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Sagara, Michelle

"Shadow of a Change" {78//}

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

• [Result: AN.] Rating: 4 Cause: OT(Unexplained) Result: BM Signifigance: + Description: + Saturation: 0. A young secratary finds that she is beginning to change, for unexplained reasons, into a carnivorous dinosaur. -78

Saki (H. H. Munro)

"Gabriel-Ernest" {Ph//}

[in Werewolf! by Pronzini]
[in Shape Shifters by Yolen]

• [Rating: 4 Result: LY.] One of the more ironic stories I've ever read, definitely worth seeking out. -Ph

Sawyer, Robert J.

"Just LIke Old Times" {78//}

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

• [Result: AN.] Rating: 3 Cause: AS Result: TT Signifigance: + Description: + Saturation: 0. As punishment for his horrific crimes, a mass murderer is forced to live out the last days of a T. Rex in the past, through mind transfer. -78

Scarborough, Elizabeth [Bo] [AL]

"Wolf from the Door" {/Ph/}

[in Werewolves, by Yolen and Greenberg]

Schimel, Lawrence

"Phobiac" {/100/}

[in Dragon Fantastic; eds. Rosalind and Martin Greenberg]

• A very short story where a man has a peculiar reaction. -100

Schmitz, James [Bo] [AL] [BL] [DZ]

"Company Planet" {/38/}

[in The Telzey Toy; ?] [BBT]

• [Cause: AM Result: BM/PE?.] Physical alteration via advanced surgical technology. Also, the main character, Telzey, is the instigator of many mental transformations in others in all of the books about her (The Universe Against Her, The Lion Game). -38

Scortia, Thomas N.

"Flowering Narcissus" {//11}

[?]

• [Cause: AS.] Using the only DNA sample they have in a post-apocalypse world, robots recreate a biker--and a woman for him. Questionable for transformation list--what modifications there are take place off screen. SF;Rating: 3 Result: GC(Clone) Significance: - Description: - Saturation: -. -11

"Judas Fish" {Ph//}

[in Shape Shifters by Yolen]

• [Cause: AX? Result: BM?/AN/PE.] The protagonist eats a squidlike creature in an undersea station, and turns into one, in a hard-to-describe way. Very interesting. -Ph

"Sea Change" {/Ph/}

[in Human-Machines; eds. Scortia, Thomas N. and Zebrowski, George; Vintage; 1975; 0394716078; $2.95] [BB] [BBT]

• [Cause: AS Result: BX/IN.] Sort of like "The Ship Who Sang" by McCaffrey; the minds of accident victims transferred into robots and spacecraft. -Ph

Sharkey, Jack

"No Harm Done" {/Ph/}

[in 101 Science Fiction Stories; eds. Greenberg and Waugh; Avenel; 1986; 0517606690; $? hardback] [BB] [BBT]
[in Science Fiction A to Z; eds. Asimov, Greenberg, Waugh; Houghton Mifflin; 1982; 039531285X; $22.95 hardback] [BB] [BBT]

• [Cause: AM Result: MP.] A new device designed to stimulate the minds of catatonic people has an unexpected effect. -Ph

Shaw, Bob [AL]

"Call Me Dumbo" {75//}

[in Tomorrow Lies in Ambush; Bob Shaw; ?; $?] [BBT]

• (See Spoiler Section for more info) -75

Sheckley, Robert [Bo] [AL] [BR]

"Shape" {/Ph/}

[in The Arbor House Treasury of Modern Science Fiction; eds. Silverberg and Greenberg; Priam; 1980; 0877952663; $8.95 softcover] [BB] [BBT]

• [Cause: NA Result: SC.] The invading aliens can take any shape they want. All they have to do is get close to an atomic power plant, and Earth is theirs. So why have twenty previous invasions failed? -Ph

Sheffield, Charles [Bo] [AL] [BL]

"Legacy" {/Ph/}

[in Changes, by Bishop and Watson]

Shwartz, Susan [BR]

"The Wolf's Flock" {/Ph/}

[in Werewolves, by Yolen and Greenberg]

Silverberg, Robert [Bo] [AL] [BR]

"The Conglomeroid Cocktail Party" {/40/}

[in The Conglomeroid Cocktail Party; Silverberg, Robert; Spectra; 1985; 0553250779; $2.95] [BB] [BBT]

• [Cause: AS Result: BM.] A party for the upscale, who change their bodies as a way of keeping up with the Joneses. -40

