/29,Ph/}
[In The Great SF Stories: 3; eds. Asimov, Greenberg; DAW; 1980;
0879975237; $2.25] [BB] [BBT]
[In The Best of Harry Kuttner; Kuttner, Henry; Nelson Doubleday; ?]
[BBT]
* A truly bizarre 'transformation' story... more like fantasy than
SF. -29
* [Cause: MA? Result: BX Saturation: +.] Definitely lands a +
Saturation rating... A human is changed into a gnome, and the
gnome leader can shapechange others. -Ph
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Lackey, Mercedes [Bo] [AL] [BL]
0 "Were-Hunter" {/72/}
[in Tales of the Witch World 1; ed. Andre Norton; ?] [BBT]
* [Result: LY.] A young girl finds a gate into Arvon and discovers
that she's a werecat, and is chased by a hunter who is also a
werecat himself. Amusing tale, worth reading. -72
Lafferty, R. A. [Bo] [AL] [BL]
+ "Once on Arenea" {Ph//}
[in Changes, by Bishop and Watson]
* Cause: AX Result: BX/AN. A man and his dog get involuntarily
introduced to an alien ecosystem's shapeshifting customs. -Ph
Landis, Geoffrey A. [??]
+ "Paradigms of Change" {94//} [??]
[in Interzone 53; Nov. 1991; ISSN 0264-3596; UK2.25]
* Rating: 2 Cause: AM/VI Result: GC Significance: + Description: +
Saturation: 0. Recombinant viral DNA changes Y chromosome into X -
easily spreadable. Usual problems for our hero(ine) - Tampax,
tights, high heels, sex discrimination. Not too plausible
technically, but the battle in the Vatican between Pope Innocent
XIV and Pope Jeanne-Paul sounds interesting. -94
Laumer, Keith [Bo]
+ "Hybrid" {103//}
[in Nine by Laumer; Doubleday; 1967] [BBT]
* [Cause: NA?/AX?/SY? Result: BX.] Rating: 4 Significance: +
Description: 0 Saturation: -. A story about the last Yanda tree.
Yanda trees are vast, ancient, sentient trees. They reproduce by
implanting a spore into a host animal, making it healthy and
long-lived but eventually turning it into a Yanda. The one in the
story falls in a hurricane, and before it dies it communicates
with the protagonist who agrees to become a host. -103
Lawson, James
0 "Gagrito" {/79/}
[in Fantasy & Science Fiction, April 1993]
* [Cause: AS?.] Some animals have artificial nervous systems that
can be remote-controlled. These 'magimals' are used as pets by
rich people. -79
Le Guin, Ursula K. [Bo] [AL] [BL] [BR] [DZ]
0 "Horse Camp" {/78/}
[in Buffalo Gals and Other Animal Presences; Roc; 1990; 0451450493;
$?] [BB] [BBT]
* A rather odd story with a transformation that is difficult to
detect, and never stated outright. Really interesting to say the
least. -78
+ "The Rule of Names" {64/Ph/}
[in Bestiary; eds. Dann, Jack and Dozois, Gardner; Ace; 1985;
0441055060; $2.95] [BB] [BBT]
[in The Fantastic Imagination; eds. Boyer, Robert H. and Zahorski,
Kenneth J.; Avon; 1977; 0380009560; $2.25] [BB] [BBT]
[in The Wind's Twelve Quarters; Bantam; 1976; 055302907X; $1.75] [BB]
[BBT]
* Rating: 3 Result: BM Significance: + Description: + Saturation: -.
A tale that leads up to a wizards duel involving multiple
transformations, plus one surprising change. -64
* [Cause: MA/MC.] A shapechanging wizard comes to recover stolen
treasure from another such wizard (who had previously stolen it
from a dragon), armed with the other wizard's true name, which
should give him control over the battle. More in the Spoiler
Section. -Ph
0 "The Wife's Story" {/Ph/}
[in Changes, by Bishop and Watson]
* Result: LY. A lycanthropy story with a difference which I'll tell
you in the Spoiler Section. -Ph
+ "The Word of Unbinding" {64//}
[in The Wind's Twelve Quarters; Bantam; 1976; 055302907X; $1.75] [BB]
[BBT]
* Rating: 3 Cause: MC Significance: 0 Description: + Saturation: +.
An imprisoned wizard tries several transformations in order to
escape, none working untill he finally finds the 'key.' -64
Lee, Tanith [Bo] [AL] [BL] [BR]
0 "A Day in the Skin" {/3,TG/}
[in Dreams of Dark and Light; Arkham House; 1986; 0870541536; $21.95]
[BB] [BBT]
* [Cause: AS Result: MT.] About a colony where 90% of the people
were wiped out in an accident, and so everyone swaps in and out of
the bodies of the remaining 10% (and none of the remaining ones
are allowed to use their own bodies, to prevent jealousy). -3
Leiber, Fritz [Bo] [AL] [BR]
0 "The Hound" {/Ph/}
[in Werewolf! by Pronzini]
* A sort of supernatural city force that haunts a man and possesses
things and people around him. -Ph
0 "Space-Time For Springers" {/75/}
[in The Best of Fritz Leiber; Ballantine; 1974; 345-242256-4-175;
$1.75] [BBT]
* About a kitten who expects that he will turn into a human when he
grows up. -75
Lem, Stanislaw [AL] [BL] [BR] [DZ]
0 "The Twenty-First Voyage" {/77/}
[in The Star Diaries; Stanislaw Lem; ?] [BBT]
* [Cause: GM Result: BX.] This voyage is to a world where
bioengineering has resulted in a wild variety of bodies, and
bodily form becomes a matter of fashion and political statement.
There are several curious illustrations, such as the octabod and a
stoolmaid. -77
Leslie, Elisabeth
+ "How to Petrify Your Brother" {126//} [FT$]
[Mind's Eye Fiction; 1995; net published;
http://tale.com/titles.phtml; $0.24]
* The bulk of the story is free; the ending is 16-24 cents, or free
if you view a "targeted ad.". -Ph (98/02/14)
* [Result: IN.] Rating: 3 Cause: AM Result: BX(Petrification)
Significance: + Description: 0 Saturation: +. Science Fiction.
Cute little story with mixture of humorous tone and jarring
inner-city human problems as told by a ten (?) year old narrator.
Very realistic science. Drug dealers meet their ironic end.
Framing story is fun for those who know the history of Analog
magazine. As the title implies, the whole story centers around the
transformation. -126
Linaweaver, Brad
0 "Close Shave" {/28/}
[In The Ultimate Werewolf by Preiss]
* [Result: LY.] Fun story about a barber who tries to cure a curse.
Also a parody of the old B horror movies. -28
Longyear, Barry [AL] [BL] [BR]
0 "Savage Planet" {/TG/}
[?]
* [Result: GC.] -TG
Lovecraft, H. P. [??]
- "The Doom That Came to Sarnath" {//141} [??]
[in H.P. Lovecraft Omnibus 2, Dagon and other macabre tales; Grafton
Books; 1985; 0586063242; $?] [BB]
* Rating: 2 Cause: MA(divine) Result: BM Significance: -
Description: - Saturation: 0. Originally published 1919. Strange
story of how the population of Sarnath angered an ancient deity,
and the resulting destruction of their city. In the process it is
suggested that the king and his courtiers are turned into strange
creatures. -141 (98/02/08)
- "The Moon-Bog" {//141} [??]
[in H.P. Lovecraft Omnibus 2, Dagon and other macabre tales; Grafton
Books; 1985; 0586063242; $?] [BB]
* Rating: 2 Cause: MA(Curse) Result: BM/AN Significance: -
Description: - Saturation: 0. Originally published 1921. Simple
ghost story of Irish landowner angering spirits by attempting to
drain an ancient bog. The spirits drag him from his house to his
doom, turning his servants and workmen into frogs in passing. -141
(98/02/08)
? "The Shadow Over Innsmouth" {141//} [??]
[in H.P. Lovecraft Omnibus 3, The Haunter of the Dark; Grafton Books;
1985; 0586063234; $?] [BB]
* [Result: BM.] A young man discovers that the population of
Innsmouth, a small New England fishing village, has intermingled
with horrible sea creatures in the past, which causes its
ascendants to slowly turn into sea creatures themselves. He
succeeds in informing the authorities who secretly purge this
abomination from the face of the earth. (See Spoiler Section for
more information) -141 (98/02/08)
* The above publishing info is for a British version. There's an
American book, Tales of the Haunter and Other Tales of Horror, by
Lovecraft; it's published by Books Britain, 1985, 0586063234,
$23.00 [BB]. Even though the titles are similar and the ISBN is
identical, I can't say for certain that it's the same book. Can
anyone confirm or deny this? -Ph
? "The Thing on the Doorstep" {/150/} [??]
[?] (98/02/11)
* Could anyone describe this? -Ph
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MacDonald, George [AL]
0 "The Gray Wolf" {/Ph/}
[in Masterpieces of Fantasy and Wonder; ed. Hartwell, David G.; Guild
America; ?] [BBT]
* Result: LY. A man stays the night with a werewolf and her mother.
-Ph
MacDonald, Ian [Bo] [??]
+ "Towards Kilimanjaro" {144//} [??]
[in Future Earths: Under African Skies; DAW; 1993; 0886775442; $4.99]
[BB] [BBT]
* Rating: 4 Cause: AX/EM Result: BM/PE Significance: + Description:
0 Saturation: 0. [See entry on Ian MacDonald's Evolution's Shore,
in the Books section, for more information.] -144 (98/02/09)
Maclean, Katherine
0 "Syndrome Johnny" {/77/}
[in Galaxy; 1951]
[In Backdrop of Stars; ed. Harry Harrison, NEL (UK); May 1975] [BBT]
* [Cause: VI.] Over several generations, someone has spread viral
plagues that have wiped out billions. (See Spoiler Section for
more info) -77
0 "Unhuman Sacrifice" {/77/}
[in Astounding; 1958]
[reprinted in A Century of Science fiction; ed. Damon Knight] [BBT]
* A missionary interferes with the torture ritual that humanoid
aliens perform on their young at the time of the spring floods.
(See Spoiler Section for more info) -77
Malzberg, Barry [AL]
0 "Nightshapes" {/Ph/}
[in Werewolf! by Pronzini]
* [Result: LY.] A man tries to cure his wife's lycanthropy. Pronzini
liked this one a lot; I wasn't quite as impressed. -Ph
Marie de France [??]
0 "Bisclavret" (poem) {/143/} [??]
[?]
* [Cause: NA? Result: LY.] Maybe you could add to your Stories
listing the poem `Bisclavret' by Marie de France. Admittedly it is
written in Old French, but there are several translations and,
being dated c.12th century, it is the earliest literary work on
lycanthropy in European literature. It tells the tale of a noble
baron afflicted with lycanthropy, whose rival for his wife's
affections steals his discarded clothes, leaving him trapped in
the state of a wolf. The King visits the forest where he dwells
and, by an unbeastly display of obeisance, Bisclavret befriends
the King and becomes his constant companion. Meanwhile, wife and
rival start an affair. In due course, they are invited to dinner
at the palace and recognised by Bisclavret, who, for the first
ever time, viciously attacks and bites the `strangers'. Bisclavret
recovers his human shape and is further honoured, while the wife,
whose nose has been bitten off, flees into exile and begets a
family of noseless children. -143 (98/02/09)
Marryat, Frederick
0 "The White Wolf of the Hartz Mountains" {/Ph/}
[in A Walk With the Beast; ed. Collins, Charles M.; Avon; 1969;
0386005069; $?] [BB] [BBT]
* [Result: LY.] Never blow your wife away, even if she is a
werewolf. -Ph
Masterton, Graham
0 "Changeling" {/11,TG/}
[in Hot Blood, by Gelb]
* [Cause: AX?.] Rating: 4 Result: MT Significance: + Description: -
Saturation: 0. SF; Alien granted ability. An extended one-night
stand brings unexpected results. -11
McCaffrey, Anne [Bo] [AL] [BL] [BR]
0 "The Ship Who Sang" {/36/}
[short story in A Science Fiction A to Z; eds. Asimov, Greenberg,
Waugh; Houghton Mifflin; 1982; 039531285X; $22.95 hardcover] [BB]
[BBT]
[short story in The Great Science Fiction Series; eds. Pohl,
Greenberg, Olander; Harper & Row; 1980; 0060133821; $16.95 hardcover]
[BB] [BBT]
* [Cause: AS Result: BM/IN.] The heroine was severely deformed at
birth but was placed in some sort of cybernetic shell which
allowed her to almost literally become a starship, pilot,
navigator and captain. There was also some mind to body transfers
in there. -36
McCammon, Robert [Bo] [AL]
0 "The Thang" {/11/}
[in Hot Blood, by Gelb]
* A man who's unsatisfied with the size of his 'thang' takes a
voodoo potion to make it larger--with excessively good results.
Rather funny. Horror; Cause: MA Result: MX Significance: 0
Description: + Saturation: 0. -11
McElroy, Wendy
0 "Werewolf" (poem) {/Ph/}
[in Amazing Stories, September 1984]
* Result: LY. Lycanthropy. As if you couldn't guess. :-) -Ph
Michaux, Henri
- "And More Changes Still" {//Ph}
[in SF 12; ed. Merril, Judith; Dell; 1969; 7815; $0.75] [BBT]
* [Rating: 1 Significance: - Description: - Saturation: +.] A
definite ++ on the "Saturation" scale; there's at least one
transformation in most sentences. Doesn't really come to any
conclusion, though, and no detail in the transformations. -Ph
Moon, Elizabeth [BL]
0 "The Happy Frog" {/Ph/}
[in Fantasy & Science Fiction, July 1989]
* [Result: BX?/AN?.] A frog-prince story. -Ph
Moore, C. L. [AL] [DZ]
0 "No Woman Born" {75//11}
[in The Best of C.L. Moore; ed. Lester Del Rey; Del Rey; 1975;
0345289528; $2.25] [BB] [BBT]
* Rating: 3 Result: MT Significance: 0 Description: - Saturation: -.
