From: phaedrus@CS.WASHINGTON.EDU (Mark Phaedrus)
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Subject: Transformation stories list, v7, pt. 2 of 4 [long] [spoilers?]
Date: 26 Jul 92 00:02:10 GMT

Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written
Subject: Transformation stories list, v7, pt. 2 of 4 [long] [spoilers?]
Keywords: Seventh release; more wanted
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Organization: Lycanthropes Anonymous

     The explanation of this list, and the A's through D's, are in the previous
section.
  
  
  Author              Title                                 Mentioned by(+/0/-)
- ------------------  ------------------------------------  -------------------
  
0 Eddings, David      Castle of Wizardry                    9
   [Del Rey; 0-345-33570-8; $3.95]
0 Eddings, David      Demon Lord of Karanda                 9
0 Eddings, David      Enchanter's End Game                  9
0 Eddings, David      Guardians of the West                 9
   [Del Rey; 0-345-35266-1; $5.95]
0 Eddings, David      King of the Murgos                    9
0 Eddings, David      Magician's Gambit                     9
   [Del Rey; 0-345-33545-7; $3.95]
0 Eddings, David      Pawn of Prophecy                      9
   [Del Rey; 0-345-33551-1; $5.95]
0 Eddings, David      Queen of Sorcery                      9
0 Eddings, David      Seeress of Kell                       9
0 Eddings, David      Sorceress of Darshiva                 9
       "The books are Fantasy, and can be found almost anywhere.  They deal
     extensively with Shapechanging.  They are all excellent books.  Subjects
     also touched upon are Demons, and the transforming of others into other
     shapes.  You would have to read them to understand what I mean." -9
  
0 Effinger, George
    Alec              The Nick of Time                      3
       "there is section which involves "The Historian," who can change 
     reality to suit himself.  Our hero is turned into a lizard-man for a
     while (and discovers that lizards don't like crepe suzettes), and gets
     involved in a rebellion against the historian.  For punishment, he's
     turned into a rapid succession of things (a big sentient chocolate, an
     atom of formaldehyde, etc).  The transformations aren't really
     important to the plot, but the book's worth seeking out just for its
     sheer goofiness." -3
  
0 Eisenstein, Phyllis Sorcerer's Son                        42
       "A world in which people who summon demons must devise shapes for them."
     -42
  
0 Estes, Rose         Name of the Game                      MP
   [TSR; 0-88038-614-2; $3.95]
       [Sixth in the Greyhawk Adventures series.  Hero is transformed into a
     griffon. -MP]
  
? Farmer, Philip Jose Image of the Beast                    MP
   [Berkley; 0-425-07708-X; $3.50]
       [I saw this mentioned as a lycanthropy or transformation story, but
     haven't read it. -MP]
- Farmer, Philip Jose Riverworld series                     /11/42
       "SF; not read" -11
       "Marginally on topic.  Everyone who ever lived on Earth is resurrected
     simultaneously on another planet, which lets the author write a story with
     all his favorite historical characters.  Anyone who dies on this planet is
     immediately resurrected at an arbitrary location on the same world." -42
  
0 Faucette, John M.   Crown of Infinity                     42
   [Ace; 020-08051-060; $.60; Ace double including The Prism]
       "Highly readable old novel in which most of the human race is
     exterminated by aliens, and the survivors decide to evolve (by genetic
     manipulation) into a race that can fight back." -42
  
0 Feist, Raymond      Riftwar Saga                          36
       "one of the heroes is transformed from a normal mortal into a dragon-
     lord, another becomes one of the most powerful mages ever.  This was a
     pretty popular series when it came out." -36
? Feist, Raymond      Silverthorn                           MP
   [Bantam Spectra; 0-553-27054-0; $3.95]
  
0 Fontenay, Charles L Rebels of the Red Planet              42
       "Another oldie-but-goody featuring genetic manipulation." -42
  
? Forsythe, Richard   Fangs                                 MP
   [Leisure; 0-8439-2275-3; $3.95]
       [Appears to be a lycanthropy story, but not read. -MP]
  
0 Foster, Alan Dean   Icerigger and sequels                 22
   [Icerigger: Del Rey; 0-345-22799-6; $1.95]
       "summer/winter climate adaptation" -22
0 Foster, Alan Dean   Paths of the Perambulator             44
   [Warner; 0-446-32769-8; $3.50]
       "Foster's Spellsinger has some shape changes, especially in the book 
     'Paths of the Perambulator'.  These are all magical changes, but the books
     are fun to read." -44
  
