[Pocket; 1989; 0671664859; $4.95] [BB]
[Pocket; 1989; 0671731424; $6.99] [BB]
- [Result: LY.] It's 500+ pages long and god-awful. In my
humble opinion, of course. -10
- Horror; lycanthropy; not read -11
- I've heard better things about this book from the alt.horror readers, but I still
haven't gotten around to reading it myself. -Ph
- A wonderful short story about an adolescent werewolf growing up with a pack of
werewolves, told as flashbacks and padded to a bloated novel with the adult werewolf - now
a British secret agent on a mission in Germany against the Nazis during WWII. Read the
flashbacks, skip the rest. Disappointing. -87
- Lycanthropy. -154
[?]
- Result: VA. I'm told that the stories in this anthology
all deal with mankind under the rule of vampires. -Ph
[Bantam Spectra; 1991; 0553290495; $4.99] [RR] [BB]
- Support characters in the last part get transformed every night. Space Invaders from the
game get transformed into real. Etc. -40
[Knopf; 1977; 394-73268-5; $4.50 softcover]
- [Cause: AS Result: BT/IN/PE?.] A man's brain is the
control system for a satellite. It takes a lot of "literary machismo" to read
this book--it's an exploration of a very altered state of consciousness, and not a story
per se. -40
[?]
[Avon; 1970; 380-02375-075; $.75]
- [Cause: RE? Result: ST?.] Following his death, the
protagonist coinhabits a series of bodies of people he met shortly before that incident. -42
[Pocket; 1981; 0671836315; $2.75] [BB]
- [Cause: GM.] A collection of stories placed in a future
in which humanity has turned to genetic manipulation for colonization and other purposes.
The novel Superluminal (an expansion of the story "Aztecs") takes
place in the same universe. -42
[Ballantine; 1989; 0345359909; $3.95] [BB]
[Ballantine; 1989; 0345359895; $3.95] [BB]
[Simon & Schuster; 1978; 0671228870; $?] [BB]
On both of the above:
- Both of these appear to be lycanthropy or something similar, but not read. -Ph
- [Result: LY.] Lycanthropy. -154 (98/02/13)
[Del Rey; 1989; 0345360400; $3.95]
[Harpist in the Wind:
Del Rey; 1980; 0345274695; $2.25] [BB]
[BBT]
[Heir of Sea and Fire: Del Rey; 1981;
0345288823; $2.25] [BB] [BBT]
[The Riddle-Master of Hed: Del
Rey; 1980; 0345288815; $2.25] [BB]
[BBT]
- The favorite series of my youth -20
- [Rating: 5 Result: BX/AN/IN.] Has a lot of physical
shape-changing into various creatures and other forms (tree, wind, etc.). This is one of
my all-time favourite sets which I re-read every few years... -36
[1968; ?]
[Berkley; 1967; 0425116875; $3.95] [BB]
[Ace; 1982; 0441156797; $2.75] [BB]
- [Cause: DT? Result: MT/AN.] Not a transformation story
per se, however the main character can psionically travel through alternate timelines,
inhabiting other people for a short time, and later shares the body of a 'perfur' (otter).
Not a bad read. [Book has been renamed, my copy is the original printing.] -72
[Avon; 1996; 038078078X; $12.00 softcover] [BB]
[William Morrow; 1995; 0688143628; $22.00 hardcover] [BB]
- [Cause: DT Result: BM/GC/PE?/BC?.] All the main
characters are transformed into "fictional" archetypes when they shift to the
second ether, and take part in the game of time. There is gender switching, people
combining into one (which brings the final resolution between chaos and the singularity),
etc.-136 (98/02/07)
[Count Brass: Berkeley;
1985; 0425075141; $2.75] [BB] [BBT]
[The Champion of Garathorn:
Berkeley; 1985; 0425076466; $2.75] [BB]
[BBT]
[The Quest for Tanelorn: Berkeley;
1985; 0425077071; $2.75] [BB] [BBT]
- [Result: GC.] The second Hawkmoon series. Hawkmoon is
transformed into (name forgotten), a female incarnation of the Eternal Champion. Actually,
all of his Eternal Champion books could be interpreted this way (Erekase transforms into
Hawkmoon into Elric into Jerry Cornelius...) -54
[Phoenix House; ?; 189758055X; $?] [BB]
- [Result: PE?.] The Cornelius Quartet - a transformation
of sorts over four novels, with Jerry Cornelius tranforming from Harlequin to Pierrot, and
Una Persson from Pierrot to Harlequin, over the series of the four books. Though it is
only really made clear in The Condition of Muzak. -136 (98/02/11)
[An Alien Heat:?] [BBT]
[The Hollow Lands:?] [BBT]
[The End of All Songs:?] [BBT]
[all in omnibus: Grafton; 1988; 0583136397; $3.95?] [BB]
[Gregg Press; 1976; 0839823355; $?] [BB]
- [Cause: AS? Result: BC/HG.] Jerry Cornelius & Miss
Brunner are joined in her machine, becoming a hermaphodite called Cornelius Brunner which
eats everyone in the world. -136 (98/02/11)
[?]
