From: phaedrus@halcyon.com (Mark Phaedrus)
Subject: Transformation stories list, v8, pt. 3 of 4 (Q-Z) [long] [spoilers?]
Followup-To: poster
Keywords: Eighth release; more wanted
Reply-To: phaedrus@halcyon.com
Organization: Lycanthropes Anonymous
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 07:58:26 GMT

     The explanation of this list, and the A's through P's, are in the
previous two sections.

*Transformation Stories List, Version 8: Part 3 of 4 (Books Q-Z and Spoilers)*
  Author              Title                                Mentioned by(+/0/-)
- ------------------  ------------------------------------ -------------------

--------------------------------------- Q --------------------------------

0 Quinn, Seabury      Alien Flesh                           TG
   [?]

--------------------------------------- R --------------------------------

0 Rackham, John       Time to Live                          42
   [?]
       "A man wakes up in the wrong body." -42

0 Reaves, Michael     The Shattered World                   4,19,MP
   [Baen; 1985; 0-671-55951-6; $3.50]
       "Main character becomes a bear" -4
       "...a fantasy novel with an interesting twist.  It is one of the truly
     'original' books I have read recently.  There is a fair amount of shape
     changing both voluntary, and involuntary in it." -19
       [The protagonist is a sort of cursed version of a werebear, but the
     longer he stays in bear form the more bearlike he acts and thinks, and
     the longer he stays human the harder it is to control the bear when he
     eventually changes into it. -MP]

0 Reeves-Stevens,
   Judith & Garfield  Chronicles of Galen Sword: Shifter    28
   [Roc; 1990; 0-451-45018-3; $3.95]
     "      "         Nightfeeder                           28
   [?]
       "One of the assistants to the hero is a half-breed werewolf, and the
     first book pits him against a whole clan of shapechangers." -28

? Reynolds, G.W.M.    Wagner, the Wehr-Wolf                 MP
   [?]
       [Lycanthropy; not read. -MP]

- Rice, Anne          Cry to Heaven                         //36
   [?]
       "set in Renaissance Italy where the hero is forced into becoming a
     'castrati' and uses that for revenge. I suppose that one qualifies ;)"
     -36
       [Marginally, yes. :) -MP]
0 Rice, Anne          Interview with a Vampire              36
   [Ballantine; 1989; 0-345-33766-2; $5.95]
0 Rice, Anne          Queen of the Damned                   36
   [?]
0 Rice, Anne          Vampire Lestat                        36
   [Ballantine; 1989; 0-345-31386-0; $5.95]

0 Roberson, Jennifer  Chronicles of the Cheysuli series     9,20,42
   [1: Shape-Changers;          DAW; 1984; 0-88677-140-4; $2.95]
   [2: The Song of Homana;      DAW; 1985; 0-88677-317-2; $3.95]
   [3: Legacy of the Sword;     DAW; 1986; 0-88677-316-4; $3.95]
   [4: Track of the White Wolf; DAW; 1987; 0-88677-193-5; $3.50]
   [5: A Price of Princes;      DAW; 1988; 0-88677-261-3; $3.95]
   [6: Daughter of the Lion;    DAW; 1989; 0-88677-324-5; $3.95]
   [7: Flight of the Raven;     DAW; 1990; 0-88677-422-5; $4.95]
       on all above: "quite good, but not fantastic" -9

- Robinson, Spider    Callahan's Lady                       /TG/11,MP
   [Ace; 1990; 0-441-09072-9; $3.95]]
       "Rating: 3 Type: L Significance: - Description: - Saturation: -.  S;
     Werebeagle.  Has a werebeagle as a minor character." -11
       [I liked this book very much (though the sexual content may turn some
     folks off), but the shapechanging is totally incidental. -MP]
0 Robinson, Spider;
   Robinson, Jeanne   Stardance                             42
   [?]
       "The book ends with the transformation of the protagonists into a
     space-dwelling life-form.  There's a sequel." -42

0 Rohan, Michael S.   The Anvil of Ice                      45
   [Avon; 1989; 0-380-70547-8; $3.50]
0 Rohan, Michael S.   The Forge in the Forest               45
   [Futura; 1989; 0-7088-8254-4; $3.50]
0 Rohan, Michael S.   The Hammer of the Sun                 45
   [Avon; 1990; 0-380-70549-4; $3.95]
       On all 3 above: "The mastersmith of the story forges the Tarnhelm, the
     helmet with which the user can change his shape.  I liked this trilogy--
     perhaps because it uses quite a lot of Finnish mythos at its background.
     :-)" -45