- Foster, M. A.       The Morphodite series                 /22/11
   [Transformer: DAW; 0-87997-814-7; $2.50]
   [Morphodite: DAW; 0-87997-669-1; $2.75]
       on Transformer only: "Rating: 3 Type: B Significance: - Description: +
     Saturation: -" -11
       on series: "must read to appreciate" -22
  
0 Friedman, C. S.    Madness Season                        11,21,42,46
       "Rating: 4 Type: B Significance: 0 Description: 0 Saturation: 0.  SF; 
     vampire & alien ability.  Very worthwhile read.  It really does involve 
     what is essentially a vampire, even if it is not in any way a vampire 
     story." -11
       "...recent; also about a vampire type person who has several
     transformations, each more complex than the last...." -21
       "The description that was given left out the setting: alien conquest of
     earth--story is set in space--has nothing to do with vampires!" -46
 
  [The following 3 are a series]  
0 Friesner, Esther   Here Be Demons                        45
   [Ace; 0-441-32797-4; $3.50]
0 Friesner, Esther   Demon Blues                           45
   [Ace; 0-441-14309-1; $3.50]
       On both: "Shape-shifting demons find that their idea of sin is somewhat
     out-of-date in 20th century Earth." -45
0 Friesner, Esther   Hooray for Hollywood                  11
   [Ace; 0-441-34281-7; $3.50]
       "Rating: 3 Type: B Significance: 0 Description: 0 Saturation: -" -11  
 
0 Galouye, Daniel F. Simulacron 3                          42
       "A simulated Earth is constructed, for purposes of market research, into
     which the researchers can project their consciousness." -42
  
0 Gerrold, David      Moonstar Odyssey                      25
   [Signet; 0-451-07372-X; $1.50]
       "This book is about a society where a person's gender is not fixed until
     maturity and the problems caused to someone who doesn't know which to
     choose.  I remember it as quite well written." -25
  
+ Godwin, Parke       The Snake Oil Wars Or Scheherazade
                        Gindberg Strikes Again              50//
   [Doubleday; 1989; $18.95 hardcover]
+ Godwin, Parke       Waiting For the Galactic Bus          50//
   [Doubleday; 1988; $18.95 hardcover]
       "Well, Barion and Coryu, our stranded, shape-shifting, pure-energy
     aliens, wouldn't have had to assume the roles of God and Satan,
     respectively, if they hadn't transformed that d*?ned monkey into 'homo
     sapien' and gotten us all into this mess to begin with!" -50
  
0 Goulart, Ron        The Chameleon Corps and Other Shape
                        Changers (anthology)                41,MP
   [Collier; 02075; $1.50]
       [Five stories (Chameleon, Rake, Copstate, Masterpiece, Sunflower) about
     the Chameleon Corps, a spy organization for a galactic empire, whose
     members can change shape at will.  Also six other transformation stories.
     -MP] 
  
? Grant, Charles L.   The Dark Cry of the Moon              MP
   [Berkley; 0-425-10502-4; $2.95]
       [Lycanthropy story; not read. -MP]
  
0 Grinnell, David     Edge of Time                          42
       "Old SF novel about researchers projecting their consciousness into a
     succession of lives." -42
 
0 Gunnarsson,
   Thorarinn          Human Beware!                         48
       "...the High Priest and the Emperor of the evil Alasheran Empire have
     achieved a form of immortality by stealing people's bodies for over a
     thousand years.  The latest victim is the dragon Keridaejan.  Also, 
     Jenny, the heroine of the novel, discovers that in order to fulfill the
     Prophecies, Keridaejan had come to Earth before his body was stolen by
     the High Priest and taken human form in order to father her..." -48
- Gunnarsson,
   Thorarinn          Make Way for Dragons!                 /48/MP
       [A powerful evil dragon and two good ones enter our world, and the good
     ones seek out a powerful human "wizard" (though completely untrained) to
     help them beat the evil one.  The transformation is pretty incidental, and
     constitutes a spoiler anyway... -MP]
     [See Spoiler Section for more info]
  
0 Hambly, Barbara    He Who Stalks the Night                50
       "I'm not sure about the title, but it is a recent vampire novel." -50
       [I've seen _Those who Hunt the Night_ everywhere; is this it? -MP]
  
0 Harness, Charles    The Paradox Men                       42
       "The exact nature of the transformations constitute a major spoiler." 
  -42
  
