These are things you may be interested in, on the Internet or elsewhere.
Some of them are listed because they have transformation stuff in them. Some of them are
listed because they have HTML links to this document that I found out about, and I decided
to return the favor. (Thanks!) Some of them are listed for reasons I cannot
adequately explain.
Please let me know of anything that should be listed in this section.
(Note: I will not link to any site that charges for access.)
- A ring containing several dozen transformation-related web sites. Great, great
stuff here.
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- Result: BX/AN/TG/FU. An archive site for
transformation-related stories--very well done, and the perfect complement to this list.
This archive used to lean pretty heavily toward gender-change stories, but there are a
large number of species-change stories now too. Many of the stories are adult-oriented,
and are marked as such. Send him stories. -Ph (2000/08/01)
- An online 'magazine' of transformation-related goodness, both stories
and artwork. Well worth visiting.-Ph (2000/08/01)
- Result: BX/AN. Horse and unicorn transformations of all
sorts. Still somewhat small, but the things that are there are of nice quality. -Ph (98/04/09)
- Some excellent stories here, in various story "universes" from the TSA-Talk
mailing list, including The Blind Pig, Winds of Change, No More Fakes, and Metamor Keep. -Ph (98/04/09)
These are sites having to do with specific types of transformations. I've
moved these links to the focus pages, where you can also do searches of the List for
stories of these types.
These are sites having to do with science fiction (or speculative fiction
or whatever the correct term for it is this month) in general.
- A large collection of SF- and fantasy-related files, reviews, 'zines, etc. Many of the
links in this list point to Lysator. This site is in Sweden. -Ph
- A large collection of SF- and fantasy-related files and archived Usenet postings, as
well as links to other resources. Many of the links in this list point to Rutgers.
- Another very nice HTML list of resources on the net. -Ph
- An extremely rich site, laid out in "online magazine" style--I sometimes found
it a bit difficult to find what I was searching for, but it rewarded the effort. Lots of
reviews, links, etc. Check it out. -Ph (98/03/02)
- A nicely-executed HTML list of resources on the net related to SF, fantasy, horror,
etc. Apparently down as of 2/5/98. -Ph
These are sites having to do with books in general.
- An extremely useful site, full of links, reference materials, etc. I've found
it useful for several research projects. -Ph (98/03/02)
If you're looking for the books on this List, here's some places to try.
Many of these stores are now available through the Bookstore Browser feature of the List;
clicking on a book's [BB] or [BBT] link will let you look at various bookstores'
information on the book.
I was briefly a member of some of these bookstores' affiliate programs. I have ended that;
it was more trouble than it was worth. So I have no financial stake whatsoever in any of
the bookstores listed here.
- A Really Really Big online bookstore. I've placed a number of orders with them, and
gotten excellent service. They do used-book searches. Their online site is particularly
nice, since customer reviews and other useful information are readily available for each
book. There's also an automated recommendation service. Now accessible through the
Bookstore Browser. -Ph (98/03/02)
- Another Really Really Big online bookstore; this one is a branch of the Barnes and Noble
bookstore chain. Their site is well-organized, and they have a recommendation service,
though their review database isn't as large as Amazon's. I've placed
several online orders through them, with good results. Now accessible
through the Bookstore Browser. -Ph (99/12/20)
- Another very nice online bookstore. I like their page layouts; the site features
customer reviews, though it takes an extra click on a book page to get to them (which is a
bummer when it turns out that there aren't any).
Now accessible through the Bookstore Browser. -Ph (98/03/02)
- I'm running out of original ways to say "Another nice bookstore.", so I'll just say "Another nice bookstore." They don't load up every page with graphics, so the pages load
noticeably quicker--I like that. One minor annoyance: There doesn't seem to be a way
to search by author and title simultaneously.
Now accessible through the Bookstore Browser. -Ph (98/03/02)
- A huge retail bookstore; if you're ever in or near Portland, Oregon, you have
to go there. A good selection of new books, and an extremely impressive selection of
used ones; my apartment is half-filled with used paperbacks I bought at Powell's. Their
website is great for used book searches. Highly recommended overall. Now accessible
through the Bookstore Browser. -Ph (98/03/02)
- A very intriguing idea. You give it an author/title/ISBN, and it searches several dozen
different online bookstores, reporting back which stores have the book, as well as their
prices for it (including shipping). So if all you're interested in is price and
availability, you can get that information in a very big hurry.
I really, really want to like this service. But there's a couple of things about it that
profundly annoy me. First, you can search via author and title, but you can only do the
actual crosscheck via ISBN--if you do an author/title search, it presents a list of ISBNs,
and you choose one to crosscheck. (You can search for multiple ISBNs through the Advanced
Search feature, but you have to manually type the ISBNs in--you can't just say
"Search for all those ISBNs you've just listed for me when I told you to search by
title.") If you're looking for new books, that's reasonably okay; but if you're
looking for used ones, where every store may have a different edition with a different
ISBN, it reduces the value of the search in a hurry.