SF; Mechanical body. A woman whose body was destroyed is given a
mechanical body. -11
* Cause: AS Result: BX. Very good story about a dancer who is nearly
killed in a theatre fire, and then a neurosurgeon rescues her
brain and builds a mechanical body to suit her. Great detail on
the mental transformations that come as she learns to use her new
body. -75
Murphy, Pat [AL] [BL]
0 "Eyes of the Wolf" {/77/}
[in Galaxy; May 1978]
* [Cause: AS Result: MT/AN.] A woman's mind is imprinted onto a
wolf. -77
0 "Rachel in Love" {/77/}
[in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, April 1987]
[in Points of Departure; Bantam Spectra; 1990; 0553286153; $3.95] [BB]
[BBT]
* [Cause: AS Result: MT/AN.] A scientist imprints his dead
daughter's mind onto a chimpanzee. -77
0 "South of Oregon City" {/28/}
[In The Ultimate Werewolf by Preiss]
* [Result: LY.] Werewolf in the old west. -28
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Stories: N
Neville, Kris
0 Bettyann (book and ss) {/42/} [DZ]
[?]
* (See book list for more info)
Newton, Mike
0 "Pretty Is" {/11/}
[in Hot Blood, by Gelb]
* [Result: LY.] Were-reptile. -11
Niven, Larry [Bo] [AL] [BL] [BR]
? "Flare" {/75,TG/}
[in Limits; ?] [BBT]
[in Medea: Harlan's World; eds. Jack Williamson and Harlan Ellison]
* [Cause: NA Result: GC.]...Partly about some aliens who change sex
naturally several times during their lives...I think there are
some other stories about the same aliens in Medea. -75
+ "There's a Wolf In My Time Machine" {11/28,Ph/}
[In The Ultimate Werewolf by Preiss]
* Rating: 3 Result: LY Significance: + Description: X Saturation: X.
-11
* Part of Niven's time collector series. -28
* Cause: DT. Shapechanging by transferring into an alternate
universe with different evolutionary selections. -Ph
0 "What Good is a Glass Dagger?" {/67/}
[in Flight of the Horse; ?] [BBT]
* [Cause: NA? Result: LY.] The main character is one of a race of
werewolves who learns something very startling about the origin of
his species. -67
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Stories: O
Oppenheim, Shulamith
- "The Stranger" {//Ph}
[in Shape Shifters by Yolen]
* Result: LY. Werefoxes, though no transformation takes place during
the story. -Ph
Owens, Barbara
+ "The Real Story by Jenny O'Toole" {79//}
[in Fantasy & Science Fiction, August 1992]
* [Cause: NA Result: SC.] Shapechanging alien is used in horror
movies. -79
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Stories: P
Parkinson, T. L.
0 "The Shell" {/79/}
[in Fantasy & Science Fiction, January 1990]
* [Result: BM.] A man suffering from a severe skin disease grows
himself a shell around his body. -79
Pelleschi, Andrea
0 "Song of the Dragon" {/72/}
[in Sword and Sorceress VII; ed. Marion Zimmer Bradley]
* [Cause: MA?/NA? Result: BX/AN?.] A young woman sets out from her
school to discover the secret of her teacher, who disappears every
year to take his true form. Amusing short story. -72
Person, Lawrence [??]
0 "Details" {/139/} [??]
[in Asimov's, April 1991]
* [Cause: DT? Result: BX.] A man's world changes constsantly by tiny
fractions until it (and he) are completely alien. -139 (98/02/08)
0 "Salvation" {/139/} [??]
[in Midnight Graffiti, by Stephen King (Editor), James Van Hise,
Jessica Horsting, jes Horsting; Warner; 1992; 0446363073; $?] [BB]
[BBT]
* [Result: IN.] [...] in the Midnight Graffiti anthology, in which
church statues of Christ bleed and come to life. -139 (98/02/08)
Pierce, Meredith Ann [AL]
+ "The Woman Who Loved Reindeer" {/72/}
[in Moonsinger's Friends; ed. Susan Shwartz]
* [Cause: NA? Result: SC/AN.] The short version of her novel by the
same name... of a woman who falls in love with a shapeshifter (who
changes into a golden reindeer) and the shapeshifting son she
bears him. Highly recommended fantasy novel. -72
Poe, Edgar Allen
0 "Metzengerstein" {/77/}
[in Beware the Beasts; ?; 1971; 532-00343-075; $3] [BBT]
* [Result: AN.] Metempsychosis into a horse, so far as I remember.
-77
Pohl, Frederik [Bo] [AL] [BL] [BR] [DZ]
0 "Father of the Stars" {/77/}
[in Galaxy; 1964]
[in Digits and Dastards; Frederik Pohl; 1966; ?] [BBT]
* [Cause: AS Result: BT/AN.] Minds put into chimp bodies for STL
interstellar travel, while their own bodies wait frozen for the
return. -77
0 "My Life as a Born-Again Pig" {/Ph/}
[in Synergy 1; ed. Zebrowski, George; HBJ; 1987; 0156877007; $5.95]
[BB] [BBT]
* [Cause: AM Result: BT/AR.] A very wealthy, somewhat slimy man is
"killed", but his brain is salvaged and transplanted into a baby
created by an artificial insemination into his wife's womb done
after his death. -Ph
0 "The Tunnel Under the World" {/77/}
[in The Best of Frederik Pohl; ed. Lester del Rey; Nelson Doubleday;
SFBC] [BBT]
* [Cause: AS? Result: MT?.] A small town has undergone a strange
change; similar basic idea to Galouye's Simulacron 3 that you
already have listed. I think Pohl was first. -77
Pronzini, Bill
0 "Ancient Evil" {/28/}
[In The Ultimate Werewolf by Preiss]
* [Result: SC?/PE?.] Another story that's hard to decide if it's
about a madman or a shapechanger. -28
- "How Now Purple Cow" {//Ph}
[in One Hundred Great Science Fiction Short Short Stories]
* [Cause: NA? Result: BX/AN.] Utterly silly little story about,
well, a purple cow. -Ph
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Stories: Q
Quick, W. T.
0 "Whatever Gets You Through the Night" {/11,TG/}
[in Amazing Stories; March 1990]
* SF; Cause: AS Result: BX/GC; not read. -11
Quinn, Seabury [Bo]
+ "Lynne Foster is Dead!" {94//} [??]
[in Weird Tales; November 1938 (Vol. 32 #5)]
* Rating: 1 Cause: MA Result: GC Significance: + Description: +
Saturation: +. This is the short story Quinn's later book Alien
Flesh was developed from. An American archaelogist kills an
Egyptian girl, is changed by necromancers into a girl and takes
her place in marriage to the girl's father's best friend. Very
dated view of Muslim family practices, but the detail may be
authentic. A very strange love story. -94
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Stories: R
Randisi, Robert J. [BL]
+ "Partners" {11/28,Ph/}
[In The Ultimate Werewolf by Preiss]
* Rating: 3 Result: LY Significance: + Description: X Saturation: X.
-11
* This policeman's partner is all the backup he'll ever need.
Wouldn't you want a werewolf as a partner also? -28
+ Frankly, after reading the story, I'm not sure. I imagine it
creates a lot of paperwork. :-) -Ph
Reaves, J. Michael
0 "Werewind" {/Ph/}
[in Fantasy Annual V; ed. Carr, Terry; Pocket; 1982; 0671454366;
$2.95] [BB] [BBT]
[in Best Horror Stories from F&SF Vol. 1; St. Martin's; 1989;
0312914997; $3.95] [BB]
* [Result: BX/IN.] You can probably guess from the title. Human into
windstorm. -Ph
Reed, Kit
+ "Sisohpromatem" {Ph//}
[in Changes, by Bishop and Watson]
* [Result: BX.] Kafka's Metamorphosis neatly reversed; a cockroach
changes into a human, again with interesting mental
transformation. -Ph
Resnick, Mike
0 "The Trials & Tribulations of Myron Blumberg, Dragon" {/100/}
[in Dragon Fantastic; eds. Rosalind and Martin Greenberg]
* [Cause: MA? Result: BM/AN.] A comedy about a hen-pecked husband
who ends up slowly changing into a dragon, which REALLY pisses off
his wife. -100
Richard, Michael
0 "The Lion of Elirhom's Anger" {/Ph/}
[in Heroic Visions 2; ed. Salmonson, Jessica Amanda; Ace; 1986;
0441328229; $2.95] [BB] [BBT]
* [Cause: MC Result: AP?/AN.] A bard projects himself into a sort of
"dream-shape" of a lion, that he uses to take revenge on those who
have wronged him. -Ph
Rucker, Rudy [Bo] [AL] [BL] [BR]
0 "The Indian Rope Trick Explained" {/Ph/}
[in Changes, by Bishop and Watson]
* [Cause: MA? Result: BM.] A man winds up turned at right-angles to
reality, so only a cross-section of his body shows up in our
space. Sort of like Flatland. -Ph
Russell, Eric Frank [AL] [DZ]
? "Metamorphosite" {/Ph/}
[in The Best of Eric Frank Russell]
* Not read. -Ph
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Stories: S
Sagara, Michelle
+ "Shadow of a Change" {78//}
[in Dinosaur Fantastic; eds. Mike Resnick and Martin Greenberg]
* [Result: AN.] Rating: 4 Cause: OT(Unexplained) Result: BM
Signifigance: + Description: + Saturation: 0. A young secratary
finds that she is beginning to change, for unexplained reasons,
into a carnivorous dinosaur. -78
Saki (H. H. Munro)
+ "Gabriel-Ernest" {Ph//}
[in Werewolf! by Pronzini]
[in Shape Shifters by Yolen]
* [Rating: 4 Result: LY.] One of the more ironic stories I've ever
read, definitely worth seeking out. -Ph
Sawyer, Robert J.
+ "Just LIke Old Times" {78//}
[in Dinosaur Fantastic; eds. Mike Resnick and Martin Greenberg]
* [Result: AN.] Rating: 3 Cause: AS Result: TT Signifigance: +
Description: + Saturation: 0. As punishment for his horrific
crimes, a mass murderer is forced to live out the last days of a
T. Rex in the past, through mind transfer. -78
Scarborough, Elizabeth [Bo] [AL]
0 "Wolf from the Door" {/Ph/}
[in Werewolves, by Yolen and Greenberg]
Schimel, Lawrence
0 "Phobiac" {/100/}
[in Dragon Fantastic; eds. Rosalind and Martin Greenberg]
* A very short story where a man has a peculiar reaction. -100
Schmitz, James [Bo] [AL] [BL] [DZ]
0 "Company Planet" {/38/}
[in The Telzey Toy; ?] [BBT]
* [Cause: AM Result: BM/PE?.] Physical alteration via advanced
surgical technology. Also, the main character, Telzey, is the
instigator of many mental transformations in others in all of the
books about her (The Universe Against Her, The Lion Game). -38
Scortia, Thomas N.
- "Flowering Narcissus" {//11}
[?]
* [Cause: AS.] Using the only DNA sample they have in a
post-apocalypse world, robots recreate a biker--and a woman for
him. Questionable for transformation list--what modifications
there are take place off screen. SF;Rating: 3 Result: GC(Clone)
Significance: - Description: - Saturation: -. -11
+ "Judas Fish" {Ph//}
[in Shape Shifters by Yolen]
* [Cause: AX? Result: BM?/AN/PE.] The protagonist eats a squidlike
creature in an undersea station, and turns into one, in a
hard-to-describe way. Very interesting. -Ph
0 "Sea Change" {/Ph/}
[in Human-Machines; eds. Scortia, Thomas N. and Zebrowski, George;
Vintage; 1975; 0394716078; $2.95] [BB] [BBT]
* [Cause: AS Result: BX/IN.] Sort of like "The Ship Who Sang" by
McCaffrey; the minds of accident victims transferred into robots
and spacecraft. -Ph
Sharkey, Jack
0 "No Harm Done" {/Ph/}
[in 101 Science Fiction Stories; eds. Greenberg and Waugh; Avenel;
1986; 0517606690; $? hardback] [BB] [BBT]
[in Science Fiction A to Z; eds. Asimov, Greenberg, Waugh; Houghton
Mifflin; 1982; 039531285X; $22.95 hardback] [BB] [BBT]
* [Cause: AM Result: MP.] A new device designed to stimulate the
minds of catatonic people has an unexpected effect. -Ph
Shaw, Bob [AL]
+ "Call Me Dumbo" {75//}
[in Tomorrow Lies in Ambush; Bob Shaw; ?; $?] [BBT]
* (See Spoiler Section for more info) -75
Sheckley, Robert [Bo] [AL] [BR]
0 "Shape" {/Ph/}
[in The Arbor House Treasury of Modern Science Fiction; eds.
