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Books A (p. 2)

Books: A (p. 1 of 2)

Aaronovitch, Ben

Transit {/103/} [BBT]

[Virgin; 1992; 0426203854; ?] [BB]
[London Bridge Mass Market; 1993; 0426203844; $6.99] [BB]

• Rating: 3 Significance: 0 Description: 0 Saturation: -. A book in the "New Adventures of Dr. Who" series. An incorporeal entity invades a teleportational subway network in the earth's future. It captures some people, turning them into its minions by both taking over their minds and physically transforming them into powerful killers. -103

Adams, Douglas [AL] [BL]

The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul {/40/11} [BBT]

[Pocket; 1991; 0671742515; $6.99] [BBT]

• Rating: 2  Significance: -. The sequel to Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency. -11
• Certain Norse gods deal with perceived pests by transformation. A lurking refrigerator transforms itself into a new horror. -40

Ahern, Jerry; Ahern, Sharon

WerewolveSS {/83,87,154/} [BBT]

[Pinnacle; 1990; 1558173358, $4.50] [BB]

• [Result: LY.] Lycanthropy. -83
• Giggle. Snort. Nazi werewolves. Thousands of Nazi werewolves. Trying to take over the world. Reads like it was James Bond meets Godzilla. A few good scenes are overwhelmed by the tacky climax. -87
• Lycanthropy. -154

Ahlberg, Allan [??]

Woof! {/148/} [??] [BBT]

[Puffin; ?; 0140319964; $?] [BB]
[Viking; 1986; 0670808326; $11.95] [BB]

• [Rating: 3 Result: BX/AN Significance: 0 Description: + Saturation: +.] Summary: (from the back of the book) "Eric is a perfectly ordinary boy. Perfectly ordinary that is, until the night when, safely tucked up in bed, he slowly but surely turns into a dog! What becomes of Eric--the adventures he has with his best friend Roy, and their joint efforts to puzzle out the reason for his transformation--makes a very funny and entirely believable book."
  Personal Notes: It was a good read, the transformations descriptive and somewhat saturated. Important (integral, in fact) to the plot. Probably a 3 of 4, good but not one you would read several times over. -148 (98/02/11)

Akers, Alan Burt [??]

Dray Prescot 33: Werewolves of Kregen {/87,154/} [??] [BBT]

[New American Library; 1985; 0879979917; $?] [BB]

• Poorly-written high-tech sword & sorcery with werewolves as cannon fodder. Nifty cover on the first printing. -87
• [Result: LY.] Lycanthropy. -154

Aldiss, Brian [SS] [AL]

Helliconia Spring and sequels {/22/} [BBT]

[Helliconia Spring: Berkley; 1984; 0425073289; $3.50] [BR] [BB] [BBT]
[Helliconia Spring: Berkley; 1983; 0425061868; $?] [BB]
[Helliconia Summer: Berkley; 1988; 0441326323; $?] [BB] [BBT]
[Helliconia Winter: Berkley; 1987; 0441326293; $?] [BB] [BBT]

• Summer/winter climate adaptation. -22

Starswarm {/11/} [BBT]

[Pocket; 1985; 0671559990; $2.95] [BB]

• SF; Cause: GM; not read. -11

Allen, Roger MacBride

The Modular Man {103//} [BBT]

[Bantam Spectra; 1992; 0553295594; ?] [BB]

• Rating: 5 Significance: + Description: + Saturation: -. A dying inventor transfers his mind into a robot's brain, the first such transfer to ever be done. The story is about the legal battle that ensues, as the government tries to prove that he's legally dead so that a class of wealthy immortals won't develop and his wife defends him. Her job is complicated by the fact that the transfer went slightly wrong, and her husband isn't fully aware or in control. In fact, she believes that he didn't survive but wants to make sure that others in the future can try the same thing he did. Did I mention that she's a quadruple amputee? -103

Almquist, Gregg

Wolf Kill {/Ph,154/} [BBT]

[Pocket; 1990; 0671671847; $4.50]! [BB]

• Result: LY. Lycanthropy story; not read. -Ph
• Lycanthropy. -154

Andersen, Hans C.

