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Transformation Stories List (list of works which f
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This is the eighth release of the Transformation Stories List. This is
also the first version of the list that will be made available on America
Online as well as on the Internet (unless someone else has been sneaking it
there behind my back :) ); hopefully showing it to a new crowd will bring
in some new suggestions.
Please note that my Internet email address has changed (there comes a
point in every man's life when he must move from .edu to .com... :) )
WHAT THE LIST IS ABOUT
About three years ago, I asked if anyone on the Internet could provide
me with the names of books or short stories using transformation as a
theme. Several dozen people could. :) Many others have added their
contributions since, and the result is the list that follows. My profuse
thanks to everyone who has contributed.
The list includes books and short stories that feature physical or
mental 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. :) ) Currently, it's composed almost
exclusively of science fiction, fantasy and horror stories, and that will
continue to be the emphasis, but I'd be glad to list other sorts of works
as well.
In addition to listing these books and stories, each one 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.
This list includes a number of corrections to information in previous
lists, so please use this version in place of any previous ones you may
have.
The list was originally created to gather research material for a
project of mine, but the overwhelming positive response has led me to
continue and expand it. I would very much like to hear from you if you
find this list useful; I'll maintain the list as long as people are getting
good use out of it.
CHANGES IN THIS EDITION OF THE LIST
New submissions and corrections, including many from the "TG SF List"
maintained by Marge@coyote.cs.wmich.edu.
Quite a bit more publication info added.
My Internet mailing address has changed.
This list will also go out to America Online (in a slightly different
format).
These instructions have been reorganized and rewritten to hopefully make
them clearer.
SPOILER INFO
I've been told that some of these list entries constitute "spoilers".
In a list like this, it's really difficult to sort out what constitutes a
spoiler and what doesn't; and it seems to me that, given any list involving
the presence of a specific plot element like transformation, if the plot
element is intended to come as a surprise to the reader, you're basically
providing a spoiler by listing the book at all, no matter what you do or
don't say about it (and I want to list as many books as possible).
However, I do recognize the problem, and I'd like to do what I can to solve
it. Therefore, all the information that has fairly obvious spoiler
potential has been moved to the end of the list.
If the person giving me information on a book says that that information
is a spoiler, or if two people send me email saying that certain
information is a spoiler, that information will be moved to the spoiler
section of the list.
THE LIST FORMAT
The list has two major sections; books and short stories. Within these
sections, the list is sorted alphabetically by author.
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:
+ Brandner, Gary The Howling 11/MP/
[Fawcett; 1977; 0-449-13824-0, $1.75]
"Rating: 2 Type: L 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 +. -MP]
The top line gives the author, 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 MP, 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 second line is 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 version. 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. :)
After that, any specific comments people have made about the book are
listed and identified by number.
Joe Huber (#11), one of my best contributors, has devised a nice,
compact format for adding lots of information to his comments. Here's his
description of that format, which I'd love to see other contributors use as
well:
"The ratings are mine and mine alone.
"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]
"Transformation Information is broken down into four categories:
"(1) Type. I've broken this down as follows:
"B - Body metamorphosis. An actual transformation of the body.
"L - Lycanthropy. A subset of metamorphosis, where the
type and timing of the transformation of the body is set
by curse/magic/etc.
"M - Mind transfer. Includes brain transplants, body-
swapping, soul transference and the like.
"O - Other. Anything I was to lazy to classify.
"(2) Significance. Basically, the "interest level" rating you asked
for. +/0/- 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.
"(3) Description. Amount & clarity of description of the
transformation itself. +/0/-
"(4) Saturation. For those who like their transformations by the
gross. The best way to describe this rating might
be how pervasive the transformations seem to be.
+/0/-
"note: an X in any category indicates that I don't remember the story
well enough to adequately judge the category, or (in 1 case)
that the book was so awful that I couldn't even force my way
through it."
WHERE AND HOW TO MAIL FOR LIST STUFF
Please send any mail regarding this list to [email protected]. It
would help me if you start your mail message's Subject: line with
"Transformation", so I can process all the requests at once.
ADDITIONS/CORRECTIONS/ETC. TO THE LIST: These will be added to the next
list release. I do my level best to send thank-you notes to all
submitters; if I fail, feel free to flame me mercilessly. :) (See below for
more information on making additions/corrections to the list.)
SPOILER COMPLAINTS: If you see information in the main portion of the
list that you believe constitutes a spoiler, let me know. I will move such
info to the spoiler section.
A COPY OF THE LATEST VERSION OF THE LIST: I do my best to mail these out
to Internet users within 48 hours.
THE MAILING LIST: It's getting to be too much of a pain to deal with the
umpteen zillion bounces caused by account expirations/mailbox overflows, so
at least for now I'm doing away with the mailing list. I would still be
happy to email a copy of the most recent mailing list to anyone on the
Internet upon request.
SUGGESTIONS FOR CHANGE: If you think you have a way for the list to be
improved, please let me know about it (though if it involves a lot of extra
work I'll probably draft you for the job :) ).
QUESTIONS ABOUT SPECIFIC WORKS: I will do the best I can to answer
questions about specific works (the plot, the specifics of the
transformation, etc.), but I have to do so as time permits, which means it
may take a while. You will probably get a faster and better response by
posting your question to the net. instead.
ENCOURAGEMENT: I'm always happy to hear that people are using the list,
and how they're using it. Even if you have nothing to add to the list, if
it's a useful resource to you, let me know about it; it helps me justify to
myself the time I spend on it. :)
HOW TO MAKE ADDITIONS/CORRECTIONS TO THE LIST
I would also very much welcome additions or corrections to the list.
Any story that has transformation in any form (lycanthropy, genetic
engineer- ing, 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. (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 that Joe Huber has used in his reviews; his format is
described up in "List Format" above.
Please mail me your submissions at [email protected]; I don't have
time to follow all the Internet news (what a surprise :) ), so if you post
it I probably won't see it.
CHANGES I'D LIKE TO MAKE FOR THE NEXT VERSION
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. :)
CONTRIBUTORS
I received suggestions and ideas from the following people, listed in no
particular order. Once again, my thanks to each of them.
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
Comments with "MP" 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. The list is a large and useful; one, and I would encourage
anyone interested in the topic to mail her for a copy. Where you see "TG"
listed for a book in this list, it means that that book is listed on the TG
SF list; 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 her list that aren't in mine
at all (and vice-versa, of course :) ).
*** Transformation Stories List, Version 8 ***
Author Title Mentioned by(+/0/-)
? (editor unknown) Darkwater (anthology) 3
[?]!
"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 quite the story), changes into
a fox. The story mostly focuses on her husband's attempts to deal with
the change." -3
? The Arabian Nights 3
[?]!
"...at least half the stories have transformations of one sort or
another." -3
--------------------------------------- A --------------------------------
- Adams, Douglas The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul /40/11
[Pocket; 1990; 0-671-69404-9; $4.95]
"Rating: 2 Type: X Significance: - Description: X Saturation: X" -11
"Certain Norse gods deal with perceived pests by transformation. A
lurking refrigerator transforms itself into a new horror." -40
0 Aldiss, Brian Helliconia Spring and sequels 22
[Helliconia Spring: Berkley; 1984; 0-425-07328-9; $3.50]
"summer/winter climate adaptation" -22
0 Aldiss, Brian Starswarm 11
[Baen; 1985; 0-671-55999-0; $2.95]
"SF; genetic manipulation; not read" -11
? Almquist, Gregg Wolf Kill MP
[Pocket; 1990; 0-671-67184-7; $4.50]
[Lycanthropy story; not read. -MP]
0 Andersen, Hans C. The Little Mermaid 3
[?]!
"About a mermaid who becomes human." -3
0 Anderson, Poul Brain Wave 22
[Ballantine; 1974; 345-24685-3-150; $1.50]
"mind power increase" -22
0 Anderson, Poul Operation Chaos 10,11,31
[Berkley; 1978; 0-425-03750-9; $1.75]
[Baen; 1992; 0-671-72102-X; $3.99]
"[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
? Anderson, Poul Three Hearts and Three Lions MP
[Avon; 1970; 380-00412-060; $.60]
[On a list of transformation stories, but not read. -MP]
0 Anthony, Piers Apprentice Adept series 42,54,TG
[1:Split Infinity: Del Rey; 1982; 0-345-30761-5; $2.95]
[2:Blue Adept: Del Rey; 1984; 0-345-31424-7; $2.95]
[3:Juxtaposition: Del Rey; 1983; 0-345-28215-9; $2.95]
[4-7:?]*
"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
0 Anthony, Piers Cluster series 11,18,20,39,42
[1:Cluster: Avon; 1977; 0-380-01755-5; $2.95]
[2:Chaining the Lady: Avon; 1978; 0-380-01779-2; $2.50]
[3:Kirlian Quest: ?]*
"Rating: 3 Type: M Significance: - Description: 0 Saturation: +. First
in a series; SF; Space travel into empty body." -11
"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
- Anthony, Piers Macroscope /42/11
[?]!
"Rating: 4 Type: M 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
- Anthony, Piers Xanth series //42
[1:A Spell for Chameleon; Del Rey; 1989; 0-345-34753-6; $4.95]
[2:The Source of Magic; Del Rey; 1988; 0-345-35058-8; $4.95]
[3:Castle Roogna; Del Rey; 1989; 0-345-35048-0; $4.95]
[4:Centaur Aisle; Del Rey; 1990; 0-345-35246-7; $4.95]
[5:Isle of View; Avon; 1990; 0-380-75947-0; $4.95]
[6-:?]*
"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
0 Anvil, Christopher Warlord's World 42
[DAW; 1975; 451-UY1201-125; $1.25]
"Agent operates by taking over someone else's body." -42
? Armstrong, F. W. The Changing MP
[TOR; 1985; 0-812-52754-2; $3.50]
[Lycanthropy story; not read. -MP]
? Arnason, Eleanor Daughter of the Bear King MP
[Avon; 1987; 0-380-75109-7; $3.50]
[Not read, but the main character at least appears to turn into a
bear. -MP]
0 Arnason, Eleanor To the Resurrection Station 42
[Avon; 1986; 0-380-75110-0; $3.50]
"The Resurrection Station's function is to provide new bodies, though
this turns out to be somewhat peripheral to the story." -42
0 Asimov, Isaac The Gods Themselves 40
[Fawcett Crest; 1973; 449-01829-125; $1.25]
"One part involves a rather surprising transformation." -40
- Asimov, Janet Mind Transfer //18
[Ace; 1989; 0-441-53306-X; $3.95]
"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(ed.);
Abbey, Lynn(ed.) Thieves' World series [anthology] 61
[The first four are edited by Robert Asprin only.]
[1:Thieves' World; Ace; 1983; 0-441-80581-7; $2.95]
[2:Tales from the Vulgar Unicorn; Ace; 1980; 0-441-79577-3; $2.75]
[3:Shadows of Sanctuary; Ace; 1983; 0-441-76029-5; $2.95]
[4:Storm Season; Ace; 1982; 0-441-78710-X; $2.95]
[5:The Face of Chaos;Ace; 1984; 0-441-22550-0; $2.95]
[6:Wings of Omen; Ace; 1985; 0-441-80588-4; $2.95]
[7:The Dead of Winter; Ace; 1985; 0-441-14089-0; $2.95]
[8:Soul of the City; Ace; 1986; 0-441-77581-0; $3.50]
[9:Blood Ties; Ace; 1986; 0-441-80595-7; $2.95]
"...you might look into Asprin-Abbey's Thieves' World series with
Sorcerers being changes and performing changes. I can't spot you a
specific instance as I haven't read them for some time." -61
0 Awlinson, Richard Avatar series (Forgotten Realms) 54
[Shadowdale: TSR; 1989; 0-88038-730-0; $3.95]
[Tantras: TSR; 1989; ?; $3.95]!
[Waterdeep: TSR; 1989; 0-88038-759-9; $3.95]
"One character is cursed to change into a panther occasionally.
(Adds good characterization, but not much to the plot.)" -54
[more information in Spoiler Section]
--------------------------------------- B --------------------------------
0 Banks, Iain M. Culture series TG
[The Player of Games: Harper & Row; ?]!
[Consider Phlebas: Bantam Spectra; 1991; 0-553-29281-1; $5.99]
[Use of Weapons: Bantam Spectra; ?]!
[Against a Dark Background: forthcoming; Bantam Spectra]
0 Barnes, Steven The Kundalini Equation 22
[Tor; 1986; 0-812-53150-7; $3.50]
"king of a berserker transformation, with some twists" -22
0 Baudino, Gael Dragonsword 11,TG
[ROC; 1991; 0-451-45081-7; $4.99]
"Rating: 3 Type: B Significance: 0 Description: - Saturation: 0.
Fantasy; magic. Not really good or bad, more just there. Could be a 2
rating, but I'm in a generous mood. Little detail to the
transformations, though a fair amount of care is given to examining their
effects, at least in one instance." -11
0 Baum, L. Frank The Land of Oz 42
[?]*
[See Spoiler section for more info.]
0 Beagle, Peter S The Last Unicorn 3
[In The Fantasy Worlds of Peter Beagle, from SFBC]
[?]
"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
+ Beagle, Peter S Lila the Werewolf 11,MP/3
[In The Fantasy Worlds of Peter Beagle, from SFBC]
[in Werewolf! by Pronzini]
[?]
"Another (brilliant) werewolf story" -3
"Rating: 2 Type: L 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. -MP]
0 Bear, Greg Blood Music 11,13,22
[Ace; 1986; 0-441-06797-2; $4.50]
"Rating: 2 Type: B Significance: + Description: 0 Saturation: -.
Horror; genetic manipulation error." -11
0 Bear, Greg The Serpent Mage 42
[?]!
"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
0 Benford, Gregory Across the Sea of Suns TG
[?]!
- Benford, Gregory;
Brin, David The Heart of the Comet //42
[Bantam Spectra; 1987; 0-553-25839-7; $4.50]
"An isolated fraction of the human race transforms itself in a short
time, in multiple ways--some through personality transfer, some through
acquisition of sumbionts. Borderline for this list." -42
0 Berlyn, Michael The Integrated Man TG
[Bantam; 1980; ?]!
0 Bester, Alfred Tyger Tyger 47
[?]!
"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
0 Biggle, Lloyd Jr. Watchers of the Dark 42
[?]!
"The bad guys are shape-changers (or at least illusionists)--a fact of
little importance to the story." -42
+ Bishop, Michael(ed.);
Watson, Ian(ed.) Changes (anthology) MP//
[Ace; 1983; 0-441-10260-3; $2.75]
[A very good collection of 18 stories (listed elsewhere), that's recent
enough to still be very available in used book stores. -MP]
0 Blish, James Midsummer Century 42
[?]!
