[Tor; 1985; 0812553276; $?] [BB]
[Tor; 1996; 0312857985; $23.95 hardcover] [BB]
[Tor; 1997; 0812550048; $6.99] [BB]
[The Holmes-Dracula File:
Tor; 1992; 0812523849; $] [BB] [BBT]
[An Old Friend of the Family:
Ace; 1979; 0441621600; $1.95] [BB] [BBT]
[The Dracula Tape: Ace; 1980; 0441166008;
$1.95] [BB] [BBT]
- [Result: VA.] These books tell Dracula's side
of the story, and later other stories featuring the same vampire. -42
- Rating: 3 Result: BM Significance: 0 Description:
- Saturation: -. Vlad Tepes, aka Count Dracula is the main character in these novels
and he has the traditional powers of a vampire. The third (The Dracula Tape)
is a retelling of the events of Bram Stoker's Dracula from Dracula's point of
view. I liked An Old Friend of the Family best. -64
[Bantam; 1990; 0553284509; $3.95] [BB]
- Result: LY. Lycanthropy; not read; reviewed in
OtherRealms 27.04. -Ph
- Lycanthropy. -154
[Bantam Spectra; 1989; 0553281860; $3.95] [BB]
- [Cause: NA Result: LY.] Mankind is actually
just immature werewolf larvae, fled here from the moon to escape an ancient war that
rendered the moon lifeless. Now, lunar rock turns us into werewolves... really weird,
fairly violent. If you can get past the premise it's not bad. -87
- Lycanthropy. -154
[?]
- [Result: LY.] Basically the same plot as
almost every John Saul novel: A broken family moves from the city to the country-side --
and into their own apocalypse. Most members of the family get murdered by a being; in Guardian
it's a werewolf. Transformation scenes: thumb slightly up. Rating: 2 (4 if you don't know other novels by that
author) -114
[Spectra; 1987; 0553267175; $3.50] [BB]
[?]
[DAW; 1973; 451-UQ1038-095; $.95]
[1: The Werewolf's Kiss:
Diamond; 1992; 1557738017, $4.99] [BB] [BBT]
- [Result: LY.] Lycanthropy. -83
- Remarkably good story of modern Louisiana loups-garou, if a bit disjointed at times.
Overly influenced by Interview with a Vampire... The author is on GEnie. -87
[2: The Werewolf's Touch:
Diamond; 1993; 1557739056, $4.99] [BB] [BBT]
[3: The Werewolf's Sin:
Diamond; 1994; 1557739730, $?] [BB]
[?]
[DAW; 1977; 0879973307; $1.50] [BB]
On I, Vampire and Passing for Human:
- [Result: MT.] ...Feature aliens (and the
occasional human) who change bodies. -43
[Scribner; 1981; 0689308612; $?] [BB]
- [Rating: 5 Cause: MA? Result: MT/AN Significance:
0.] This is the best book I have ever read, but I have not been able to find it
anywhere except the library. It is about a girl whose father works for the military and
comes home one day with a ring taken from what could be part of Atlantis. This ring allows
the girl to switch places with a dolphin. It is very good. -162 (98/02/14)
[DAW; 1993; 0886775256; $4.99] [BB]
- Result: LY. I have this one flagged as having
at least one lycanthropy story. -Ph
[Holt, Rinehart & Winston; 1980; 0030417457; $?] [BB]
[Kensington; 1986; 0821718851; $?] [BB]
- [Rating: 4 Cause: AS Result: BM.] Summary:
(partially from front dust cover flap) Harry Styles is thirty-siz years old; he has a wife
and three young children he loves. And he is dying of lung cancer. When Dr. Karl
Steienhardt asks him to volunteer for a revolutionary operation--his lungs to be replaced
by gills--he accepts with terror and pride, knowing that near the moment of his death he
will be making a mark on science. He lives--to find himself submerged in water, that water
now his only world, the element he must "breathe" to exist.