0 Heinlein, Robert A  I Will Fear No Evil                   11
       "Rating: 3 Type: M Significance: 0 Description: + Saturation: 0.  SF;
     brain transplant...  The story of a wealthy, corrupt industrialist who has
     his brain transplanted into his secretary's body." -11
0 Heinlein, Robert A  Stranger in a Strange Land            15
   [Berkley; 425-02202; $1.50]
  
0 Herbert, Frank       Children of Dune                     43
0 Herbert, Frank       God-Emperor of Dune                  42,43
       "The multi-millennium transformation of a boy into a sandworm." -42
       "Children of Dune has Leto going into symbiosis with sandtrout to
     become/get the giant worm-like body of God-Emperor of Dune." -43
0 Herbert, Frank       The Godmakers                        42
       "The transformation of a man into a god." -42
0 Herbert, Frank;
   Herbert, Brian      Man of Two Worlds                    54
       "An alien race can shapeshift at will to any form, with mass
     restrictions--[they] must absorb organic material (i.e. dead mice) to
     grow.  (Important to plot of the story.)" -54
  
0 Hodgell, PC          Dark of the Moon                     42
       "The bad guys are shape-changers.  Sequel to the superb 'God Stalk'." 
  -42
 
- Holt, Tom           Expecting Someone Taller              //MP
   [Ace; 0-441-22332-X; $3.95]
       [Fantasy/humor.  The protagonist gets the Tarnhelm, which lets him
     change shape.  The transformation is mostly incidental and played for
     laughs or a good punch line, and the changes are very straightforward.
     -MP]
  
0 Hoover, H.M.        The Delikon                           42
       "Well written children's sf about an alien child who has been 
     transformed into human appearance to better train human children." -42
  
? Huff, Tanya         Blood Trail                           MP
   [DAW; 0-88677-502-7; $4.50]
       [Someone is hunting down werewolves.  I haven't read it, so I don't 
     know how much transformation is involved. -MP]
  
0 Hughes, Robert Don  The Prophet of Lamath (and series)    36,39,42,45
   [The Forging of the Dragon: Del Rey; 0-345-33744-1; $3.95]
   [The Power and the Prophet: Del Rey; 0-345-30353-9; $2.95]
   [The Prophet of Lamath:     Del Rey; 0-345-32544-3; $2.95]
   [The Wizard in Waiting:     Del Rey; 0-345-28574-3; $2.75]
       "...a fantasy series...In that set, only (powerful) wizards can 
     transform themselves and it's a key sign of their power - the shape 
     sometimes comes as a result of some type of pressure or danger." -36
  
0 Ionesco, Eugene     The Rhinoceros                        40
       "One man resists the fad to turn yourself into a rhinoceros." -40
       [Is this a book or a short story?  I seem to remember a story by
     this title, or just "Rhinoceros". -MP]
  
0 Jones, Diana Wynne  Dogsbody                              52,53
       "The guardian of the star Sirius is turned into a green-eyed,
     earthbound puppy in punishment for a crime he didn't commit; he must
     prove his innocence before his canine lifespan ends, and someone's
     trying to kill him..." -52
- Jones, Diana Wynne  The Magicians of Caprona              //42
       "Incidental transformation of children into puppets." -42
  
0 Jones, Neil R.      Planet of the Double Sun              42
       "Pulp-age adventures of a cyborg." -42
  
0 Kafka, Franz        Metamorphosis                         4,13,22,32
   [Bantam; 0-553-21369-5; $4.95]
   [portions in Shape Shifters]
       [A traveling salesman is changed into a giant cockroach or something
     similar.  Interesting mental transformation follows the physical one. -MP]
  
+ Keyes, Daniel       Flowers for Algernon (book and ss)    MP//
   [book: Bantam; S3339; $0.75]
   [short story in The Hugo Winners Vol. 1; ed. Asimov, Isaac; Fawcett; 
    449-01???-095; $0.95; 1973]
   [short story in The Best from F&SF 9; ed. Mills, Robert P.; Doubleday]
       [Definitely one of the classics.  A mentally retarded person's intellect
     is dramatically increased by an experimental treatment, but the effect
     diminishes quickly.  I found the short story to have more impact than the
     book. -MP]
  