"A man finds his mind occupying a non-human body in the far future.
The other 'occupant' is not amused." -42
0 Blish, James The Triumph of Time 22
[Avon; 1966; S221; $.60]
"this one has the protagonist becoming a minor universe" -22
0 Boyd, John The Organ Bank Farm 42
[?]!
"Genetic manipulation and brain transplants. Good, slightly macabre
tongue-in-cheek" -42
0 Boyer, Elizabeth The Sword and the Satchel 45
[Del Rey; 1983; 0-345-30986-3; $2.95]
0 Boyer, Elizabeth The Elves and the Otterskin 45
[Del Rey; 1985; 0-345-32054-9; $2.95]
0 Boyer, Elizabeth The Thrall and the Dragon's Heart 45
[Del Rey; 1983; 0-345-31445-X; $2.95]
0 Boyer, Elizabeth The Wizard and the Warlord 45
[Del Rey; 1983; 0-345-30711-9; $2.95]
On all 4 above: "...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 Boyer, Elizabeth The Troll's Grindstone 45
[Del Rey; 1986; 0-345-32182-0; $3.50]
0 Boyer, Elizabeth The Curse of Slagfid 45
[Del Rey; 1989l 0-345-33265-2; $3.95]
0 Boyer, Elizabeth The Dragon's Carbuncle 45
[Del Rey; 1990; 0-345-35459-1; $4.95]
On all 3 above: "...begin in the same setting, but are a series, and,
IMHO, rather more rewarding." -45
On all 7 above: "Most elves and all wizards have power to transform
themselves into one other creature, their fylgja." -45
? Bradbury, Ray Something Wicked This Way Comes MP
[Bantam; 1970; 553-03408-075; $.75]
[Flagged as "transformation" in my files. I have no idea why. :) -MP]
0 Bradley, Marion Z. Endless Voyage 42
[?]!
"Space travel requires surgical adaptation." -42
? Bradley, Marion
Zimmer, ed. Sword and Sorceress(anthology series) 38
[1:DAW; 1984; 0-87997-928-3, $2.95]
[2:DAW; 1985; 0-88677-041-6, $2.95]
[3:DAW; 1986; 0-88677-302-4, $3.95]
[4:DAW; 1987; 0-88677-210-9, $3.50]
[5:DAW; 1988; 0-88677-288-5, $3.95]
[6:DAW; 1990; 0-87997-423-3, $4.50]
[7:DAW; 1990; 0-88677-457-8, $4.50]
[8:DAW; 1991; 0-88677-486-1, $4.50]
[9:DAW; 1992; 0-88677-509-4; $4.50]
"Every volume in the series has at least one or two transformation
stories. Some good, some mediocre. Fantasy." -38
[It would be great if someone could point out a few specific stories
here. -MP]
0 Bradley, Marion Z. The World Wreckers 42,TG
[Ace; 1971; 0-441-91172-2; $1.75]
"Hermaphrodites who go through a gender-shifting metamorphosis." -42
+ Brandner, Gary The Howling 11/MP/
[Fawcett; 1977; 0-449-13824-0, $1.75]
"Rating: 2 Type: L 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 +. -MP]
- Brandner, Gary The Howling II //11,MP
[Fawcett; 1978; 0-449-14091-1; $1.95]
"Rating: 1 Type: L 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. -MP]
0 Brin, David The Postman 22
[?]!
"military enhancements" -22
0 Brin, David Uplift series 42
[Startide Rising: Bantam Spectra; 1988; 0-553-27418-X; $4.50]
[Sundiver:?]!
[The Uplift War:?]!
"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
0 Brooks, Terry The Elfstones of Shannara 4
[?]!
"Young elf girl becomes a tree" -4
- Brooks, Terry Magic Kingdom series /18/MP
[Magic Kingdom For Sale-Sold!: Del Rey; 1987; 0-345-31758-0; $4.50]
[The Black Unicorn: Del Rey; ?]
[Wizard At Large: Del Rey; 1989; 0-345-36227-6; $4.95]
"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. -MP]
? Brown, Crosland Tombley's Walk MP
[Avon; 1991; 0-380-76097-5; $4.50]
[Horror; lycanthropy; not read -MP]
0 Bull, Emma War for the Oaks 42
[Ace; 1987; 0-441-87073-2; $4.50]
"A Pookha is a kind of were-dog. In case you were wondering." -42
0 Burroughs, Edgar The Land that Time Forgot 42
[?]*
"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 Burroughs, Edgar Synthetic Men of Mars 42
[?]*
"Pulp-era brain transplants" -42
+ Busby, F. M. The Breeds of Man 11/TG/
[Bantam Spectra; 1988; 0-553-27008-7; $3.95]
"Rating: 4 Type: B Significance: 0 Description: + Saturation: +. S;
Genetic manipulation; 4... After conquering an AIDS-like plague, the
inhabitants of earth find themselves unable to bear more than one child
per partners blood type. The solution to that, however, produces some
unexpected side effects..." -11
[See the Spoilers Section for more information.]
0 Busby, F. M. Demu Trilogy 42
[Pocket; 1980; 0-671-43288-5; $3.50]
"Aliens who believe themselves to have the only acceptable form try to
alter their captives to suit." -42
0 Butler, Octavia most everything 8
0 Butler, Octavia Clay's Ark 42
[?]!
"A space-born plague transforms much of the human race." -42
+ Butler, Octavia Xenogenesis series 11,MP/8,12,15,TG/
[Dawn: Questar; 1988; 0-445-20779-5; $4.50]
[Adulthood Rites: Questar; 1989; 0-445-20903-8; $4.95]
[Imago: Questar; 1990; 0-445-20977-1; $4.95]
"Rating: 4 Type: B 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. -MP]
+ Butler, Octavia Wild Seed MP/8,12/
[Questar; 1988; 0-445-20537-7; $4.50]
On all four above: "Butler is an amazingly good writer who is not
terribly well-known. These books are unsettling." -12
[One main character "transforms" by possessing others' bodies when he
dies; the other really shapeshifts. Again, a great psychological story.
-MP]
--------------------------------------- C --------------------------------
0 Cabell, James B. Poictesme series 42
[Figures of Earth: Del Rey; 1979- 0-345-28170-5; $2.25]
[?]!
"Especially Jurgen, and Figures of Earth." -42
+ Cadnum, Michael Saint Peter's Wolf MP/28
[Carroll & Graf; SFBC]
[?]
"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
[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. -MP]
? Caine, Geoffrey Wake of the Werewolf MP
[Diamond; 1991; 1-55773-578-6; $4.50]
[Not read, but appears to be a fairly conventional werewolf novel. -MP]
0 Caldin, Martin Cyborg 22,MP
[Warner; 1974; 0-446-76643-7; $1.25]
"good book; the TV version was $6M Man, which wasn't nearly so well
done" -22
[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. -MP]
? Callahan, Jay Night of the Wolf MP
[Leisure; 1979; 0-8439-2269-9; $3.25]
[Lycanthropy novel; not read. -MP]
0 Card, Orson Scott
(ed.) Dragons of Darkness (anthology) 20
[Ace; 1983; 0-441-16664-4; $2.95]
0 Card, Orson Scott
(ed.) Dragons of Light (anthology) 20
[Ace; 1983; 0-441-16661-X; $2.95]
0 Card, Orson Scott Treason 15,TG
[St. Martin's; 1990; 0-312-92019-8; $4.95]
? Carter, Angela The Bloody Chamber MP
[?]!
[A fairy-tale collection; I have it marked as a transformation book, so
someone must have told me it has transformation stories, but I can't find
it to confirm that. -MP]
0 Carver, Jeffrey From a Changeling Star 40
[Batnam Spectra; 1989; 0-553-27639-5; $3.95]
0 Carver, Jeffrey Down the Stream of Stars 40
[?]!
"I might have the titles wrong. 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
? Case, David Wolf Tracks MP
[Leisure; ?; 0-8439-2166-8; $3.50]!
[Lycanthropy story; not seen or read.]
0 Chalker, Jack most/all his works 1,2,3,7,12,13,17,
22,31,33,34,35,MP
"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
[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. -MP]
- Chalker, Jack And the Devil Will Drag You Under //11,31
[Del Rey; 1982; 0-345-30504-3; $2.50]
"Rating: 4 Type: B Significance: - Description: 0 Saturation: -. SF;
advanced science...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
- Chalker, Jack Changewinds series /35/11
[When the Changewinds Blow: Ace; 1987; 0-441-88081-9; $3.50]
[Riders of the Winds: Ace; 1988; 0-441-72351-9; $3.50]
[War of the Maelstrom: Ace; 1988; 0-441-10268-9; $3.95]
"Rating: 2 Type: B Significance: - Description: 0 Saturation: -...does
deal some with physical transformations, but not as much as other series/
stories." -11
+ Chalker, Jack Dancing Gods series 11/2,35,TG/
[The River of Dancing Gods: Del Rey; 1984; 0-345-30892-1; $2.95]
[Demons of the Dancing Gods: Del Rey; 1990; 0-345-30893-X; $4.95]
[Vengeance of the Dancing Gods: Del Rey; 1985; 0-345-31549-9; $3.50]
[Songs of the Dancing Gods: Del Rey; 1990; 0-345-34799-4; $4.95]
"fantasy; magic and lycanthropy; 4" -11
"Rating: 4 Type: B Significance: 0 Description: + Saturation: +...
essentially humor/parody, and the first three books are rather fun" -11
? Chalker, Jack Demons at Rainbow Bridge 35
[Ace; 1990; 0-441-69992-8; $3.95]
[I know that other books in the Quintara Marathon series have come out;
can someone tell us what they are, and whether or not they involve
transformation as well? -MP]
+ Chalker, Jack Downtiming the Nightside 11/TG/
[Tor; 1985; 0-812-53288-0; $2.95]
"Rating: 1 Type: M 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
+ Chalker, Jack Four Lords of the Diamond series 11/7,13,TG/
[Lilith: A Snake in the Grass: Ballantine; 1983; 0-345-29369-X; $2.50]
[Cerberus: A Wolf in the Fold: Ballantine; 1982; 0-345-29371-1; $2.50]
[Charon: A Dragon at the Gate: Del Rey; 1989; 0-345-29370-3; $3.95]
[Medusa: A Tiger by the Tail: Del Rey; 1983; 0-345-29372-X; $2.95]
"(4 books - some of his better work)" -7
"Rating: 3 Type: B Significance: + Description: + Saturation: +. SF;
virus" -11
+ Chalker, Jack The Identity Matrix 11,TG//
[Pocket; 1982; 0-671-44481-6; $2.95]
"Rating: 5 Type: M Significance: + Description: + Saturation: +. SF;
Alien ability & advanced science" -11
+ Chalker, Jack Rings of the Masters series 11/2,35/
[Lords of the Middle Dark: Del Rey; 1986; 0-345-32560-5; $3.50]
[Pirates of the Thunder: Del Rey; 1987; 0-345-32561-3; $3.50]
[Warriors of the Storm: Del Rey; 1988; 0-345-32562-1; $3.95]
[Masks of the Martyrs:?]!
"Rating: 3 Type: B Significance: + Description: + Saturation: +. SF;
Advanced science and natural ability" -11
+ Chalker, Jack Soul Rider (Flux and Anchor) series 11/1,2,17,TG/
[Spirits of Flux and Anchor: Tor; 1984; 0-812-53275-9; $2.95]
[Empires of Flux and Anchor: Tor; 1984; 0-812-53329-1; $3.95]
[Masters of Flux and Anchor:?]!
[The Birth of Flux and Anchor:?]!
[Children of Flux and Anchor: Tor; 1986; 0-812-53286-4; $3.50]
"...deal with people being transformed via spells into all types of
creatures and variations of creatures, both willingly and unwillingly."
-1
"Rating: 4 Type: B Significance: + Description: + Saturation: +. SF;
conversion mass -> energy -> mass" -11
0 Chalker, Jack Web of the Chozen 11,22
[Ballantine; 1987; 0-345-33959-2; $2.95]
"Rating: 2 Type: B Significance: 0 Description: 0 Saturation: -. SF;
virus" -11
+ Chalker, Jack Well World (Well of Souls) series 11/1,13,17,35,TG/
[Midnight at the Well of Souls: Del Rey; 1980; 0-345-29223-5; $1.95]
[Exiles at the Well of Souls: Del Rey; 1988; 0-345-32437-4; $3.50]
[Quest for the Well of Souls: Del Rey; 1980; 0-345-29337-1; $2.25]
[The Return of Nathan Brazil: Del Rey; 1987; 0-345-34105-8; $3.50]
[Twilight at the Well of Souls: Del Rey; 1980; 0-345-28368-6; $2.25]
"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 Type: B Significance: + Description: - Saturation: +. SF;
machine" -11
- Chalker, Jack;
Resnick, Mike;
Effinger, George The Red Tape War //11
[Tor; ?; 0-312-85151-0; $17.95 hardcover]*
"Rating: 2 Type: M Significance: - Description: - Saturation: -. S;
Mind transfer... Silly round-robin story, with no plot, little action,
and barely enough humor to get by." -11
0 Charrette, Robert Secrets of Power trilogy 42
[?]!
"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. Cyteen //42
[?]!
"One book in hardcover, three in paperback. This is actually the
opposite [of the Morganie trilogy]. 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 Cherryh, C. J. Morganie series 42
[Exile's Gate: DAW; 1988; 0-88677-254-0; $3.95]
[Fires of Azeroth: DAW; 1979; 0-87997-466-4; $1.95]
[Gate of Ivrel: DAW; 1976; 0-87997-956-9; $2.50]
[Well of Shiuan: DAW; 1978; 0-88677-270-2; $3.95]
"Actually, it's up to four books now. 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
- Cherryh, C. J. Voyager in Night 45
[?]!
"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
+ Clarke, Arthur C. Childhood's End MP//
[Del Rey; 1980; 0-345-29467-X; $5.95 softcover]
[I'm amazed that no one's listed this one. To me it's 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. -MP]
0 Clayton, Jo Diadem series 42
[Diadem from the Stars: DAW; 1977; 0-87997-293-9; $1.50]
[?]!
"The diadem in question contains some long-dead folks in need of new
bodies." -42
0 Clayton, Jo Drinker of Souls 28,42
[?]!
0 Clayton, Jo Blue Magic 28,42
[DAW; 1988; 0-88677-270-2; $3.95]
0 Clayton, Jo A Gathering of Stones 28,42
[?]!