Silverberg and Greenberg; Priam; 1980; 0877952663; $8.95 softcover]
[BB] [BBT]
* [Cause: NA Result: SC.] The invading aliens can take any shape
they want. All they have to do is get close to an atomic power
plant, and Earth is theirs. So why have twenty previous invasions
failed? -Ph
Sheffield, Charles [Bo] [AL] [BL]
? "Legacy" {/Ph/}
[in Changes, by Bishop and Watson]
Shwartz, Susan [BR]
? "The Wolf's Flock" {/Ph/}
[in Werewolves, by Yolen and Greenberg]
Silverberg, Robert [Bo] [AL] [BR]
+ "The Conglomeroid Cocktail Party" {/40/}
[in The Conglomeroid Cocktail Party; Silverberg, Robert; Spectra;
1985; 0553250779; $2.95] [BB] [BBT]
* [Cause: AS Result: BM.] A party for the upscale, who change their
bodies as a way of keeping up with the Joneses. -40
0 "Ringing the Changes" {/Ph/}
[in Alchemy and Academe; ed. McCaffrey, Anne; Ballantine; 1986;
0345344197; $2.95] [BB] [BBT]
[in Isaac Asimov's Magical Worlds of Fantasy 10: Ghosts; eds. Asimov,
Greenberg, Waugh; Signet; 1988; 0451157230; $4.50] [BB] [BBT]
* [Cause: AS Result: MU.] A bunch of people's minds get shuffled
into different bodies by a mind-transfer machine, and the
protagonist ends up in a number of different bodies before being
returned to 'the proper one'. -Ph
- "The Werewolf Gambit" {/28/11}
[In The Ultimate Werewolf by Preiss]
* Rating: 4 Result: LY Significance: 0 Description: - Saturation: -.
-11
* The old pickup line of "I'm a werewolf." Well, as usual, it goes
wrong. -28
0 "World of a Thousand Colors" {/40/}
[in World of a Thousand Colors; ?] [BBT]
* [Result: BX?/IN?.] Winners of a selection procedure become the
colors of the rainbow. -40
Simak, Clifford [Bo] [AL] [BR] [DZ]
+ "Desertion" {11,Ph//}
[in Changes, by Bishop and Watson]
[in Survival Printout; ed. Total Effect; Vintage; 1973; 0394718577;
$1.95] [BB] [BBT]
[in Skirmish; Simak, Clifford D.; Berkley; 1978; 0425038211; $1.95]
[BB] [BBT]
[in The Road to Science Fiction 3; ed. Gunn, James; Mentor; 1979;
0451617843; $2.75] [BB] [BBT]
[in many other sources]
* SF; Rating: 3 Cause: GM Result: BX Significance: + Description: X
Saturation: X. -11
* I found this story to be great; Rating: 5. It's very widely
printed; the odds are that anyone with a fairly good-sized
anthology collection has it somewhere. -Ph
Smith, Clarke Ashton [AL] [DZ]
0 "The Beast of Averoigne" {/141/} [??]
[in The City of the Singing Flame; Timescape Books; 1981; 0671834150;
$?] [BB] [BBT]
[American publication of City of the Singing Flame: Pocket; 1981;
0671834150; $?]
* First published 1933. Fantasy whodunit about a mysterious comet
which at night turns a citizen of a peaceful farmer's district
into a raving monster. Although transformation is central to the
plot, the story focuses mainly on the search for the afflicted
citizen. Rating: 4 Cause: OT(comet) Result: BX Significance: 0
Description: 0 Saturation: +. -141 (98/02/08)
+ "The Double Shadow" {75//}
[in Posiedonis; Ballantine; 1970; ?] [BBT]
* Cause: MA Result: BX. The narrator, a magician's apprentice, and
his master and his master's servant, are all unexpectedly
transformed by a spell. The exact nature of the transformation is
mysterious for awhile; it begins with their shadow transforming,
and sometime later their body changes to suit. -75
0 "The Enchantress of Sylaire" {/141/} [??]
[in The City of the Singing Flame; Timescape Books; 1981; 0671834150;
$?] [BB] [BBT]
[American publication of City of the Singing Flame: Pocket; 1981;
0671834150; $?]
* [Result: AN.] First published 1941 in Weird Tales. Young man is
seduced by a beautiful woman who turns out to be a powerful
sorceress. Transformation appears in the story through a rival
sorceror who has been turned into a wolf, but can regain human
form for a short while by eating a certain root. This root becomes
less and less effective causing the sorceror to change from wolf
to wolf-human hybrid and back. Rating: 4 Cause: MA Result: BX/MX
Significance: 0 Description: + Saturation: +. -141 (98/02/08)
0 "The Garden of Adompha" {/141/} [??]
[in The City of the Singing Flame; Timescape Books; 1981; 0671834150;
$?] [BB] [BBT]
[American publication of City of the Singing Flame: Pocket; 1981;
0671834150; $?]
* First published 1938 (probably in Weird Tales). (See Spoiler
Section for more information.) -141 (98/02/08)
+ "The Maze of Maal Dweb" {141//} [??]
[in The City of the Singing Flame; Timescape Books; 1981; 0671834150;
$?] [BB] [BBT]
[American publication of City of the Singing Flame: Pocket; 1981;
0671834150; $?]
* (See Spoiler Section for more information.) -141 (98/02/08)
+ "Mother of Toads" {141//} [??]
[? ]
* [Result: AN?.] The Copyright to this story is held by Scott
Meredith Literary Agency, New York. My copy is a Dutch translation
which doesn't give any details concerning the story's origins.
A young man is sent by his master - a shady apothecary - to
collect love potions from the local witch, a fat, warty woman,
known as the Mother of Toads. The witch manages to slip him one of
her potions. In the cold, gray light of morning our hero wakes up
to find a huge female toad beside him, presumably the witch in her
true form. The rest of the story is taken up by his futile
attempts to escape. Rating: 3 Cause: OT(unknown) Result: BX
Significance: + Description: - Saturation: 0. -141 (98/02/08)
0 "A Prophecy of Monsters" {/Ph/}
[in Werewolf! by Pronzini]
* [Result: LY.] Lycanthropy in the twenty-first century, and a new
occupational hazard for werewolves. -Ph
0 "The Venus of Azombeii" {/141/} [??]
[in Weird Tales, June-July 1931]
[in Other Dimensions Vol. 2; Granada Publishing; 1977; ISBN
0586043519] [BB]
* Man travels to Africa, finds a lost tribe and falls for tribe's
beautiful queen. She dumps the tribe's shaman for him, who then
curses the couple, causing them to shrink. This is accompanied by
wracking pains and eventually results in death. Rating: 3 Cause:
MA Result: ZC Significance: 0 Description: 0 Saturation: 0. -141
(98/02/08)
+ "A Voyage to Sfanamoe" {75//}
[in Posiedonis; Ballantine; 1970; ?] [BBT]
* Cause: MA Result: BX. Two pioneering astronauts in the last days
of Atlantis go to Sfanamoe, aka Venus, and are naturalized into
native flora. -75
0 "The White Sybil" {/141/} [??]
[in The City of the Singing Flame; Timescape Books; 1981; 0671834150;
$?] [BB] [BBT]
[American publication of City of the Singing Flame: Pocket; 1981;
0671834150; $?]
* [Result: MD?/PE?.] First published 1960. A poet falls in love with
the White Sybil, a strange apparition-like woman who sometimes
appears in his home town. Sick with longing he goes to her in her
mountain hideout, but when he takes her in his arms, she changes
to reveal her true nature, a sight which causes the poet to loose
his wits. Apart from the physical transformation of the Sybil the
resulting mental breakdown of the poet is especially weird and
poignant. Rating: 4 Significance: 0 Description: + Saturation: 0.
-141 (98/02/08)
Smith, Cordwainer [??]
0 "Scanners Live in Vain" {/75/} [??]
[in You Will Never Be the Same; Berkley; 1963] [BBT]
[in The Best of Cordwainer Smith; Ballantine; 1975] [BBT]
[in The Rediscovery of Man; NESFA Press; ?] [BBT]
* [Cause: AS? Result: BM/IN?/PE.] ...One of the earliest cyborg
stories, and has excellent portrayal of the mental transformation
involved. The "scanners" of the title have had various alterations
designed to allow them to survive hyperspace while conscious. -75
Smith, Sherwood [BL]
0 "Monster Mash" {/Ph/}
[in Werewolves, by Yolen and Greenberg]
* [Result: LY.] Life as a teenager is complicated enough without
having to deal with lycanthropy too... -Ph
Stockton, Frank A.
- "The Bee-man of Om" {//Ph}
[in Masterpieces of Fantasy and Enchantment; ed. Hartwell, David G.;
Nelson Doubleday; 1988; ?] [BBT]
* Somewhat borderline for the list. A man finds out that he has been
transformed from something in the past, and goes to find out what
it is. Hint: It's probably not what you think it is. -Ph
Stoker, Bram [Bo]
0 "Dracula's Guest" {/Ph/}
[in Werewolf! by Pronzini]
* [Result: LY?.] "Dracula's Guest" was originally the first chapter
of Dracula, removed to shorten the book for publication. It's hard
to tell whether it's really a werewolf story or not, but it's
certainly interesting. -Ph
Strickland, Brad
0 "And The Moon Shines Full And Bright" {/28/}
[In The Ultimate Werewolf by Preiss]
* [Result: LY.] The men of the future have a human solution to the
problem of the werewolf. -28
Sumner, M. C. [??]
0 "Surrogate" {/94/} [??]
[in Writers of the Future Vol. 8; 1992; 0884047725; $5.99] [BB] [BBT]
* Rating: 2 Cause: AS Result: MT Significance: + Description: -
Saturation: -. Male surrogate is hired to pilot a female body
through pregnancy. -94
Sweeney, Toni
0 "Variation and Man" {/85/}
[in Starry Nights III; ?; Merry Men Press; ?] [BBT]
* [Result: GC.] ...About a secret agent who has a partner (variant)
who can change sex at will. The problem starts when the agent
falls in love with and seduces his partner's other form. -85
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Stories: T
Tevis, Walter S. [BR]
0 "The Apothesis of Myra" {/Ph/}
[in Changes, by Bishop and Watson]
* [Cause: RE?.] Transformation through a sort of reincarnation on an
alien planet. -Ph
Tilton, Lois
+ "The Swineherd" {78//}
[In Witch Fantastic; eds. Mike Resnick and Martin Greenberg]
* Rating: 5 Cause: MA Result: BX Significance: + Description: 0
Saturation: 0. A poor swineherd stumbles onto a pig farm in the
middle of the forest, unaware that the nice woman running the farm
is a witch. Great story with a rather surprising ending. -78
Turtledove, Ann Warren
0 "Moon Change" {/Ph/}
[in Shape Shifters by Yolen]
* [Cause: MA Result: BX/AN.]
* Protagonist magically changes into a cat. -Ph
Turtledove, Harry [Bo] [BL]
+ "Not All Wolves" {Ph//}
[in Werewolves, by Yolen and Greenberg]
* [Result: LY.] A werewolf is pursued by hunters into a Jewish
community, and finds an odd kinship with its residents. -Ph
Tuttle, Lisa; Utley, Steven
? "Flies By Night" {/Ph/}
[in Changes, by Bishop and Watson]
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Stories: U
Nothing yet...
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Stories: V
van Vogt, A. E. [Bo] [AL] [BL] [BR] [DZ]
? short stories {/33/}
[try The Best of A.E. van Vogt; ed. Malzberg, Barry; Pocket; 1976;
0671805460; $1.95] [BB] [BBT]
* ...They range from funny to some of the best, he has a least a
dozen variations on a theme that the universe is filled with human
like intelligences with today's earth at the lowest level of a
hierarchy leading to the 'Great Galactics' who are god like, I
can't remember the title but one discusses a situation where a
scientist creates a compound that causes accelerated evolution
with in an organism and illegally uses it on two assistants. It
was one of the very best short stories I have ever read because of
the ending line. -33
* Could somebody give us more information here; specific story
titles, etc.? -Ph
0 "The Enchanted Village" {/10,20,Ph/}
[in Shape Shifters by Yolen]
* (See Spoiler section for more info)
0 "The Silkie" {/22,Ph/}
[in If Reader of Science Fiction; ed. Pohl, Frederik; Ace; 1966; H-19;
$.60] [BBT]
* [Cause: NA Result: SC/AN?.] Assorted races of shapechangers. -Ph
0 "Vault of the Beast" {/Ph/}
[in The Great SF Stories 2 (1940); eds. Asimov and Greenberg; DAW;
1979; 0879974834; $2.25] [BB] [BBT]
* [Cause: NA? Result: SC?.] A shapeshifting alien; I'm told it's
very good, but I haven't finished it. -Ph
Vance, Jack [Bo] [??]
? "The Murthe" {141//} [??]
[in Rhialto the Marvellous; Grafton Books; 1985; 0586065059; $?] [BB]
[BBT]
[American release: Rhialto the Marvellous; Pocket; 1985; 0671559915;
$?] [BB]
* A rather sorry bunch of self-absorbed wizards is suddenly
confronted by a witch who has fled to their time from an era in
which men and women are at war. To prepare herself for the coming
of her male pursuers she starts turning the local wizards into
women. These wizards were eccentric to start, but their female
versions are definitely weird. Rating: 4 Cause: MA Result: GC
Significance: + Description: 0 Saturation: 0. -141 (98/02/08)
Varley, John [Bo] [AL] [BL] [BR]
+ "The Barbie Murders" {11/TG/}
[in The Barbie Murders; Varley, John; Orbit; ?; 0708880975; UK: #2.50]
[BB] [BBT]
* [Result: GC?.] -TG
* SF; Rating: 4 Cause: AM Result: BM Significance: + Description: -
Saturation: -. -11
0 "Blue Champagne" {/11/}
[?]