The Little Mermaid {/3/} [BBT]

[Hyperion; 1997; 0786803835; $11.95]! [BB]

• About a mermaid who becomes human. -3

Anderson, Poul [SS] [AL] [BL] [BR]

Brain Wave {/22/} [BBT]

[Ballantine; 1974; 345-24685-3-150; $1.50] [BB]
[Ballantine; 1985; 0345325214; $?] [BB]

• Result: MP. Mind power increase. -22

Operation Chaos {/10,11,31/} [RR] [BBT]

[Berkley; 1978; 0425037509; $1.75] [BB]
[Baen; 1992; 067172102X; $3.99] [BB]

• [Result: LY.] [One of] the two classic werewolf-as-hero stories. -10
• Series; Fantasy; lycanthropy; not read. -11
• One of the main characters is a werewolf. -31

Three Hearts and Three Lions {/Ph/} [BBT]

[Berkley; 1978; 425-03680-4; ?] [BB]
[Baen; 1993; 0671721860; $4.99] [BB]

• On a list of transformation stories, but not read. -Ph

Anstey, F.

Vice Versa {/117/} [BBT]

[Viking; 1985; 0140350675; $?] [BB]

• [Result: MT.] ...Several films were made almost simultaneously a few years back about adolescent boys swapping bodies with grown men - one was actually given the title "Vice Versa" - but none had the grace to acknowledge Anstey's inspiration... C.S. Lewis said that the book communicates, better than any realistic novel, the dreadful experience of leaving a snug middle-class home for the horrors of an English boarding school. -117

Anthony, Piers [AL] [BL] [BR] [DZ]

• BTW, all of Piers Anthony's in-print books are available directly from Piers by calling 1-800-HI-PIERS. -163

Apprentice Adept series {/11,42,54,TG,158/} [BBT]

[1:Split Infinity: Ballantine; 1987; 0345354915; $5.95] [BB] [BBT]
[2:Blue Adept: Ballantine; 1991; 0345352459; $5.95] [BB] [BBT]
[3:Juxtaposition: Ballantine; 1991; 0345349342; $5.95] [BB] [BBT]
[4:Out of Phaze: Ace; 1994; 0441644651; $5.99] [BB] [BBT]
[5:Robot Adept: Ace; 1989; 044173118X; $5.99] [BB] [BBT]
[6:Unicorn Point: Ace; 1990; 0441846530; $5.99] [BB] [BBT]
[7:Phaze Doubt: Ace; 1994; 0441662633; $5.99] [BB] [BBT]

• My wife's rating: Significance: + Description: - Saturation: X. -11
• All seven...books involve shapechangers--primarily werewolves and shapechanging unicorns. -42
• There is also an alien whose native form is a blob of jello, which can shapeshift to any form. (Unimportant to the plot; allows some things to take place, but they could have been accomplished in other ways.) -54
• It includes both rampant shapechanging and mind/body exchanges as the major staples of the plot. -158

Cluster series {/11,18,20,39,42/} [BBT] (98/02/14)

[1:Cluster: Avon; 1977; 0380017555; $2.95] [BB] [BBT]
[2:Chaining the Lady: Avon; 1978; 0380017792; $2.50] [BB] [BBT]
[3:Kirlian Quest: Avon; 1978; 0380017784; $?]* [BB] [BBT]
[4:Thousandstar: Avon; 1980; 0380755564; $?] [BB] [BBT]
[5:Viscous Circle: Avon; 1982; 0380798972; $?] [BB] [BBT]

• On Cluster alone:
  • Rating: 3 Result: MT Significance: - Description: 0 Saturation: +. First in a series; SF; Space travel into empty body. -11
• On all above:
  • [Result: MT?/ST?.] Deals with the transportation of a person's 'mind and soul?' into other bodies. I really enjoyed the idea behind Viscous Circle. -18
  • ...Has one/several(?) stories involving a consciousness transference, allowing beings to enter the bodies of aliens (a bit of a stretch for transformation). -20

Incarnations of Immortality series {/11,90,158/} [BBT]

[1:On a Pale Horse: Ballantine; 1989; 0345338588; $5.95] [BB] [BBT] {90//}
[2:Bearing an Hourglass: Ballantine; 1991; 0345313151; $5.95] [BB] [BBT]
[3:With a Tangled Skein: Ballantine; 1990; 0345318854; $5.95] [BB] [BBT]
[4:Wielding a Red Sword: Ballantine; 1987; 0345322215; $5.95] [BB] [BBT]
[5:Being a Green Mother: Ballantine; 1990; 0345322231; $5.95] [BB] [BBT]
[6:For Love of Evil: Avon; 1996; 0380752859; $5.99] [BB] [BBT]
[7:And Eternity: Avon; 1991; 0380752867; $5.99] [BB] [BBT] {/11/}