"Ringing the Changes" {/Ph/}

[in Alchemy and Academe; ed. McCaffrey, Anne; Ballantine; 1986; 0345344197; $2.95] [BB] [BBT]
[in Isaac Asimov's Magical Worlds of Fantasy 10: Ghosts; eds. Asimov, Greenberg, Waugh; Signet; 1988; 0451157230; $4.50] [BB] [BBT]

• [Cause: AS Result: MU.] A bunch of people's minds get shuffled into different bodies by a mind-transfer machine, and the protagonist ends up in a number of different bodies before being returned to 'the proper one'. -Ph

"The Werewolf Gambit" {/28/11}

[In The Ultimate Werewolf by Preiss]

• Rating: 4 Result: LY Significance: 0 Description: - Saturation: -. -11
• The old pickup line of "I'm a werewolf." Well, as usual, it goes wrong. -28

"World of a Thousand Colors" {/40/}

[in World of a Thousand Colors; ?] [BBT]

• [Result: BX?/IN?.] Winners of a selection procedure become the colors of the rainbow. -40

Simak, Clifford [Bo] [AL] [BR] [DZ]

"Desertion" {11,Ph//}

[in Changes, by Bishop and Watson]
[in Survival Printout; ed. Total Effect; Vintage; 1973; 0394718577; $1.95] [BB] [BBT]
[in Skirmish; Simak, Clifford D.; Berkley; 1978; 0425038211; $1.95] [BB] [BBT]
[in The Road to Science Fiction 3; ed. Gunn, James; Mentor; 1979; 0451617843; $2.75] [BB] [BBT]
[in many other sources]

• SF; Rating: 3 Cause: GM Result: BX Significance: + Description: X Saturation: X. -11
• I found this story to be great; Rating: 5. It's very widely printed; the odds are that anyone with a fairly good-sized anthology collection has it somewhere. -Ph

Smith, Clarke Ashton [AL] [DZ]

"The Beast of Averoigne" {/141/} [??]

[in The City of the Singing Flame; Timescape Books; 1981; 0671834150; $?] [BB] [BBT]
[American publication of City of the Singing Flame: Pocket; 1981; 0671834150; $?]  

• First published 1933. Fantasy whodunit about a mysterious comet which at night turns a citizen of a peaceful farmer's district into a raving monster. Although transformation is central to the plot, the story focuses mainly on the search for the afflicted citizen. Rating: 4 Cause: OT(comet)  Result: BX Significance: 0 Description: 0 Saturation: +. -141 (98/02/08)

"The Double Shadow" {75//}

[in Posiedonis; Ballantine; 1970; ?] [BBT]

• Cause: MA Result: BX. The narrator, a magician's apprentice, and his master and his master's servant, are all unexpectedly transformed by a spell. The exact nature of the transformation is mysterious for awhile; it begins with their shadow transforming, and sometime later their body changes to suit. -75

"The Enchantress of Sylaire" {/141/} [??]

[in The City of the Singing Flame; Timescape Books; 1981; 0671834150; $?] [BB] [BBT]
[American publication of City of the Singing Flame: Pocket; 1981; 0671834150; $?]  

• [Result: AN.] First published 1941 in Weird Tales. Young man is seduced by a beautiful woman who turns out to be a powerful sorceress. Transformation appears in the story through a rival sorceror who has been turned into a wolf, but can regain human form for a short while by eating a certain root. This root becomes less and less effective causing the sorceror to change from wolf to wolf-human hybrid and back. Rating: 4 Cause: MA Result: BX/MX Significance: 0 Description: + Saturation: +. -141 (98/02/08)

"The Garden of Adompha" {/141/} [??]

[in The City of the Singing Flame; Timescape Books; 1981; 0671834150; $?] [BB] [BBT]
[American publication of City of the Singing Flame: Pocket; 1981; 0671834150; $?]  

• First published 1938 (probably in Weird Tales). (See Spoiler Section for more information.) -141 (98/02/08)

"The Maze of Maal Dweb" {141//} [??]

[in The City of the Singing Flame; Timescape Books; 1981; 0671834150; $?] [BB] [BBT]
[American publication of City of the Singing Flame: Pocket; 1981; 0671834150; $?]  

• (See Spoiler Section for more information.) -141 (98/02/08)

"Mother of Toads" {141//} [??]