* SF; Rating: 2 Cause: AM Significance: + Description: - Saturation:
-. -11
+ "Options" {11,TG//}
[in Blue Champagne; Varley, John; Berkley; ?; 0425093360; $2.95] [BB]
[BBT]
* SF; Rating: 4 Result: GC(Clone) Significance: + Description: 0
Saturation: 0. -11
0 "Overdrawn at the Memory Bank" {/Ph/}
[in Galaxy: Best of My Years; Baen, James (ed.); Ace; 1980;
0441272967; $2.25] [BB] [BBT]
[in Persistence of Vision; Varley, John; Berkley; 1984; 0425073009;
$2.95] [BB] [BBT]
[in Galaxy: 30 Years of Innovative Science Fiction; eds. Pohl,
Greenberg, Olander; Playboy; 1980; SFBC] [BBT]
[in Annual World's Best SF: 1977; ed. Wollheim, Donald A.; DAW; 1977;
0879972971; $1.75] [BB] [BBT]
* [Cause: AS Result: MT/AN/VR.] A man's mind is transferred into a
lioness' body through advanced science for recreation, then dumped
into a computer when things go wrong. Funny, but serious in places
also. -Ph
0 "The Persistence of Vision" {/11/}
[in Persistence of Vision; Varley, John; Berkley; 1984; 0425073009;
$2.95] [BB] [BBT]
* SF; Rating: 4 Cause: AM Significance: 0 Description: 0 Saturation:
-. -11
- "Picnic at Nearside" {/TG/11}
[in Fantasy & Science Fiction, August 1974]
[in Picnic at Nearside (aka The Barbie Murders); Varley, John; ?]
* SF; Rating: 3 Result: GC(Clone) Significance: - Description: -
Saturation: -. -11
Vinicoff, Eric [??]
+ "Displaced" {94//} [??]
[in Analog, March 1987]
* Rating: 2 Cause: AS Result: MR/GC Significance: + Description: +
Saturation: 0. Star travel for Japanese megacorp bosses involves
personality readout, laser transmission and downloading into
pre-cloned bodies at destination. One boss is hijacked and
substituted by political opposition. -94
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Stories: W
Waldrop, Howard [BL] [BR]
0 "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]
0 "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)
0 "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]
0 "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]
0 "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
0 "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 [??]
0 "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]
0 "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
Wrede, Patricia [??]
0 "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)
Wyndham, John [AL] [BR] [DZ]
0 "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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Stories: X
Nothing yet...
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Stories: Y
Yolen, Jane [Bo] [AL] [BL]
0 "The Foxwife" {/72/}
[in Moonsinger's Friends; ed. Susan Shwartz]
* [Cause: NA? Result: BM?.] A young man leaves his school to learn
to curb his temper, and in the process becomes the lover of a
kitsune, a fox spirit. Some transformation, not really essential
to the story but well-written nonetheless. -72
0 "Green Messiah" {/Ph/}
[in Werewolves, by Yolen and Greenberg]
* [Cause: AS Result: LY.] Scientifically-induced lycanthropy, that
doesn't work out quite as the scientists plan. -Ph
0 "Johanna" {/Ph/}
[in Shape Shifters by Yolen]
* (see Spoiler Section for more info) -Ph
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Stories: Z
Zelazny, Roger [Bo] [AL] [BL] [BR] [DZ]
0 "He Who Shapes" {/Ph/}
[in The Last Defender of Camelot; Zelazny, Roger; Pocket; 1980;
0671417738; $2.50] [BB] [BBT]
* [Cause: AS? Result: MT?.] The novella from which The Dream Master
was based. In the introduction, Zelazny says that he prefers this
to The Dream Master. -Ph
Zeldes, Leah A.
+ "Stock Answer" {78//}
[In Witch Fantastic; eds. Mike Resnick and Martin Greenberg]
* Rating: 4 Cause: MA Result: BX Significance: + Description: -
Saturation: +. A sci-fi writer choses the name of a diner for his
latest best seller. Unfortunately for him, the diner is owned by a
witch with an attitude... -78
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Comics
Note: A character having a "secret identity" is not enough to qualify
the comic as a transformation work (mostly because if it were, half
the comics in creation would be listed, and what's the point of that?
:-) ) In general, transformation should be a significant theme of the
comic in order to list it here.
Comics
Adventures of Captain Nemo #1 {//Ph}
[Ripoff Press]
* A werewolf on a sailing ship. Pretty bad, which may be why I never
saw any issues for sale after the first. -Ph
Amazing Adventures #11 {/Ph/}
[Marvel]
* The origin issue of the new version of the Beast, one of the X-Men
who was transformed as a result of his experiments into the cause
of mutation. -Ph
The Amazing Spider-man #124,125,170,190 {/Ph/}
[Marvel]
* These issues include the Man-Wolf, J. Johan Jameson's werewolf
son, transformed by an mysterious stone. His first appearance and
origin are in #124 and #125; it looks like he's cured in #125, but
it is not so, for reasons that become clear in Giant-Size
Super-Heroes #1. He makes an extremely brief and bad appearance in
#170. In #190, he's back again, apparently a continuation from
#189 (which I haven't seen). He appears to plummet to his death,
but you know how it is in the comics... Man-Wolf is also seen in
Creatures on the Loose. -Ph
Animal Man {Ph//}
[DC/Vertigo]
* It begins as the story of a man who can absorb abilities from
animals around him. It rapidly gets weirder than that. An
extremely good comic; it's gone through several art and writing
teams over its 80+-issue run, with very different feels as a
result. The first nine issues are collected as a graphic novel.
-Ph
Black Hood #11 {Ph//}
[Impact]
* A man transforms himself into a humanoid fox using a
gene-scrambling drug, to bring himself closer to nature. It
doesn't work quite the way he planned. A fascinating character who
had the misfortune to be born at the wrong time--the Fox was swept
out of the picture after this single appearance, when Impact
rearranged their line and cancelled many titles. -Ph
Captain America #402-408 {/166,Ph/}
[Marvel]
* Captain America is transformed into Capwolf during this
seven-issue run. A pity they changed him back... :-) -Ph
* "Captain America" is from Marvel, not DC. -166 (98/02/14)
Claws {//Ph}
[Conquest]
* A werewolf falls in with the homeless. I never saw anything past
the first issue. -Ph
Concrete {Ph//}
[Dark Horse]
* Aliens transform a man and his friend into a rocky monster. The
comic is a gritty look at how someone might try to actually put a
life together after something like that. -Ph
Congorilla {/Ph/}
[DC]
* Four-issue miniseries. A ring allows a man's consciousness to be
exchanged with that of a gorilla. -Ph
Creatures on the Loose #30-37 {/Ph/}
[Marvel]
* An eight-issue run dealing with the Man-Wolf, J. Jonah Jameson's
lycanthropic son, first seen in The Amazing Spider-man. -Ph
Dojinshi #1 {//Ph}
[Antarctic Press]
* Three fan-drawn Ranma 1/2 stories. In Japanese, with "subtitles".
-Ph
Elvira #2,3 {/Ph/}
[Claypool Comics]
* A werewolf (named Talbot Lawrence III, of course) shows up in
these two issues. -Ph
Enchanter {/Ph/}
[Express Press]
* An enchanter can assume the form of a great cat to terrorize the
populace. Planned as an eight-issue series; around here it stopped
showing up after #4. -Ph
The Eudaemon {//Ph}
[Dark Horse]
* Three-issue miniseries. You know it's going to be a bad day when
your father dies just after telling you that you're a demon... and
there's another demon out there trying to kill you... -Ph
The Eye of Mongombo {/Ph/}
[Fantagraphics]
* Seven-issue series. Our hero is having a bad day. His treasure map
has been stolen, and assorted people are trying to kill him. On
top of that, he's been turned into a duck. -Ph
Ghost Rider #55 {/Ph/}
[Marvel]
* Werewolf by Night appearance. -Ph
Ghost Rider 2099 #3-4 {/Ph/}
[Marvel]
* WareWolf, a sort of cyberpunk lycanthrope, makes a two-issue
appearance. -Ph
Giant-Size Creatures #1 {/Ph/}
[Marvel]
* Werewolf by Night appearance. Continues as Giant-Size Werewolf.
-Ph
Giant-Size Super-Heroes #1 {Ph//}
[Marvel]
* The Man-Wolf (seen in The Amazing Spider-man #124-125) reappears,
along with Morbius, the Living Vampire. A good story, but very
pricey to get these days. -Ph
Giant-Size Werewolf {/Ph/}
[Marvel]
* Four issues, numbered #2-5 (#1 is Giant-Size Creatures). More
Man-Wolf stories. -Ph
Gold Digger {Ph//}
[Antarctic Press]
* A funny adventure series, involving a were-cheetah as a main
character and werewolves showing up in a major plotline. -Ph
Hellboy: The Wolves of St. August {153//}
[?]
* It's a fine comic done by Mike Mignola. One of very few comics I
can read. -153 (98/02/12)
HOWL {/Ph/}
[Eternity]
* Anthology of werewolf stories. Only two issues published, as far
as I know. -Ph
The Incredible Hulk #362 {//Ph}
[Marvel]
* Werewolf by Night is the guest antagonist this episode, though
he's more of a sideline to the Hulk's internal and romantic
problems. -Ph
Justice League of America {/118/}
[DC]
* The Martian Manhunter is forced to shapechange to that of a woman.
A small problem, until the ruler of the Daals (the 3 part series
is called "Valley of the Daals") finds him attractive. -118
* The story actually happened in a companion comic book called
"Justice League Task Force," issues 7-8. -166 (98/02/14)
Juujin Sei-iki (Beast-People's Eden) {98//}
[?]
* ... a GREAT shapeshifter manga (comic) in Japan ... Personally,
it's my favorite comic of all time. Great art, characters, plot,
and it's not a cutesey story. Lots of death and violence (of
course, blood)...I'm also working on translating it at the moment.
-98
Lobo's Back #1,2 {/118,138,166/}
[DC]
* Marvel's bad boy is killed and re-incarnated as a women. He
doesn't quite show his feminine side. -118
* Lobo was and is published by DC Comics. -138, -166 (98/02/14)
Lycanthrope Leo {/Ph/}
[Viz]
* English manga translation. A student finds that he's one of a race
of werebeasts, and that there are hunters out to kill his kind.
-Ph
Marvel Comics Presents #54-59,107-113 {Ph//}
[Marvel]
* Werewolf by Night stories. #54-59 are a key story, well worth
seeking out; Jack Russell finally learns to accept and control his
condition, as he deals with a gang of biker werewolves (who he
created) and another gang of monster- slayers. #107-112 are a more
conventional punch-em-up, with Jack and Ghost Rider against
another gang of werewolves. (This is the problem with
lycanthropy... you wind up doing a lot of clean-up work
afterwards.) #113 is a truly forgettable one-shot, with Jack
tracking down a wendigo. -Ph
Marvel Premiere #28,45-46 {//Ph}
[Marvel]
* #28 concerns the Legion of Monsters--Man-Wolf, Morbius, Man-Thing
and Ghost Rider--fighting each other and an alien visitor for
assorted reasons. #45-46 has an
I've-read-it-and-I-still-can't-believe it plot--in two few pages
to make sense, Man-Wolf winds up as a god in a swords-and-sorcery
plot on the moon, topped off with a deus-ex-machina climax. -Ph
Marvel Spotlight #2-4 {Ph//}
[Marvel]
* #2 is the first appearance and origin issue of Jack Russell, aka
Werewolf by Night. He finds that he has a hereditary curse of
lycanthropy, which transforms him into a near-mindless beast for
three nights a month. A very pricey issue. In #3 he learns that
the cure may be in a magical book called the Darkhold; in #4 he
finds it, only to be turned to stone. This leads to the Werewolf
by Night series. [Note that there were two runs of Marvel
Spotlight, with overlapping numbers; these books are in the
earlier run.] -Ph
Marvel Team-Up #12,37.93 {/Ph/}
[Marvel]
* In #12, Jack Russell (Werewolf by Night) falls under the spell of
an evil magician, and winds up battling Spidey on his behalf. #37
puts the Man-Wolf against Spidey. #93 has Werewolf by Night, now
in control of himself and his powers, teaming up with Spidey to
fight Tatterdemalion. -Ph
Megalith #4,5 {//Ph}
[Continuity]
* Megalith becomes a werewolf through demonic possession. -Ph
Metamorpho {/Ph/}
[DC]
* The main character has been altered by a meteor's rays; he can
transform into any element or compound. His infant son has this
ability in reverse: he cannot change himself, but can change other
objects at a touch. -Ph
Power Plays {128//}
[by Mike Kelly; see publication history below] (96/10/15)
* Rating: 5 Cause: MA? Result: BM Significance: + Description: +
Saturation: +. Across the world, several thousand people were
mysteriously changed at the same instant. Some looked the same
afterwards, but many were physically altered, and others were able
to change their appearance to varying degrees. The Power Players
were formed to investigate the powers and their cause.
The first issue of this series was originally published in 1983 by
the author. This story, plus an additional one, was reprinted in a
new #1 by AC Comics in 1985, with a second issue following later.
Issue #3 was published by the author in 1990 to renew the
copyright. A new #1, picking up after #3, was published by
Millennium Publications in 1995. -128
Quantum Leap #1,#6 {/118/}
[Innovation]
* First Sam jumps into a beautiful high school teacher (#1) and
later into 1/2 of teenage twins. -118
Ranma 1/2 {Ph//}
[Viz]
* The title character was cursed by falling into a magical pool; he
transforms into a girl when splashed with cold water, and back
again when splashed with hot water. Assorted other characters have
also fallen into such pools, and turn into assorted animal forms.