0 Rosenberg, Joel     Guardians of the Flame series         54
   [?]
       "Characters transformed when they jump between worlds." -54

- Roth, Philip        The Breast                            //11
   [?]
       "Rating: 2 Type: B Significance: 0 Description: - Saturation: -.
     Another questionable one; it is not 'fantastic fiction' of any sort, and
     isn't worth seeking out in any case, but does involve a transformation."
     -11

0 Rucker, Rudy        Master of Space and Time              22,TG
   [Baen; 1985; 0-671-55997-4; $2.95]
       "whimsical fancy, mainly, with some wish-list body changes" -22
- Rucker, Rudy        Software                              /44/11
   [?]
       "Rating: 4 Type: M Significance: - Description: 0 Saturation: -" -11
       "...has a person moved into a computer and he then has a body that can
     be made into any shape." -44
- Rucker, Rudy        Wetware                               /44/11
   [Avon; 0-380-70178-2; $3.50]
       "Rating: 3 Type: B Significance: - Description: 0 Saturation: -.  The
     transformations here are more interesting than those in Software, but do
     not justify seeking the novel out for them alone.  The drug merge allows
     people (and other beings) to temporarily merge together.  Longer mergings
     can cause a blending of the participants." -11
       "...has a drug that temporarily melts bodies (I think it had some
     curious side-effects as well).  Both books [this and Software] are better
     than Master of Space and Time." -44

0 Rusch, Kristine K.;
   Anderson, Kevin J. Afterimage                            58
    [ROC; ?; 0-451-45175-9; $4.99]
       "Synopsis: Woman is raped, beaten, and burned. She is saved by
     'darklings' who lived in redwood forest, One of them changed her to save
     her. She is changed into the image of her rapist. These "darklings" are
     sort of like faeries. They shapechanged every time someone is killed in
     the forest and they are within range. They shapechange within the same
     sex. The execption was the human who was changed from female to male."
     -58
       "The cover reads 'Marooned in the body of a mysterious psycho. A woman
     must use magic to bring a serial killer to justice." -59

--------------------------------------- S --------------------------------

0 Saberhagen, Fred    Dracula series                        42
   [?]
       "These books tell Dracula's side of the story, and later other stories
     featuring the same vampire." -42

? Sackett, Jeffrey    Mark of the Werewolf                  MP
    [Bantam; 1990; 0-553-28450-9; $3.95]
       [Lycanthropy; not read; reviewed in OtherRealms 27.04 -MP]

? Sarrantonio, Al     Moonbane                              MP
   [Bantam Spectra; 1989; 0-553-28186-0; $3.95]
       [Lycanthropy; not read -MP]

+ Scarborough,
    Elizabeth         Gold Camp Vampire                     50//
   [?]
       "The title speaks for itself." -50

0 Schmitz, James H.   The Lion Game                         42
   [DAW; 1973; 451-UQ1038-095; $.95]
       "The bad guys belong to a race that undergoes metamorphosis." -42

0 Scott, Jody         I, Vampire                            43
   [?]
0 Scott, Jody         Passing for Human                     43
   [DAW; 1977; 0-87997-330-7; $1.50]
       On both of the above: "...feature aliens (and the occasional human) who
     change bodies." -43

0 Shakespeare, Wm.    A Midsummer Night's Dream             40
   [?]
       "Bottom gets turned into a donkey at one point." -40

0 Shaw, Frederick L.  Envoy to the Dog Star                 42
   [?]
       "Brain transplant.  The narrator/protagonist is a dog." -42

0 Sheckley, Robert    Mindswap                              34
   [Grafton; 1986; 0-586-06695-0; $3.95]

0 Sheffield, Charles  Proteus Unbound                       13
   [Del Rey; 1989; 0-345-34434-0; $3.95]
0 Sheffield, Charles  Sight of Proteus                      5,13,TG
   [Del Rey; 1989; 0-345-34433-2; $3.95]
       "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. -MP]

