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Cabell, James B. [AL] [BL] [DZ]

Poictesme series {/42/}

[1:Figures of Earth: Del Rey; 1979; 0345281705; $2.25] [BB] [BBT]
[2:The Silver Stallion: Del Rey; 1979; 0345280725; $2.25] [BB] [BBT]
[3:Domnei: Del Rey; 1979; 0345281713; $2.75] [BB] [BBT]
[3:Domnei: Ayer; 1920; 0836955498; $? hardcover] [BB]
[4:The High Place: Del Rey; 1979; 0345282841; $2.25] [BB] [BBT]
[4:The High Place: Amareon Ltd.; 1980; 0884117952; $22.95 hardcover] [BB]
[5:Something About Eve: Del Rey; 1979; 034528352X; $2.25] [BB] [BBT]
[5:Something About Eve: Ballantine; ?; 0345020677; $?] [BB]
[6:The Cream of the Jest: Del Rey; 1979; 0345283589; $2.25] [BB] [BBT]
[6:The Cream of the Jest: New College; 1973; 0808403966; $?] [BB]
[?:Jurgen: A Comedy of Justice: Dover; 1978; 0486235076; $7.95] [BB] [BBT]
[?]

• Especially Jurgen, and Figures of Earth. -42

Cadigan, Pat [BL] [SS]

Fools {/82/} [BBT]

[Spectra; 1992; 0553295128; $?] [BB]

• [Result: MT.] Personality transplants/overlays -- usually from another person, maybe not always. There are others in the series; only title I remember is Synners. Fools is well written; but unless you're interested enough in the subject to keep track of who's in the body that's telling the story/stories, you might overdose quickly. -82

Cadnum, Michael

Saint Peter's Wolf {11,114,Ph/28,66,83,87,154/} [BBT]

[Carroll & Graf; SFBC]
[Carroll & Graf; 1991; 0881847283; $?] [BB]
[Zebra/Kensington; 1993; 0821741837, $4.99] [BB]

• This is a novel that explores the experience of becoming a werewolf and the changes that take place in the protagonist. It is quite good and is set from the point of view of the werewolf. -28
• Rating: 5 Result: LY Significance: +. The best psychological look at the werewolf that I've seen. The jacket blurbs call it "the best werewolf novel in fifteen years"; I certainly wouldn't argue. -Ph
• Good, well-written, upbeat novel about a man becoming a werewolf and how he deals with it. -87
• Horror/fantasy; Rating: 3 Result: LY Significance: + Description: 0 Saturation: 0. This is not your typical werewolf story. Certainly one of the best werewolf books I've ever read, though not the best descriptions of physical transformations. -11
• The transformation scene(s) is okay, also the first third of the book; then it declines into a quite annoying chase through half a state and gives us an esoteric explanation of the werewolf as a kind of transcential being. Or was it just a bad German translation I got? Transformation: thumb up. Rating: 2. -114
• Lycanthropy. -154

Caidin, Martin

Cyborg {/22,Ph/} [BBT]

[Warner; 1974; 0446766437; $1.25] [BB]
[Ballantine; 1984; 0345316207; $?] [BB]

• Good book; the TV version was $6M Man, which wasn't nearly so well done. -22
• Rating: 3 Cause: AS/AM Result: BM Significance: 0. I wasn't all that impressed by the book; still, it's one of the earliest bionic-modification books I know of, and it's worth reading. You know the plot line; test pilot crashes, has to be pieced together with hardware, gets sent on impossible missions. -Ph

Manfac {/11/} [BBT]

[Baen; 1988; 0671654098; $3.50] [BB]

• SF; not read. -11
• Cause: AS Result: BM. A man is crippled in a nuclear accident, and a new body is built for him. Not read. -Ph

Caine, Geoffrey

Wake of the Werewolf {/87,154/} [BBT]

[Diamond; 1991; 1557735786; $4.50] [BB]

• [Result: LY.] It stinks. Imagine the Ghostbusters as militant right-wing Christian fundamentalists, determined to wipe the scourge of werewolves from the face of America, and you're not far off. It reads like it was written by a twelve-year-old who'd overdosed on GI Joe cartoons. -87
• Lycanthropy. -154

Callahan, Jay

Night of the Wolf {/87,154,Ph/} [??] [BBT]

[Leisure; 1979; 0843922699; $3.25] [BB]

• Result: LY. Lycanthropy novel; not read. -Ph
• Lycanthropy. -154

Campbell, John [AL]

From Unknown Worlds {/87/} [??] [BBT]

[?]

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

Treason {/11,15,TG/} [RR] [BBT]

[St. Martin's; 1990; 0312920198; $4.95] [BB]

• A race of humans with regenerative powers has members whose bodies transform uncontrollably--radical regeneratives. Apparently on TG list because of mismatched body parts. SF; Rating: 4 Result: BM Significance: 0 Description: + Saturation: -. -11

Xenocide {//79} [BBT]

[TOR; 1992; 0812509250; $5.99] [BB]

• (See Spoiler Section for more info) -79

Card, Orson Scott (ed.)