• On On a Pale Horse only:
  • Rating: 5 Cause: MA Result: BX Significance: + Description: 0 Saturation: 0. ...The main transformation is the hero becoming Death... Definitely his best book and a pretty good fantasy book in general. It doesn't have all the awful puns which ruin his other work. There are transformation themes throughout the books...(a ring that becomes a snake and Satan turns into other things and so on)..., but in particular in On a Pale Horse there is a really cool one--a horse that changes into a car! This is used quite extensively throughout the book. [The rest of the series is not recommended.] -90
• On And Eternity only:
  • Cause: MA Result: GC Significance: 0. Fantasy; Not read... A woman is magically transformed into a man, and rapes the woman she's travelling with. To provide justice, a goddess changes the first woman back, transforms the second woman into a man, and allows her/him to rape the first woman. Don't know about the rest of the book, but it is the seventh book in an Anthony N-ology..." -11
  • The description you got of the TG in And Eternity is inaccurate. The Goddess changes the first women into a man, who tries to rape the other women, intercedes(offers herself) and then reverses the positions, and has sex with the second women to teach them a lesson about male nature. I would also like to recommend For Love of Evil. -158 (98/02/14)

Macroscope {/42/11} [BBT]

[Avon; 1969; 0380002094; $3.95] [BB]

• Rating: 4 Result: MT Significance: 0 Description: - Saturation: -. -11
• Consciousness transference plays an important, though not central, role in Macroscope, which is probably Piers Anthony's best book. -42

Shade of the Tree {/158/} [??] [BBT]

[Tor; 1987; 0812531035; $3.95] [BB]

• [Result: MT.] Features a tree which telepathically records the experiences of all beings near it, in complete accuracy and detail. The hero's consciousness is transferred to the tree, and he experiences many, including rape and getting shot as a deer.  -158 (98/02/14)

Xanth series {//42} [BBT]

[1:A Spell for Chameleon: Ballantine; 1987; 0-345-34753-6; $5.95] [BB] [BBT]
[2:The Source of Magic: Ballantine; 1990; 0-345-35058-8; $5.95] [BB] [BBT]
[3:Castle Roogna: Ballantine; 1989; 0-345-35048-0; $5.95] [BB] [BBT]
[4:Centaur Aisle: Ballantine; 1990; 0-345-35246-7; $4.95] [BB] [BBT]
[5:Ogre, Ogre: Ballantine; 1990; 0-345-35492-3; $5.95] [BB] [BBT]
[6:Night Mare: Ballantine; 1990; 0-345-35493-1; $5.95]! [BB] [BBT]
[7:Dragon on a Pedestal: Ballantine; 1990; 0-345-34936-9; $5.95] [BB] [BBT]
[8:Crewel Lye, A Caustic Yarn: Ballantine; 1989; 0-345-34599-1; $5.95] [BB] [BBT]
[9:Golem in the Gears: Ballantine; 1989; 0-345-31886-2; $5.95] [BB] [BBT]
[10:Vale of the Vole: Avon; 1987; 0-380-75287-5; $5.99] [BB] [BBT]
[11:Heaven Cent: Avon; 1988; 0-380-75288-3; $5.99] [BB] [BBT]
[12:Man from Mundania: Avon; 1990; 0-380-75289-1; $5.99] [BB] [BBT]
[13:Isle of View: Avon; 1990; 0-380-75947-0; $4.95] [BB] [BBT]
[14:Question Quest: Avon; 1991; 0-380-75948-9; $5.99] [BB] [BBT]
[15:The Color of Her Panties: Avon; 1992; 0-380-75949-7; $5.99] [BB] [BBT]
[16:Demons Don't Dream: Tor; 1996; 0-812-53483-2; $5.99] [BB] [BBT]
[17:Harpy Thyme: Tor; 1995; 0-812-53484-0; $5.99] [BB] [BBT]
[?]

• [Result: BX/AN.] There are about fourteen Xanth books out so far, and all involve some shape-changing, especially given that Dolph, the protagonist of the more recent Xanth books, is a shape-changer. This should not be read as a recommendation. -42

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