For all 3 above books: "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 Circle of Fire //42
[?]!
[See Spoiler section for more info.]
? Collins, Nancy A. Sunglasses After Dark MP
[Onyx; 1989; 0-451-40147-6; $3.99]
[Horror; vampirism; may or may not involve shapechanging; not read -MP]
0 Cooper, Louise Indigo series 42
[Nemesis: TOR; 1989; 0-812-53401-8; $3.95]
[Inferno: TOR; 1989; 0-812-50246-9; $3.95]
[Infanta: TOR; 1990; 0-812-50667-7; $4.95]
[Nocturne:TOR; 1990; 0-812-50798-3; $4.95]
[?]!
"One of the heroine's incidental talents is shape-shifting." -42
0 Cooper, Susan The Dark is Rising 36
[?]!
0 Cooper, Susan GreenWitch 36
[?]!
0 Cooper, Susan The Grey King 36
[?]!
0 Cooper, Susan Silver on the Tree 36
[?]!
On all of the above:
"[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
--------------------------------------- D --------------------------------
0 Danvers, Dennis Wilderness MP
[Poseidon; SFBC]
[Pocket Star; 1992; 0-671-72828-8; $5.50]
[Werewolf story. Got very good reviews; I didn't think it was all that
good, but certainly not bad either. -MP]
+ David, Peter Howling Mad 11,MP/3/
[Ace; 1989; 0-441-34663-4; $3.50]
"about a wolf who gets bitten by a werewolf and turns human 3 nights a
month" -3
"Rating: 3 Type: L 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. -MP]
- de Camp, L Sprague;
Pratt, Fletcher The Compleat Enchanter //42
[In The Complete Compleat Enchanter; Baen; 1989; 0-671-69809-5; $4.50]
"Excellent fantasy classic, with some incidental shape-changing." -42
0 de Lint, Charles Wolf Moon 11/20,36/MP
[Signet; 1988; 0-451-15487-8; $3.50]
"Rating: 3 Type: L 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
[I don't know why, but I just couldn't get into this story, even enough
to finish it. The werewolf character didn't seem very well-developed;
I'll have to try reading it again to see if it was just me. -MP]
0 Deitz, Tom Darkthunder's Way 28
[Avon; 1989; 0-380-75508-4; $3.95]
0 Deitz, Tom Sunshaker's War 28
[Avon; 1990; 0-380-76062-2; $3.95]
0 Deitz, Tom Stoneskin's Revenge 28,42
[Avon; 1991; 0-380-76063-0; $3.95]
"A monster whose talents include shapechanging." -42
For all 3 above books: "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 Deitz, Tom Fireshaper's Doom 42
[Avon; 1987; 0-380-75329-4; $3.95]
"One subplot involves turning a lizard back into an elf." -42
- Delaney, Joseph In The Face of My Enemy //11
[Baen; 1985; 0-671-55993-1; $2.95]
"Rating: 3 Type: B Significance: 0 Description: - Saturation: -. S;
Alien granted ability; 3... The story of a primitive man made an
immortal shape-changer by aliens, and his adventures into the past and
future." -11
0 Delaney, Samuel R. Triton TG
[Bantam; 1976;?]!
0 Dickson, Gordon R. The Alien Way MP
[Warner; 1977; 0-446-84552-3; $1.75]
[A mind-transfer story, where a human's mind is projected into an alien
body. Interesting mental changes result. -MP]
0 Dickson, Gordon R. The Dragon and the George 15,MP
[Del Rey; 1988; 0-345-29902-7; $2.50]
[A modern-day scholar gets projected into the body of a dragon in a
medieval world.]
0 Dickson, Gordon R. The Dragon Knight 15,MP
[hardback: Tor; 0-312-93129-8(?); $19.95]
[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. -MP]
? Dickson, Gordon R. The Dragon on the Border MP
[?]!
[Another sequel to the above series, not read.]
? Dickson, Gordon R. The Dragon at War MP
[?]!
[Yet another sequel to the Dragon and the George; not read.]
0 DiSilvestro, Roger Ursula's Gift MP
[Donald I Fine; 1988; 1-55611-108-8; $16.95 hardback]
[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. -MP]
0 Dixon, Dougal Man After Man 51
[?]!
"Speculative fiction concerning future genetic manipulation
techniques and subsequent evolution." -51
0 Duane, Diane Deep Wizardry 28,42,MP
[in Support Your Local Wizard; SFBC]
[?]
"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; it reads like
juvenile fiction, but raises some very serious points too. -MP]
--------------------------------------- E --------------------------------
0 Eddings, David Belgariad series 9
[Pawn of Prophecy: Del Rey; 1990; 0-345-33551-1; $5.95]
[Queen of Sorcery: ?]
[Magician's Gambit: Del Rey; 1988; 0-345-33545-7; $3.95]
[Castle of Wizardry: Del Rey; 1988; 0-345-33570-8; $3.95]
[Enchanter's End Game: ?]
0 Eddings, David Malloreon series 9
[Guardians of the West: Del Rey; 1990; 0-345-35266-1; $5.95]
[King of the Murgos: ?]
[Demon Lord of Karanda: ?]
[Sorceress of Darshiva: ?]
[Seeress of Kell: ?]
On the Belgariad and Malloreon: "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
0 Effinger, George
Alec The Nick of Time 3
[?]
"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
0 Eisenstein, Phyllis Sorcerer's Son 42
[Signet; 1989; 0-451-15683-8; $3.95]
"A world in which people who summon demons must devise shapes for
them." -42
0 Estes, Rose Name of the Game MP
[TSR; 1988; 0-88038-614-2; $3.95]
[Sixth in the Greyhawk Adventures series. Hero is transformed into a
griffon. -MP]
--------------------------------------- F --------------------------------
? Farmer, Philip Jose Image of the Beast MP
[Berkley; 1985; 0-425-07708-X; $3.50]
[I saw this mentioned as a lycanthropy or transformation story, but
haven't read it. -MP]
- Farmer, Philip Jose Riverworld series /11/42
[?]
"SF; not read" -11
"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 Faucette, John M. Crown of Infinity 42
[Ace; 1968; 020-08051-060; $.60; Ace double including The Prism]
"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
0 Feist, Raymond Riftwar Saga 36
[?]
"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
? Feist, Raymond Silverthorn MP
[Bantam Spectra; 1986; 0-553-27054-0; $3.95]
0 Fontenay, Charles L Rebels of the Red Planet 42
[?]
"Another oldie-but-goody featuring genetic manipulation." -42
? Forsythe, Richard Fangs MP
[Leisure; 1985; 0-8439-2275-3; $3.95]
[Appears to be a lycanthropy story, but not read. -MP]
0 Foster, Alan Dean Icerigger and sequels 22
[Icerigger: Del Rey; 1978; 0-345-22799-6; $1.95]
"summer/winter climate adaptation" -22
0 Foster, Alan Dean Paths of the Perambulator 44
[Warner; 1986; 0-446-32769-8; $3.50]
"Foster's Spellsinger 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
- Foster, M. A. The Morphodite series /22/11
[Transformer: DAW; 1983; 0-87997-814-7; $2.50]
[The Morphodite: DAW; 1981; 0-87997-669-1; $2.75]
on Transformer only: "Rating: 3 Type: B Significance: - Description: +
Saturation: -" -11
on series: "must read to appreciate" -22
0 Friedman, C. S. Madness Season 11,21,42,46
[?]
"Rating: 4 Type: B 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
0 Friesner, Esther Demons series 11,45
[Here Be Demons: Ace; 1988; 0-441-32797-4; $3.50]
[Demon Blues: Ace; 1989; 0-441-14309-1; $3.50]
[Hooray for Hollywood: Ace; ?; 0-441-34281-7; $3.50]
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
On Hooray for Hollywood: "Rating: 3 Type: B Significance: 0
Description: 0 Saturation: -" -11
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0 Galouye, Daniel F. Simulacron 3 42
[?]
"A simulated Earth is constructed, for purposes of market research,
into which the researchers can project their consciousness." -42
0 Gardner, Craig Shaw An Excess of Enchantments TG
[Ace; 1988; 0-441-22363-X; $3.50]
0 Gelb, Jeff (ed.);
Garret, Michael(ed) Hotter Blood (anthology) 3,TG
[Pocket; 1991; ?]
"There are a few transformation stories--one about a salesman who is
so adaptable that it becomes a liability; there's one, 'The Splicer' by
Don D'Ammassa, about a guy who can change movies, including changing the
actors. I just skimmed through this one in the store--you may want to
check it out, though." -3
0 Gerrold, David Moonstar Odyssey 25
[Signet; 1977; 0-451-07372-X; $1.50]
"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
+ Godwin, Parke The Snake Oil Wars Or Scheherazade
Gindberg Strikes Again 50//
[Doubleday; 1989; $18.95 hardcover]
[?]
+ Godwin, Parke Waiting For the Galactic Bus 50//
[Doubleday; 1988; $18.95 hardcover]
[?]
"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
0 Goulart, Ron The Chameleon Corps and Other Shape
Changers (anthology) 41,MP
[Collier; 1974; 02075; $1.50]
[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.
-MP]
? Grant, Charles L. The Dark Cry of the Moon MP
[Berkley; 1987; 0-425-10502-4; $2.95]
[Lycanthropy story; not read. -MP]
0 Green, Sharon The Far Side of Forever 57
[?]
0 Green, Sharon Hellhound Magic: The Far Side of
Forever 2 57
[?]
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
0 Grinnell, David Edge of Time 42
[?]
"Old SF novel about researchers projecting their consciousness into a
succession of lives." -42
0 Gunnarsson,
Thorarinn Human, Beware! 48
[Ace; 1990; 0-441-51541-X; $4.50]
"...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
[A sequel to Make Way for Dragons. -MP]
- Gunnarsson,
Thorarinn Make Way for Dragons! /48/MP
[Ace; 1990; 0-441-51537-1; $3.95]
[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... -MP]
[See Spoiler Section for more info]
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? Hambly, Barbara He Who Stalks the Night 50
[?]
"I'm not sure about the title, but it is a recent vampire novel." -50
[I've seen _Those who Hunt the Night_ everywhere; is this it? If so,
it's Del Rey; 1989; 0-345-36132-6; $4.50. -MP]
0 Harness, Charles The Paradox Men 42
[Crown; ?; 0-517-55433-X; ?]
"The exact nature of the transformations constitute a major spoiler."
-42
[Could someone share that spoiler with us? :) -MP]
0 Heinlein, Robert A I Will Fear No Evil 11
[Putnam; 1970; ?]
[?]
"Rating: 3 Type: M 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 Heinlein, Robert A Stranger in a Strange Land 15
[Berkley; 1968; 425-02202-150; $1.50]
0 Herbert, Frank Children of Dune 43
[?]
0 Herbert, Frank God-Emperor of Dune 42,43
[?]
"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
0 Herbert, Frank The Godmakers 42
[Berkley; 1978; 0-425-03919-6; $1.95]
"The transformation of a man into a god." -42
0 Herbert, Frank;
Herbert, Brian Man of Two Worlds 54
[?]
"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
0 Hodgell, PC Dark of the Moon 42
[Berkley; 1987; 0-425-09561-4; $3.50]
"The bad guys are shape-changers. Sequel to the superb 'God Stalk'."
-42
- Holt, Tom Expecting Someone Taller //MP
[Ace; 1990; 0-441-22332-X; $3.95]
[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.
-MP]
0 Hoover, H.M. The Delikon 42
[Avon; 1978; 0-380-40980-1; $1.50]
"Well written children's sf about an alien child who has been
transformed into human appearance to better train human children." -42
? Huff, Tanya Blood Trail MP
[DAW; 1992; 0-88677-502-7; $4.50]
[Someone is hunting down werewolves. I haven't read it, so I don't
know how much transformation is involved. -MP]
0 Hughes, Robert Don The Prophet of Lamath (and series) 36,39,42,45
[The Forging of the Dragon: Del Rey; 1989; 0-345-33744-1; $3.95]
[The Power and the Prophet: Del Rey; 1985; 0-345-30353-9; $2.95]
[The Prophet of Lamath: Del Rey; 1985; 0-345-32544-3; $2.95]
[The Wizard in Waiting: Del Rey; 1982; 0-345-28574-3; $2.75]
"...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
--------------------------------------- I --------------------------------
? Ionesco, Eugene The Rhinoceros 40
"One man resists the fad to turn yourself into a rhinoceros." -40
[Is this a book or a short story? I seem to remember a story by
this title, or just "Rhinoceros". -MP]
--------------------------------------- J --------------------------------
0 Jones, Diana Wynne Dogsbody 52,53
[?]
"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
- Jones, Diana Wynne The Magicians of Caprona //42
[?]
"Incidental transformation of children into puppets." -42
0 Jones, Neil R. Planet of the Double Sun 42
[?]
"Pulp-age adventures of a cyborg." -42
--------------------------------------- K --------------------------------
0 Kafka, Franz The Metamorphosis 4,13,22,32
[Bantam; 1988; 0-553-21369-5; $4.95]
[portions in Shape Shifters]
[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. -MP]
+ Keyes, Daniel Flowers for Algernon (book and ss) MP//
[book: Bantam; 1968; S3339; $0.75]
[short story in The Hugo Winners Vol. 1; ed. Asimov, Isaac; Fawcett;
449-01???-095; $0.95; 1973]
[short story in The Best from F&SF 9; ed. Mills, Robert P.; Doubleday]
[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. -MP]
? Killough, Lee The Leopard's Daughter (book and ss) MP
[book: Questar; 1987; 0-445-20522-9; $2.95]
[short story in Isaac Asimov's Fantasy!; ed. McCarthy, Shawna; Dial Press;
0-385-23017-6; $12.95 hardcover; 1985]
[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. -MP]
0 King, Stephen Cycle of the Werewolf MP
[Signet; 1985; 0-451-82111-4; $8.95 softcover]
[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. -MP]
0 King, Tabitha Small World TG
[?]
0 Koontz, Dean R. Midnight 28
[Berkley; 1989; 0-425-11870-3; $4.95]
"A scientist's dream of using a form of nanotechnology to improve
humanity goes slightly awry." -28
? Koontz, Dean A. A Werewolf Among Us MP
[?]
[I saw this one on a list somewhere, but have never found it, and am
wondering if it really exists. -MP]
0 Kubasik, Chris Changeling MP
[ROC; 1992; 0-451-45163-5; $4.50]
[Part of the Shadowrun series. The main character has been
"goblinized" into a troll, and the book mostly deals with his adjusting
to this.]