- [Result: BM?.] Immanual Bloom is changed into the
Fireclown when his spacecraft falls into the sun. -136
(98/02/07)
[also known as A
Messiah at the End of Time; also known as Constant
Fire]
[Ace; 1988; 0441136648; $?] [BB]
- Miss Mavis Ming is burnt by the touch of the Fireclown at the end but this leads to a
transformation. -136 (98/02/07)
[Simon & Schuster; 1994; 0671881884; $21.00 hc] [BB]
- Rating: 5 Cause: MA/MC Result: BX/AN Significance: -
Description: 0 Saturation: -. I'm still not entirely sure how to summarize this story
properly; as the title implies, it's a Coyote story, about the Native American trickster
(among others). Physical transformation plays a very small role, and the other
transformation that occurs isn't really abrupt or unnatural, which is why I have to give
it a -. But if you're reading this list, go out, buy this book, and read it. I think
you'll thank me later. Received a pretty positive review in Locus 403, p.37. -Ph
[Berkley Prime Crime; 1994; 0423143023; $4.99] [BB]
[?]
[?]
- [Result: SC?.] A shapeshifter/horror novel, with the
'shifter bound up with an oak tree. Forgettable. -87
[Merlin's Godson:
Del Rey; 1976; 0345304993; $2.95] [BB]
[BBT]
[Merlin's Ring: Ballantine; 1975;
345-24010-3-195; $1.95] [DZ] [BBT]
- [Result: MT.] Has a woman, the last survivor of Atlantis,
who is able to transfer her consciousness from one body to the next. At one part she
speaks to Joan of Arc. -20
[?]
- [Result: LY.] Reprints of 1920's and 1930's
werewolf-related short stories. In two volumes. -87
[Centaur Books; 1976; 0878180125, $1.50] [BB]
[Ace; 1984; 0441766749; $3.95] [DZ] [BB]
- [Cause: MA Result: BX/AN.] Has a character that is turned
into an ass by an evil prince who wants the hand of the character's lover in marriage -18
- Silverlock is one of the best fantasies ever written. The 'gimmick', and I
don't mean the term perjoratively, is that every character in the book is taken from a
literary classic. Read this book, but don't read it for the minor amount of shapeshifting
that takes place, since that is simply borrowed from the originals: The episode in which
the protagonist is turned into a pig comes from the Odyssey, by Homer, and the incident
referred to above comes from The
Golden Ass, by Apulius. -42
- The transformation aspects are pretty minor (though explored well enough to save the
book from a -), but I agree, the book is a can't-put-downer, more so the more classics
you've read previously. -Ph
[Ace, 1984; 0441541720; $2.75] [BB]
- [Cause: MA Result: BX/AN?.] The 'sequel' to Silverlock, has a professor of Economic Geography
go off to the Commonwealth on a survey requested by Venus herself. Some transformations
(particularly of George in the Goof Stream into various aquatic forms), minor to the
story. Still a worthwhile read if you loved Silverlock. -72
Where to from here?
Copyright © 1993-2000 Phaedrus /
Books M (p. 1) 
Transformation Stories List
The Wolf's
Hour {/10,11,87,154/} [BBT]
The
Changeling Sea {/Ph/} [BBT]
Dancers
at the End of Time series {//79} [BBT]