English translation of an anime series; videotapes and OAVs are
also available. -Ph
Rhudiprrt, Prince of Fur {/128/}
[by Dwight Decker; MU Press, 1990, $2.00] (96/10/15)
* Rating: 4 Cause: MA Result: ST Significance: 0 Description: +
Saturation: 0. Warren Shafer was a lonely old man whose only
companion in his last years was his cat, Delilah. Shortly after
Delilah died, Warren passed away as well. After death he was met
by a spirit who offered to take Warren to join the rest of
humanity. Warren asked if Delilah would be there. When told that
humans and cats had separate destinies, Warren decided he didn't
want to go to a place that didn't allow cats. At this point
another spirit arrived, naming herself Bast. She offered to rejoin
Warren with Delilah, if he would help her subjects, the humanoid
cats of another world, where the cats of Earth go after death to
continue their development in subsequent lives. Warren agreed, and
found himself in the body of young Prince Rhudiprrt, who had just
been killed by an enemy assassin... an assassin who was still in
the room.
This series went on hiatus after issue #8. However, MU reprinted
the first three issues as a special package in early 1995, a trade
paperback containing the first 6 issues came out in late 1995
(with a cover by Kelly Freas), and the series is due to resume
sometime in 1996. -128
Shade the Changing Man {/118/}
[DC/Vertigo]
* Shade's body is killed and he's forced to take over that of a
woman. Problem is, he doesn't quite know how to react to his new
figure and the reaction of those around him. -118
Spectacular Spider-man Annual #3 {/Ph/}
[Marvel]
* Man-Wolf is finally cured. -Ph
Spider-Woman #6,19,32 {/Ph/}
[Marvel]
* Werewolf by Night appearances. In #6, an evil sorceress tries to
extract knowledge about the Darkhold from his mind. In #19, he
runs into Spider-Woman again, as they both fight the Enforcer. In
#32, a doctor "treating" him actually fits him with a mind-control
device, and sends him (and Hornet) against the Spider-Woman once
again. -Ph
Ultraverse series {/124,166/}
[Marvel]
* Prime is a little boy that becomes a Superman and has a lot of
interesting people in it. Mantra is an other one, she's started as
a man, become a woman and then a man and is now back to being a
woman. Prime shows up from time to time. -124
* "Ultraverse" is a comics universe owned first by Malibu Comics,
which later merged with Marvel. So, Prime, Mantra and related
characters are Marvel, not DC. -166 (98/02/14)
Warlock Chronicles: Reflections of a Golden Man {118,166}
[Marvel]
* Warlock is half-transformed into a woman (the right side) as he
confronts his own feminine side. -118
Web of Spider-man #51-55 {/Ph/}
[Marvel]
* These five issues feature the Lobo Brothers, a pair of werewolf
gangsters. -Ph
Werewolf {/Ph/}
[Blackthorne]
* Comic adaptation of the Fox TV series; Eric Cord inherits the
werewolf curse from a now-dead friend, and tries to find a cure
before it consumes him. Does anyone know if more than five issues
were published? -Ph
Werewolf at Large {/Ph/}
[Eternity]
* A werewolf and his precognitive grandmother fight satanists and
assorted nutcases. I've only seen three issues; I don't know if
more were published. -Ph
Werewolf by Night {Ph//}
[Marvel]
* 43 issues were printed in all. The story begin in Marvel Spotlight
#2-4 continues here. Jack Russell, victim of an old family curse
of lycanthropy, tries to find a remedy for his condition. -Ph
XXXenophile {128//}
[by Phil Foglio; Palliard Press, continuing, $2.95] (96/10/15)
* Rating: 5 Cause: Varies Type: Varies Significance: + Description:
+ Saturation: +. These adult comics present an assortment of
stories, usually several in an issue. Often the tales involve a
transformation of some sort, and when they do this has a high
significance to the story. In issue #10 the leader of an invading
army discovers why all the worshipers of the god Hootabix are
female. -128
Where to from here?
From here you can go up to the list index, up to the contributor list,
back to frequently-asked questions, on to movies, on to books, on to
short story entries, on to other resources, or on to spoilers.
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Movies
A lot of people have asked me why I don't list movies. Fine. I'm now
listing movies. Now it's your job to send me movies to list. :-)
Movies
0 Altered States {/115/}
* ...Starring William Hurt and Blair Brown. Directed by Ken Russell,
script by Paddy Chayefsky (from a novel by him, evidently under
the pseudonym Sydney Aaron). Hurt plays a researcher performing
experiments in altered states of consciousness, using
mind-altering drugs and a sensory deprivation tank... It's a very
grim, nihilistic, depressing movie, but hey, it's a transformation
story for sure. [See Spoiler Section for more info.] -115
0 An American Werewolf in London {/120/}
[Video: Veaches; 1986; $14.99] [Amazon]
[Video: Avid; 1997; $9.99] [Amazon]
[DVD: IVE; 1997; $24.98] [Amazon]
* ...with it's fantastic man to wolf scene where David Naughton gets
hairy. Incredible! -120
0 An American Werewolf in Paris {/161/} [??]
[Not yet released on video]
* I hope that An American Werewolf in Paris lives up to it's
predocessor when it is released this December in theaters. -161
(98/02/14)
0 Burnt Offerings {/115/}
* A rather scary movie... with Oliver Reed, Karen Black, and Bette
Davis. [See Spoiler Section for more info.] -115
0 Cat People {/121/}
* The Natassia Kinsky version... the transformations are linked to
sex in fascinating,potentially metaphorical ways... -121
0 The Howling {/120/}
* ...okay, especially the campfire scene with Christopher Stone.
-120
- The Incredible Mr. Limpet {//135}
[Video: Warner; 1994; $19.99] [Amazon]
* 1964. Starred Don Knotts, Jack Weston, Carole Cook, Andrew Duggan,
Larry Keating. Director: Arthur Lubin.
Don Knotts as a milquetoast who dreams of becoming a fish, and
miraculously gets his wish (turning into an animated cartoon
figure). 4-F as a human, he helps the Navy in WWII as a fish. Only
the 1 transformation, done in animated silhouette. -135 (98/02/07)
0 The Island of Dr. Moreau {/120/}
* ...Micheal York's journey into animalhood in the Island of Dr.
Moreau remake of the '70s... he never quite made it. -120
0 Ladyhawke {/135/}
[Video: Warner; 1986; $14.99] [Amazon]
* (1985?). Matthew Broderick, Rutger Hauer, Leo McKern.
Pseudo-medieval fantasy, in which a young thief (Broderick)
befriends a couple under a curse: He (Hauer) is a man by day and a
wolf by night, she is a hawk by day and a woman by night. One dawn
transition scene on-screen. -135 (98/02/09)
* There's also a novelization of this, by Joan Vinge. -Ph
0 The Shaggy D.A. {/135/}
[Video: Disney; 1997; $19.99] [Amazon]
* Disney, 1976. [Sequel to The Shaggy Dog.]Starred Dean Jones,
Suzanne Pleshette, Tim Conway, Keenan Wynn, Jo Anne Worley, Dick
Van Patten, Director: Robert Stevenson.
Dean Jones as the Tommy Kirk character all grown up, but the spell
still crops up, often at inopportune moments. Also silly and
lightweight. -135 (98/02/07)
0 The Shaggy Dog {/135/}
[Video: Disney; 1997; $19.99] [Amazon]
* Disney, 1959. Starred Fred MacMurray, Jean Hagen, Tommy Kirk,
Annette Funicello, Tim Considine, Kevin Corcoran, Cecil Kellaway,
Alexander Scourby. Director: Charles Barton.
[Tommy Kirk] finds a magical spell that turns him into a sheepdog.
He turns back and forth several times, often at inopportune
moments. Pretty silly, lightweight. Remade by Disney 1994.
Sequels: The Shaggy D.A. and TV-movie The Return of the Shaggy Dog
(1987). -135 (98/02/07)
0 Silver Bullet {/161/} [??]
[Video: Pennsylvania Amer. Assn.; 1986; $14.99] [Amazon]
* I see that you have listed two known werewolf movies, but there is
one that was made for television originally adapted from Stephen
King's "Cycle of the Werewolf" which was changed to "Silver
Bullet". I felt that the role of Reverand Lowe (Everett McGill of
Twin Peaks) did a good job of showing the internal struggle of
lycanthropy although how the character became as such was never
convered. -161 (98/02/14)
0 Sssssss {/120/}
[Video: MCA; 1997; $14.99] [Amazon]
* Dirk Benedict is slowly turned into a king cobra throughout the
film. -120
* 1973. Strother Martin, Heather Menzies, Dirk Benedict. Melodrama
about a mad venom-researcher (Martin) with a penchant for turning
his lab assistants into king cobras. (TV Guide synopsis, 2 stars,
not seen) -135 (98/02/09)
Where to from here?
From here you can go up to the list index, up to the contributor list,
back to frequently-asked questions, back to comics, on to television,
on to books, on to short story entries, on to other resources, or on
to spoilers.
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Television
"Doctor Who #2: The Daleks" {/156/}
[BBC; B&W; Dec. 21, 1963 - Feb. 1, 1964; 7 25-min. episodes]
* Writer: Terry Nation. Story discusses the history of the Daleks
and the Thals, the two sentient races on an planet. Both underwent
radiation mutations, but the Thals reverted to their humanoid
state, while the Daleks turned into evil green creatures which
live in machines. Other creatures on planet mutated as well.
Classic story, introduced most famous and popular enemy of Doctor
Who. -156 (98/02/14)
"Doctor Who #7: The Sensorites" {/156/}
[BBC; B&W; Jun. 20, 1964 - Aug. 1, 1964; 6 25-min. episodes]
* Writer: Peter R. Neuman. The Doctor's granddaughter Susan becomes
telepathic on the planet of the Sensorites. It is revealed that
all time-lords (which includes both the Doctor and Susan) have
undeveloped telepathic powers. Okay episode, transformation minor
part but plays important role. -156 (98/02/14)
"Doctor Who #15: The Space Museum" {/156/}
[BBC; B&W; Apr. 24, 1965 - May 15, 1965; 4 25-min. episodes]
* Writer: Glyn Jones. All of the member of the Doctor's TARDIS (the
craft the main characters travel in) find themselves invisible in
a muesum, with replicas of themselves. Main goal not to turn
visible, but to prevent the owners of the muesum from killing
original inhabitants of the planet. -156 (98/02/14)
"Doctor Who #32: The Underwater Menace" {/156/}
[BBC; B&W; Jan. 14, 1967 - Feb. 4, 1967; 4 25-min. episodes]
* Writer: Geoffrey Orme. One of the Doctor's campanions, Polly, is
(nearly) turned into an underwater fishworker, by operation.
Doctor convinces the fishworkers to revolt. Haven't seen, but
supposed to be DW equivalent of Plan 9. But hey, it contains the
line "Nothing in ze vorld can shtop me now!" -156 (98/02/14)
"Doctor Who #35: The Faceless Ones" {/156/}
[BBC; B&W; Apr. 8, 1967 - May 13, 1967; 4 25-min. episodes]
* Writers: David Ellis, Malcolm Hulke. A race of aliens, the
faceless ones, lost their faces in a gigantic nuclear explosion
and are dying out. Need to kidnap humans so that the aliens can
take over the identities of the humans. Haven't seen but
supposedly a well-constructed script with terrifying aliens. -156
(98/02/14)
"Doctor Who #36: The Evil of the Daleks" {/156/}
[BBC; B&W; May 20, 1967 - Jul. 1, 1967; 7 25-min. episodes]
* Writer: David Whitaker. The Daleks kidnap the Doctor and his
companions, trying to isolate 'the human factor' to create a
super-race of Daleks. The plan backfires and three Daleks become
playful instead of receiving human cunning. Daleks real plan is to
inject the Doctor with 'the Dalek factor' for him to take to earth
to turn all of the humans into mental Daleks. Doesn't work and
more Daleks humanized. A civil war erupts. -156 (98/02/14)
"Doctor Who #37: The Tomb of the Cybermen" {/156/}
[BBC; B&W; Sep. 2, 1967 - Sep. 23, 1967; 4 25-min. episodes]
* Writers: Gerry Davis, Kit Pedler. An archaeology group goes to the
burial place of the Cybermen, but it is a trap for turning victims
into Cybermen. First episodes supposedly great. -156 (98/02/14)
"Doctor Who #42: Fury From the Deep" {/156/}
[BBC; B&W; Mar. 16, 1968 - Apr. 20, 1968; 6 25-min. episodes]
* Writer: Victor Pemberton. A parasitic seaweed has been plaguing a
North Sea gas refinery, absorbing Human brains and turning them
into Weed creatures. -156 (98/02/14)
"Manimal" {/135,145,146/}
[NBC TV (30 September - 31 December 1983) 1 hr]
* Created by Glen Larson and Donald Boyle. Stars: Simon
MacCorkindale, Melody Anderson, Michael D. Roberts, Reni Santoni.
Narrated by William Conrad.
Synopsis: "In this fanciful hour crime show, an animal behaviorist
(MacCorkindale) possessed the ability to transform himself at will
into any species of animal. Electing to use his power for noble
purposes, he signed on as a consultant to a special investigative
unit of the New York Police Department." (Alex McNeil, Total
Television, Penguin 1984)
Method of transformation: Superscience, he had learned "the
secrets that divide man from animal" from his late father. Extent
of change: Full, with mass change when necessary.