0 Kurtz, Katherine Deryni series 9
[?]
"If you are interested in Paranormal humans, also check [this] out" -9
--------------------------------------- L --------------------------------
0 Lackey, Mercedes The Oathbound 38,TG
[DAW; 1988; 0-88677-414-4; $4.99]
"(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
0 Laumer, Keith Time Trap 3,TG
[?]
"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
0 Laumer, Keith The World Shuffler 3
[?]
"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
0 Le Guin, Ursula K. The Earthsea Trilogy (plus one) 20
[A Wizard of Earthsea: Bantam; 1975; 553-02168-150; $1.50]
[?]
"the second favorite series of my youth" -20
0 Le Guin, Ursula K. The Lathe of Heaven 47
[Avon; 1973; 0-380-43547-0; $2.95]
"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
+ Le Guin, Ursula K. The Left Hand of Darkness TG/6,11
[Ace; 1972; 0-441-47812-3; $4.50]
"the transformations between the sexes there are more for anthropo-
logical reasons: a study of how a genderless society would work." -6
"Rating: 4 Type: B Significance: + Description: 0 Saturation: -" -11
+ Lee, Tanith Books of the Flat Earth 3/TG/
[Night's Master:?]
[Death's Master:?
[Delirium's Master:?]
[Delirium's Mistress:?]
[Night's Sorceries:?]
"...tons of transformations...they range from really minor to pretty
important." -3
0 Lee, Tanith The Dragon Hoard 3
[?]
"a children's book...about a prince who is cursed to change into a
raven every day." -3
0 Lee, Tanith Don't Bite the Sun 11,TG
[DAW; 1976; UY1221; $1.25]
"Rating: 3 Type: M Significance: 0 Description: - Saturation: 0" -11
0 Lee, Tanith Drinking Saphire Wine 11,26,TG
[DAW; 1977; 0-87997-565-2; $1.75]
"SF; Suicide --> New body; 3" -11
"Teenagers frequently suicide so they can have new bodies, sometimes
designed by themselves. Frequent sex changes, occasional non-human
forms." -26
on both of the above: "...I'll just say that I found them weaker than
the other books I've listed." -3
? Lee, Tanith Lycanthia MP
[DAW; 1981; 0-87997-610-1; $2.25]
[Lycanthropy; not read -MP]
? Lee, Tanith Red as Blood MP
[DAW; 1983; 0-87997-790-6; $2.50]
[a fairy-tale collection; reviewed in OtherRealms 5.1; not read]
0 Lee, Tanith The Secret Books of Paradys 3,TG
[Overlook Press; 1990; ?]
"...also have one or two strange [transformations]. "-3
[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. -MP]
- Leiber, Justin Ishmael/Sally Forth (series) /TG/11
[Beyond Rejection: Del Rey; 1980; 0-345-29054-2; $2.25]
[Beyond Humanity: Tor; 1987; 0-812-54433-1; $2.95]
[Beyond Gravity: Tor; 1988; ?]
"Rating: 3 Type: M 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
0 Lewis, C. S. Till We Have Faces 6
[?]
"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"
- Lewis, C. S. Voyage of the "Dawn Treader" /43/11
[Collier; 1970; 0-02-044260-2; $2.95]
"Rating: 5 Type: B Significance: - Description: - Saturation: -" -11
"One character gets transformed into dragon. (children's book) -43
0 Lichtenberg,
Jacqueline Sime/Gen series 42
[First Channel (coauthor Lorrah, Jean): Playboy; 1981; 0-872-16772-0;
$2.50]
[House of Zeor: Playboy; 1981; 0-872-16801-8; $2.25]
[Unto Zeor, Forever: Playboy; 1980; 0-872-16598-1; $2.25]
"Every adolescent goes through a changeover into either an energy
vampire or an energy generator. Makes for a tense childhood." -42
? Lindsay, David A Voyage to Arcturus MP
[Ballantine; 1974; 345-24681-0-150; $1.50]
[Reviewed in OtherRealms 8.2; not read, but the blurb promises
"countless physical transformations," among other things... -MP]
0 Lorenzini, Carlo Pinocchio 32
[?]
"...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
--------------------------------------- M --------------------------------
0 MacAvoy, R. A. The Grey Horse 42
[Bantam Spectra; 1987; 0-553-26557-1; $3.95]
"The protagonist is a kelpie -- a shapechanging sea-horse." -42
0 MacAvoy, R. A. Tea with the Black Dragon 42
[Bantam; 1983; 0-553-23205-3; $2.75]
"The protagonist is a dragon who has been transformed into a human. No
shapechanging takes place in the novel proper. Excellent." -42
0 MacDonald, John D. Wine of the Dreamers 42
[Fawcett; 1951; 449-03263-125; $1.25]
"A decadent planet inhabited by voyeurs who get their kicks from taking
over the bodies of Earthlings to carry out atrocities." -42
0 Mahy, Margaret The Changeover 42
[?]
"Teen fiction about a girl who needs to become a witch in a hurry." -42
+ Martin, George
R. R. (ed.) Wild Cards series 11/13,TG/
[1: Bantam Spectra; 1987; 0-553-26190-8; $3.95]
[2 - Aces Abroad: Bantam Spectra; 1987; 0-553-26464-8; $3.95]
[3 - Jokers Wild: Spectra; ?; 0-553-26699-3; $4.50]
[4 - Aces Abroad: Spectra; ?; 0-553-27628-X; $4.50]
[5 - Down & Dirty: Spectra; ?; 0-553-27463-5; $4.50]
[6 - Ace in the Hole: Spectra; ?; 0-553-28253-0; $4.50]
[7 - Dead Man's Hand: Spectra; ?; 0-553-28569-X; $4.50]
[8 - One-eyed Jacks: Spectra; ?; 0-553-28852-0; $4.50]
[9 - Jokertown Shuffle: Spectra; ?; 0-553-29174-2; $4.99]
[10 - Double Solitaire: ?]
"Rating: 4 Type: B 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." -11
0 Martine-Barnes.
Adrienne The Fire Sword, The Crystal Sword 42
[The Fire Sword: Avon; 1984; 0-380-87718-X; $3.75]
[The Crystal Sword: Avon; 1988; 0-380-75454-1; $3.50]
[The Rainbow Sword: Avon; 1988; 0-380-75455-X; $3.50]
[The Sea Sword: Avon; 1989; 0-380-75456-8; $3.50]
"A moderate amount of shapechanging occurs in all the books of this
series, but more in these first two." -42
0 May, Julian Pliocene Saga 36
[?]
"one of the (anti)heroes, Marc Remillard, becomes a pure-mind type
entity." -36
0 McCaffrey. Anne Dragonriders series 54
[?]
"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
0 McCaffrey, Anne Restoree 42
[?]
"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
0 McCammon, Robert The Wolf's Hour 10,11
[Pocket; 1989; 0-671-66485-9; $4.95]
"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. -MP]
0 McDonald, Ian King of Morning, Queen of Day 40
[Bantam Spectra; 1991; 0-553-29049-5; $4.99]
"Support characters in the last part get transformed every night.
Space Invaders from the game get transformed into real. Etc." -40
0 McElroy, Joseph Plus 40
[?]
"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
0 McIntosh, J. T. Transmigration 42,TG
[?]
"Following his death, the protagonist coinhabits a series of bodies of
people he met shortly before that incident." -42
0 McIntyre, Vonda N. Fireflood 42
[?]
"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
0 McKillip, Patricia Harpist in the Wind 20,36
[Del Rey; 1980; 0-345-27469-5; $2.25]
0 McKillip, Patricia Heir of Sea and Fire 20,36
[Del Rey; 1981; 0-345-28882-3; $2.25]
0 McKillip, Patricia The Riddle-Master of Hed 20,36
[Del Rey; 1980; 0-345-28881-5; $2.25]
On all of the above:
"the favorite series of my youth" -20
"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
? Michaels, Barbara Sons of the Wolf MP
[Berkley; 1967; 0-425-11687-5; $3.95]
[Lycanthropy; not read -MP]
0 Moorcock, Michael Castle Brass series 54,TG
[?]
"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
- Moore, C. L. No Woman Born //11
[?]
"Rating: 3 Type: M Significance: 0 Description: - Saturation: -. S;
Mechanical body; 3. A woman whose body was destroyed is given a
mechanical body." -11
0 Morressy, John A Voice for Princess 42
[?]
"A frog-princess needs to be changed back to human." -42
0 Munn, H. Warner Merlin's Godson 20,42
[Del Rey; 1976; 0-345-30499-3; $2.95]
0 Munn, H. Warner Merlin's Ring 20,42
[Ballantine; 1975; 345-24010-3-195; $1.95]
"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 Myers, John Myers Silverlock 18,42,MP
[Ace; 1984; 0-441-76674-9; $3.95]
"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. -MP]
--------------------------------------- N --------------------------------
0 Naha, Ed Robocop MP
[Dell; 1987; 0-440-17479-1; $3.50]
[Novelization of the movie. Future street cop gets blown away, pieced
back together as a cyborg, with some mental reprogramming as well. -MP]
0 Neville, Kris Bettyann 42
[?]
"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.
0 Niles, Douglas Maztica series (Forgotten Realms) 54
[Ironhelm: TSR; ?; 0-880-38903-6; ?]
[Viperhand: TSR; ?; 0-880-38907-9; ?]
[Feathered Dragon: TSR; ?; 1-560-76045-1; ?]
"Lots of transformation by magic (human <-> eagle; human <-> jaguar);
not crucial to plot." -54
[more information in Spoiler Section]
0 Niven, Larry The Long ARM of Gil Hamilton TG
[Ballantine; 1976; ?]
0 Niven, Larry Protector 22,23
[Del Rey; 1981; 0-345-2932-9; $2.25]
0 Niven, Larry The Ringworld Engineers 4
[Ballantine; 1981; 0-345-26009-0; $2.50]
"Teela Brown becomes a Pak protector" -4
0 Niven, Larry World of Ptavvs 23
[Del Rey; 1982; 0-345-30054-8; $2.25]
? Norton, Andre Dare to Go a-Hunting MP
[?]
[I have it marked as "transformation" in my files; I don't own the
book, so I have no idea why. :) -MP]
0 Norton, Andre Dread Companion 42
[Fawcett; 1980; 0-449-24321-4; $1.95]
0 Norton, Andre;
Lackey, Mercedes The Elvenbane 28
[?]
"Has a race of shapechanging dragons in it. (Not yet read.)" -28
0 Norton, Andre Exiles of the Stars 28
[Ace; 1972; 441-22365-095; $0.95]
"[sequel to Moon of Three Rings;] Both are good solid Andre Norton
books." -28
? Norton, Andre Flight in Yiktor MP
[TOR; 1986; 0-812-54721-7; $2.95]
[Like Dare to Go a-Hunting, it's marked as "transformation" in my
files, but I don't know why. -MP]
0 Norton, Andre Fur Magic MP
[Pocket; 1978; 0-671-29902-6; $1.50]
[in The Magic Books; Signet; 1988; 0-451-15232-8; $3.95]
[Boy winds up in a sort of alternate world based on Native American
mythology, changed into a beaver in the process. -MP]
0 Norton, Andre Horn Crown 24
[DAW; 1981; 0-87997-635-7; $2.95]
0 Norton, Andre Jargoon Pard 21
[Fawcett; 1975; 449-02657-150; $1.50]
0 Norton, Andre Moon of Three Rings 27,28
[Ace; 1987; 0-441-53900-9; $2.95]
"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
0 Norton, Andre Steel Magic 24
[?]
[in The Magic Books; 1988; 0-451-15232-8; $3.95]
0 Norton, Andre Victory on Janus 24
[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 Norton, Andre Warlock of the Witch World 42
[Tandem; 1967; 4260-5047-9; $2.50]
"The hero's sister is changed into monster." -42
0 Norton, Andre Year of the Unicorn 21,24
[Ace; 1979; 0-441-94254-7; $1.95]
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0 O'Keefe, Claudia Black Snow Days 56,TG
[Ace; 1990; 0-441-06689-5; $3.95]
[see Spoiler Section for more info]
- Ore, Rebecca Becoming Alien //42
[Tor; 1988; 0-812-54794-2; $3.50]
"Except for minor surgery, this is mostly a matter of attitude
transformation." -42
0 Orr, A. World in Amber 3
[?]
"...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
0 Ovid Metamorphoses 16
[?]
"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
--------------------------------------- P --------------------------------
0 Palmer, David R. Threshold 42,MP
[Bantam Spectra; 1986; 0-553-24878-2; $2.95]
"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
[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. -MP]
0 Peirce, Hayford Phylum Monsters 11,TG
[TOR; 1989; 0-812-54894-9; $3.95]
"Rating: 2; Type: M; 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
0 Phillifent, John T. King of Argent 42
"A couple is bioengineered for a mineral-rich world." -42
0 Piserchia, Doris Spaceling 42,MP
[DAW; 1978; 0-87997-460-5; $1.75]
"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."
[This is indeed the novel I was thinking of, where this dimension-
hopping is through rings that only certain individuals can see and use.
One of the favorite novels from my childhood. -MP]
+ Pohl, Frederik Man Plus MP,55//
[Bantam Spectra; 1986; 0-553-26064-2; $3.50]
[Another classic. A man's body is surgically altered radically to let
him survive on Mars. -MP]
"One of the best novels on the transformation from 'man' to 'not-man'.
It really gets into the psychological effects of the change." -55
+ Powers, Tim The Anubis Gates 30//
[Ace; 1983; 0-441-02382-7; $4.95]
"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 Powers, Tim Last Call TG
[William Morrow; 1992; ?]
0 Pratchett, Terry Discworld series 50
[The Colour of Magic: Signet; 1985; 0-451-13577-6; $2.95]
[Guards! Guards!: ROC; 1991; 0-451-45089-2; $4.99]
[The Light Fantastic: Signet; 1988; 0-451-15297-2; $3.50]
[Mort: Signet; ?]
[Moving Pictures: ROC; 1992; 0-451-45131-7; $4.99]
[Pyramids: ROC; 1989; 0-451-45044-2; $4.95]
[Reaper Man: ROC; 1992; 0-451-45168-6; $4.99]
[Sourcery: Signet; 1989; 0-451-16233-1; $3.95]
[Wyrd Sisters: ROC; 1990; 0-451-45012-4; $4.95]
"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
0 Pratchett, Terry;
Gaiman, Neil Good Omens 50
[Workman; ?; 0-89480-853-2; $18.95 hardback]
[softcover?]