0 Shirley, John       A Splendid Chaos                      TG
   [Franklin-Watts; 1988; ?]

0 Silverberg, Robert  Lord Valentine's Castle               41,42
   [Bantam; 1980; 0-553014428-6; $2.95]
       "An excellent book, but the personality transfers, though crucial for
     motivating the plot, are peripheral to the story." -42
       "Lord Valentine's Castle has more shape-shifting than the original
     poster [Dani Zwieg, #42 -MP] mentioned--there was a native race on the
     planet called the Shape-Shifters, and they played a large role later."
     -41
0 Silverberg, Robert  Son of Man (After Man)                11
   [Warner; 1987; 0-446-34511-3; $3.95]
       "Rating: 2 Type: B Significance: 0 Description: 0 Saturation: -.  S;
     Advanced humans.  A modern man, transported into the far future,
     undergoes a few changes over the course of this rather odd book." -11
0 Silverberg, Robert  Thorns                                43
   [Del Rey; 1967; 0-345-27968-9; $1.95]
       "One of the protagonists is an astronaut whose body has been altered by
     aliens to make it more efficient, but grotesque." -43

0 Simak, Clifford     City                                  42
   [Ace; 1952; 441-10624-175; $1.75]
       "One of the classics of science fiction.  This collection of connected
     stories features the mass transformation of the human race into Jovian
     monsters, but that's peripheral to the story." -42
0 Simak, Clifford     They Walked Like Men                  41
   [Manor; 1962; 532-95390-095; $.95]
0 Simak, Clifford     The Werewolf Principle                24,36
   [DAW; 1982; 0-87997-708-6; $2.50]
       "This was one I fondly remember from my youth.  Turns out that the hero
     has the capability to turn into several different life-forms.  Much of
     the story is about him trying to find out why he has this capability."
     -36

0 Simmons, Dan        Hyperion                              40
   [Bantam Spectra; 1990; 0-553-28368-5; $4.95]
0 Simmons, Dan        Fall of Hyperion                      40
   [?]
       "Genetic takeover plays a bit role.  But what a role!" -40
0 Simmons, Dan        Song of Kali                          40
   [TOR; 1985; 0-812-51592-7; $4.99]
       "Extreme horror with ambiguous transformations along the way." -40

- Smith, Cordwainer   Norstrilia                            //42
   [Ballantine; 1975; 345-24366-8-150; $1.50]
       "The protagonist has himself surgically disguised as a genetically
     constructed cat person.  One of the great sf novels, though it's really
     not about transformation." -42

0 Smith, Thorne       The Stray Lamb                        37
   [?]
       "had a man changing into various creatures (against his will, of
     course)" -37
0 Smith, Thorne       Turnabout                             37,TG
   [?]
       "[had] a wife and husband getting trapped in each other's bodies...
     (later made into a Hal Roach movie and a short-lived TV series)" -37

0 Snider, Midori(sp?) The Soulstring                        38
   [Ace; 1987; 0-441-77591-8; $2.95]
       "A major character gets transformed (by magic) into a stag.  Nearly
     loses identity.  Not bad, not spectacular.  Fantasy." -38

+ Somtow, S.P.        Moon Dance                            MP/36/
   [Tor; ?; 0-312-93203-0(?); $24.95 hardback]
   [paperback: ?]
       "some people really like this one, I was ambivalent.  The basic idea:
     what happens when the European werewolves decide to migrate to North
     America's West and run into the native werewolves." -36
       [I'm one of the ones who really liked this one; it's one of the very
     few books I took the time to find in autographed hardback.  I'm thinking
     about buying it again in paperback so I can read it to death without
     damaging the hardback...  Great stuff. -MP]
0 Somtow, S.P.        Vampire Junction                      36
   [?]

