[Franklin-Watts; 1988; ?]
[Tor; 1985; 0-812-5546-9; ?]
[Gollancz; 1990; 0575047348; $3.50?] [BB]
[HarperCollins; 1995; 0061054879; $5.99] [BB]
- An excellent book, but the personality transfers, though crucial for motivating the
plot, are peripheral to the story. -42
- ...There was [also] a [shapeshifting] native race on the planet...and they played a
large role later. -41
- Rating: 4 Significance: 0 Description: - Saturation: -.
The native race is called Metamorphs. -64
[sequel to Lord
Valentine's Castle]
[Ballantine; 1983; 0553229281; $3.50] [BB]
[sequel to Majipoor
Chronicles]
[Ballantine; 1984; 0553244949; $3.95] [BB]
[Warner; 1987; 0446345113; $3.95] [BB]
[Del Rey; 1967; 0345279689; $1.95] [BB]
- [Cause: AX Result: BM.] One of the protagonists is an
astronaut whose body has been altered by aliens to make it more efficient, but grotesque. -43
[Ace; 1952; 441-10624-175; $1.75]
- [Result: RM Saturation: -.] 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
- Now, I ask you, how often do you hear that statement? -Ph
[Doubleday; 1961; ?]
- [Cause: AX? Result: PE?.] Rating:
4 Significance: + Description: 0 Saturation: -. The protagonist is exploring a distant
planet through technologically boosted astral projection (the only known way to safely
leave the earth); he encounters an ancient, knowledgeable entity. It trades a copy of the
sum of its knowledge for a copy of the sum of his, "contaminating" his mind with
alien ideas. He flees the athorities and joins with a bunch of outcast espers. -103
[Manor; 1962; 532-95390-095; $.95]
[DAW; 1982; 0879977086; $2.50] [BB]
[Carroll & Graf; 1994; 0786701005; $3.95] [BB]
- 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
- [Result: LY.] Lycanthropy. -154
[Hyperion: Bantam Spectra;
1990; 0553283685; $4.95] [BB] [BBT]
[Fall of Hyperion: Bantam Spectra;
1991; 0553288202; $5.95] [RR] [BB] [BBT]
- [Cause: GM?.] Genetic takeover plays a bit role. But what
a role! -40
[TOR; 1985; 0812515927; $4.99] [BB]
- Extreme horror with ambiguous transformations along the way. -40
[Baen; 1996; 0671877216; $5.99] [BB]
[Bantam; 1993; 0553299247; $5.99] [BB]
[Bantam; 1987; 0553260561; $3.95] [BB]
[Ballantine; 1975; 345-24366-8-150; $1.50]
- [Cause: AM Result: BM/AN.] 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
- Rating: 5 Result: MT Significance: 0 Description: -
Saturation: -. An excellent book. -64
- Besides the minor transformation you mentioned, one of the characters, a servant girl,
is transformed into the likeness of the hero, a boy, to serve as a decoy. There is some
detail on the mental changes that result as s/he gets used to it. -75
[Avon; 1956]
[Dell; 1990; 044020450X; $?] [BB]
[New American Library; 1995; 0451453697; $4.99] [BB]
- [Result: LY.] Lycanthropy. Shadowrun series. (Female
weretiger.) -154 (98/02/13)
[Fawcett; 1977; 0449139239, $1.95] [BB]
[DAW; 1989; 0886773202; $3.50] [BB]
- [Result: BM.] Amant, a young boy, tries to save his
cousin by learning how to use his abilities. Some shapeshifting of Amant; haven't fully
finished the book yet. -72
- This is the sequel to Snow-Eyes, 0-88677-286-9
[BB] [BBT].
I read Snow-Eyes as far as the promo inside the front cover, which is a fine
transformation scene, at any rate... -Ph
[Del Rey; 1980; ISBN 0345287266; $2.25] [BB]
- Hunter Hawk develops a ray that turns flesh to stone. Along with Megaera, they sneak
into a museum and reverse the process, bringing a number of Greek gods to life. Again, a
very fun read, if the transformation is not the main part. -72
- [Result: IN.] Rating: 3 Cause:
MA/AS Result: BX Significance: 0 Description: 0 Saturation: +. An inventor develops a
ray that will turn living beings into statues. He also learns a magical technique to turn
statues into living beings. The main story centers around the activities of the
Roman/Greek gods/goddesses between new life and return to statues. -76
[Del Rey; 1980; 034528724X; $2.25] [BB]
[Del Rey; 1980; 0345287258; $2.25] [BB]
- [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
- Courtesy of a small statue of a god, Tim and Sally Willows (a couple who bicker
constantly) end up trading both bodies and jobs. Hilarious, especially when Tim finds out
he's pregnant. -72
- Rating: 3 Cause: MA Result: MU Significance: + Description: +
Saturation: 0. A husband and wife exchange bodies following an argument in which both
exclaim 'I wish I could be you.' (I remember seeing the Hal Roach movie (Carole Lombard
was the wife, don't remember the husband) and the TV series (Sharon Gless(sp?) and John
Schuck)). -76
[Ballantine; 1994; 0345384555; $5.99] [BB]
- I didn't see "Thor" on your list. I believe that is the title of the book.
This is the book that the recent movie "Bad Moon" is based on. -149 (98/02/11)
- The person who sent this in didn't know the author. I believe that Wayne Smith's Thor
is the book he's talking about. Thor is a German Shepherd; the story is told from Thor's
perspective. He tries to defend his human family--his "Pack"--from their evil
Uncle Ted, a werewolf. Does anybody know if there's another Thor book that might
be the one? -Ph
- [Result: LY.] Lycanthropy. -154 (98/02/13)
[Ace; 1987; 0441775918; $2.95] [BB]
[Tor; 1989; 0312932030; $24.95 hardback] [BB]
[Tor; 1991; 0812511271, $5.99] [BB]
- 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
- Rating: 5 Cause: NA Result: LY Significance: + Description: 0
Saturation: 0. 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. -Ph
- Graphic violence and sex; convoluted and fairly depressing story. I like it, but Lance
hates it. Acquired taste, certainly. -87
- Full of cliches about native American and European culture, a simple bad (European)
werewolves against good (Indian) ones story, full of blood and rape, plundering history,
far too long. And more a vampire plot (at least the European werewolves). Rotten German
translation. Transformation: thumb slightly down Rating: 1.
-114
- Lycanthropy. -154
[?]
(Continued...)
Where to from here?
Copyright © 1993-2000 Phaedrus /
Books S (p. 1) 
Transformation Stories List
A Splendid Chaos {/77,TG/} [BBT]
Downward To the Earth {79//} [BBT]
Lord Valentine's Castle {/41,42/64} [BBT]
Thor
{/149,154/} [??] [BBT]