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D'Ammassa, Don

"The Splicer" {11//}

[in Hotter Blood, by Gelb]

• A young man who has the ability to change movies (making them more sexual and violent) is found out by a theater worker, only to display even more ability to change things. Horror; Rating: 2 Result: BX/GC Significance: + Description: 0 Saturation: 0. -11

Davidson, Avram [Bo] [AL] [BR]

"Duke Pasquale's Ring" {/75/}

[in The Adventures of Doctor Eszterhazy; Owlswick; 1990; 0913895284; $?] [BB] [BBT]

• (See Spoiler Section for more info) -75

"Loups-Garous" (short verse) {/Ph/}

[in Werewolf! by Pronzini]

• Result: LY. A doctor has no problem empathizing with his patient. -Ph

Davol, Marguerite W.

"Flesh and Blood" {/Ph/}

[in Werewolves, by Yolen and Greenberg]

de Camp, L. Sprague [Bo] [AL]

"Hyperpilosity" {/Ph/}

[in The Best of L. Sprague de Camp; Del Rey; 1986; 0345329309; $3.50] [BB] [BBT]
[in The Omnibus of Science Fiction; ed. Conklin, Groff; Chatham River; 1984; 0517453703; $9.00 softcover] [BB] [BBT]

• Cause: EM? Result: MX/PE?. All of humanity suddenly starts sprouting fur due to a genetic change. Interesting social changes result. -Ph

de Camp, L. Sprague; Pratt, Fletcher [Bo]

"Here Putzi!" {/77/}

[in Tales from Gavagan's Bar; 1980; Bantam; 0553131273; $?] [BB] [BBT]

• [Result: LY.] The story of Mrs. Vacarescu and her husband Putzi, the were-dachshund. -77

de Lint, Charles [Bo] [AL] [BR]

"One Chance" {/Ph/}

[in Werewolves, by Yolen and Greenberg]

de Maupassant, Guy

"The Wolf" {//Ph}

[in Werewolf! by Pronzini]

• Hard to tell where the transformation is in this one, if any. An interesting read, though. -Ph

Dee, Ron

"Genderella" {//11}

[in Hottest Blood, edited by Gelb]

• Not very good. A gay teen boy is transformed into a girl for a night to win the love of his straight classmate he loves; midnight strikes at a most inopportune time. Horror; Rating: 1 Cause: MA Result: BX/GC Significance: 0 Description: - Saturation: -. -11

deFord, Miriam Allen [??]

"Henry Martindale, Great Dane"/"Gone to the Dogs" {/135/} [??]

[in "Beyond", March 1954 (as "Henry Martindale, Great Dane") ]
[in Elsewhere, Elsewhen, Elsehow, by Miriam Allen deFord; Walker; 1971; 0-8027-55402; $? (as "Gone to the Dogs")] [BB] [BBT]

• [Result: BX/AN Description: -.] Lida Martindale wakes up one morning to find her husband Henry has turned into a Great Dane. Mechanism: Not specified, possibly lycanthropic. Type of transformation: Total physical, permanent, but intellect, vision, and voice are unchanged. Description: Transformations occur off-stage. [...] A cute, fairly lightweight story. (See Spoiler Section for more information) -135 (98/02/07)

del Rey, Lester [AL]

"Reincarnate" {Ph//}

[in The Early Del Rey 1; Ballantine; 1976; 034525063X; $1.95] [BB] [BBT]

• Rating: X Cause: AS Result: BT/IN. A man's brain is transplanted into a prototype robotic body after an accident. He has to relearn how to use his senses, speak, and get along in society; and, of course, society has to get used to him too. -Ph

Dick, Philip K. [Bo] [AL] [BR]

"Beyond Lies the Wub" {/77/}

[in Alpha 3; ed. Robert Silverberg; Ballantine; 1972; 034502883X; $1.25] [BB] [BBT]

• A Wub, a Martian pig-like animal, drives a space crew wild during a long voyage with its incessant discussion of metaphysics and metempsychosis. (See Spoiler Section for more info) -77

"Colony" {/77/}

[in Robert Silverberg's Worlds of Wonder; ed. Robert Silverberg; Warner; 0446513695; $17.95 hardcover] [BB] [BBT]

• [Cause: NA? Result: SC/IN.] An earth colony on an alien world is threatened by shapechanging monsters that imitate household appliances, vehicles, etc. Nice twist at the end. -77

"Imposter" {//77}

[in The Great SF Stories 15; eds. Asimov, Greenberg, Waugh; DAW; 1986; 0886771714; $3.50] [BB] [BBT]

• [Cause: AS? Result: MU?/IN?.] A man is told that he is an android replica intended for sabotage: the original has been murdered. He tries to prove his innocence. -77

"Not by its Cover" {/77/}

[?]

• [Cause: MA?/NA?.] A publisher discovers that the texts of books bound in wub fur change mysteriously; even the Bible gains extra passages referring to eternal life. Anything enclosed in the fur is strangely improved; the publisher decides to have his funeral casket lined with wub fur. -77

"Oh to be a Blobel!" {/77/}

[in World's Best Science Fiction: 1965; eds. Donald Wollheim and Terry Carr; Ace; 1965; G-551; $.50] [BBT]

• [Cause: AS Result: BX.] With the war over, an ex-spy who was modified to infiltrate the amoeboid Blobels has difficulties settling back into normal human society, as he is liable to revert to Blobel form without warning. He eventually marries a female Blobel spy who had been modified to pass for human, and who suffers from reversion to human form. -77

Dickson, Gordon R. [Bo] [AL] [BL] [BR]

"Tiger Green" {/Ph/}

[in Gordon R. Dickson's SF Best; Dell; 1978; 0440131812; $1.75] [BB] [BBT]

• [Cause: AX?.] An alien race and planet tries to transform human visitors into thinking its way. -Ph

Dinesen, Isak

"The Sailor-Boy's Tale" {/Ph/}

[in Shape Shifters by Yolen]

• [Cause: NA? Result: BX/AN.] The protagonist rescues a falcon, and the falcon later returns the favor as a woman. -Ph

Disch, Thomas [AL] [BL]

"The New Me" {//Ph}

[in Changes, by Bishop and Watson]

• Result: PE. Sort of self-help groups taken to their ridiculous conclusion. Mental transformation, more or less. -Ph

Donaldson, Stephen [AL] [BL] [BR]

"Daughter of Regals" {/4,11,21/}

[in Daughter of Regals & Other Tales; Del Rey; 1990; 0345314433; $5.95] [BB] [BBT]

• (From the anthology of the same name) - Weredragon! -4
• Rating: 4 Result: LY Significance: + Description: 0 Saturation: -. -11

"Mythical Beast" {11//}

[in Daughter of Regals & Other Tales; Del Rey; 1990; 0345314433; $5.95] [BB] [BBT]

• Rating: 4 Result: LY Significance: + Description: + Saturation: 0. (See Spoiler Section for more info) -11

Doyle, Debra; Macdonald, J. D.

"Bad Blood" {/Ph/}

[in Werewolves, by Yolen and Greenberg]

Duane, Diane [Bo] [AL] [BL]

"Lior and the Sea" {/72/}

[in Moonsinger's Friends; ed. Susan Shwartz]

• [Cause: MA?/NA? Result: BX?/IN?.] Lior, a Rodmistress, challenges the Sea one stormy night and discovers that the Sea has its own life. Transformation only in that the Sea takes a Seahorse (mythic) form, then later takes a human form. Very nicely done. -72

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