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Stories: H

Hall, Donald

"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

"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]

"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

[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]

"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

"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]

"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

"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

Holloway, Lance [HP]

"Full Moon" {/Ph/}

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

Cause: MA? Result: BX/AN. -Ph (98/04/06)

Housman, Clemence

"The Were-Wolf" {/Ph/}

[in Werewolf! by Pronzini]

Result: LY. A classic werewolf tale, with some tragic romance thrown in. -Ph

Hussey, Leigh Ann

"The White Wolf" {/Ph/}

[in Werewolves, by Yolen and Greenberg]

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