This series was as cheesy as it sounds. I think it is on several
"worst series of all time" lists. In the one episode I can recall,
the hero got pushed out of an airplane and changed into a golden
eagle in time to save his life. No description of what happened to
his clothes, though. The sfx of the change were fairly nifty, with
closeups of feathers growing through his skin. -135
* 1983; still sometimes shown on the Sci Fi Channel. Starring: Simon
MacCorkindale as Professor Jonathan Chase; Melody Anderson as
Detective Brooke McKenzie; Michael D. Roberts as Tyrone C. Earl;
Reni Santoni as Lt Nick Rivera. [...] Rating 3; Cause (see below);
Type/Results BM (Professor Chase changed into various animals);
Significance +; Description +; Saturation +. Professor Chase
learned from some sorce (I forget where) how to physically
transform into various animal forms, most often a black panther or
a hawk (these two were his "feature" forms, shown during the title
sequence). The most memorable transformation for me (remember I
was 13 when I watched it first) was when he was in a female
"badguy's" room and to escape detection, became a white persan as
she came out of the shower. While still in her towel she cuddles
him in her lap for a time. Prepubescent dreams come true. ;) -145
(98/02/10)
"She-Wolf of London" {/161/} [??]
[?; broadcast on the Sci-Fi Channel]
* Short-lived series[...]not very well done but more of a twist with
a woman being the werewolf and sadly not well written either. -161
0 "Werewolf" {/161,Ph/} [??]
[?; broadcast on Fox network]
* There was another television series that was on during the 80's
that I can not for the life of me recall the title or actors, but
it was short lived revolving around a werewolf being hunted by a
relentless bounty hunter, and during the change the man would have
a bleeding pentagram on his right inner hand. -161
* Well, the title of the series is "Werewolf"; it's the sort of
generic title that's easy to forget. :-) I don't know any of the
actors; but the name of the protagonist was Eric Cord. The series
began with his friend asking Eric to kill him; he'd been bitten by
a werewolf, and was now one himself, unable to control himself
during his changes. Eric disbelieved, and demanded to see it;
well, he did... and his friend attacked. The end result was that
Eric was bitten before shooting his friend dead; and he was now a
werewolf himself--and under investigation for his friend's murder.
His only hope for a cure was to kill the werewolf that had started
the bloodline. But he had to find him first... and a bounty hunter
was after Eric, after he skipped town on the murder charge. There
was also a comic adaptation. -Ph
"Who Is Julia?" {/129/}
[?; broadcast on Lifetime]
* [...] a teleplay based on Barbra Harris' "Who is Julia." Quite
simply, the story recounts the experiences of a woman whose brain
is transplanted into another woman's body. Fascinating plot. -129
(96/10/15)
"Wilderness" {/155/}
[?; broadcast on ITV (channel 3, U.K.)]
* The second item was a three part mini-series [...] based on a book
called 'Wilderness' a charming, well acted and sexy approach to
lycanthropy which somehow managed to avoid being too tacky. -155
Where to from here?
From here you can go up to the list index, up to the contributor list,
back to frequently-asked questions, on to books, back to movies, on to
short story entries, on to other resources, or on to spoilers.
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Related Resources
These are things you may be interested in, on the Internet or
elsewhere. Some of them are listed because they have transformation
stuff in them. Some of them are listed because they have HTML links to
this document that I found out about, and I decided to return the
favor. (Thanks!) Some of them are listed just because. :-)
Please let me know of anything that should be listed in this section.
(Note: I will not link to any site that charges for access.)
General Transformation-Related Stuff
Transformation Ring [LINK] {Ph//}
* A ring containing several dozen transformation-related web sites.
Great, great stuff here.
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Thomas Hassan's Transformation Stories Archive {Ph//}
* An archive site for transformation-related stories--very well
done, and the perfect complement to this list. This archive used
to lean pretty heavily toward gender-change stories, but there are
a large number of species-change stories now too. Many of the
stories are adult-oriented, and are marked as such. Send him
stories.
GarouMUSH {92/Ph/}
* A multi-user roleplaying game based on the World of Darkness RPG
series (particularly Werewolf: The Apocalypse) from White Wolf.
Players take the roles of humans and Garou (werewolves fighting a
losing battle to save the earth from the destructive forces of the
Wyrm). A players' guide describes the game world and mechanics in
much more detail. (98/03/02)
Transformation Graphics Archive {Ph//}
* All sorts of transformation-related artwork, animations, links,
etc. It really makes me wish I could draw. :-) (98/03/02)
Transgender-related Sites
These are sites having specifically to do with TG-related issues.
Note: I apologize for picking on the appearance of some of the pages
here. But there seems to be some sort of unwritten rule that
transgender-related pages must be designed to cause eyestrain within
five minutes, and something has to be done about it. :-)
Alternative Sexualities in Fantasy and SF Booklist {/Ph/}
* Lists a wide variety of stories, some of which involve
transformation.
Anna's Transgender and Transsexual Links {//Ph}
* A huge collection of links. Just one slight problem: The
background graphics/colors may temporarily blind you. (98/03/02)
Las Vegas Transgendered Web {/Ph/}
* Another nice page; it looks like it has a good mix of content, and
the text is actually readable, though it does pick up a few
demerits for Overuse of Animations. (98/03/02)
Online Gender Support Group {/Ph/}
* Not the largest site, but stands out as a beacon of readability.
:-) (98/03/02)
Transgender Community Forum Info Page {//Ph}
* A nice little page. It's too bad that the background graphic makes
it hard to read. (98/03/02)
Xoyo's Story Archive {Ph//}
* A collection of stories written by Xoyo, not all of which are
transgender. Well worth a visit, though the use of black text on a
dark red background is, er, dubious. :-) (98/03/02)
Furry Sites
These are sites having to do with furries--anthropomorphic animals
(animals with human characteristics). These are sites with "furry
transformation" stories, or links to them.
Mia's Index of Anthro Stories {Ph//}
* I find it hard to imagine how a story link site could be done
better than this. (Well, okay, the home page could be a bit more
intutive, and there could be a better search engine. But darn it,
it's good.) Links to furry-related stories all over the Internet.
Searchable by keyword. (98/03/02)
Miavir's Treasure Chest of Assorted Furryness {Ph//}
* A huge, well-organized collection of furry links, including
transformation links. The background music should be taken out and
shot. :-) (98/03/02)
General SF Sites
These are sites having to do with science fiction (or speculative
fiction or whatever the correct term for it is this month :-) ) in
general.
Lysator SF Archive {Ph//}
* A large collection of SF- and fantasy-related files, reviews,
'zines, etc. Many of the links in this list point to Lysator. This
site is in Sweden.
Rutgers SF Archive {Ph//}
* A large collection of SF- and fantasy-related files and archived
Usenet postings, as well as links to other resources. Many of the
links in this list point to Rutgers.
Science Fiction Resource Guide {Ph//}
* Another very nice HTML list of resources on the net.
The SF Site {Ph//}
* An extremely rich site, laid out in "online magazine" style--I
sometimes found it a bit difficult to find what I was searching
for, but it rewarded the effort. Lots of reviews, links, etc.
Check it out.. (98/03/02)
Speculative Fiction Clearing House {/Ph/}
* A nicely-executed HTML list of resources on the net related to SF,
fantasy, horror, etc. Apparently down as of 2/5/98.
General Literature Sites
These are sites having to do with books in general.
Internet Public Library {Ph//}
* An extremely useful site, full of links, reference materials, etc.
I've found it useful for several research projects. (98/03/02)
Online Bookstores
If you're looking for the books on this list, here's some places to
try. Many of these stores are now available through the Bookstore
Browser feature of the list; clicking on a book's [BB] or [BBT] link
will let you look at various bookstores' information on the book.
Many of these bookstores have affiliates programs, that pay
commissions to web site owners like me if you buy a book from them
through a link I provide. I have signed up for these programsm where
possible. Most of these programs have a minimum commission amount that
must be reached before they pay out; in the unlikely event that I
actually reach the minimum and get a check, I'll use it as a prize in
my next story contest. I'm not doing this for the money; if I were,
I'd pick one store and stick to it, so I'd have some chance of
actually reaching the minimum. :-)
Amazon.com {Ph//}
* A Really Really Big online bookstore. I've placed a number of
orders with them, and gotten excellent service. They do used-book
searches. Their online site is particularly nice, since customer
reviews and other useful information are readily available for
each book. There's also an automated recommendation service.
Now accessible through the Bookstore Browser. I'm an affiliate;
commissions are only paid on the specific books you reach via [BB]
links from the list. (98/03/02)
BarnesandNoble.com {Ph//}
* Another Really Really Big online bookstore; this one is a branch
of the Barnes and Noble bookstore chain. Their site is
well-organized, and they have a recommendation service, though
they don't appear to offer reviews. I've never placed an online
order through them, but I've heard good things about them, and
I've certainly done more than enough business with the local
B&N's. :-)
Now accessible through the Bookstore Browser. Their affiliate
program requires that a site link only to them (and not to other
bookstores as well), which sucks, so I'm not a member. (98/03/02)
Books.Com {/Ph/}
* A well-organized online bookstore, with an extensive selection of
new books. They have a useful-and-damn-amusing feature; click the
"Compare Prices" link on one of their book pages, and it will look
up Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble's price, and beat it. (If those
stores are selling a book at 20% off, it'll give you 21%.)
Now accessible through the Bookstore Browser. I'm an affiliate;
commissions are paid on anything in the store, as long as you got
to the store through a Browser link. (98/03/02)
BookServe.Com {/Ph/}
* Another very nice online bookstore. I like their page layouts; the
site features customer reviews, though it takes an extra click on
a book page to get to them (which is a bummer when it turns out
that there aren't any).
Now accessible through the Bookstore Browser. (98/03/02)
Books Now {/Ph/}
* I'm running out of original ways to say "Another nice bookstore."
:-) Another very nice online bookstore. They don't load up every
page with graphics, so the pages load noticeably quicker--I like
that. One minor annoyance: There doesn't seem to be a way to
search by author and title simultaneously.
Now accessible through the Bookstore Browser. (98/03/02)
Powell's Books {Ph//}
* A huge retail bookstore; if you're ever in or near Portland,
Oregon, you have to go there. A good selection of new books, and
an extremely impressive selection of used ones; my apartment is
half-filled with used paperbacks I bought at Powell's. Their
website is great for used book searches. Highly recommended
overall..
Now accessible through the Bookstore Browser. No affiliates
program, and I don't hold that against them in the
slightest--they're primarily an in-person, retail bookstore, and
their website is a sideline business for them. (98/03/02)
Bookstore Comparison Services
Acses {//Ph}
* A very intriguing idea. You give it an author/title/ISBN, and it
searches several dozen different online bookstores, reporting back
which stores have the book, as well as their prices for it
(including shipping). So if all you're interested in is price and
availability, you can get that information in a very big hurry.
I really, really want to like this service. But there's a couple
of things about it that profundly annoy me. First, you can search
via author and title, but you can only do the actual crosscheck
via ISBN--if you do an author/title search, it presents a list of
ISBNs, and you choose one to crosscheck. If you're looking for new
books, that's reasonably okay; but if you're looking for used
ones, where every store may have a different edition with a
different ISBN, it reduces the value of the search in a hurry.
Second, the search results page provides links to the bookstores,
bringing up the page for the book--but (apparently) only if that
store has an affiliates program, and only if they've accepted
Acses into it. If Acses isn't an affiliate of that store, you just
get a link to a generic page saying 'Contact this store and bug
them into joining us!', and you have to manually type in that
store's URL (if you know it at all) and search for the book again
using that site's search engine. To me, this seems profoundly
lame--when a site deliberately makes itself difficult for the user
to navigate, my response is to stop using the site, rather than to
bug other sites to cooperate with it. I recognize that a site like
Acses wants to make money, but there has to be a better way than
this--perhaps by making the user go through a banner-ad page
before reaching a non-affiliated site.
Now accessible through the Bookstore Browser. (98/03/02)
Search Engines
These are sites that catalog other people's Web pages. Some of them
use predefined sets of categories (sort of like browsing through a
library card catalog); others use keyword searches (which find pages
that contain words you're interested in); others combine the two.
(Only sites that include this list are included, on the theory that
other sites are obviously too incomplete to be useful. :-) I've sent
this site's URL in to all the search engines I know about that allow
URLs to be entered manually.)
Alta Vista {Ph//}
* One of the most ambitious search engines, covering both Usenet and
the Web. Uses keyword searches. (If you do a Web search for
anything involving "transformation" on this site, you might want
to add "-host:halcyon.com" to your search; otherwise, about the
first five pages of the search results will be various parts of
this list. Sorry about that. I think. :-) )
Excite {/Ph/}
* A some-of-everything site: you can search a large pool of Web
sites by concept or keyword, and a smaller pool of "reviewed"
sites by concept, keyword or category. The review summaries
generally have very good information. (I have no clue at all why
they list this site under "Philosophy", though...) (98/03/02)
Infohiway {/Ph/}
* A relatively new service; still pretty small, but growing fast.
Search for:
______________________________ Search
Lycos {/Ph/}
* A very large Web catalog, using keyword searches. Has many pages
that most other catalogs don't, but also seems to have a somewhat
higher percentage of false hits (pages that no longer exist).
(98/03/02)
Yahoo! {/Ph/}
* One of the first Web search engines, with about a gazillion
searchable categories, as well as keyword searches. The problem:
It's swamped by its own success; these days, it's very difficult
to get a new site listed, and just about impossible to get
information on an existing site changed. Use it, but don't rely
exclusively on it. (98/03/02)
Where to from here?
From here you can go up to the list index, up to the contributor list,
back to frequently-asked questions, back to books, back to short story
entries, back to television, or on to spoilers.
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Focuses
This list has gotten pretty large, and there's still no search
capability (and I have no short-term plans for adding it... every
scheme I've seen would require pretty much demolishing the current
list structure, and I'd rather not do that). So I thought it might be
useful to provide "sublists" dealing with commonly-requested topics.
