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Naha, Ed [BR]

Robocop {/Ph/} [BBT]

[Dell; 1987; 0440174791; $3.50] [BB]

• Cause: AS Result: BM/PE. Novelization of the movie. Future street cop gets blown away, pieced back together as a cyborg, with some mental reprogramming as well. -Ph

Neville, Kris

Bettyann (book and ss) {/42/} [DZ] [BBT]

[?]

• [Cause: NA Result: SC.] A pair of alien shapechangers die in an accident, and their apparently-human daughter is adopted and raised as human. An expansion of the superb short story of the same title. -42

Niles, Douglas

Maztica series (Forgotten Realms) {/54/}

[Ironhelm: TSR; 1990; 0880389036; $4.95] [BB] [BBT]
[Viperhand: TSR; 1990; 0880389079; $4.95] [BB] [BBT]
[Feathered Dragon: TSR; ?; 1560760451; $?] [BB] [BBT]

• [Cause: MA/MC? Result: BX/AN Saturation: +.] Lots of transformation by magic (human <-> eagle; human <-> jaguar); not crucial to plot. (more information in Spoiler Section) -54

Niven, Larry [SS] [BL] [BR] [GS]

Protector {/22,23/} [BBT]

[Ballantine; 1987; 0345353129; $5.99] [BB]

The Ringworld Engineers {/4/} [BBT]

[Ballantine; 1981; 0345260090; $2.50] [BB]

• Teela Brown becomes a Pak protector. -4

World of Ptavvs {/23,75/} [BBT]

[Del Rey; 1982; 0345300548; $2.25] [BB]

• [Cause: AX? Result: MT?/PE?.] Has some mental transformation in it; a human telepath meets a powerful alien telepath, and their minds are sort of mixed up together in the human's brain. -75

Niven, Larry; Pournelle, Jerry

Inferno {/38/} [BBT]

[Pocket; 1976; 0617497669; $3.50] [BB]

• [Cause: MA Result: BX/AN.] ...In the circle of hell devoted to thieves, there are a number of little lizards/snakes running around. If they bite someone, that person becomes a lizard, while the original lizard returns to his or her original human form... -38

Noon, Jeff [??]

Pollen {/144/} [??] [BBT]

[Ringpull; 1995; 1857023986; $?] [BB]
[Crown; 1996; 0517599902; $23.00 hardcover] [BB]

• Pollen is one of three novels apparently set in the same universe, a sort of alternate near-future Manchester. I haven't read the first novel, Vurt [Crown; 1995; 0-517-59991-0; $22 hardcover] [BBT], or the third novel, which just came out recently, but Pollen stood alone quite well.
  The idea is that some of the boundaries between our reality and various other realities are breaking down. In particular, bits of dreamworld stuff that look like feathers are invading/intruding, with results that are unpredictable and implications that are extensive but unclear. Noon is not an explain-it-all kind of author.
  Pollen features, among other transformations, a cab driver who dies and comes back to life as sort of a vegetative entity, a young woman whose memory has been erased, and... (See Spoiler Section for more information)
  [Result: BX/PE?] Rating: 4 Cause: DT Significance: 0 Description: 0 Saturation: +. Result: Almost everything you can possibly imagine. Some of the transformations are described in pretty extensive detail, but Noon's prose is more evocative than descriptive. -144 (98/02/10)

Norton, Andre [AL] [BL] [DZ]

Dare to Go a-Hunting {/Ph/} [BBT]

[TOR; 1990; 0812547128; $3.95] [BB]

• I have it marked as "transformation" in my files; I don't own the book, so I have no idea why. (Feel the power of my organizational skills...) -Ph

Dread Companion {/42/} [BBT]

[Fawcett; 1980; 0449243214; $1.95] [BB]

Exiles of the Stars {/28/} [BBT]

[Ace; 1972; 441-22365-095; $0.95]

• [Sequel to Moon of Three Rings;] Both are good solid Andre Norton books. -28

Flight in Yiktor {/Ph/} [BBT]

[TOR; 1986; 0812547217; $2.95] [BB]

• Like Dare to Go a-Hunting, it's marked as "transformation" in my files, but I don't know why. -Ph

Fur Magic {/87,Ph/} [BBT]

[Pocket; 1978; 0671299026; $1.50] [BB]
[in The Magic Books; Signet; 1988; 0451152328; $3.95] [BB]

• Cause: MA/DT? Result: BX/AN. Boy winds up in a sort of alternate world based on Native American mythology, changed into a beaver in the process. -Ph

Horn Crown {/24/} [BBT]

[DAW; 1981; 0879976357; $2.95] [BB]

The Jargoon Pard {/3,21/} [BBT]

[Fawcett; 1975; 449-02657-150; $1.50]

• [Cause: MA Result: BX/AN.] The protagonist finds a magic amulet that changes him into a leopard. -3

Judgement on Janus {103//} [BBT]

[Ace; 1963; ?]

• [Cause: MA? Result: BM/PE?] Rating: 1 Significance: + Description: 0 Saturation: -. The prequel to Vengeance on Janus. I haven't read it completely. A slave laborer on a farm finds a cache of forbidden treasure, which transforms him into a green-skinned pointy-eared forest dweller. he seems to also get the memories of a forest dweller, in addition to his own. Others have also been changed before. -103

Merlin's Mirror {/Ph/} [BBT]

[DAW; 1975; 0879973404; $1.50] [BB]

• Merlin stories often have transformations, and Norton stories often do, so I have strong suspicions that this does. Haven't read it, though. -Ph

Moon of Three Rings {/27,28,87,150/} [BBT]

[Ace; 1987; 0441539009; $2.95] [BB]

• [Cause: MA Result: BX/AN/MT?/PE?/MD?.] About a man who intervenes in the destruction of an animal and is killed by the 'owner'. A witch transfers his essence into the animal. They search for a human(esque) body for him before he becomes the animal for real. The story is told from three different perspectives. -27
• Young adult sci-fi; main character is transformed into a beast. -87
• About a man who was kept prisoner and almost dies, but is saved when magician swaps his body/mind with one of the beasts in her menagerie. He gets his body back in the end.   -150

Steel Magic {/24/} [BBT]

[?]
[in The Magic Books; 1988; 0451152328; $3.95] [BB]

Victory on Janus {/24/} [BBT]

[Ace; 1966; 441-86323-150; $1.50]

• There is also a prequel to this but I don't remember the name of it. -24

Warlock of the Witch World {/42/} [BBT]

[Tandem; 1967; 4260-5047-9; $2.50]

• [Cause: MA? Result: BM?.] The hero's sister is changed into a monster. -42

Year of the Unicorn {/21,24/} [BBT]

[Ace; 1979; 0441942547; $1.95] [BB]

Norton, Andre; Lackey, Mercedes

The Elvenbane {/28/} [BBT]

[TOR; 1993; 0812511751; $5.99] [BB]

• [Cause: NA Result: SC.] Has a race of shapechanging dragons in it. (Not yet read.) -28

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