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Aickman, Robert

"Ringing the Changes" {Ph}

[in Isaac Asimov's Magical Worlds of Fantasy 10: Ghosts; eds. Asimov, Greenberg and Waugh; Signet; 1988; 0451157230; $4.50] [BB] [BBT]

• Result: MT. Mind-swapping. -Ph

Aldiss, Brian [Bo] [AL] [BR]

"Better Morphosis" {/Ph/}

[in Fantasy and Science Fiction, June 1991]

• Result: BX. Kafka's Metamorphosis, only in reverse; the cockroach transforms into Kafka. -Ph

"Full Sun" {/Ph/}

[in Werewolf! by Pronzini]

• [Result: LY.] Werewolf vs. man vs. machine. -Ph

"A Kind of Artistry" {/77/}

[in Best from F&SF, 12th Series; ed. Avram Davidson; 1965]

• [Cause: EM Result: RM.] Set in the far future, with humans changed and evolved as they spread throughout the galaxy. Those on Earth apparently have not changed, apart from very long life spans, and an incestuous family structure, but the final scene (borrowed by Swanwick in Stations of the Tide) puts it in this list. -77

"Shards" {/79/}

[in Starswarm; Brian Aldiss; Gollancz; 1990; 057504182X; $3.50?] [BB] [BBT]

• [Cause: GM Result: MP.] Some fish are genetically engineered to be more self-aware. Most of the story is told from a fish's viewpoint. -79

Aldridge, Ray

"Hyena Eyes" {Ph//}

[in Fantasy & Science Fiction, June 1990]

• Rating: 4 Cause: AS Result: BM/AN/PE/MD Significance: + Description: + Saturation: 0. A future world whose residents use technological means to transform themselves mentally and physically into beasts to varying degrees. Very interesting. -Ph

Allen, J. B.

"Wash and Were" {//Ph}

[in Amazing Stories, March 1986]

• Result: LY. Reverse lycanthropy. -Ph

Allen, Luke

"Lurker Surprise" {/Ph/}

[http://www.lycanon.org/transcontest/1/LurkerSurprise.html]

• Result: BM/AN/FU. Human into reptile-morph. -Ph (98/04/06)

"A Trickster's Tail 724: Anniversary" {/Ph/}

[http://www.lycanon.org/transcontest/1/TrickstersTailAnniversary.html]

• Cause: MA/MC Result: ST/BM/BX/AN/FU Saturation: +. Set in the Trickster's Tail universe, one year later. -Ph (98/04/06)

Anderson, Kevin J. [BL]

"Special Makeup" {11/28/Ph}

[In The Ultimate Werewolf by Preiss]

• Rating: 3 Result: LY 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. -Ph

Anderson, Poul [Bo] [AL] [BL] [BR] [DZ]

"Call Me Joe" {/11,77/}

[In The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, vol. 2A; ed. Bova, Ben; Avon; 1974; 0380000385; $1.75]
[In The Great SF Stories: 19 (1957); eds. Asimov, Greenberg; DAW; 1989; 0886773261; $4.50]

• Short story(?); SF; Result: AT; not read. -11
• A telecontrolled (via artificial telepathy) synthetic lifeform on Jupiter is apparently becoming independent of its crippled human controller. Actually, the controllers mind is gradually being transferred to the healthy alien body. Some aspects are very similar to Clifford Simak's "Desertion"; I suspect it was published at almost the same time. -77

"The Star Beast" {/77/}

[in Award Science Fiction Reader; ed. Alden H. Norton; Award; 1966] [BBT]
[in Super Science Stories, 1950] [BBT]
[in Strangers from Earth; Mayflower-Dell (UK); 1965] [BBT]

• [Cause: AS Result: BX/AM.] A man has his mind transferred into a tiger, but civilization is destroyed while he is in the animal body. -77
• Note: Don't get this confused with the book The Star Beast by Heinlein. -Ph

Antieau, Kim

"The Mark of the Beast" {11,Ph/28/}

[In The Ultimate Werewolf by Preiss]

• Rating: 3 Result: LY Significance: +. -11
• An interesting gothic style story. -28
• A very good older lycanthropy tale (though the lycanthropy isn't conventional), with some interesting psychological aspects. -Ph

Asimov, Isaac [Bo] [AL] [BL] [BR]

"The Bicentennial Man" {75//}

[in The Bicentennial Man; Isaac Asimov; ?; $?] [BBT]

• [Result: BM/IN.] A very good story, in which a robot transforms himself into a human over the course of two centuries. Rating: 4 or 5. -75

Asimov, Isaac; Asimov, Janet

"Norby and the Lost Princess" {103//}

[in Norby: Robot for Hire; Ace; 1987; 0-441-58635-X]

• [Cause: NA/AX Result: MT.] Rating: 1 Significance: + Description - Saturation: -. Norby and friends need to rescue a lost princess from an alien planet. One major problem: she's been eaten by a talking tree, which now has her mind. A reasonably good story, but I think it's aimed at a youngish audience. -103

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