? Springer, Nancy     several books and stories             20
   [The Black Beast: Pocket; 1982; 0-671-44117-5; $2.50]
   [The Golden Swan: Pocket; 1983; 0-671-45253-3; $2.50]
   [Mindbond: TOR; 1987; 0-812-55492-2; $2.95]
   [The Sable Moon: Pocket; 1981; 0-671-83157-7; $2.50]
   [The Silver Sun: Pocket; 1980; 0-671-83496-7; $2.50]
   [The White Hart: Pocket; 1979; 0-671-83148-8; $2.25]
       [Can someone verify which of these stories have transformation? -MP]

? Stallman, Robert    Beast trilogy                         MP
   [The Orphan: Pocket; 1980; 0-671-82958-0; $2.25]
   [The Captive: Pocket; 1981; 0-671-41382-1; $2.50]
   [The Beast: Pocket; 1982; 0-671-41383-X; $2.50]

+ Stapledon, Olaf     The First and Last Men                42//
   [?]
       "One of the great sf classics.  The transformation is on the grandest
     of scales, as the human race keeps redesigning itself over billions of
     years." -42

? Stasheff,
   Christopher        Her Majesty's Wizard                  MP
   [Del Rey; 1989; 0-345-27456-3; $4.95]
       [One of the characters is a werewolf; it's been too long since I read
     it for me to remember how important this was to the story. -MP]

0 Stevenson, R. L.    Dr. jeckyll and Mr. Hyde              15
   [?]

0 Stine, Hank         Season of the Witch                   TG
   [?]

0 Stoker, Bram        Dracula                               42
   [?]

+ Strieber, Whitley   The Wild                              MP//
   [TOR; ?; 0-812-51277-4; $5.95]
       [An extremely good man-into-wolf novel, with a great deal of attention
     paid to the physical and mental aspects of the change and of life as a
     wolf.  What _The Metamorphosis_ would be if done in the 90's by a
     horror writer.  A must-read, if you won't be off-put by the graphic
     violence and animal sex. -MP]

--------------------------------------- T --------------------------------

0 Tarr, Judith        A Wind in Cairo                       42
   [Bantam Spectra; 1989; 0-553-27609-3; $3.95]
       "Light-weight fantasy about a man changed into a horse." -42

0 Tepper, Sheri       Grass                                 47
   [?]
       "A race of aliens living on a planet in the far future, their passage
     through life consists of several transformations.  They start of as white
     crawly things called peepers which don't have much intelligence, move up
     to the Hippae, a bunch of relatively intelligent horselike creatures, and
     eventually metamorphose into the Foxen.  Unfortunately something has gone
     wrong with the system, the Hippae who are the vicious adolescent stage,
     is not progressing to the Foxen stage.  The lead character of the story
     has to puzzle out the world to save humanity (which is dying of a
     mysterious plague)." -47
0 Tepper, Sheri       Marianne, The Magus, and the
                       Manticore                            28
   [Ace; 1985; 0-441-51944-X; $2.95]
0 Tepper, Sheri       Marianne, The Madame, and the
                       Momentary Gods                       28
   [Ace; 1988; 0-441-51962-8; $2.95]
0 Tepper, Sheri       Marianne, The Matchbox, and the
                       Malachite Mouse                      28
   [Ace; 1989; 0-441-51964-4; $3.50]
       For all 3 above: "These three books all have the main action set in
     shadow worlds created as traps, beings going there find themselves bound
     in forms that fit the local rules." -28
0 Tepper, Sheri       Mavin Manyshaped trilogy              28,38,42,47
   [The Song/Flight/Search of Mavin Manyshaped]
   [?]
       "...tell the story of Peter's mother Mavin Manyshaped, her origin and
     history." -28
       "It's about the life of a shape shifter in the land of the true game.
     Beautiful book.  Tepper always has interesting ideas.  A good book 3."
     -47
0 Tepper, Sheri       The Revenants                         28
   [?]
       "This is a very strange and unusual book, but one of the protagonists
     is a person who shifts between male and female.  This one was actually
     Tepper's first book but was published fourth, after the first three books
     of the true game." -28
0 Tepper, Sheri       True Game trilogy                     28,38,42,47
   [King's Blood Four, Necromancer Nine, Wizard's Eleven]
   [?]
       "...deal with Peter Mavin's son and the truly shifty things he got into
     For of course he being a shifter could not but cause trouble." -28
       "The sequel to the Mavin Manyshaped chronicles about her daughter, who
     is also a shapeshifter.  Brilliant book, my first Sheri S. Tepper book
     and fell instantly in love with her works.  Rating 5." -47
- Tepper, Sheri       Jinian Footseer trilogy               /38,42/11,28
   [Jinian Footseer: ?]
   [Dervish Daughter: ?]
   [Jinian Star-eye: TOR; 0-812-55614-3; $2.95]
       on Jinian Star-eye: "Rating: 3 Type: B Significance: - Description: 0
     Saturation: -" -11
       on all 3: "...deal less with shifters and more with the powers of
     wizards but since Peter and Mavin both figure in the last three books
     they are included." -28
       On all 9 of the above books:
       "In the books shifters are shapechangers capable of changing form from
     as small as a dog to as large as they can gain the bulk for." -28
        "Two of the main characters of this tri-trilogy are shapeshifters--
     able to take on a wide range of forms at will.  (They are, however,
     restricted by mass--cannot reduce, can absorb more if needed.)  Others in
     the world have this power, or others.  Fantasy (mostly)." -38
        "...all of which take place in the same world.  Good stuff." -42

