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Cadigan, Pat [Bo]

"Dino Trend" {78//}

[in Dinosaur Fantastic; eds. Mike Resnick and Martin Greenberg]

• [Result: AN.] Rating: 2 Cause: NT Type: BM Significance: + Description: 0 Saturation: -. Becomeing a human sized dino is the latest fad in the nanotechnologically driven future. -78

Campbell, John Jr. [AL] [DZ]

"Who Goes There?" {/81/}

[?]

• ...An Antarctic base that discovers a frozen alien... -81

Canon, Rachel Susan (with Ellison, Harlan) [??]

"Unwinding" {/94/}

[in Unearth Magazine; Winter 1979]

• Rating: 1 Cause: AS Result: MT/GC Significance: 0 Description: 0 Saturation: 0. Mort wakes up one morning as Melanie, his girlfriend. A mad scientist with a brain analysing machine makes an appearance. This was a story competition winner; Howlin' Harlan wrote the first four pages and Canon finished it. Pretty poor. -94

Card, Orson Scott [Bo] [AL] [BL] [BR]

"The Princess and the Bear" {/75/}

[in Maps in a Mirror; Ballantine?] [BBT]

• (see Spoiler Section for more info) -75

Carlson, William

"Dinner at Helen's" {/11/}

[?]

• SF; Rating: 3 Result: GC Significance: 0 Description: - Saturation: -. -11

Carr, Terry [BR]

"The Dance of the Changer and the Three" {/Ph/}

[in Terry's Universe; TOR; 1989; 0812545923; $3.95] [BB] [BBT]

• [Rating: X Cause: NA?/RE? Result: BX.] A world of energy-beings who change into new forms with the same memories when they die; three of them attempt to bring something new to the cycle. -Ph

Carter, Angela [Bo] [AL]

"The Bloody Chamber" {//114}

[in The Bloody Chamber; by Angela Carter]

• No transformation in it. Never trust a good-looking, they have something to hide. -114

"The Company of Wolves" {/114/}

[in The Bloody Chamber; by Angela Carter]

• [Result: LY?.] The story behind the movie of the same name. Another Little Red Riding Hood story, in a way the Grimm brothers would never have dared to write down. But a good hint on (and protest against) the meaning of Grimm's version of that fable, which tells people to stay away from strangers, because they are almost certainly evil. Angela Carter's version proves it wrong. -114

"The Courtship of Mr. Lyon" {/114/}

[in The Bloody Chamber; by Angela Carter]

• [Cause: MA? Result: BM?.] "Beauty and the Beast", in our time. Romantic. -114

"The Erl-King" {/114/}

[in The Bloody Chamber; by Angela Carter]

• Kind-of transformation mentioned; the story is about incest (I think). Very strange. -114

"The Lady of the House of Love" {/114/}

[in The Bloody Chamber; by Angela Carter]

• [Result: VA.] Vampire story: Lady vampire wants to become human. -114

"Master" {/Ph/}

[in Changes, by Bishop and Watson]

• A big game hunter is brought down by the jungle and his transformed servant. -Ph

"Puss-in-Boots" {//114}

[in The Bloody Chamber; by Angela Carter]

• No transformation; satire. -114

"The Snow Child" {/114/}

[in The Bloody Chamber; by Angela Carter]

• [Cause: MA? Result: BX?.] Transformation: Like the original tale. A child made of snow, a bird's feather and the blood of a fox's kill. Disturbing. -114

"The Tiger's Bride" {/114/}

[in The Bloody Chamber; by Angela Carter]

• [Cause: MA? Result: BM?.] "Beauty and the Beast" again; very erotic and romantic. -114

"The Werewolf" {/114/}

[in The Bloody Chamber; by Angela Carter]

• [Result: LY.] Little Red Riding Hood cuts the paw off a werewolf. -114

"Wolf Alice" {//114}

[in The Bloody Chamber; by Angela Carter]

• A wolf-raised girl and a man believing he's a werewolf put together. No real transformation, the man only believes he transforms, and the transformation at the end is one from child to woman. But very poetic. -114

Castro, Adam-Troy [??]

"The Funeral March of the Marionettes" {/159/} [??]

[in Fantasy & Science Fiction, July 1997]

• [Result: BM.] The central character of the story has had herself considerably transformed to be able to join an alien culture’s religious dance. [Transformation:] Body completely transformed internally and in ability to move. Appearance not noticeably changed until she moves. Rating: 3 Cause: AM Result: BX Significance: 0 Description: 0 Saturation: -. -159 (98/02/14)

Chalker, Jack [Bo] [AL] [BL] [BR]

"Dance Band on the Titanic" {//78}

[in Dance Band on the Titanic; Ballantine; 1988; 0345348583; $3.95] [BB] [BBT]

• [Cause: DT Result: MX.] Marginally a transformation story about a ferryboat that goes between alternate realities. The crew changes slightly every time they go between realities, but in really minor ways, and is only incidental to the story. -78

"In the Dowaii Chambers" {/78/}

[in Dance Band on the Titanic; Ballantine; 1988; 0345348583; $3.95] [BB] [BBT]

• [Cause: AS Result: VR?.] A story of a group of college researchers that find an ancient computer. They have to live the lives of people in different periods of history before they are let out. -78