"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 The Ultimate Werewolf (anthology) MP/28/
[Dell; 1991; 0-440-50354-X; $10.00 softcover]
[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. -MP]
0 Price, E. Hoffman The Devil Wives of Li Fong 42
[?]
"A pair of spirits take human form and find themselves a husband." -42
+ Pronzini, Bill Werewolf! (anthology) MP/28/
[Harper & Row; 1980; 0-06-080504-8; $2.25 paperback; also printed by SFBC,
though out-of-print there]
"Some very good ones in it." -28
[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. -MP]
--------------------------------------- Q --------------------------------
0 Quinn, Seabury Alien Flesh TG
[?]
--------------------------------------- R --------------------------------
0 Rackham, John Time to Live 42
[?]
"A man wakes up in the wrong body." -42
0 Reaves, Michael The Shattered World 4,19,MP
[Baen; 1985; 0-671-55951-6; $3.50]
"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 shape
changing both voluntary, and involuntary in it." -19
[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. -MP]
0 Reeves-Stevens,
Judith & Garfield Chronicles of Galen Sword: Shifter 28
[Roc; 1990; 0-451-45018-3; $3.95]
" " Nightfeeder 28
[?]
"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
? Reynolds, G.W.M. Wagner, the Wehr-Wolf MP
[?]
[Lycanthropy; not read. -MP]
- Rice, Anne Cry to Heaven //36
[?]
"set in Renaissance Italy where the hero is forced into becoming a
'castrati' and uses that for revenge. I suppose that one qualifies ;)"
-36
[Marginally, yes. :) -MP]
0 Rice, Anne Interview with a Vampire 36
[Ballantine; 1989; 0-345-33766-2; $5.95]
0 Rice, Anne Queen of the Damned 36
[?]
0 Rice, Anne Vampire Lestat 36
[Ballantine; 1989; 0-345-31386-0; $5.95]
0 Roberson, Jennifer Chronicles of the Cheysuli series 9,20,42
[1: Shape-Changers; DAW; 1984; 0-88677-140-4; $2.95]
[2: The Song of Homana; DAW; 1985; 0-88677-317-2; $3.95]
[3: Legacy of the Sword; DAW; 1986; 0-88677-316-4; $3.95]
[4: Track of the White Wolf; DAW; 1987; 0-88677-193-5; $3.50]
[5: A Price of Princes; DAW; 1988; 0-88677-261-3; $3.95]
[6: Daughter of the Lion; DAW; 1989; 0-88677-324-5; $3.95]
[7: Flight of the Raven; DAW; 1990; 0-88677-422-5; $4.95]
on all above: "quite good, but not fantastic" -9
- Robinson, Spider Callahan's Lady /TG/11,MP
[Ace; 1990; 0-441-09072-9; $3.95]]
"Rating: 3 Type: L Significance: - Description: - Saturation: -. S;
Werebeagle. Has a werebeagle as a minor character." -11
[I liked this book very much (though the sexual content may turn some
folks off), but the shapechanging is totally incidental. -MP]
0 Robinson, Spider;
Robinson, Jeanne Stardance 42
[?]
"The book ends with the transformation of the protagonists into a
space-dwelling life-form. There's a sequel." -42
0 Rohan, Michael S. The Anvil of Ice 45
[Avon; 1989; 0-380-70547-8; $3.50]
0 Rohan, Michael S. The Forge in the Forest 45
[Futura; 1989; 0-7088-8254-4; $3.50]
0 Rohan, Michael S. The Hammer of the Sun 45
[Avon; 1990; 0-380-70549-4; $3.95]
On all 3 above: "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
0 Rosenberg, Joel Guardians of the Flame series 54
[?]
"Characters transformed when they jump between worlds." -54
- Roth, Philip The Breast //11
[?]
"Rating: 2 Type: B Significance: 0 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
0 Rucker, Rudy Master of Space and Time 22,TG
[Baen; 1985; 0-671-55997-4; $2.95]
"whimsical fancy, mainly, with some wish-list body changes" -22
- Rucker, Rudy Software /44/11
[?]
"Rating: 4 Type: M Significance: - Description: 0 Saturation: -" -11
"...has a person moved into a computer and he then has a body that can
be made into any shape." -44
- Rucker, Rudy Wetware /44/11
[Avon; 0-380-70178-2; $3.50]
"Rating: 3 Type: B 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
0 Rusch, Kristine K.;
Anderson, Kevin J. Afterimage 58
[ROC; ?; 0-451-45175-9; $4.99]
"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
--------------------------------------- S --------------------------------
0 Saberhagen, Fred Dracula series 42
[?]
"These books tell Dracula's side of the story, and later other stories
featuring the same vampire." -42
? Sackett, Jeffrey Mark of the Werewolf MP
[Bantam; 1990; 0-553-28450-9; $3.95]
[Lycanthropy; not read; reviewed in OtherRealms 27.04 -MP]
? Sarrantonio, Al Moonbane MP
[Bantam Spectra; 1989; 0-553-28186-0; $3.95]
[Lycanthropy; not read -MP]
+ Scarborough,
Elizabeth Gold Camp Vampire 50//
[?]
"The title speaks for itself." -50
0 Schmitz, James H. The Lion Game 42
[DAW; 1973; 451-UQ1038-095; $.95]
"The bad guys belong to a race that undergoes metamorphosis." -42
0 Scott, Jody I, Vampire 43
[?]
0 Scott, Jody Passing for Human 43
[DAW; 1977; 0-87997-330-7; $1.50]
On both of the above: "...feature aliens (and the occasional human) who
change bodies." -43
0 Shakespeare, Wm. A Midsummer Night's Dream 40
[?]
"Bottom gets turned into a donkey at one point." -40
0 Shaw, Frederick L. Envoy to the Dog Star 42
[?]
"Brain transplant. The narrator/protagonist is a dog." -42
0 Sheckley, Robert Mindswap 34
[Grafton; 1986; 0-586-06695-0; $3.95]
0 Sheffield, Charles Proteus Unbound 13
[Del Rey; 1989; 0-345-34434-0; $3.95]
0 Sheffield, Charles Sight of Proteus 5,13,TG
[Del Rey; 1989; 0-345-34433-2; $3.95]
"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. -MP]
0 Shirley, John A Splendid Chaos TG
[Franklin-Watts; 1988; ?]
0 Silverberg, Robert Lord Valentine's Castle 41,42
[Bantam; 1980; 0-553014428-6; $2.95]
"An excellent book, but the personality transfers, though crucial for
motivating the plot, are peripheral to the story." -42
"Lord Valentine's Castle has more shape-shifting than the original
poster [Dani Zwieg, #42 -MP] mentioned--there was a native race on the
planet called the Shape-Shifters, and they played a large role later."
-41
0 Silverberg, Robert Son of Man (After Man) 11
[Warner; 1987; 0-446-34511-3; $3.95]
"Rating: 2 Type: B Significance: 0 Description: 0 Saturation: -. S;
Advanced humans. A modern man, transported into the far future,
undergoes a few changes over the course of this rather odd book." -11
0 Silverberg, Robert Thorns 43
[Del Rey; 1967; 0-345-27968-9; $1.95]
"One of the protagonists is an astronaut whose body has been altered by
aliens to make it more efficient, but grotesque." -43
0 Simak, Clifford City 42
[Ace; 1952; 441-10624-175; $1.75]
"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
0 Simak, Clifford They Walked Like Men 41
[Manor; 1962; 532-95390-095; $.95]
0 Simak, Clifford The Werewolf Principle 24,36
[DAW; 1982; 0-87997-708-6; $2.50]
"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
0 Simmons, Dan Hyperion 40
[Bantam Spectra; 1990; 0-553-28368-5; $4.95]
0 Simmons, Dan Fall of Hyperion 40
[?]
"Genetic takeover plays a bit role. But what a role!" -40
0 Simmons, Dan Song of Kali 40
[TOR; 1985; 0-812-51592-7; $4.99]
"Extreme horror with ambiguous transformations along the way." -40
- Smith, Cordwainer Norstrilia //42
[Ballantine; 1975; 345-24366-8-150; $1.50]
"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
0 Smith, Thorne The Stray Lamb 37
[?]
"had a man changing into various creatures (against his will, of
course)" -37
0 Smith, Thorne Turnabout 37,TG
[?]
"[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
0 Snider, Midori(sp?) The Soulstring 38
[Ace; 1987; 0-441-77591-8; $2.95]
"A major character gets transformed (by magic) into a stag. Nearly
loses identity. Not bad, not spectacular. Fantasy." -38
+ Somtow, S.P. Moon Dance MP/36/
[Tor; ?; 0-312-93203-0(?); $24.95 hardback]
[paperback: ?]
"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
[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. -MP]
0 Somtow, S.P. Vampire Junction 36
[?]
? Springer, Nancy several books and stories 20
[The Black Beast: Pocket; 1982; 0-671-44117-5; $2.50]
[The Golden Swan: Pocket; 1983; 0-671-45253-3; $2.50]
[Mindbond: TOR; 1987; 0-812-55492-2; $2.95]
[The Sable Moon: Pocket; 1981; 0-671-83157-7; $2.50]
[The Silver Sun: Pocket; 1980; 0-671-83496-7; $2.50]
[The White Hart: Pocket; 1979; 0-671-83148-8; $2.25]
[Can someone verify which of these stories have transformation? -MP]
? Stallman, Robert Beast trilogy MP
[The Orphan: Pocket; 1980; 0-671-82958-0; $2.25]
[The Captive: Pocket; 1981; 0-671-41382-1; $2.50]
[The Beast: Pocket; 1982; 0-671-41383-X; $2.50]
+ Stapledon, Olaf The First and Last Men 42//
[?]
"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
? Stasheff,
Christopher Her Majesty's Wizard MP
[Del Rey; 1989; 0-345-27456-3; $4.95]
[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. -MP]
0 Stevenson, R. L. Dr. jeckyll and Mr. Hyde 15
[?]
0 Stine, Hank Season of the Witch TG
[?]
0 Stoker, Bram Dracula 42
[?]
+ Strieber, Whitley The Wild MP//
[TOR; ?; 0-812-51277-4; $5.95]
[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. -MP]
--------------------------------------- T --------------------------------
0 Tarr, Judith A Wind in Cairo 42
[Bantam Spectra; 1989; 0-553-27609-3; $3.95]
"Light-weight fantasy about a man changed into a horse." -42
0 Tepper, Sheri Grass 47
[?]
"A race of aliens living on a planet in the far future, their passage
through life consists of several transformations. They start of 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
0 Tepper, Sheri Marianne, The Magus, and the
Manticore 28
[Ace; 1985; 0-441-51944-X; $2.95]
0 Tepper, Sheri Marianne, The Madame, and the
Momentary Gods 28
[Ace; 1988; 0-441-51962-8; $2.95]
0 Tepper, Sheri Marianne, The Matchbox, and the
Malachite Mouse 28
[Ace; 1989; 0-441-51964-4; $3.50]
For all 3 above: "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 Tepper, Sheri Mavin Manyshaped trilogy 28,38,42,47
[The Song/Flight/Search of Mavin Manyshaped]
[?]
"...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 Tepper, Sheri The Revenants 28
[?]
"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
0 Tepper, Sheri True Game trilogy 28,38,42,47
[King's Blood Four, Necromancer Nine, Wizard's Eleven]
[?]
"...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
- Tepper, Sheri Jinian Footseer trilogy /38,42/11,28
[Jinian Footseer: ?]
[Dervish Daughter: ?]
[Jinian Star-eye: TOR; 0-812-55614-3; $2.95]
on Jinian Star-eye: "Rating: 3 Type: B Significance: - Description: 0
Saturation: -" -11
on all 3: "...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 all 9 of the above books:
"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
? Thomas, Elizabeth Reindeer Moon MP
[Pocket; 1988; 0-671-64886-1; $4.50]
[A Clan of the Cave Bear-like book, supposedly involving
transformation; not read.]
0 Tolkien, J. R. R. The Lord of the Rings series 4
[The Hobbit: Ballantine; 1976; 0-345-25342-6; $1.95]
[The Fellowship of the Ring: Ballantine; 1977; 0-345-27258-7; $2.50]
[The Two Towers: Ballantine; 1978; 0-345-27259-5; $2.50]
[The Return of the King: Ballantine; 1978; 0-345-27260-9; $2.50]
"and, of course, there's always Gollum from LOTR" -4
[Can someone knowledgeable of the series tell us which book this
appears in? -MP]
- Turtledove, Harry Noninterference //42
[?]
"An unauthorized medical treatment inadvertently makes the subject
immortal. Does that count as a transformation?" -42
[Kinda, yes. -MP]
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--------------------------------------- V --------------------------------
0 Van Scyoc, Sydney J Darkchild trilogy 42
[?]
"Certain members of a race have the ability to acquire tremendous
powers. Unfortunately, it requires deadly danger to find out. Excellent
reading." -42
0 Van Scyoc, Sydney J Starmother 42
[?]
"A planet on which babies can be molded into duplicates of their
caretakers." -42
0 van Vogt, A. E. The Beast 42
[Manor; 1972; 532-00479-075; $0.75]
"An accident turns a man into a superman." -42
0 van Vogt, A. E. The Man With a Thousand Names TG
[DAW; 1974; ?]
0 van Vogt, A. E. The Mind Cage 42
[?]
"Personality transfer and musical bodies." -42
0 van Vogt, A. E. Supermind 14
[?]
"...not one of his best books, especially since it combines some short
stories into a kind of novels, but it describes a quite impressive mental
transformation in lots of details. 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
? van Vogt, A. E. The War Against the Rull MP
[Ace; 1959; 441-87180-075; $.75]
[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. :) -MP]
0 Vance, Steve The Hyde Effect 11
[Leisure; 1986; 0-8439-2360-1; $3.95]
"Rating: 3 Type: L Significance: + Description: 0 Saturation: -, H;
Lycanthropy. Rather a different werewolf tale--very horrific." -11
0 Vance, Steve Shapes 28
[Leisure; 1991; 0-8431-3017-9; $4.50]
"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
0 Varley, John several books 38
"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
['Options' is on the short-stories list. -MP]
- Varley, John The Ophiuchi Hotline /42/TG
[Dell; 1978; ?]
"A future in which bodies are made to order, and changed at will." -42
0 Varley, John Titan trilogy 38,42,44
[Titan: Berkley; 1980; 0-425-04468-8; $2.25]
[Wizard: Berkley; 1983; 0-425-06427-1; $2.95]
[Demon: ?]
" Another universe (Titan, Wizard, Demon) has a huge, intelligent
orbital space colony with the ability to alter and create life-forms."