[? ]

• [Result: AN?.] The Copyright to this story is held by Scott Meredith Literary Agency, New York. My copy is a Dutch translation which doesn't give any details concerning the story's origins.
  A young man is sent by his master - a shady apothecary - to collect love potions from the local witch, a fat, warty woman, known as the Mother of Toads. The witch manages to slip him one of her potions. In the cold, gray light of morning our hero wakes up to find a huge female toad beside him, presumably the witch in her true form. The rest of the story is taken up by his futile attempts to escape. Rating: 3 Cause: OT(unknown) Result: BX Significance: + Description: - Saturation: 0. -141 (98/02/08)

"A Prophecy of Monsters" {/Ph/}

[in Werewolf! by Pronzini]

• [Result: LY.] Lycanthropy in the twenty-first century, and a new occupational hazard for werewolves. -Ph

"The Venus of Azombeii" {/141/} [??]

[in Weird Tales, June-July 1931]
[in Other Dimensions Vol. 2; Granada Publishing; 1977; ISBN 0586043519] [BB]

• Man travels to Africa, finds a lost tribe and falls for tribe's beautiful queen. She dumps the tribe's shaman for him, who then curses the couple, causing them to shrink. This is accompanied by wracking pains and eventually results in death. Rating: 3 Cause: MA Result: ZC Significance: 0 Description: 0 Saturation: 0. -141 (98/02/08)

"A Voyage to Sfanamoe" {75//}

[in Posiedonis; Ballantine; 1970; ?] [BBT]

• Cause: MA Result: BX. Two pioneering astronauts in the last days of Atlantis go to Sfanamoe, aka Venus, and are naturalized into native flora. -75

"The White Sybil" {/141/} [??]

[in The City of the Singing Flame; Timescape Books; 1981; 0671834150; $?] [BB] [BBT]
[American publication of City of the Singing Flame: Pocket; 1981; 0671834150; $?]  

• [Result: MD?/PE?.] First published 1960. A poet falls in love with the White Sybil, a strange apparition-like woman who sometimes appears in his home town. Sick with longing he goes to her in her mountain hideout, but when he takes her in his arms, she changes to reveal her true nature, a sight which causes the poet to loose his wits. Apart from the physical transformation of the Sybil the resulting mental breakdown of the poet is especially weird and poignant. Rating: 4 Significance: 0 Description: + Saturation: 0. -141 (98/02/08)

Smith, Cordwainer [??]

"Scanners Live in Vain" {/75/} [??]

[in You Will Never Be the Same; Berkley; 1963] [BBT]
[in The Best of Cordwainer Smith; Ballantine; 1975] [BBT]
[in The Rediscovery of Man; NESFA Press; ?] [BBT]

• [Cause: AS? Result: BM/IN?/PE.] ...One of the earliest cyborg stories, and has excellent portrayal of the mental transformation involved. The "scanners" of the title have had various alterations designed to allow them to survive hyperspace while conscious. -75

Smith, Sherwood [BL]

"Monster Mash" {/Ph/}

[in Werewolves, by Yolen and Greenberg]

• [Result: LY.] Life as a teenager is complicated enough without having to deal with lycanthropy too... -Ph

Stockton, Frank A.

"The Bee-man of Om" {//Ph}

[in Masterpieces of Fantasy and Enchantment; ed. Hartwell, David G.; Nelson Doubleday; 1988; ?] [BBT]

• Somewhat borderline for the list. A man finds out that he has been transformed from something in the past, and goes to find out what it is. Hint: It's probably not what you think it is. -Ph

Stoker, Bram [Bo]

"Dracula's Guest" {/Ph/}

[in Werewolf! by Pronzini]

• [Result: LY?.] "Dracula's Guest" was originally the first chapter of Dracula, removed to shorten the book for publication. It's hard to tell whether it's really a werewolf story or not, but it's certainly interesting. -Ph

Strickland, Brad

"And The Moon Shines Full And Bright" {/28/}

[In The Ultimate Werewolf by Preiss]

• [Result: LY.] The men of the future have a human solution to the problem of the werewolf. -28

Sumner, M. C. [??]

"Surrogate" {/94/} [??]

[in Writers of the Future Vol. 8; 1992; 0884047725; $5.99] [BB] [BBT]

• Rating: 2 Cause: AS Result: MT Significance: + Description: - Saturation: -. Male surrogate is hired to pilot a female body through pregnancy. -94

Sweeney, Toni

"Variation and Man" {/85/}

[in Starry Nights III; ?; Merry Men Press; ?] [BBT]

• [Result: GC.] ...About a secret agent who has a partner (variant) who can change sex at will. The problem starts when the agent falls in love with and seduces his partner's other form. -85

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