0 Killough, Lee       The Leopard's Daughter (book and ss)  MP
   [book: Questar; 0-445-20522-9; $2.95]
   [short story in Isaac Asimov's Fantasy!; ed. McCarthy, Shawna; Dial Press;
    0-385-23017-6; $12.95 hardcover; 1985]
       [The protagonist of the short story is apparently part-leopard somehow,
     and this is key to the plot, with at least a mental transformation (and
     possibly a physical one) at the end.  I haven't read the book yet, but 
     I'm told it expands on this and has some further transformation. -MP]
  
0 King, Stephen       Cycle of the Werewolf                 MP
   [Signet; 0-451-82111-4; $8.95 softcover]
       [A classic werewolf story, well-told, though rather short (128pp).  I
     believe this was part of the basis for the film "Silver Bullet," but don't
     hold that against it; the screenplay for "Silver Bullet" is much better
     than the actual movie too. -MP]
  
0 Koontz, Dean R.     Midnight                              28
       "A scientist's dream of using a form of nanotechnology to improve
     humanity goes slightly awry." -28
? Koontz, Dean A.     A Werewolf Among Us                   MP
       [I saw this one on a list somewhere, but have never found it, and am
     wondering if it really exists. -MP]
  
0 Kubasik, Chris      Changeling                            MP
   [ROC; 0-451-45163-5; $4.50]
       [Part of the Shadowrun series.  The main character has been "goblinized"
     into a troll, and the book mostly deals with his adjusting to this.]
  
0 Kurtz, Katherine    Deryni series                         9
       "If you are interested in Paranormal humans, also check [this] out" -9
  
0 Lackey, Mercedes    The Oathbound                         38
       "(Other books have a little at times.)  One villain (male) is cursed 
     into the appearance of a female.  In the course of a deal with a demon, 
     the illusion is made reality.  Fantasy." -38
  
0 Laumer, Keith       Time Trap                             3
       "All mind transfers--the hero ends up in a farmhand's body, then inside
     a horse, then switches bodies with the heroine.  (All played for laughs,
     incidentally.)  The book's not fantastic, but not bad either.  The
     transformations take up about three chapters, so they're pretty
     significant, I guess." -3
0 Laumer, Keith       The World Shuffler                    3
       "The hero ends up switched into the body of a notorious criminal.  I
     don't remember much more than that about it, although he is in that body
     for most of the book, making it a significant change." -3
  
0 Le Guin, Ursula K.  The Earthsea Trilogy (plus one)       20
       "the second favorite series of my youth" -20
0 Le Guin, Ursula K.  The Lathe of Heaven                   47
       "Transformation of a person?  This book is about transformation of the
     world.  When George Orr sleeps the world changes into a new and different
     place.  Doctor Haber induces dreams into George 'for the good of all 
     people' creating strange and bizarre worlds that are not quite as utopian
     as might be expected." -47
0 Le Guin, Ursula K.  The Left Hand of Darkness             6,11
   [Ace; 0-441-47812-3; $4.50]
       "the transformations between the sexes there are more for anthropo-
     logical reasons: a study of how a genderless society would work." -6
       "Rating: 4 Type: B Significance: + Description: 0 Saturation: -" -11
   
+ Lee, Tanith         Books of the Flat Earth               3//
   [Night's Master, Death's Master, Delirium's Master, Delirium's Mistress,
    Night's Sorceries]
       "...tons of transformations...they range from really minor to pretty
     important." -3
0 Lee, Tanith         The Dragon Hoard                      3
       "a children's book...about a prince who is cursed to change into a
     raven every day." -3
0 Lee, Tanith         Don't Bite the Sun                    11
   [DAW; UY1221; $1.25]
       "Rating: 3 Type: M Significance: 0 Description: - Saturation: 0" -11 
0 Lee, Tanith         Drinking Saphire Wine                 11,26
   [DAW; 0-87997-610-1; $2.25]
       "SF; Suicide --> New body; 3" -11
       "Teenagers frequently suicide so they can have new bodies, sometimes
     designed by themselves.  Frequent sex changes, occasional non-human 
     forms." -26
? Lee, Tanith         Lycanthia                             MP
   [DAW; 0-87997-610-1; $2.25]
       [Lycanthropy; not read -MP]
? Lee, Tanith         Red as Blood                          MP
       [a fairy-tale collection; reviewed in OtherRealms 5.1; not read]
0 Lee, Tanith         The Secret Books of Paradys           3
       "...also have one or two strange [transformations]. "-3
  