Second, the search results page provides links to the bookstores, bringing up the page for
the book--but (apparently) only if that store has an affiliates program, and only if
they've accepted Acses into it. If Acses isn't an affiliate of that store, you just get a
link to a generic page saying 'Contact this store and bug them into joining us!', and you
have to manually type in that store's URL (if you know it at all) and search for the book
again using that site's search engine. To me, this seems profoundly lame--when a
site deliberately makes itself difficult for the user to navigate, my response is to stop
using the site, rather than to bug other sites to cooperate with it. I recognize that a
site like Acses wants to make money, but there has to be a better way than
this--perhaps by making the user go through a banner-ad page before reaching a
non-affiliated site.
Now accessible through the Bookstore Browser. -Ph (98/03/02)
- This looks intensely nifty. It's a site that includes over 2000 independent
booksellers; you can search all of their collective inventories. (Regrettably, you can't
search by ISBN, so Advanced Book Exchange only shows up in the [BBT] links on this list,
not the [BB] list.) These bookstores specialize in used and rare books; it appears that
many of the stores only list their rare books (first editions, etc.), so you may find that
prices are higher than you would expect. But if you're looking for an out-of-print book
(like most of the books on this list are), the odds are extremely high that somebody
on this service has it.
Many thanks to the proprietor of Alien Motives, one of the member bookstores of the ABE, for pointing out
this service.
Now accessible through the Bookstore Browser. -Ph (98/03/16)
- A meta-meta-bookstore. It not only searches some online bookstores like
Amazon's, but some bookstore comparison services like Advanced Book Exchange. I'm
impressed. Unlike Acses, it easily supports searches by author, title, and/or ISBN, though
its results are limited by the limits of the sites it's searching. (For example, searches
by ISBN won't turn up things in American Book Exchange, since ABE's search engine doesn't
support ISBN searches.) Now accessible through the Bookstore Browser. -Ph (98/03/18)
These are sites that catalog other people's Web pages. Some of them use
predefined sets of categories (sort of like browsing through a library card catalog);
others use keyword searches (which find pages that contain words you're interested in);
others combine the two. (Only sites that include this list are included, on the theory
that other sites are obviously too incomplete to be useful. Who, me, humble? I've sent this site's URL
in to all the search engines I know about that allow URLs to be entered manually.)
- One of the most ambitious search engines, covering both Usenet and the Web. Uses keyword
searches. (If you do a Web search for anything involving "transformation" on
this site, you might want to add "-host:transformationlist.com" to your search; otherwise,
about the first five pages of the search results will be various parts of this List. Sorry
about that. I think.) -Ph
- A some-of-everything site: you can search a large pool of Web sites by concept or
keyword, and a smaller pool of "reviewed" sites by concept, keyword or category.
The review summaries generally have very good information. (And I am pleased to report
that they now list my site under "Science Fiction" and not under
"Philosophy". ) -Ph (98/04/03)
- An interesting service; lots of different ways to search. -Ph (98/04/03)
- A very large Web catalog, using keyword searches. Has an interesting "Community
Guide" feature, that allows you to rate web pages in various categories. (A bit
of shameless self-promotion: If you've got an extra minute, would you mind voting on what you think of my site?) -Ph
(98/04/02)
- One of the first Web search engines, with about a gazillion searchable categories, as
well as keyword searches. Every site is reviewed by editors, and all changes are made by
them as well. This means that your search will turn up fewer sites, but that there's a
pretty darn decent chance that those sites will be interesting. Unfortunately, it also
means that there's a fair amount of dead and obsolete links that no one's gotten around to
removing. Use it, but don't rely exclusively on it. -Ph
(98/04/03)
These are sites that may or may not have anything to do with
transformations. But they link to me, and I thought they were cool, or at least vaguely
amusing. :-)
- A pretty darn comprehensive directory of text-based archives like mine. The pages,
appropriately enough, are text-only. Worth checking out. One word of advice: Try to
hit this site in the morning; if your experience is like mine, if you try it in the
evening, you're as likely as not to get a "This user has exceeded his byte
count" error.) -Ph (98/04/09)
- A site run by a good friend and neighbor of mine. Links to a large number of
anime-related art sites (a few of which are furry- or transformation-related). Also
includes information on some Japanese videogames, and a bunch of interesting links to
other similar sites. -Ph (98/03/05)
- A company that does special effects for haunted houses. Lots of links to interesting
information about werewolves, costuming, etc. -Ph (98/03/07)
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