These "focus lists" may also include links to other information that
people interested in these particular topics may like.
If you have suggestions for topics, let me know. But please understand
if I don't decide to list the topic you suggest; putting these
sublists together takes extra work, so I'll only do it if enough
people suggest it. (On the other hand, that makes your suggestions all
the more important...)
Focus Lists
* Lycanthropy
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Focus on Lycanthropy
A lycanthrope is a human able to turn into a wolf. (The original
stories talk about people turning completely into wolves; modern
fiction introduced the Lon Chaney-type "wolfman", probably to keep the
special effects budgets down... ) However, people commonly use the
word to refer to someone who can turn into an animal, no matter what
kind of animal. Werewolves have been known to be very insulted by
this. :-) The right word for "someone who can turn into some animal"
is "theriomorph", and the word for that condition is "theriomorphism"
or "therianthropy."
The vast majority of this list consists of werewolf stories. However,
there are a few other werecritters thrown in, as well as some
almost-but-not-quite lycanthropy stories; these are marked with
asterisks.
Note that when an anthology is listed in the "Books" section, the
stories in it are not listed in the "Stories" section.
Sections in this focus:
* Books
* Stories
* Comics
* Movies
* Television
* Interesting Links (check this out!)
Books
* Jerry and Sharon Aldiss' WerewolveSS
* Alan Burt Akers' Dray Prescot 33: Werewolves of Kregen
* Gregg Almquist's Wolf Kill
* Poul Anderson's Operation Chaos
* F. W. Armstrong's The Changing
* Don Bassingthwaite's Breathe Deeply
* Peter Beagle's Lila the Werewolf
* Cynthia Blair's Dark Moon Legacy series
* Gary Brandner's The Howling, The Howling II, and The Howling III
* William Bridges' The Silver Crown
* Traci Briery's The Werewolf Chronicles and Wolfsong
* Crosland Brown's Tombley's Walk
* * Emma Bull's War for the Oaks
* Michael Cadnum's Saint Peter's Wolf
* Geoffrey Caine's Wake of the Werewolf
* Jay Callahan's Night of the Wolf
* David Case's Wolf Tracks
* Carla Cassidy's Heart of the Beast
* Jack Chalker's Dancing Gods series
* A. Bertram Chandler's Frontier of the Dark
* Stephen Charles' Nightmare Session
* George C. Chesbro's The Fear in Yesterday's Rings
* Alan B. Chronister's Cry Wolf
* Nancy A. Collins' Wild Blood
* J. C. Conaway's Quarrel With the Moon
* David Cook's Soldiers of Ice
* Greg Cox and T.K.F. Weisskopf's Tomorrow Bites anthology
* Dennis Danvers' Wilderness
* * Peter David's Howling Mad
* Charles de Lint's Wolf Moon
* Pamela Dean's The Dubious Hills
* Roger DiSilvestro's Ursula's Gift
* F. Dixon's Night of the Werewolf
* Adam Douglas' The Beast Within: A History of the Werewolf
* Debra Doyle and James MacDonald's Bad Blood series
* Carl Dreadstone's The Werewolf of London and The Wolfman
* Roger Edmonson's Silverwolf
* Guy Endore's The Werewolf of Paris
* Elizabeth Ergas' The Shapechanger
* Philip Jose Farmer's Blown
* Rebecca Flanders' Secret of the Wolf
* Richard Forsythe's Fangs
* Pat Franklin's Embrace of the Wolf
* * C. S. Friedman's The Madness Season
* David Gemmell's Waylander
* Stephen R. George's Dark Reunion
* Jeffrey Goddin's Blood of the Wolf
* Greg Gorden and Bill Slavicsek's Possibility Wars series
* Martin H. Greenberg's Werewolves anthology
* John Halkin's Fangs of the Werewolf
* Laurell Hamilton's Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter series
* Rick Hautala's Moondeath
* * Douglas D. Hawk's Moonslasher
* Lee Hawks' Night, Winter and Death
* Nina Kiriki Hoffman's The Silent Strength of Stones
* Clemence Housman's The Werewolf
* Tanya Huff's Blood Trail
* Bernhardt Hurwood's anthology Vampires Werewolves and Other Demons
* Eric Iverson's Wereblood and Werenight
* Richard Jaccoma's The Werewolf's Tale and The Werewolf's Revenge
* Anthony John's The Predator
* William W. Johnstone's Wolfsbane and Watchers in the Woods
* Stephen Jones' anthology The Mammoth Book of Werewolves
* Pam Keesey's Women Who Run with the Werewolves anthology
* Erin Kelly and Stewart Wieck's City of Darkness: Unseen
* Ronald Kelly's Moon of the Werewolf
* Katharine Kimbriel's Night Calls
* Frank King's Southpaw
* * J. Robert King's Heart of Midnight
* Stephen King's Cycle of the Werewolf
* Dean Koontz' Midnight
* Stanley Krause and Stewart Wieck's Strange City anthology
* Susan Krinard's Prince of Wolves
* M. Kriss' Werewolves, Shapeshifters and Skinwalkers
* Terry Krueger's Night Cries
* Mercedes Lackey's The Fire Rose
* Tanith Lee's Heart-Beast and Lycanthia
* Stephen Leigh's Robots and Aliens
* Edward Levy's The Beast Within
* C. S. Lewis' Prince Caspian
* Joseph Locke's Kiss of Death
* Brian Lumley's Necroscope II: Vamphyri!
* Richard Maede's The Sword of the Morning Star
* T. Chris Martindale's Curse of the Werewolf
* Robert McCammon's The Wolf's Hour
* G. McHargue's Meet the Werewolf
* Kenneth McKenney's The Changeling and The Moonchild
* Barbara Michaels' Sons of the Wolf
* Robert Morgan's All Things Under the Moon
* H. Warner Munn's Tales of the Werewolf Clan and The Werewolf of
Ponkert
* E. O'Donnell's Werewolves
* Charlotte E. Otten's A Lycanthropy Reader: Werewolves in Western
Culture
* Edward Packard's Night of the Werewolf
* Jessica Palmer's Shadow Dance
* Francine Pascal's Sweet Valley High books
* Diana Paxson's The Wolf and the Raven
* John Peel's Dances With Werewolves
* Rodman Philbrick's The Werewolf Chronicles series
* Nick Pollotta's Full Moonster
* Byron Preiss' anthology The Ultimate Werewolf
* Bill Pronzini's anthology Werewolf!
* * Jay Ramsey's Night of the Claw
* Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens' Chronicles of Galen Sword
series
* G. W. M. Reynolds' Wagner, the Wehr-Wolf
* David Robbins' The Wraith
* K. Robeson's Brand of the Werewolf
* * Spider Robinson's Callahan's Lady
* Marilyn Ross' Barnabas Collins and Quentin's Demon
* Peter Rubie's Werewolf
* * Fred Saberhagen's Dancing Bears
* Jeffrey Sackett's Mark of the Werewolf
* Al Sarrantonio's Moonbane
* Elizabeth Scarborough's Wolf from the Door
* Cheri Scotch's The Werewolf's Kiss series
* Carol Serling's anthology Journeys to the Twilight Zone
* * Clifford Simak's The Werewolf Principle
* William Mark Simmons' One Foot in the Grave
* Skipp and Spector's Animals
* Robert Arthur Smith's The Prey
* James V. Smith Jr.'s Almost Human
* Nyx Smith's Who Hunts the Hunter
* Wayne Smith's Thor
* S. P. Somtow's Moon Dance
* Brian Stableford's The Werewolves of London series
* Christopher Stasheff's Her Majesty's Wizard
* Mary Stewart's A Walk in Wolf Wood
* R. L. Stine's Bad Moonlight, Night in Werewolf Woods, The Werewolf
of Fever Swamp
* Tom B. Stone's Little Pet Werewolf
* Montague Summers' The Werewolf
* Cecelia Tan's The Beast Within: Erotic Tales of Werewolves
* Melanie Tem's Wilding
* Thomas Tessier's The Nightwalker
* Jane Toombs' Moonrunner series and The Volan Curse
* Edo Van Belkom's Wyrm Wolf
* Steve Vance's The Hyde Effect and Shapes
* Evelyn Vaughn's Waiting for the Wolf Moon
* Eric Vinicoff's The Weighter
* Stewart von Allmen's Conspicuous Consumption
* Ed and Lorraine Warren's Werewolf: A True Story of Demonic
Possession
* Michael D. Weaver's Wolf-Dreams
* Robert Weinberg's The Devil's Auction
* Leslie H. Whitten's Moon of the Wolf
* Stewart Wieck's When Will You Rage? anthology
* * Robert C. Wilson's Crooked Tree
* D. M. Wind's The Others
* Gene Wolfe's Soldier of the Mist and The Werewolf As Hero
* Jack Woods' Wolffile
* I. Woodward's The Werewolf Delusion
* Chelsea Quinn Yarbro's Beastnights and The Godforsaken
* Jane Yolen and Martin Greenberg's anthology Werewolves
* Roger Zelazny's A Dark Travelling
Stories
* * J. B. Allen's "Wash and Were"
* Clive Barker's "Twilight at the Towers"
* Robert Bloch's "The Bogey Man Will Get You"
* Anthony Boucher's "The Ambassadors" and "The Compleat Werewolf"
* * John Boyd's "The Werebear and the Rainbow"
* Angela Carter's "The Werewolf"
* * L. Sprague de Camp and Fletcher Pratt's "Here Putzi!"
* * Stephen Donaldson's "Daughter of Regals" and "Mythical Beast"
* Harlan Ellison's "Footsteps" and "L is for Loup-Garou"
* * Michael Flynn's "Werehouse"
* Eric Iverson's "Blue Fox and Werewolf"
* Gregg Keizer's "What Seen But the Wolf"
* Ursula K. Le Guin's "The Wife's Story"
* George MacDonald's "The Gray Wolf"
* Frederick Marryat's " The White Wolf of the Hartz Mountains"
* Wendy McElroy's "Werewolf"
* * Mike Newton's "Pretty Is"
* Larry Niven's "What Good is a Glass Dagger?"
* * Shulamith Oppenheim's "The Stranger"
* Edward Wellen's "Waswolf"
Comics
* Adventures of Captain Nemo #1
* The Amazing Spider-man #124,125,170,190
* Captain America #402-408
* Claws
* Creatures on the Loose #30-37
* Elvira #2,3
* Ghost Rider #55
* Ghost Rider 2099 #3-4
* Giant-Size Creatures #1
* Giant-Size Super-Heroes #1
* Giant-Size Werewolf
* * Gold Digger
* Hellboy: The Wolves of St. August
* HOWL
* The Incredible Hulk #362
* * Lycanthrope Leo
* Marvel Comics Presents #54-59,107-113
* Marvel Premiere #28,45-46
* Marvel Spotlight #2-4
* Marvel Team-Up #12,37,93
* Megalith #4,5
* * Ranma 1/2
* Spectacular Spider-Man Annual #3
* Spider-Woman #6,19,32
* Web of Spider-Man #51-55
* Werewolf
* Werewolf at Large
* Werewolf by Night
Movies
* An American Werewolf in London
* An American Werewolf in Paris
* The Howling
* Silver Bullet
Television
* She-Wolf of London
* Wilderness
Interesting Links
* GarouMUSH
This is just a small set of interesting links, which I picked as a
starting point. As always, if there are other links you think belong
here, or if you have other suggestions, please let me know.
Several of these links have to do with the Usenet newsgroup
alt.horror.werewolves. I'm not sure I can sum up this newsgroup here,
other than to say that it's a very different, and very deeply-felt,
approach to lycanthropy. I used to have several links to AHWW-related
sites here; however, they all seem to have vanished--please let me
know if you have suggestions for replacements. Links to sites
dealing with the alt.horror.werewolves view of lycanthropy are marked
with [AHWW].
The Wer-Wolf Page {/Ph/}
* A number of links to other werewolf-related sites. Two links back
to this list. Obviously a high-quality selection. :-) -Ph
The Werewolf Page {/Ph/}
* Another very nice page. -Ph (98/02/14)
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your own risk and expense. All the ratings, publication info, and
non-spoiler comments are in the regular section. If you're not
interested in spoilers, stop reading here!
Transformation Stories List: Book Spoilers
Awlinson, Richard
Avatar series (Forgotten Realms)
* Characters turn into gods at the end of the series. -54
Baum, L. Frank
The Marvelous Land of Oz
* Major spoiler: The ruler of Oz is transformed into a boy. -42
Bulgakov, Mikhail
Heart of a Dog
* Sharik abuses his position and is screwing one of his
subordinates, threatening to fire her unless she submits. The
surgeon takes the girl aside, and explains to her Sharik's
origins--much to her alarm. Sharik tried to stab the surgeon after
an argument-- the surgeon decides he liked Sharik better as a dog,
and forcibly reverses the operation. After ten days of Sharik's
absence from work, the police show up suspecting murder only to
find the doctor with Sharik, his naked dog-man, who is re-growing
his fur and obviously morphing back in to a dog. When Sharik
speaks random giberish to the comrade policemen, they rediscover
their peasant superstitions and beat a hasty retreat. The story
ends with Sharik again a dog, happy in the home of his master, the
surgeon. -125
Busby, F. M.
The Breeds of Man
* ...The children produced to be resistant to the cause of the
declining birth rates turn out to be cyclic hermaphrodites. -11
Card, Orson Scott
Xenocide
* SF novel in Ender's universe. Miro's body is restored on a space
voyage on a ship based on Buggers technology. -79
Clement, Hal
Cycle of Fire
* A classic of hard sf about a world apparently inhabited by two
intelligent life forms. Major spoiler: They turn out to be
alternating generations of the same species. Thought provoking.