Dragons of Darkness (anthology) {/20/} [BBT]

[Ace; 1983; 0441166644; $2.95] [BB]
[Baen; 1988; 155785033X; $?] [BB]

Dragons of Light (anthology) {/20/} [BBT]

[Ace; 1983; 044116661X; $2.95] [BB]
[Baen; 1988; 1557850372; $?] [BB]

Carroll, Lewis

Alice in Wonderland {/38/} [FT] [BBT]

Through the Looking Glass {/38/} [FT] [BBT]

[both of the above, published together: Bantam; 1988; 0553213458; $2.25] [BB]
[both of the above, published togther: New American Library; 1995; 0451523202; $3.95] [BB]

On both of the above:

• A sort of measured strangeness, where the familiar becomes the completely alien, in a short space of time. -38

Carter, Angela [SS] [AL]

The Bloody Chamber {/11,114/} [BBT]

[Penguin; 1979; 0140128379; $?]! [BB]
[Penguin; 1993; 014017821X; $11.95 softcover] [BB]

• A collection of fairy tales rewritten for adults. Includes at least two werewolf stories. The stories I've read in it haven't grabbed me. Horror; Rating: 2 Result: LY Significance: 0 Description: - Saturation: 0. -11
• Yes, it is very erotic, transformations are used as a metaphor for sexuality and growing-up. BTW: It is not limited to werewolves. Rating: 5. -114
• [Listings for the stories in this anthology are in the story section.]

The Passion of New Eve {/3/} [BBT]

[Gollancz; ?; 0575022477; $?] [BB]

• [Result: GC.] ...About a man in a pretty apocalyptic future who goes out into the desert after refusing to take responsibility for impregnating his girlfriend. He's picked up by a group of woman who change him into a woman. -3

Carter, Carmen

Dreams of the Raven (Star Trek 34) {/75/} [BBT]

[Pocket; 1994; 0671743562; $5.50] [BB]

• [Cause: NA Result: MU.] The male Raven babies are mindless until they eat a sentient alien, then they absorb its memory RNA, or something like that, and it is as though the alien had been transformed or transferred into a Raven body. Fairly good, but the story doesn't focus that much on the folks who've been transformed -- more on Kirk, Spock et al trying to prevent more folks being eaten up. -75

Carver, Jeffrey

Chaos Chronicles series {/107/} [BBT]

[1:Neptune Crossing: Tor; 1995; 0812535154; $5.99] [BB] [BBT]
[2:Strange Attractors: Tor; 1996; 0812535162; $5.99] [BB] [BBT]

• [Cause: SY Result: MT.] ... has as one of its premises the symbiotic presence of a noncorporeal alien called a quarx in the mind of the protagonist. This is just the beginning point; his journey through Neptune Crossing and Strange Attractors, and further volumes to follow, involve a continuing process of transformation in alien environments. -107

From a Changeling Star series {/40/}

[1:From a Changeling Star: Bantam Spectra; 1989; 0553276395; $3.95] [BB] [BBT]
[2:Down the Stream of Stars: Bantam Spectra; 1990; 0553283022; $4.95] [RR] [BB] [BBT]

• [Cause: NT Result: BM.] They are packed with ideas beyond what the writer could handle, more suitable for a Star Trek show than reading material. But if you like transformation, there's nanotech remaking of people and one bizarre megatransformation. -40

The Infinity Link {/107/} [BBT]

[Tor; 1996; 0812533275; $?] [BB]

• [Result: MT.] Describes the journey of a young woman into a wholly AI-based existence, and then into a telepathic residence in the group mind of an alien culture. -107

Rigger series {/107/}

[Star Rigger's Way: Tor; 1994; 0812534441; $4.99] [BB] [BBT]
[Panglor: Tor; 1996; 0812534468; $6.99] [BB] [BBT]
[Seas of Empire: Tor; ?] [BBT]
[Dragons in the Stars: Tor; 1992; 0812533038; $4.99] [BB] [BBT]
[Dragon Rigger: Tor; 1994; 0812533232; $4.99] [BB] [BBT]

• [Cause: AS Result: MT/ST.] ... involve starflight through mental transformations mediated through a rigger's sensory net. The most recent of these, Dragon Rigger, goes considerably further, involving complete transmigration of the personality and soul into nonphysical forms. It also describes something called the "underrealm," through which several of the dragons explore unusual facets of their world. -107

Case, David

Wolf Tracks {/87,154/} [BBT]

[Leisure; 1984; 0843921668; $2.95] [BB]
[Leisure; 1988; 0843926252; $?] [BB]

• [Result: LY.] Set in Toronto. Not bad. Detective following a lycanthrope. -87
• Lycanthropy. -154

Caspian, Jonatha A. [??]

The Nightmare Dream {/154/} [??] [BBT]

[West End; 1990; 0874313031; $4.95] [BB]

• Result: LY. See the entry on the Possibility Wars series, by Greg Gordon and Bill Slavicsek, for more information. -Ph (98/02/13)

Cassidy, Carla [??]

Heart of the Beast {/154/} [??] [BBT]

[Harlequin; 1993; 0373270119; $?] [BB]

• [Result: LY.] Lycanthropy.  -154 (98/02/13)
• From the Silhouette Shadows series, #11. Not read. -Ph

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