"Moths and Candle" {/75,78/}

[in Dance Band on the Titanic; Ballantine; 1988; 0345348583; $3.95] [BB] [BBT]

• A fair transformation story with an interesting premise. It involves the reaction of an interplanetary research group to the transformation of a princess of a planet they are studying. -78
• (See Spoiler Section for more info) -75

"On Transformations and Other Last Words" (essay) {/75/}

[in Dance Band on the Titanic; Ballantine; 1988; 0345348583; $3.95] [BB] [BBT]

• ...Largely about why he uses transformation as a theme in so many stories. -75

Charnas, Suzy [AL]

"Boobs" {11//}

[in Skin of the Soul; ed. Lisa Tuttle; Pocket; 1990; 067170334X; $4.50] [BB] [BBT]

• Rating: 3 Result: LY Significance: + Description: 0 Saturation: +. The story of a teen for whom adolescence brings more changes than normal. -11

Charyn, Jerome

"At War With the Wolf Man" {/11,28/}

[In The Ultimate Werewolf by Preiss]

• Rating: 3 Result: LY Significance: + Description: - Saturation: -. -11
• [Result: PE?.] Odd story, am still unsure if the changes are mental or physical. -28

Clingerman, Margret

"Wild Wood" {171//}

[?]

• Rating: 5 Cause: MA/MC Result: MU/ST Significance: + Description: + Saturation: -. Wonderfully, absolutely terrifying story set at Christmas. Lovely wife and mother feels a blending with another person when visiting a certain store each Christmas - like she is undergoing mental attack. (See Spoiler Section for more info) -171 (98/04/09)

Coe, Brian Eirik [HP]

"Care and Feeding" {/Ph/}

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

• Cause: MA? Result: LY/BX. Ever wonder what raccoons really think of the food you leave for them? -Ph (98/04/06)

Cogswell, Theodore R. [??]

"Thimgs" {78//} [??]

[in Smart Dragons, Foolish Elves, eds. Foster and Greenberg; Ace; 1991; 0441184812; $4.95] [BB] [BBT]

• (Note: that's the right spelling, not a typo.) Rating: 3 Cause: MA Significance: + Saturation: 0 Description: 0. A somewhat new take on the classic tale of finding a mysterious object (here a bottle) from an even more mysterious shop. In this case, a lewd, shister P.I. discovers the dangers of getting your wish. -78 (98/02/07)

Collins, Nancy [BL]

"Raymond" {11/28/}

[In The Ultimate Werewolf by Preiss]

• Rating: 4 Result: LY Significance: + Description: + Saturation: +. -11
• Story of an abused young werewolf. -28

Collyn, George [??]

"Mix-Up" {94//} [??]

[in New Worlds Magazine #145 (Nov. 1964)]

• Rating: 1 Cause: AS Result: MT/GC Significance: + Description: 0 Saturation: 0. Matter transmitter goes wrong, swaps two minds/brains over. The victims have to come to terms with it, end up getting married. One-gag story. -94

Coney, Michael [AL]

"The Byrds" {//Ph}

[in Changes, by Bishop and Watson]

• Cause: AS Result: PE. People with antigravity belts decide to live like birds. No actual physical transformation, though. -Ph

"Die, Lorelei" {/79/}

[in Fantasy & Science Fiction, May 1993]

• [Cause: GM Result: RM?.] Fishes and other sea creatures are engineered to be people's pets on land. -79

Cortazar, Julio

"The Distances" {171//}

[?]

• Rating: 4 Cause: OT Result: MU/ST Significance: + Description: + Saturation: -. Good story. A mental game causes beautiful, wealthy young woman in South America to experience flashes of the life of a poor, abused beggar. On her honeymoon she travels to Budapest and foolishly meets her. -171 (98/04/09)

Coville, Bruce

"The Passing of the Pack" {/Ph/}

[in Werewolves, by Yolen and Greenberg]

• Result: LY. A father passes on his curse and his pack to his son. -Ph

Cowper, Richard [AL] [BR]

"The Tithonian Factor" {/Ph/}

[in Changes, by Bishop and Watson]

• Result: BM? Immortality, as well as some sort of formchanging or astral projection, I can't quite figure out which. -Ph

Crispin, A. C.; O'Malley, Kathleen

"Pure Silver" {/28/}

[In The Ultimate Werewolf by Preiss]

• [Result: LY.] A Jewish concentration camp survivor is hunting Nazis as a werewolf. -28

Crompton, Anne E.

"Met By Moonlight" {/Ph/}

[in Werewolves, by Yolen and Greenberg]

Culbreath, Myrna; Marshak, Sandra

"The Procrustean Petard" {3/60,94/}

[in Star Trek: The New Voyages 2; Corgi; 1978; 0552107212; 95p] [BB] [BBT]

• [Result: GC Saturation: +.] A Star Trek story...where all of the crew except Spock change sexes. Not a great story, but the concept is cute. Saturation/significance is, of course, ++. -3
• It was OK. Nothing great... -60
• Typical ST fan fiction, but what would you have given to see Kirk in one of those little gold mini-dresses? -94

Curtis, Richard

"The Boy Who Would Be Wolf" {Ph//}

[in Shape Shifters by Yolen]

• Cause: AS Result: BX/AN. A fourteen-year-old manages to make himself a wolf, after several false starts. Very good ending. -Ph

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