-38
"A space-exploration crew undergoes various transformations on an
intelligent, but insane, worldlet." -42
- Vinge, Joan D. Ladyhawke //42
[?]
"A novelization of the movie. Not recommended." -42
[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. -MP]
+ Vonarburg, Elizabeth Silent City TG//
[?]
--------------------------------------- W --------------------------------
0 Wallace, Ian Croyd 42,TG
[Berkley; 1967; X1616; $.50]
"Personality transfer." -42
- Wallace, Ian The Lucifer Comet //42
[DAW; 1980; 0-87997-581-4; $2.25]
"Incidental transformation when one of the protagonists turns another
into a Neanderthal." -42
? Weaver, Michael D. Wolf-Dreams MP
[Avon; 1987; 0-380-75198-4; $2.95]
[Lycanthropy; not read. -MP]
0 Weinberg, Robert The Devil's Auction 11
[Leisure; 1988; 0-8439-2997-9; $3.95]
"Rating: 4 Type: L Significance: 0 Description: 0 Saturation: 0. H;
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
0 Weis, Margaret;
Hickman, Tracy Darksword series 43
[?]
"The cleric (Saryon rings a bell, but I could be wrong) gets turned
into stone." -43
[And does he do anything interesting afterward? :) -MP]
0 Wells, H. G. Food of the Gods 22
[?]
"advanced foodstuffs make superhuman giants" -22
0 Wheeler, Scott Matters of Form 28
[DAW; 1987; 0-88677-225-7; $2.95]
"Uses a very advanced genetic virus to induce shapechanging." -28
0 White, T.H. The Book of Merlyn 20
[Berkley; 1977; 0-425-03826-2; $2.25]
0 White, T.H. The Once and Future King 20
[Ace; 1985; 0-441-62740-4; $5.50]
- Wilhelm, Kate Where Late The Sweet Birds Sang //50
[Pocket; 1977; 0-671-80912-1; $1.75]
"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
0 Williams, Walter J Hardwired 42
[Tor; 1987; 0-812-55796-4; $3.50]
"Cyborg enhancements. But that's true of most cyberpunk or related
books. A good read." -42
0 Williams, Tad Memory, Sorrow and Thorn trilogy 45
[The Dragonbone Chair: DAW; SFBC]
[Stone of Farewell: DAW; SFBC]
"In the second book, the evil priest of the story learns the Words of
Changing. The third book hasn't come out yet. REALLY good (IMHO, of
course)." -45
0 Williamson, Jack Darker Than You Think 3,15,22,31,42
[Dell; 1979; 0-440-11746-1; $1.95]
"if you can find it, [it's] very good." -3
"an SF horror about werewolves in space " -31
"...And it is very good." -42
0 Wodehouse, P. G. Laughing Gas 3
[?]
"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
0 Wolfe, Gene Book of the New Sun 42
[?]
"One of the best sf/f ever written. Some transformation, including a
robot trapped in humanoid form, but it's not central." -42
? Wolfe, Gene Castleview MP
[TOR; 1990; 0-812-50625-1; $4.95]
[Reviewed in OtherRealms 28.16; may have some transformation, but not
read. -MP]
+ Woods, Jack Wolffile 11//
[Pageant; 1988; 0-517-00043-1; $3.50]
"Rating: 2 Type: L Significance: 0 Description: + Saturation: +. H;
lycanthropy" -11
+ Woolf, Virginia Orlando 49//
[Granada; 0-586-04448-5; 1977]
"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
0 Wrede, Patricia C. Snow White and Rose Red MP
[TOR; 1990; 0-812-55825-1; $3.95]
[Part of the Fairy Tales series. One character is turned into a bear.
-MP]
--------------------------------------- X --------------------------------
--------------------------------------- Y --------------------------------
0 Yarbro, Chelsea Q. A Baroque Fable 42
[Berkley; 1986; 0-425-09081-7; $3.50]
"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. -MP]
- Yarbro, Chelsea Q. The Palace /21/42
[?]
- Yarbro, Chelsea Q. Path of the Eclipse /21/42
[?]
"...writes about a vampire who transforms,...but skirts gingerly around
exactly what Saint Germain transforms into....beast, wolf..." -21
"These don't belong on the list. Yarbro's vampires -- in the St
Germaine stories and in the Olivia stories -- undergo no transformations
beyond their transformation into vampires, upon death." -42
[I'll eliminate these from the list if someone else tells me they
don't belong. -MP]
+ Yolen, Jane (ed.) Shape Shifters (anthology) MP//
[Clarion Seabury; 1978; 0-8164-3212-0; $8.95 hardcover]
[A dozen fair-to-excellent transformation stories, listed elsewhere
-MP]
+ Yolen, Jane (ed.);
Greenberg, Martin
(ed.) Werewolves (anthology) MP//
[Harper & Row; 1988; 0-06-026798-4; $13.95 hardcover]
[A quite good collection of werewolf stories. -MP]
--------------------------------------- Z --------------------------------
0 Zahn, Timothy The Blackcollar 22
[?]
0 Zahn, Timothy Cobra 22
[?]
(on both of the above) "again, military enhancements" -22
? Zelazny, Roger (title unknown) 24
"has a lycanthropy one, but no name comes to mind other than I know it
has nothing to do with Amber..." -24
0 Zelazny, Roger The Amber Novels 4
[Nine Princes in Amber: Avon; 1972; 0-380-01430-0; $2.25]
[The Guns of Avalon: Avon; 1974; 0-380-00083-0; $2.25]
[Sign of the Unicorn: Avon; 1976; 0-380-00831-9; $2.50]
[The Hand of Oberon: Avon; 1977; 0-380-01664-8; $1.50]
[The Courts of Chaos: Avon; 1979; 0-380-47175-2; $2.25]
[Trumps of Doom: ?]
[Blood of Amber: ?]
[Sign of Chaos: Avon; 1988; 0-380-89367-0; $3.50]
[Knight of Shadows: Avon; 1990; 0-380-75501-7; $3.95]
"the shape change abilities of the chaos lords" -4
0 Zelazny, Roger The Dream Master MP
[Baen; 1990; 0-671-69874-5; $3.50]
[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.]
0 Zelazny, Roger Lord of Light 11
[Avon; 1967; 380-00187-095; $.95]
"SF; body-swapping; not read" -11
0 Zelazny, Roger This Immortal 50
[Baen; 1989; 0-671-69848-6; $3.95]
"This may be the title Sam Bullard couldn't remember for you 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
0 Zindell, David Neverness 11
[Bantam Spectra; 1989; 0-553-27903-3; $4.95]
"SF; Genetic manipulation; not read" -11
THE LIST (SPOILER SECTION)
The remainder of this file contains "spoiler" information. Proceed at
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 this section now.
The next and final section contains info on short stories.
Author Title
S Awlinson, Richard Avatar series (Forgotten Realms)
S "Characters turn into gods at the end of the series." -54
S
S Baum, L. Frank The Land of Oz
S "Major spoiler: The ruler of Oz is transformed into a boy." -42
S
S Busby, F. M. The Breeds of Man
S "...The children produced to be resistant to the cause of the declining
S birth rates turn out to be cyclic hermaphrodites." -11
S
S Clement, Hal Circle of Fire
S "A classic of hard sf about a world apparently inhabited by two
S intelligent life forms. Major spoiler: They turn out to be alternating
S generations of the same species. Thought provoking. Again, I don't know
S whether it's on topic." -42
S Donaldson, Stephen Mythical Beast
S "The story of a man who suddenly and inexplicably starts to transform
S into a unicorn." -11
S
S Gunnarsson,
S Thorarinn Make Way for Dragons!
S [At the end of the book, the human wizard is changed into a dragon and
S goes to live with the good dragons in their world. -MP]
S
S Niles, Douglas Maztica series (Forgotten Realms)
S "Gods transform their worshippers into monsters (i.e. orcs, trolls). A
S very minor spoiler. Crucial to the plot; this is how the enemy army is
S built." -54
S
S O'Keefe, Claudia Black Snow Days
S "The book is about this guy who is in coma for 12 years after an
S accident. He is enhanced with cybernetic implants to survive in the
S nuclear winter and to help save ordinary people. He is basically the
S modern-day messiah who has trouble coping with his superhumanity." -56
This final section contains all the information on short stories,
including spoilers (which are at the very end of the file). For an
explanation of this list, and for the info on books, please see the
previous sections.
Author Title Mentioned by(+/0/-)
--------------------------------------- A --------------------------------
0 Aickman, Robert Ringing the Changes MP
[in Isaac Asimov's Magical Worlds of Fantasy 10: Ghosts; eds. Asimov,
Greenberg and Waugh; Signet; 1988; 0-451-15723-0; $4.50]
[Mind-swapping. -MP]
0 Aldiss, Brian Better Morphosis MP
[in Fantasy and Science Fiction, June 1991]
[Kafka's Metamorphosis, only in reverse; the cockroach transforms into
Kafka. -MP]
0 Aldiss, Brian Full Sun MP
[in Werewolf! by Pronzini]
[Werewolf vs. man vs. machine. -MP]
+ Aldridge, Ray Hyena Eyes MP//
[in Fantasy & Science Fiction, June 1990]
[A future world whose residents use technological means to transform
themselves mentally and physically into beasts to varying degrees. Very
interesting. -MP]
- Allen, J. B. Wash and Were //MP
[in Amazing Stories, March 1986]
[Reverse lycanthropy. -MP]
0 Anderson, Kevin J. Special Makeup 11/28/MP
[In The Ultimate Werewolf]
"Rating: 3 Type: L 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. -MP]
0 Anderson, Poul Call Me Joe 11
[In The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, vol. 2A; ed. Bova, Ben; Avon;
1974; 0-380-00038-5; $1.75]
[In The Great SF Stories: 19 (1957); eds. Asimov, Greenberg; DAW; 1989;
0-88677-326-1; $4.50]
"Short story(?); SF; artificial telepathy; not read" -11
+ Antieau, Kim The Mark of the Beast 11,MP/28
[In The Ultimate Werewolf; also in Werewolf!]
"Rating: 3 Type: L Significance: + Description: X Saturation: X" -11
"An interesting gothic style story." -28
[A very good older lycanthropy tale (though the lycanthropy isn't
conventional), with some interesting psychological aspects. -MP]
--------------------------------------- B --------------------------------
- Baker, Russell A Sinister Metamorphosis //MP
[in Shape Shifters]
[Humans try to mentally transform themselves into machines. Funny, but
very borderline for a shapeshifting anthology. -MP]
0 Barker, Clive The Madonna 11,MP
[in In the Flesh; Barker, Clive; Pocket; ?; 0-671-61270-0; $3.95]
"Rating: 3 Type: B Significance: 0 Description: + Saturation: 0.
Horror; creature changes men" -11
0 Baxter, Stephen Planck Zero 40,11
"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. -MP]
+ Bayley, Barrington Sporting with the Chid MP//
[in Changes]
[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. -MP]
Beagle, Peter S. The Last Unicorn
Beagle, Peter S. Lila the Werewolf
[See main file.]
0 Bear, Greg;
Stirling, S. M. The Man Who Would Be Kzin MP
[In The Man-Kzin Wars IV; Baen; 1991; 0-671-72079-1; $4.95]
[A human uses a sort of telepathic disguise ability to infiltrate the
Kzinti, and some interesting further changes result. -MP]
- Bishop, Michael The Monkey's Bride //MP
[in Heroic Visions; ed. Salmonson, Jessica Amanda; Ace; 1983;
0-441-32821-0; $2.75]
[A woman is forced to marry an ape-man. Semi-incidental
transformation near the end. -MP]
0 Bishop, Michael Rogue Tomato MP
[in Changes]
[A man changes into a planetary-sized tomato. -MP]
+ Bixby, Jerome It's a GOOD Life MP//
[in Mutants; ed. Silverberg, Robert; Corgi; 1977; 0-552-10387-X; 60p(UK)]
[in The Science Fiction Hall of Fame; ed. Silverberg, Robert; Avon; 1971;
380-00115-150; $1.50]
[A boy is born who can change everything around him, and his entire
town becomes a hostage to him. -MP]
0 Blackwood, Algernon The Valley of the Beasts MP
[in The Phoenix Tree; eds. Boyer, Robert and Zahorski, Kenneth; Avon;
1980; 0-380-76380-X; $2.50]
[Definitely has transformations; make up your own mind as to whether
they're mental or physical. -MP]
0 Blish, James Surface Tension 11,42,MP
[In many sources, including Analog 88/01, and The Science Fiction Hall of
Fame Vol. 1 (Avon; 1971; 380-00115-150; 1.50), and The Seedling Stars]
"SF; genetic manipulation; 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. -MP]
+ Blish, James There Shall Be No Darkness MP//
[in Werewolf! by Pronzini]
[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." -MP]
0 Boucher, Anthony The Ambassadors MP
[in Fifty Short Science Fiction Tales; eds. Asimov, Isaac and Conklin,
Groff; Collier; 1963; 0-02-016390-8; $2.95; 1963]
[in The Shape of Things by Asimov and Conklin]
[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. -MP]
+ Boucher, Anthony The Compleat Werewolf MP/10,11
[in The Compleat Werewolf; Boucher, Anthony; Ace; 1969; 441-11622-075; $.75]
[in The Compleat Werewolf; Boucher, Anthony; Carroll & Graf; 1990;
0-88184-557-4; $4.50]
"[one of] the two classic werewolf-as-hero stories...in his collection
of the same name" -10
"Rating: 3 Type: L 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. -MP]
- Boyd, John The Werebear and the Rainbow //MP
[in Amazing Stories, May 1985]
[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. -MP]
+ Brennert, Alan The Third Sex TG//
[in Pulphouse 3; ed. Kristine Kathryn Rusch]
[in The Year's Best Science Fiction, Seventh Annual Collection; ed. Gardner
Dozois; St. Martin's; 1990; ?]
0 Budrys, Algis Between the Dark and the Daylight MP
[in Changes]
[Humanity adapts itself, over generations, to a new world. We see the
parents of the final generation. -MP]
0 Busby, F. M. First Person Plural TG
[in Universe 10; ed. Terry Carr; Doubleday; ?; 1155; $1.00]
- Byram, George The Wonder Horse //MP
[in Mutants; eds. Asimov, Greenberg, and Waugh; Harper; 1988;
0-694-05629-4; $2.95]
[A mutation produces a horse capable of running like none before.