- Leiber, Justin      Ishmael/Sally Forth (series)          //11
                      (Beyond Rejection/Beyond Humanity/Beyond Gravity)
   [Beyond Rejection: Del Rey; 0-345-29054-2; $2.25]
   [Beyond Humanity: Tor; 0-812-54433-1; $2.95]
       "Rating: 3 Type: M Significance: - Description: 0 Saturation: -.  A 
     questionable one; it really, like 'I Will Fear No Evil,' isn't a
     transformation story, but they are both related (mental transformations as
     the result of brain transplants).  SF; Mind transfer." -11
  
0 Lewis, C. S.        Till We Have Faces                    6
       "One very good novel that has transformations as the central theme 
     (though not overtly)...a retelling of the Psyche-Cupid myth, from the
     vantage point of one of the evil sisters"
- Lewis, C. S.        Voyage of the Dawn Treader            /43/11
   [Collier; 0-02-044260-2; $2.95]
       "Rating: 5 Type: B Significance: - Description: - Saturation: -" -11
       "One character gets transformed into dragon.  (children's book) -43
  
0 Lichtenberg,
    Jacqueline        Sime/Gen series                       42
   [First Channel: Playboy; 0-872-16772-0; $2.50]
   [House of Zeor: Playboy; 0-872-16801-8; $2.25]
   [Unto Zeor, Forever: Playboy; 0-872-16598-1; $2.25]
       "Every adolescent goes through a changeover into either an energy 
     vampire or an energy generator.  Makes for a tense childhood." -42
  
? Lindsay, David      A Voyage to Arcturus                  MP
   [Ballantine; 345-24681-0-150; $1.50]
       [Reviewed in OtherRealms 8.2; not read, but the blurb promises
     "countless physical transformations," among other things... -MP]
  
0 Lorenzini, Carlo    Pinocchio                             32
       "...by Carlo Lorenzini (known as "Collodi").  At the end of the story
     the puppet Pinocchio becomes a child, and during it Pinocchio and his
     (its?) friend Licignolo, who are in the _Paese dei belocchi_ (Toyland),
     are transformed into monkeys.  I think Pinocchio is widely translated, so
     you should find an English version..." -32
 
0 MacAvoy, R. A.      The Grey Horse                        42
       "The protagonist is a kelpie -- a shapechanging sea-horse." -42
0 MacAvoy, R. A.      Tea with the Black Dragon             42
   [Bantam; 0-553-23205-3; $2.75]
       "The protagonist is a dragon who has been transformed into a human.  No
     shapechanging takes place in the novel proper.  Excellent." -42
  
0 MacDonald, John D.  Wine of the Dreamers                  42
   [Fawcett; 449-03263-125; $1.25]
       "A decadent planet inhabited by voyeurs who get their kicks from taking
     over the bodies of Earthlings to carry out atrocities." -42
  
0 Mahy, Margaret      The Changeover                        42
       "Teen fiction about a girl who needs to become a witch in a hurry." -42
  
+ Martin, George
    R. R. (ed.)       Wild Cards series                     11/13/
   [Wild Cards 1: Bantam Spectra; 0-553-26190-8; $3.95]
   [Wild Cards 2 - Aces Abroad: Bantam Spectra; 0-553-26464-8; $3.95]
   [Wild Cards 3 - Jokers Wild: Spectra; 0-553-26699-3; $4.50]
   [Wild Cards 4 - Aces Abroad: Spectra; 0-553-27628-X; $4.50]
   [Wild Cards 5 - Down & Dirty: Spectra; 0-553-27463-5; $4.50]
   [Wild Cards 6 - Ace in the Hole: Spectra; 0-553-28253-0; $4.50]
   [Wild Cards 7 - Dead Man's Hand: Spectra; 0-553-28569-X; $4.50]
   [Wild Cards 8 - One-eyed Jacks: Spectra; 0-553-28852-0; $4.50]
   [Wild Cards 9 - Jokertown Shuffle: Spectra; 0-553-29174-2; $4.99]
       "Rating: 4 Type: B Significance: + Description: + Saturation: +.  Basic
     plot: in 1945, an alien lands on the earth, trying to save it from a virus
     his people intend to release upon the unsuspecting planet.  The virus ends
     up being released anyway over New York City, resulting in  death for 90%,
     horrible mutations for 9%, and superhero-like powers for 1% for those 
     infected." -11
  
0 Martine-Barnes.
    Adrienne          The Fire Sword, The Crystal Sword     42
   [The Crystal Sword: Avon; 0-380-75454-1; $3.50]
   [The Raindow Sword: Avon; 0-380-75455-X; $3.50]
       "A moderate amount of shapechanging occurs in all the books of this
     series, but more in these first two." -42
  