Personal Opinion: I read this long ago on a vacation. It was at the time when a 299 page
book as it is would take a kid like me weeks to read. I finished it in three days. It was
so riveting I spent hours each day reading nonstop. It is truly Science Fiction, very
believable. The details are immense and realistic. The book deals with technical aspects
of the gill lung replacement, the mental and physical condition of Harry, reactions of his
family and the staff that performed the surgery. Everything seems to have been taken into
consideration. Highly recommended. 4/4. -148 (98/02/11)
[Del Rey; 1991; 034537231X; $4.99] [BB]
[?]
[Ace; 1967; G-614; $.50; Ace Double w/Shock Wave]
[Crompton Divided: Bantam; 1979; 0553129007; $1.95] [BB]
- [Result: PE?/BC?.] Alistair Crompton, chief
tester for Psychosmell Inc, cured schizophrenic, and extremely boring person, goes on a
galaxy-wide quest to recover his missing personality fragments that had been given their
own bodies; having eventually recovered them, he then has to try and integrate them. -77
- Crompton Divided was the title on the American release, and The
Alchemical Marriage... was the title of the British release. -116
[Grafton; 1986; 0586066950; $3.95] [BB]
[Del Rey; 1989; 0345344340; $3.95] [BB]
[Del Rey; 1989; 0345344332; $3.95] [BB]
[Proteus Unbound and Sight of Proteus combined as Proteus Combined; ?] [BBT]
- [Cause: AS Result: BX.] This book is ok,
better if you like Sheffield. You might have a hard time finding it though. I rarely see
any of his older stuff around. -5
- ...About a society in which 'form-change' is common technology. -13
- A short story "Legacy," on which Sight of Proteus was based, is
in Changes, by Bishop and Watson.
-Ph
[Ace; 1984; 0441302742; $?] [BB]
- This is a weird-ass book. Briefly, a doctor (perhaps mad, certainly obsessive and
paranoid) finds a way to revive dead people whose bodies aren't too badly damaged. The
catch is, the revivees have brand new personalities, new memories, everything. [...] For
experimental reasons most of the revivees aren't aware of their true nature, but many of
them come to suspect it. This forms a small but significant part of the story. Of course,
the reader is continually aware of just how weird these people are... [Result: PE.] Rating:
4 Cause: AM Significance: 0 Description: + Saturation: + (See Spoiler Section for more information)
-144 (98/02/09)
[TOR; 1993; 0812530047; $3.99] [BB]
[Bantam; 1991; 0553290665; $?] [BB]
- Another weird-ass book. There's a war going on in Guatemala, and both sides (US vs.
Commies, that is to say Cubans, Nicaraguans, local insurgents) are developing psychically
powered special operatives. [...] The drug used to trigger psychic development is derived
from a traditional hallucinogen. [...] The story is really an odyssey by two defectors
from the psychic armies (one of ours, one of theirs). Rating: 5 Cause: AM Result: MP/TT Significance: 0
Description: + Saturation: +. -144 (98/02/09)
[Avon; 1989; 0380754363; $3.50] [BB]
[Ace; 1995; 0441002617; $4.99] [BB]
- This is a very good book. Shape-Changer's Wife is a fairy tale much like
something Peter Beagle might have
written. Aubrey, a young student of sorcery, goes to study with a wizard of great power
and dubious character, a specialist in shape-changing (both himself and others). It
develops that the shape-changer's wife and all his servants are transformed forest
creatures, all more or less miserable in human form. Not only do we get to hear what life
is like for the transformed, we get description of transformative magic and the mental
states necessary to perform it. As Aubrey masters the subject we get to see him go through
his own transformations. Rating: 3 Cause: MA/MC
Result: BX/SC Significance: + Description: + Saturation: +. (See Spoiler Section for more
information) -144 (98/02/09)
(Continued...)
Where to from here?
Copyright © 1993-2000 Phaedrus /
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Goldcamp Vampire {50//} [BBT]
Wolf from the Door {/11/} [BBT]