Borderline for a transformation list, but an interesting story anyway.-
MP]
--------------------------------------- C --------------------------------
0 Carr, Terry The Dance of the Changer and the
Three MP
[in Terry's Universe; TOR; 1989; 0-812-54592-3; $3.95]
[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. -MP]
0 Carter, Angela Master MP
[in Changes]
[A big game hunter is brought down by the jungle and his transformed
servant. -MP]
+ Charnas, Suzy Boobs 11//
[?]
"Rating: 3 Type: L Significance: + Description: 0 Saturation: +. The
story of a teen for whom adolescence brings more changes than normal."
-11
0 Charyn, Jerome At War With the Wolf Man 11,28
[In The Ultimate Werewolf]
"Rating: 3 Type: L Significance: + Description: - Saturation: -" -11
"Odd story, am still unsure if the changes are mental or physical." -28
+ Collins, Nancy A. Raymond 11/28/
[In The Ultimate Werewolf]
"Rating: 4 Type: L Significance: + Description: + Saturation: +" -11
"Story of an abused young werewolf." -28
- Coney, Michael G. The Byrds //MP
[in Changes]
[People with antigravity belts decide to live like birds. No actual
physical transformation, though. -MP]
0 Coville, Bruce The Passing of the Pack MP
[in Werewolves]
[A father passes on his curse and his pack to his son. -MP]
0 Cowper, Richard The Tithonian Factor MP
[in Changes]
[Immortality, as well as some sort of formchanging or astral
projection, I can't quite figure out which. -MP]
0 Crispin, A. C.;
O'Malley, Kathleen Pure Silver 28
[In The Ultimate Werewolf]
"A Jewish concentration camp survivor is hunting Nazis as a werewolf."
-28
0 Crompton, Anne E. Met By Moonlight MP
[in Werewolves]
0 Culbreath, Myrna;
Marshak, Sanrda The Procrustean Petard 3,60
[in Star Trek: The New Voyages 2; ?]
"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
+ Curtis, Richard The Boy Who Would Be Wolf MP//
[in Shape Shifters]
[A fourteen-year-old manages to make himself a werewolf, after several
false starts. Very good ending. -MP]
--------------------------------------- D --------------------------------
0 Davidson, Avram Loups-Garous (short verse) MP
[in Werewolf! by Pronzini]
[A doctor has no problem empathizing with his patient. -MP]
0 Davol, Marguerite W Flesh and Blood MP
[in Werewolves]
0 de Camp, L. Sprague Hyperpilosity MP
[in The Best of L. Sprague de Camp; Del Rey; 1986; 0-345-32930-9; $3.50]
[in The Omnibus of Science Fiction; ed. Conklin, Groff; Chatham River;
1984; 0-517-45370-3; $9.00 softcover]
[All of humanity suddenly starts sprouting fur. Interesting social
changes result. -MP]
0 de Lint, Charles One Chance MP
[in Werewolves]
- de Maupassant, Guy Wolf, The //MP
[in Werewolf! by Pronzini]
[Hard to tell where the transformation is in this one, if any. An
interesting read, though. -MP]
+ del Rey, Lester Reincarnate MP//
[in The Early Del Rey 1; Ballantine; 1976; 0-345-25063-X; $1.95]
[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. -MP]
0 Dickson, Gordon R. Tiger Green MP
[in Gordon R. Dickson's SF Best; Dell; 1978; 0-440-13181-2; $1.75]
[An alien race and planet tries to transform human visitors into
thinking its way. -MP]
0 Dinesen, Isak The Sailor-Boy's Tale MP
[in Shape Shifters]
[The protagonist rescues a falcon, and the falcon later returns the
favor as a woman. -MP]
- Disch, Thomas M. The New Me //MP
[in Changes]
[Sort of self-help groups taken to their ridiculous conclusion. -MP]
0 Donaldson, Stephen Daughter of Regals 4,11,21
[in Daughter of Regals & Other Tales; Del Rey; 1990; 0-345-31443-3; $5.95]
"(from the anthology of the same name) - Weredragon!" -4
"Rating: 4 Type: L Significance: + Description: 0 Saturation: -" -11
+ Donaldson, Stephen Mythical Beast 11//
[in Daughter of Regals & Other Tales]
"Rating: 4 Type: L Significance: + Description: + Saturation: 0..." -11
[See Spoiler Section for more info]
0 Doyle, Debra;
Macdonald, J. D. Bad Blood MP
[in Werewolves]
--------------------------------------- E --------------------------------
+ Elliott, Bruce Wolves Don't Cry MP//
[in Werewolf! by Pronzini]
[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. -MP]
0 Ellison, Harlan Adrift Just Off the Islets of
Langerhans: Latitude 38 54' N
Longitude 77 00'13" W 28
[In The Ultimate Werewolf]
"A different look at 'The Wolfman' seeking help from his old scientist
buddy, Victor. Not bad, but a bit odd." -28
0 Ellison, Harlan I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream 51,MP
[in I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream; Ace; 1983; 0-441-36394-6; $2.95]
[in Survival Printout; by Total Effect; Vintage; 1973; 0-394-71857-7;
$1.95]
"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. -MP]
0 Ellison, Harlan "I'm Looking for Kadak" 40
[In Wandering Stars, ed. Jack Dann; Pocket; 1975; 671-78789-6-150; $1.50]
"A nogoodnik gets turned into a butterfly." -40
[Among other things. -MP]
- Ellison, Harlan L is for Loup-Garou //MP
[in One Hundred Great Fantasy Short Short Stories; eds. Asimov, Carr,
Greenberg; Avon; 1985; 0-380-69917-6; $2.95]
[If you're going to kill a werewolf, you'd better keep up with the
times. -MP]
0 Emerson, Ru The Werewolf's Gift MP
[in Werewolves]
--------------------------------------- F --------------------------------
0 Fahy, Christopher Transformations MP
[in Isaac Asimov's Magical Worlds of Fantasy 11: Curses; eds. Asimov,
Greenberg, Waugh; Signet; 1989; 0-451-16305-2; $4.50]
[A copy machine that can extract and purify the goodness out of
anything it copies, and leave the mediocrity behind. -MP]
0 Farmer, Philip Jose Wolf, Iron, And Moth 11,28
[In The Ultimate Werewolf]
"Rating: 3 Type: L Significance: 0 Description: X Saturation: X" -11
"An interesting story of a werewolf and the local sheriff." -28
+ Fast, Howard The Mouse MP//
[in Flying Saucers; eds. Asimov, Greenberg and Waugh; Fawcett; 1987;
0-449-21400-1; $3.95]
[Aliens give a mouse the "gift" of intelligence--but it turns out to be
a terrible curse. A fascinating story on several levels. -MP]
0 Flynn, Michael Werehouse 28,MP
[In The Nanotech Chronicles, by Michael Flynn; Baen; 1991; 0-671-72080-5;
$4.95]
"...explores the uses of nanotechnology to induce shapeshifting." -28
[A sort of cyberpunk lycanthropy. -MP]
--------------------------------------- G --------------------------------
0 Gardner, Craig Shaw Day of the Wolf MP/11,28/
[In The Ultimate Werewolf]
"Rating: 4 Type: L Significance: + Description: - Saturation: -
[I laughed out of sheer admiration of this one for hours. I couldn't
even really tell you why, but I did. -MP]
[See Spoiler Section for more info]
0 Gilden, Mel Moonlight On the Gazebo 11,28
[In The Ultimate Werewolf]
"Rating: 4 Type: L Significance: + Description: 0 Saturation: -" -11
"A well written alternate world story with the shapechanger being the
public executioner." -28
0 Gold, Horace L. No Charge for Alterations MP
[in The Best from Amazing Stories; ed. White, Ted; Manor; 1973;
532-00225-095; $0.95]
[Physical and mental alterations through advanced science, to change
space colony residents to fit the colony. -MP]
[all six Ron Goulart stories in The Chameleon Corps and Other Shapechangers]
0 Goulart, Ron Ignatz MP
[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.
-MP]
0 Goulart, Ron Subject to Change MP
[A kleptomaniac actress finds a way to really live her parts. -MP]
0 Goulart, Ron Please Stand By MP
[A man changes into an elephant. On all national holidays. I am not
making this up. -MP]
0 Goulart, Ron Shandy MP
[A strange pet that can change into assorted animal shapes, and
eventually human. -MP]
0 Goulart, Ron Change Over MP
[A king is addicted to a drug that triggers shapechanges, which makes
things rather unpleasant for those around him. -MP]
- Goulart, Ron Looking Into It //MP
[No real transformations, except a lot of clever mikes and disguises.
-MP]
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0 Hall, Donald The Wonderful Dog Suit MP
[in Shape Shifters]
[Moral: Don't give your brilliant child a dog suit as a present. -MP]
- Hamilton, Edmond He That Hath Wings //MP
[in Mutants; eds. Asimov, Greenberg, and Waugh; Harper; 1988;
0-694-05629-4; $2.95]
[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. -MP]
- Hamilton, Edmond The Man Who Evolved //MP
[In Before the Golden Age; Asimov, Isaac (ed.); Doubleday; 1974;
0-385-02419-3; $16.95 hardback]
[In The Best of Edmond Hamilton; Doubleday; SFBC; 1977]
[Transformation through rapidly-accelerated evolution. Rather
stereotypical, but still interesting, though probably not worth digging
up the book. -MP]
0 Hasse, Harry He Who Shrank MP
[in Before the Golden Age; ed. Asimov, Isaac; Doubleday; 1974;
0-385-02419-3; $16.95 hardback]
[in Adventures in Time and Space; eds. Healy, Haymond L. and McComas, J.F.;
Ballantine; 1979; 0-345-28925-0; $9.95 softcover]
[in Isaac Asimov's Magical Worlds of Fantasy 5: Giants; eds. Asimov,
Greenberg and Waugh; Signet; 1985; 0-451-13922-4; $3.95]
[A man is injected with a chemical that causes him to continually
shrink, eventually entering subatomic universes. -MP]
0 Heinlein, Robert A. All You Zombies TG
[in Fantasy & Science Fiction, March 1959]
[in 6 X H; Heinlein, Robert A.; ?]
0 Heydron, Vicki Ann Cat Tale MP
[in Greyhaven; ed. Bradley, Marion Zimmer; DAW; 1983; 0-87997-815-5; $2.50]
[A woman rescues a magical creature and unknowingly gets a wish. As
fate would have it, her next wish is to be a cat. -MP]
+ Hoffman, Nina Kiriki Unleashed 11/28
[in The Ultimate Werewolf]
"Rating: 5 Type: L Significance: + Description: 0 Saturation: +..." -11
"Very good, The transformations in this one are not what you would
expect." -28
[See Spoiler Section for more information]
0 Hogan, James Identity Crisis TG
[in Stellar 7; ed. Judy-Lynn Del Rey; Del Rey; 1981; 0-345-29473-4; $2.50]
0 Housman, Clemence The Were-Wolf MP
[in Werewolf! by Pronzini]
[A classic werewolf tale, with some tragic romance thrown in. -MP]
0 Hussey, Leigh Ann The White Wolf MP
[in Werewolves]
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0 Ingalls, Rachel Blessed Art Thou 3,TG
[in I See a Long Journey; Ingalls, Rachel; ?]
"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
0 Iverson, Eric G. Blue Fox and Werewolf MP
[in Amazing Stories, September 1983]
[Lycanthropy. -MP]
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--------------------------------------- K --------------------------------
0 Kaminsky, Stuart Full Moon Over Moscow 28
[In The Ultimate Werewolf]
"Now that the party has erased tradition who remembers the warnings
about werewolves?" -28
? Keizer, Gregg What Seen But the Wolf MP
[in Isaac Asimov's Fantasy!; ed. McCarthy, Shawna; Dial Press; 1985;
0-385-23017-6; $12.95 hardback]
[Haven't finished reading it, but appears to be an interesting
Viking lycanthropy story -MP]
+ Keyes, Daniel Flowers for Algernon (book and ss) MP//
[see book list for info]
0 Killough, Lee The Leopard's Daughter (book and ss) MP
[see book list for info]
0 Kimbriel, Katharine Night Calls MP
[in Werewolves]
+ Kipling, Rudyard Mark of the Beast MP//
[in Werewolf! by Pronzini] [in The Ultimate Werewolf]
[One of the classics. Lycanthropy through a curse. -MP]
0 Knight, Damon 'Maid to Measure' 38
[in 100 Great Science Fiction Short Short Stories; eds. Asimov, Greenberg,
Olander; Avon; 1980; 0-380-50773-0; $2.95]
"Short, but worth it. Fantasy." -38
0 Koja, Kathe Angels' Moon 11,28
[In The Ultimate Werewolf]
"Rating: 3 Type: L Significance: + Description: 0 Saturation: -" -11
"A very strange short story from a werewolf's point of view." -28
0 Kuttner, Henry A Gnome There Was 29,MP
[In The Great SF Stories: 3; eds. Asimov, Greenberg; DAW; 1980;
0-87997-523-7; $2.25]
[In The Best of Harry Kuttner; Kuttner, Henry; Nelson Doubleday; ?]
"a truly bizarre 'transformation' story... more like fantasy than SF."
-29
[Definitely lands a + Saturation rating... A human is changed into a
gnome, and the gnome leader can shapechange others. -MP]
--------------------------------------- L --------------------------------
+ Lafferty, R. A. Once on Arenea MP//
[in Changes]
[A man and his dog get involuntarily introduced to an alien ecosystem's
shapeshifting customs. -MP]
0 Lee, Tanith A Day in the Skin 3,TG
[in Tales of Dark and Light; ?]
"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
0 Le Guin, Ursula K. The Rule of Names MP
[in Bestiary; eds. Dann, Jack and Dozois, Gardner; Ace; 1985;
0-441-05506-0; $2.95]
[in The Fantastic Imagination; eds. Boyer, Robert H. and Zahorski, Kenneth
J.; Avon; 1977; 0-380-00956-0; $2.25]
[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. -MP]
0 Le Guin, Ursula K. The Wife's Story MP
[in Changes]
[A lycanthropy story with a difference which I'll tell you in the
Spoiler Section. -MP]
0 Leiber, Fritz The Hound MP
[in Werewolf! by Pronzini]
[A sort of supernatural city force that haunts a man and possesses
things and people around him. -MP]
0 Linaweaver, Brad Close Shave 28
[In The Ultimate Werewolf]
"Fun story about a barber who tries to cure a curse. Also a parody of
the old B horror movies." -28
0 Longyear, Barry Savage Planet TG
[?]
--------------------------------------- M --------------------------------
0 MacDonald, George The Gray Wolf MP
[in Masterpieces of Fantasy and Wonder; ed. Hartwell, David G.; Guild
America; ?]