0 May, Julian         Pliocene Saga                         36
       "one of the (anti)heroes, Marc Remillard, becomes a pure-mind type 
     entity." -36
  
0 McCaffrey. Anne     Dragonriders series                   54
       "Genetic manipulation was performed on the fire lizards to form the
     dragons (detailed in Dragonsdawn).  (If you've read any of the books, you
     know that this is crucial to the survival of the planet.)" -54
0 McCaffrey, Anne     Restoree                              42
       "A woman kidnapped by space aliens is skinned alive, but winds up with a
     better body.  Straddles the line between sf and bodice-ripper." -42
  
0 McCammon, Robert    The Wolf's Hour                       10,11
   [Pocket; 0-671-66485-9; $4.95]
       "It's 500+ pages long and god-awful.  In my humble opinion, of course."
     -10
       "Horror; lycanthropy; not read" -11
  
0 McDonald, Ian       King of Morning, Queen of Day         40
   [Bantam Spectra; 0-553-29049-5; $4.99]
       "Support characters in the last part get transformed every night.  Space
     Invaders from the game get transformed into real.  Etc." -40
  
0 McIntosh, J. T.     Transmigration                        42
       "Following his death, the protagonist coinhabits a series of bodies of
     people he met shortly before that incident." -42
  
0 McIntyre, Vonda N.  Fireflood                             42
       "A collection of stories placed in a future in which humanity has turned
     to genetic manipulation for colonization and other purposes.  The novel
     Superluminal (an expansion of the story 'Aztecs') takes place in the same
     universe." -42
  
0 McKillip, Patricia  Harpist in the Wind                   20,36
   [Del Rey; 0-345-27469-5; $2.25]
0 McKillip, Patricia  Heir of Sea and Fire                  20,36
   [Del Rey; 0-345-28882-3; $2.25]
0 McKillip, Patricia  The Riddle-Master of Hed              20,36
   [Del Rey; 0-345-28881-5; $2.25]
     On all of the above:
       "the favorite series of my youth" -20
       "has a lot of physical shape-changing into various creatures and other
     forms (tree, wind, etc.).  This is one of my all-time favourite sets which
     I re-read every few years..." -36
  
? Michaels, Barbara   Sons of the Wolf                      MP
   [Berkley; 0-425-11687-5; $3.95]
       [Lycanthropy; not read -MP]
  
0 Moorcock, Michael   Castle Brass series                   54
       "The second Hawkmoon series.  Hawkmoon is transformed into (name
     forgotten), a female incarnation of the Eternal Champion.  Actually, all
     of his Eternal Champion books could be interpreted this way (Erekase
     transforms into Hawkmoon into Elric into Jerry Cornelius...)" -54
  
- Moore, C. L.        No Woman Born                         //11
       "Rating: 3 Type: M Significance: 0 Description: - Saturation: -.  S;
     Mechanical body; 3.  A woman whose body was destroyed is given a
     mechanical body." -11
  
0 Morressy, John      A Voice for Princess                  42
       "A frog-princess needs to be changed back to human." -42
  
0 Munn, H. Warner     Merlin's Godson                       20,42
   [Del Rey; 0-345-30499-3; $2.95]
0 Munn, H. Warner     Merlin's Ring                         20,42
   [Ballantine; 345-24010-3-195; $1.95]
       "Has a woman, the last survivor of Atlantis, who is able to transfer her
     consciousness from one body to the next.  At one part she speaks to Joan
     of Arc." -20
  
0 Myers, John Myers   Silverlock                            18,42,MP
   [Ace; 0-441-76674-9; $3.95]
       "has a character that is turned into an ass by an evil prince who wants
     the hand of the character's lover in marriage" -18
       "Silverlock is one of the best fantasies ever written.  The 'gimmick',
     and I don't mean the term perjoratively, is that every character in the
     book is taken from a literary classic.  Read this book, but don't read it
     for the minor amount of shapeshifting that takes place, since that is
     simply borrowed from the originals:  The episode in which the protagonist
     is turned into a pig comes from the Odyssey, by Homer, and the incident
     referred to above comes from The Golden Ass, by Apulius." -42
       [The transformation aspects are pretty minor (though explored well 
     enough to save the book from a -), but I agree, the book is a can't-put-
     downer, more so the more classics you've read previously. -MP]
  
0 Naha, Ed            Robocop                               MP
   [Dell; 0-440-17479-1; $3.50]
       [Novelization of the movie.  Future street cop gets blown away, pieced
     back together as a cyborg, with some mental reprogramming as well. -MP]
  
0 Neville, Kris       Bettyann                              42
       "A pair of alien shapechangers die in an accident, and their apparently
     human daughter is adopted and raised as human.  An expansion of the superb
     short story of the same title.
  