Again, I don't know whether it's on topic. -42
Crowley, John
Little, Big
* ...Has several transformations (details are spoilers. In fact, the
reader has to figure out for himself that any transformation has
occurred; he isn't told explicitly). One of the characters is
transformed into a trout by the fairies (as punishment, perhaps,
though I'm not sure). Later, several characters become the new
fairies when the old ones go away. There are also some more subtle
mental/spiritual transformations. -75
Foster, Alan Dean
The I Inside
* The protagonist is an artificial organism, constructed by aliens
to steal a technology from humans. He doesn't know this at the
beginning, having fake memories. he discovers that he has
superhuman abilities, and is unwittingly compelled to carry out
his mission. I'm not sure if this counts as a physical
transformation or a mental one, but it's well-written for either
interpretation. -103
Garrett, Randall; Heydron, Vicki Ann
Gandalara Cycle series
* (MAJOR Spoiler: Results: TT) -88
Goulart, Ron
Shaggy Planet
* The missing person and a bunch of other dissidents have been
turned into dog-like animals by the government as a humane way to
get them out of the way. -103
Gunnarsson, Thorarinn
Make Way for Dragons!
* At the end of the book, the human wizard is changed into a dragon
and goes to live with the good dragons in their world. -Ph
Hambly, Barbara
Dragonsbane
* The heroine of the book is faced with a choice of whether to allow
herself to be turned into a dragon or not. She is turned into a
dragon (which makes her immortal) but decides in the end that
she'd rather stay human with the man she loves. -69
Hogan, James P.
Entoverse
* There is a naturally evolved planet with intelligent natives
inside a colossal computer. When humans use a virtual reality
system that's part of said computer, the natives of that
information universe can sometimes come out and mind-transfer into
the bodies of the humans who were linked in. -75
Koontz, Dean
A Werewolf Among Us
* Sci-fi whodunnit with a faux-werewolf killer. -87
+ I'm not sure this is a spoiler, but better safe than sorry...
-Ph
Niles, Douglas
Maztica series (Forgotten Realms)
* Gods transform their worshippers into monsters (i.e. orcs,
trolls). A very minor spoiler. Crucial to the plot; this is how
the enemy army is built. -54
Noon, Jeff
Pollen
* [...]an older woman whose consciousness gets transferred to her
daughter's life. -144
O'Keefe, Claudia
Black Snow Days
* The book is about this guy who is in coma for 12 years after an
accident. He is enhanced with cybernetic implants to survive in
the nuclear winter and to help save ordinary people. He is
basically the modern-day messiah who has trouble coping with his
superhumanity. -56
Park, Paul
Celestis
* [Result: MD. The "humanization" is] actually a dumbing-down,
narrowing the native's perceptions to match humans. -144
Shepard, Lucius
Green Eyes
* Voodoo magic may also be involved. -144
Shinn, Sharon
The Shape-Changer's Wife
* The shape changer's wife is actually a tree. -144
Smith, George O.
Space Plague
* Mekstrom's disease kills people by slowly creeping up the limbs,
turning flesh as hard as rock. Two groups discover a way that a
victim can survive the transformation, becoming superhumanly
strong and resilient. The powerful group wants to become a class
of supermen and rule the world; the underground group wants to
give everyone this boon. But neither can achieve their goal until
they find some way to purposefully infect someone with the
disease. Enter the protagonist, who is a carrier and doesn't know
it. Both sides try to manipulate him to their own ends. -103
Tepper, Sheri
Grass
* A race of aliens living on a planet in the far future, their
passage through life consists of several transformations. They
start off as white crawly things called peepers which don't have
much intelligence, move up to the Hippae, a bunch of relatively
intelligent horselike creatures, and eventually metamorphose into
the Foxen. Unfortunately something has gone wrong with the system,
the Hippae who are the vicious adolescent stage, is not
progressing to the Foxen stage. The lead character of the story
has to puzzle out the world to save humanity (which is dying of a
mysterious plague). -47
Raising the Stones
* SF novel in the universe of Grass. Voorstodean invaders are
transformed into trees by Hobbs Land's Gods. -79
Sideshow
* SF novel in the universe of Grass. Siamese twins are separated and
afterwards transformed into a seal and a bird by The Arbai
Device/Hobbs Land's Gods. -79
Thomas, Dan
The Seed
* ...the final pages talk about the transformation of the Earth by a
nuclear war as the purpose of humans on the planet. Monkeys with a
finger on the H-bomb trigger. Nice book. -101
Tilley, Patrick
Fade-Out
* There is actually more than one [alien spacecraft]... -96
Wells, H.G.
The Time Machine
* Although the Eloi have evolved from the dominant section of
humanity, they are now preyed upon by the Morlocks, who feed on
them. The author gets some philosophical mileage out of this
irony. -96
Williamson, Jack
Roadmarks
* It turns out, the enemy (a brother-being) was also waiting for the
final transformation and thought he (the enemy) needed to die to
make this final transformation. Which turned out true. But only at
a chosen time. It seems like a certain group of human beings are
not human but humanity is a stage (childhood) of another kind of
being. Only one final transformation - several temporary
transformations - also some other kind of transformations;
mind-changing; minor. Rating: 3 Cause: NA Result: BX,EA,RM
Significance: +. -134
Transformation Stories List: Short Story Spoilers
Beagle, Peter S.
"Come, Lady Death"
* ...About a woman who becomes Death. -3
Brown, Fredric
"Abominable"
* Connoisseur of women tries to rescue the world's most beautiful
woman from the clutches of an abominable snowman, but accidentally
kills her as she has been turned into one by a special drug. Our
hero is then captured by an abominable snowwoman and carried off
to take her place. Rating 3, Cause not sure, Result BX,
Significance 0, Description 0, Saturation 0. -141
"Bear Possibility"
* Man uses transformation spell to turn his wife into a grizzly bear
when she falls into the bear pit at the zoo. This saves her life,
but after her rescue and return to human form she turns out to be
pregnant. Rating 2, Cause MA, Result BX, Significance 0,
Description 0, Saturation 0. -141
"Cartoonist"
* Cartoonist is abducted by hideous aliens and offered a job by
their king, since the aliens have a great sense of humor, but have
never before seen cartoons. Since he is as hideous to the aliens
as they are to him, they surgically alter him so he can blend in.
Rating 1, Cause not sure, Result BX, Significance 0, Description
-, Saturation 0. -141
"Fish Story"
* Man falls in love with mermaid, and agrees to be transformed into
a merman so they can be married. After which he discovers that
merpeople procreate the way fish do, i.e. by laying eggs and then
fertilising them. Rating 2, Cause MA, Result BX, Significance 0,
Description 0, Saturation 0. -141
Card, Orson Scott
"The Princess and the Bear"
* ...A very good story about a man who can turn into a bear (though
that constitutes a spoiler); there is a man and a bear, and late
in the story you find they are the same person. Other people can
turn into animals too, but they don't know it. -75
Chalker, Jack C.
"Moths and Candle"
* Powerful aliens from another universe, stranded on an isolated
planet in our world, turned grazing herbivores into (more or less)
sentient bipeds, and have fun raising them to civilization and
pitting nations against one another, etc. When they finally find a
way to get home again, they turn their toys back into grazing
herbivores and leave. -75
Davidson, Avram
"Duke Pasquale's Ring"
* ...Involves induced lycanthropy; an old couple has a ring which
enables either of them to turn into a leopard. -75
deFord, Miriam Allen
"Henry Martindale, Great Dane"/"Gone to the Dogs"
* Saturation: Only (spoiler) two transformations, the story deals
with their adaptation to his change. Spoiler: Henry winds up
accepting the change, then muses, "You know, vampires make people
they bite into vampires, I wonder if werewolves do the same." "But
you're a weredog," Lida replied, absently. "Henry, you wouldn't!"
-135
Dick, Philip K.
"Beyond Lies the Wub"
* The captain kills & eats the wub to shut it up, and later startles
the crew by continuing the Wub's dialogue where it had been so
rudely interrupted... -77
Donaldson, Stephen
"Mythical Beast"
* The story of a man who suddenly and inexplicably starts to
transform into a unicorn. -11
Gardner, Craig Shaw
"Day of the Wolf"
* This one is good, the author sets out to catch you on your
expectations, if you're not careful. A bit of a spoiler--the
protagonist is not a werewolf but a catalyst for creating
werewolves. -28
Heym, Stefan
"The Wachsmuth Syndrome"
* The story ends with every male, except one boy, transformed into
females. -76
Hoffman, Nina Kiriki
"Unleashed"
* Werewolf meets wereman. -11
Le Guin, Ursula K.
"The Rule of Names"
* Le Guin seems to like stories that reverse your expectations. When
the wizard uses his enemy's true name to force him into his true
shape, it turns out that the enemy wizard is actually the dragon,
who toasts the wizard and then goes out for a snack. -Ph
"The Wife's Story"
* Due to the way it's told you probably won't catch onto this until
the very end, but it's a reverse-lycanthropy story; a wolf turns
into a man under the full sun, and eventually gets hunted down by
his own pack. -Ph
Lovecraft, H. P.
"The Shadow Over Innsmouth"
* Unfortunately our hero also finds out that one of his ancestors
came from Innsmouth, with predictable results.
Although this story is about transformation, we only get a
description of various stages. No physical transformation from
stage to stage is described, but we do get a look at the
accompanying mental changes. Rating 3, Cause not sure, Result BM,
Significance +, Description + (mental), 0 (physical), Saturation
+. -141
Maclean, Katherine
"Syndrome Johnny"
* The plagues are artificial viruses that are genetically modifying
the plague survivors (greatly extended life span, silicone
metabolism...) An impressive concept for the date this story
appeared, as at that time it was not even quite certain what the
genetic material was; and this is a story about genetic
manipulation using a retroviral plague spread (initially) via
pooled blood plasma. -77
"Unhuman Sacrifice"
* The preacher has not seen the real adults. The adult form is a
non-intelligent creature resembling a sea anemone. The 'torture'
is intended to prevent the young turning into the vegetative adult
form. -77
Shaw, Bob
"Call Me Dumbo"
* That it is a transformation story is a spoiler. It begins with a
woman and a man, with several sons, alone on a planet. The woman
is sort of amnesiac but her memories are slowly coming back, and
they are very puzzling. As the story is finally reconstructed, it
seems that there were two men who escaped from a human colony
after an alien invasion with a spaceship loaded with an organ
bank. The aliens hit them with a 'warp scrambler', which threw
them millions of galaxies away. They find a planet and land. A few
months later, one of the men knocks the other out with chloroform,
uses the organ bank to perform a crude but effective sex-change on
him, and then uses LSD and hypnosis so that she doesn't remember
being male. What happens after she discovers what happened is an
even bigger surprise, a good, strong ending. Rating: 2 or 3. -75
Smith, Clarke Ashton
"The Garden of Adompha"
* King Adompha has a magic garden, created by his court magician, in
which parts of his dead adversaries are grafted onto plants. When
the king grows tired of this he kills his magician and buries him
in the garden. He then makes the fatal mistake to return to the
garden some months later, only to find the dead wizard transformed
into a gigantic plant-human hybrid, which proceeds to kill him.
Rating 4; Cause MC?; Significance 0; Description -; Saturation 0.
-141
"The Maze of Maal Dweb"
* First published 1933. Even calling this a transformation story
constitutes a spoiler. The powerful wizard Maal Dweb once a year
summons the most beautiful woman of one of the surrounding tribes
to his palace, from where she is never seen again. A hunter sets
out to rescue the wizard's last victim, and perhaps even kill the
wizard, but his attempt is disastrously unsuccesful. The wizard's
goal is to eternalize the beauty of women by turning them to
stone, while transforming any would-be rescuers into ape-like
creatures 'so that their outer semblance may conform more strictly
to their inner nature'. And so the hunter can watch his beloved
turning to stone, while he himself is turning into an ape.
This easily is the best transformation story I ever read. The
description of
the transformation is very vivid, and the way in which the spell
is brought about is highly original (and fot that reason not
mentioned in my spoiler). The story works well on different
levels. As a straightforward fantasy story it is poetic (but
perhaps a bit morbid for some). But it is also a comment on the
standard heroes and heroines of fantasy fiction (especially of his
friend Robert Ervin Howard). And one dreads to think what Sigmund
Freud would have made of this one. Rating 5; Cause MA; Result BM;
Significance +; Description +; Saturation +. -141
van Vogt, A. E.
"The Enchanted Village"
* There is a relatively classic short story of a space-wrecked man
transformed into an alien by an alien city, allowing him to
survive. The author and title are long forgotten, but the final
scene has the hero smoothing his whiskers and having a tail. -20
* Hopefully this is the one he meant, anyway... In any case, it's
very good. Giving away the ending might constitute a spoiler,
though. -Ph
Wyndham, John
"More Spinned Against"
* Arachne has a midnight snack attack, presumably after sex with
woman's husband, and does what comes naturally to female spiders.
-94
Yolen, Jane
"Johanna"
* A woman is turned into a deer by the magic of a forest. -Ph
Transformation Stories List: Movie Spoilers
Altered States
* ...After a while, [[the researcher] begins to experience a sort of
"evolutionary regression" until he finally transforms into a
primitive hominid. -115
Burnt Offerings
* The house itself transforms itself from old to new as it seems to
draw energy for renewal from the pain, nightmares, and death of
its inhabitants. Throughout the movie, Karen Black undergoes very
subtle changes until the very end when she is suddenly changed
into the evil old matron who seems to be the embodiment of the
house itself. But overall, transformation is a major theme of the
movie. -115
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