[A man stays the night with a werewolf and her mother. -MP]
0 Malzberg, Barry N. Nightshapes MP
[in Werewolf! by Pronzini]
[A man tries to cure his wife's lycanthropy. Pronzini liked this one a
lot; I wasn't quite as impressed. -MP]
0 Marryat, Frederick The White Wolf of the Hartz
Mountains MP
[in A Walk With the Beast; ed. Collins, Charles M.; Avon; 1969;
380-26476-125; $1.25]
[Never blow your wife away, even if she *is* a werewolf. -MP]
0 Masterton, Graham Changeling 11,TG
[in Hot Blood; Pocket; ?; 0-671-66424-7; $3.95]
"Rating: 4 Type: M Significance: + Description: - Saturation: 0. S;
Alien granted ability. An extended one-night stand brings unexpected
results." -11
0 McCaffrey, Anne The Ship Who Sang 36
[short story in A Science Fiction A to Z; eds. Asimov, Greenberg, Waugh;
Houghton Mifflin; 1982; 0-395-31285-X; $22.95 hardcover]
[short story in The Great Science Fiction Series; eds. Pohl, Greenberg,
Olander; Harper & Row; 1980; 0-06-013382-1, $16.95 hardcover]
"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
0 McElroy, Wendy Werewolf (poem) MP
[in Amazing Stories, September 1984]
[Lycanthropy. -MP]
- Michaux, Henri And More Changes Still //MP
[in SF 12; ed. Merril, Judith; Dell; 1969; 7815; $0.75]
[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. -MP]
0 Moon, Elizabeth The Happy Frog MP
[in Fantasy & Science Fiction, July 1989]
[A frog-prince story. -MP]
0 Murphy, Pat South of Oregon City 28
[in The Ultimate Werewolf]
"Werewolf in the old west." -28
--------------------------------------- N --------------------------------
? Niven, Larry Flare TG
[in Limits; ?]
+ Niven, Larry There's a Wolf In My Time Machine 11/28,MP/
[In The Ultimate Werewolf]
"Rating: 3 Type: L Significance: + Description: X Saturation: X" -11
"Part of Niven's time collector series." -28
[Shapechanging by transferring into an alternate universe with
different evolutionary selections. -MP]
--------------------------------------- O --------------------------------
- Oppenheim,Shulamith The Stranger //MP
[in Shape Shifters]
[Werefoxes, though no transformation takes place during the story. -MP]
--------------------------------------- P --------------------------------
0 Pohl, Frederik My Life as a Born-Again Pig MP
[in Synergy 1; ed. Zebrowski, George; HBJ; 1987; 0-15-687700-7; $5.95]
[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. -MP]
0 Pronzini, Bill Ancient Evil 28
[In The Ultimate Werewolf]
"Another story that's hard to decide if it's about a madman or a shape-
changer." -28
- Pronzini, Bill How Now Purple Cow //MP
[in One Hundred Great Science Fiction Short Short Stories]
[Utterly silly little story about, well, a purple cow. -MP]
--------------------------------------- Q --------------------------------
0 Quick, W. T. Whatever Gets You Through the Night TG
[in Amazing Stories; March 1990]
--------------------------------------- R --------------------------------
+ Randisi, Robert J. Partners 11/28,MP/
[In The Ultimate Werewolf]
"Rating: 3 Type: L 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. :) -MP]
0 Reaves, J. Michael Werewind MP
[in Fantasy Annual V; ed. Carr, Terry; Pocket; 1982; 0-671-45436-6; $2.95]
[in Best Horror Stories from F&SF Vol. 1; St. Martin's; 1989;
0-312-91499-7; $3.95]
[You can probably guess from the title. Human into windstorm. -MP]
+ Reed, Kit Sisohpromatem MP//
[in Changes]
[Kafka's Metamorphosis neatly reversed; a cockroach changes into a
human, again with interesting mental transformation. -MP]
0 Richard, Michael N. The Lion of Elirhom's Anger MP
[in Heroic Visions 2; ed. Salmonson, Jessica Amanda; Ace; 1986;
0-441-32822-9; $2.95]
[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. -MP]
0 Rucker, Rudy The Indian Rope Trick Explained MP
[in Changes]
[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. -MP]
? Russell, Eric Frank Metamorphosite MP
[in The Best of Eric Frank Russell]
--------------------------------------- S --------------------------------
+ Saki (H.H. Munro) Gabriel-Ernest MP//
[in Werewolf! by Pronzini] [in Shape Shifters]
[One of the more ironic stories I've ever read, definitely worth
seeking out. -MP]
0 Scarborough,
Elizabeth Wolf from the Door MP
[in Werewolves]
0 Schmitz, James Company Planet 38
[in The Telzey Toy; ?]
"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. Judas Fish MP//
[in Shape Shifters]
[The protagonist eats a squidlike creature in an undersea station, and
turns into one, in a hard-to-describe way. Very interesting. -MP]
0 Scortia, Thomas N. Sea Change MP
[in Human-Machines; eds. Scortia, Thomas N. and Zebrowski, George; Vintage;
1975; 0-394-71607-8; $2.95]
[Sort of like "The Ship Who Sang"; the minds of accident victims
transferred into robots and spacecraft. -MP]
0 Sharkey, Jack No Harm Done MP
[in 101 Science Fiction Stories; eds. Greenberg and Waugh; Avenel; 1986;
0-517-60669-0; ? hardback]
[in Science Fiction A to Z; eds. Asimov, Greenberg, Waugh; Houghton
Mifflin; 1982; 0-395-31285-X; $22.95 hardback]
[A new device designed to stimulate the minds of catatonic people has
an unexpected effect. -MP]
0 Sheckley, Robert Shape MP
[in The Arbor House Treasury of Modern Science Fiction; eds. Silverberg and
Greenberg; Priam; 1980; 0-87795-266-3; $8.95 softcover]
[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? -MP]
? Sheffield, Charles Legacy MP
[in Changes]
? Shwartz, Susan The Wolf's Flock MP
[in Werewolves]
+ Silverberg, Robert The Conglomeroid Cocktail Party 40
[in The Conglomeroid Cocktail Party; Silverberg, Robert; Spectra; 1985;
0-553-25077-9; $2.95]
"A party for the upscale, who change their bodies as a way of keeping
up with the Joneses." -40
0 Silverberg, Robert Ringing the Changes MP
[in Alchemy and Academe; ed. McCaffrey, Anne; Ballantine; 1986;
0-345-34419-7; $2.95]
[in Isaac Asimov's Magical Worlds of Fantasy 10: Ghosts; eds. Asimov,
Greenberg, Waugh; Signet; 1988; 0-451-15723-0; $4.50]
[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'. -MP]
- Silverberg, Robert The Werewolf Gambit /28/11
[In The Ultimate Werewolf]
"Rating: 4 Type: L Significance: 0 Description: - Saturation: -" -11
"The old pickup line of 'I'm a werewolf.' Well, as usual, it goes
wrong." -28
Silverberg, Robert World of a Thousand Colors 40
[in World of a Thousand Colors; ?]
"Winners of a selection procedure become the colors of the rainbow."
-40
+ Simak, Clifford Desertion 11,MP//
[in Changes]
[in Survival Printout; ed. Total Effect; Vintage; 1973; 0-394-71857-7;
$1.95]
[in Skirmish; Simak, Clifford D.; Berkley; 1978; 0-425-03821-1; $1.95]
[in The Road to Science Fiction 3; ed. Gunn, James; Mentor; 1979;
0-451-61784-3; $2.75]
[in many other sources]
"Rating: 3 Type: B Significance: + Description: X Saturation: X. SF
short story; genetic manipulation" -11
[This is one where I have to disagree with Joe Huber's excellent
ratings; I found this story to be great, at least a 4, probably a 5 with
me. It's very widely printed; the odds are that anyone with a fairly
good-sized anthology collection has it somewhere. -MP]
0 Smith, Clark Ashton A Prophecy of Monsters MP
[in Werewolf! by Pronzini]
[Lycanthropy in the twenty-first century, and a new occupational
hazard for werewolves. -MP]
0 Smith, Sherwood Monster Mash MP
[in Werewolves]
[Life as a teenager is complicated enough without having to deal with
lycanthropy too... -MP]
- Stockton, Frank R. The Bee-man of Om //MP
[in Masterpieces of Fantasy and Enchantment; ed. Hartwell, David G.; Nelson
Doubleday; 1988; ?]
[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. -MP]
0 Stoker, Bram Dracula's Guest MP
[in Werewolf! by Pronzini]
[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. -MP]
0 Strickland, Brad And The Moon Shines Full And Bright 28
[In The Ultimate Werewolf]
"The men of the future have a human solution to the problem of the
werewolf." -28
--------------------------------------- T --------------------------------
0 Tevis, Walter S. The Apothesis of Myra MP
[in Changes]
[Transformation through a sort of reincarnation on an alien planet.
-MP]
0 Turner, Ann Warren Moon Change MP
[in Shape Shifters]
[Protagonist magically changes into a cat. -MP]
+ Turtledove, Harry Not All Wolves MP//
[in Werewolves]
What do werewolves and Jews have in common? Read this excellent story
and find out, along with the protagonist. -MP]
? Tuttle, Lisa;
Utley, Steven Flies By Night MP
[in Changes]
--------------------------------------- U --------------------------------
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? van Vogt, A. E. short stories 33
[try The Best of A.E. van Vogt; ed. Malzberg, Barry; Pocket; 1976;
0-671-80546-0; $1.95]
"...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.? -MP]
0 van Vogt, A. E. The Enchanted Village 10,20,MP
[in Shape Shifters]
[See Spoiler section for more info]
0 van Vogt, A. E. The Silkie 22,MP
[in If Reader of Science Fiction; ed. Pohl, Frederik; Ace; 1966; H-19;
$.60]
[Assorted races of shapechangers. -MP]
0 van Vogt, A. E. Vault of the Beast MP
[in The Great SF Stories 2 (1940); eds. Asimov and Greenberg; DAW;1979;
0-87997-483-4; $2.25]
[A shapeshifting alien; I'm told it's very good, but I haven't
finished it. -MP]
0 Varley, John The Barbie Murders 11/TG
[in The Barbie Murders; Varley, John; Orbit; ?; 0-7088-8097-5; UK: #2.50]
"Rating: 4 Type: B Significance: + Description: - Saturation: -. S;
Advanced medical" -11
+ Varley, John Options 11,TG//
[in Blue Champagne; Varley, John; Berkley; ?; 0-425-09336-0; $2.95]
"Rating: 4 Type: M Significance: + Description: 0 Saturation: 0. S;
Advanced medical" -11
0 Varley, John Overdrawn at the Memory Bank MP
[in Galaxy: Best of My Years; Baen, James (ed.); Ace; 1980; 0-441-27296-7;
$2.25]
[in Persistence of Vision; Varley, John; Berkley; 1984; 0-425-07300-9;
$2.95]
[in Galaxy: 30 Years of Innovative Science Fiction; eds. Pohl, Greenberg,
Olander; Playboy; 1980; SFBC]
[in Annual World's Best SF: 1977; ed. Wollheim, Donald A.; DAW; 1977;
0-87997-297-1; $1.75]
[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. -MP]
0 Varley, John Picnic at Nearside TG
[in Fantasy & Science Fiction, August 1974]
[in Picnic at Nearside (aka The Barbie Murders); Varley, John; ?]
--------------------------------------- W --------------------------------
0 Watson, Ian The Day of the Wolf MP
[in Changes]
[Innocent old granny gets eaten by marauding wolf...not. -MP]
0 Weinberg, Robert Wolf Watch 11,28
[In The Ultimate Werewolf]
"Rating: 4 Type: L 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. -MP]
- Wellen, Edward Waswolf //MP
[in Fantasy & Science Fiction, 09/87]
[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. -MP]
0 Wells, H. G. The Island of Dr. Moreau 42,47
[in The Complete Science Fiction Treasury of H. G. Wells; Wells, H. G.;
Avenel; 1979; 0-517-26188-X; $15.00 hardback]
"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
? Whittington, Mary Wolfskin MP
[in Werewolves]
0 Wolfe, Gene The Dark of the June MP
[in Changes]
[Transformations into ghosts, or into another dimension, or into
something... it's hard to tell exactly. -MP]
--------------------------------------- X --------------------------------
--------------------------------------- Y --------------------------------
0 Yolen, Jane Green Messiah MP
[in Werewolves]
[Scientifically-induced lycanthropy, that doesn't work out quite as the
scientists plan. -MP]
0 Yolen, Jane Johanna MP
[in Shape Shifters]
[see Spoiler Section for more info]
--------------------------------------- Z --------------------------------
0 Zelazny, Roger He Who Shapes MP
[in The Last Defender of Camelot; Zelazny, Roger; Pocket; 1980;
0-671-41773-8; $2.50]
[The novella from which The Dream Master was based. In the
introduction, Zelazny says that he prefers this to The Dream Master. -MP]
Once again, my thanks to everyone who sent me ideas, and if you can
think of any transformation works not on the list above, or any corrections
or additional comments on listed works, please let me know.
THE SHORT STORY LIST (SPOILER SECTION)
The remainder of this section contains "spoiler" information on short
stories. Proceed at 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 spoiler info, you can stop reading now.
S Gardner, Craig Shaw Day of the Wolf
S "This one is good, the author sets out to catch you on your
S expectations, if you're not careful. A bit of a spoiler--the protagonist
S is not a werewolf but a catalyst for creating werewolves." -28
S
S Hoffman, Nina Kiriki Unleashed
S "Werewolf meets wereman." -11
S
S Le Guin, Ursula K. The Rule of Names
S [Le Guin seems to like stories that reverse your expectations. When
S the wizard uses his enemy's true name to force him into his true shape,
S it turns out that the enemy wizard is actually the dragon, who toasts the
S wizard and then goes out for a snack. -MP]
S Le Guin, Ursula K. The Wife's Story
S [Due to the way it's told you probably won't catch onto this until the
S very end, but it's a reverse-lycanthropy story; a wolf turns into a man
S under the full sun, and eventually gets hunted down by his own pack. -MP]
S
S van Vogt, A. E. The Enchanted Village
S "There is a relatively classic short story of a space-wrecked man
S transformed into an alien by an alien city, allowing him to survive. The
S author and title are long forgotten, but the final scene has the hero
S smoothing his whiskers and having a tail." -20
S [Hopefully this is the one he meant, anyway... In any case, it's very
S good. Giving away the ending might constitute a spoiler, though. -MP]
S
S Yolen, Jane Johanna
S [A woman is turned into a deer by the magic of a forest. -MP]
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