0 Niles, Douglas      Maztica series (Forgotten Realms)     54
   [Ironhelm: 0-880-38903-6]
   [Viperhand: 0-880-38907-9]
   [Feathered Dragon: 1-560-76045-1]
       "Lots of transformation by magic (human <-> eagle; human <-> jaguar);
     not crucial to plot." -54
     [more information in Spoiler Section]
  
0 Niven, Larry        Protector                             22,23
   [Del Rey; 0-345-2932-9; $2.25]
0 Niven, Larry        The Ringworld Engineers               4
   [Ballantine; 0-345-26009-0; $2.50]
       "Teela Brown becomes a Pak protector" -4
0 Niven, Larry        World of Ptavvs                       23
   [Del Rey; 0-345-30054-8; $2.25]
  
? Norton, Andre       Dare to Go a-Hunting                  MP
       [I have it marked as "transformation" in my files; I don't own the
     book, so I have no idea why. :) -MP]
0 Norton, Andre       Dread Companion                       42
0 Norton, Andre;
   Lackey, Mercedes   The Elvenbane                         28
       "Has a race of shapechanging dragons in it.  (Not yet read.)" -28
0 Norton, Andre       Exiles of the Stars                   28
   [Ace; 441-22365-095; $0.95]
       "[sequel to Moon of Three Rings;] Both are good solid Andre Norton
     books." -28
? Norton, Andre       Flight in Yiktor                      MP
   [TOR; 0-812-54721-7; $2.95]
       [Like Dare to Go a-Hunting, it's marked as "transformation" in my
     files, but I don't know why. -MP]
0 Norton, Andre       Fur Magic                             MP
   [Pocket; 0-671-29902-6; $1.50]
       [Boy winds up in a sort of alternate world based on Native American
     mythology, changed into a beaver in the process. -MP]
0 Norton, Andre       Horn Crown                            24
   [DAW; 0-87997-635-7; $2.95]
0 Norton, Andre       Jargoon Pard                          21
   [Fawcett; 449-02657; $1.25]
0 Norton, Andre       Moon of Three Rings                   27,28
   [Ace; 0-441-53900-9; $2.95]
       "about a man who intervenes in the destruction of an animal and is 
     killed by the 'owner'.  A witch transfers his essence into the animal.  
     They search for a human(esque) body for him before he becomes the animal 
     for real.  The story is told from three different perspectives." -27
0 Norton, Andre       Steel Magic                           24
0 Norton, Andre       Victory on Janus                      24
   [Ace; 441-86323; $1.50]
       "there is also a prequel to this but I don't remember the name of it"
  -24
0 Norton, Andre       Warlock of the Witch World            42
       "The hero's sister is changed into monster." -42
0 Norton, Andre       Year of the Unicorn                   21,24
   [Ace; 0-441-94254-7; $1.95]
  
0 O'Keefe, Claudia    Black Snow Days                       56
   [Ace; 0-441-06689-5; $3.95]
       [see Spoiler Section for more info]
  
0 Ore, Rebecca        Becoming Alien                        42
   [Tor; 0-812-54794-2; $3.50]
       "Except for minor surgery, this is mostly a matter of attitude
     transformation." -42
  
0 Orr, A.             World in Amber                         3
       "...a kind of fable about a royal family who find out how to run their
     own lives better.  There's three parts, one for each member of the 
     family.  In the middle section, the queen is changed into a cat, so that
     she can see what people really think of her.  It was a pretty good book,
     and actually not very preachy (although my little summary may make it
     seem a little so)." -3
  
0 Ovid                Metamorphoses                         16
       "This work was composed around the first century A.D., and was written
     as a sort of history of the world according to (Greek-influenced) Roman
     mythology. To give coherence to what was essentially a collection of short
     tales, Ovid chose those stories with the common theme of transformation of
     people or things into something else. Thus, the title..." -16
  
0 Palmer, David R.    Threshold                             42,MP
   [Bantam Spectra; 0-553-24878-2; $2.95]
       "The protagonist finds himself on a world of monsters, and survives by
     tailor-transforming himself into worse monsters.  Hard to believe that the
     author of Emergence could write such a bad book." -42
       [I'm glad to hear that someone else agrees with me on this one... 
     Emergence was one of the top five books I've ever read, and after about 
     fifty pages of Threshold I came to the conclusion that the cover must be a
     misprint--these two books couldn't possibly be by the same person.  I must
     admit there's quite a bit of shapechanging, though. -MP]
  
0 Peirce, Hayford     Phylum Monsters                       11
   [TOR; 0-812-54894-9; $3.95]
       "Rating: 2; Type: M; Significance: 0; Description: 0; Saturation: -.
     The story of a successful middle-aged body designer who, over the course
     of too few pages to make sense, is sued, hunted, made the emancipator-to-
     be of the Martians, and has his mind moved into a famous singer's body."
     -11
  
0 Phillifent, John T. King of Argent                        42
       "A couple is bioengineered for a mineral-rich world." -42
  
0 Piserchia, Doris    Spaceling                             42,MP?
       "A delightful novel about a somewhat delinquent juvenile who has the
     ability to transport herself into alternate dimensions.  Part of the
     ability is a transformation into a life-form that can survive on whatever
     world she finds herself."
       [This is indeed the novel I was thinking of, where this dimension-
     hopping is through rings that only certain individuals can see and use.
     One of the favorite novels from my childhood. -MP]
  
+ Pohl, Frederik      Man Plus                              MP,55//
   [Bantam Spectra; 0-553-26064-2; $3.50]
       [Another classic.  A man's body is surgically altered radically to let
     him survive on Mars. -MP]
       "One of the best novels on the transformation from "man" to "not-man".
     It really gets into the psychological effects of the change." -55
 
0 Powers, Tim         The Anubis Gates                      30
   [Ace; 0-441-02382-7; $4.95]
       "One of the bad guys, in an attempt to revive the long-dead Egyptian 
     gods, gets in over his head and is slapped with the "mark" of Anubis, the 
     jackal god -- i.e., he begins to turn into one.  He finds the gradual
     physical changes very annoying, but being a resourceful sorcerer he
     devises a way of 'swapping souls' with other people.  The catch is, the
     curse follows his soul; the net result is that after a few weeks, when he
     is really starting to look unhuman, he 'swaps' with an innocent person.
     He gets a new body, and the other person is left in the body of a were-
     jackal.  Of course, he usually sees to it that the body he leaves does not
     hold out for very long...  After a few weeks, he's messed up his new body
     and has to do the whole thing again.  Besides being an interesting 
     concept, Powers turns it into a powerful plot device which he employs in
     pulling off massive coups on the reader.  Made for some really good plot 
     twisting, and since the book is primarily a time-travel story it also lent
     itself to some interesting paradoxes.  I highly recommend it." -30
  
0 Pratchett, Terry    Discworld series                      50
       "Incidental transformations are scattered throughout most of the books.
     A recurring character is the Librarian of Wizard's University who was
     transformed into an orangutang and decided not to change back." -50
0 Pratchett, Terry;
    Gaimon, Neil      Good Omens                            50
       "An angel and a devil both in the guise of respectable businessmen, and
     a cute little, raggedy-haired mutt that's really a hellhound put into 
     this undignified form by the misguided preconceptions of an eight year
     old antichrist." -50
  
+ Preiss, Byron       The Ultimate Werewolf (anthology)     MP/28/
   [Dell; ISBN 0-440-50354-X; $10.00 softcover]
       [Has 20 lycanthropy-related stories in it, including some real classics
     in the field.  Many of the stories are listed elsewhere in this file.  
     Note that Byron Preiss' name is not on the cover; Harlan Ellison is the 
     first author listed there, so you may find this book filed under "Ellison"
     in an alphabetical-by-author collection.  It's very much worth seeking
     out. -MP]
  
0 Price, E. Hoffman   The Devil Wives of Li Fong            42
       "A pair of spirits take human form and find themselves a husband." -42
  
+ Pronzini, Bill      Werewolf!  (anthology)                MP/28/
   [Harper & Row; ISBN 0-06-080504-8; $2.25 paperback; also printed by Science
    Fiction Book Club, though out-of-print there]
       "Some very good ones in it." -28
       [Contains 13 good-to-very-good stories, mostly of much older vintage 
     than those in The Ultimate Werewolf.  The two together make an extremely
     interesting comparison. -MP]
  
  
   The Q's through Z's, and the Spoiler Section, are in the final section.