? Thomas, Elizabeth   Reindeer Moon                         MP
   [Pocket; 1988; 0-671-64886-1; $4.50]
       [A Clan of the Cave Bear-like book, supposedly involving
     transformation; not read.]

0 Tolkien, J. R. R.   The Lord of the Rings series          4
   [The Hobbit: Ballantine; 1976; 0-345-25342-6; $1.95]
   [The Fellowship of the Ring: Ballantine; 1977; 0-345-27258-7; $2.50]
   [The Two Towers: Ballantine; 1978; 0-345-27259-5; $2.50]
   [The Return of the King: Ballantine; 1978; 0-345-27260-9; $2.50]
       "and, of course, there's always Gollum from LOTR" -4
       [Can someone knowledgeable of the series tell us which book this
     appears in? -MP]

- Turtledove, Harry   Noninterference                       //42
   [?]
       "An unauthorized medical treatment inadvertently makes the subject
     immortal.  Does that count as a transformation?" -42
       [Kinda, yes. -MP]

--------------------------------------- U --------------------------------

--------------------------------------- V --------------------------------

0 Van Scyoc, Sydney J Darkchild trilogy                     42
   [?]
       "Certain members of a race have the ability to acquire tremendous
     powers.  Unfortunately, it requires deadly danger to find out.  Excellent
     reading." -42
0 Van Scyoc, Sydney J Starmother                            42
   [?]
       "A planet on which babies can be molded into duplicates of their
     caretakers." -42

0 van Vogt, A. E.     The Beast                             42
   [Manor; 1972; 532-00479-075; $0.75]
       "An accident turns a man into a superman." -42
0 van Vogt, A. E.     The Man With a Thousand Names         TG
   [DAW; 1974; ?]
0 van Vogt, A. E.     The Mind Cage                         42
   [?]
       "Personality transfer and musical bodies." -42
0 van Vogt, A. E.     Supermind                             14
   [?]
       "...not one of his best books, especially since it combines some short
     stories into a kind of novels, but it describes a quite impressive mental
     transformation in lots of details.  It is short and readable, unless you
     have  an allergy to Van Vogt...  I liked it, even though I'm aware of its
     shortcomings." -14
? van Vogt, A. E.     The War Against the Rull              MP
   [Ace; 1959; 441-87180-075; $.75]
       [As I recall, the Rull are shapechangers, able to assume any form.
     Now, of course, I can't figure out where I put the book, so I can't
     check. :) -MP]

0 Vance, Steve        The Hyde Effect                       11
   [Leisure; 1986; 0-8439-2360-1; $3.95]
       "Rating: 3 Type: L Significance: + Description: 0 Saturation: -,  H;
     Lycanthropy.  Rather a different werewolf tale--very horrific." -11
0 Vance, Steve        Shapes                                28
   [Leisure; 1991; 0-8431-3017-9; $4.50]
       "This book also explores the nature of the shapeshifter, but from a
     more scientific approach.  It has some interesting ideas regarding
     werewolves and their cause." 28

0 Varley, John        several books                         38
       "One major 'universe' has the technology for extensive physical
     modification of humans.  'Options' is particularly good, exploring the
     effects of (fully functional, reversible) sex-change technology on family
     structure." -38
       ['Options' is on the short-stories list. -MP]
- Varley, John        The Ophiuchi Hotline                  /42/TG
   [Dell; 1978; ?]
       "A future in which bodies are made to order, and changed at will." -42
0 Varley, John        Titan trilogy                         38,42,44
   [Titan: Berkley; 1980; 0-425-04468-8; $2.25]
   [Wizard: Berkley; 1983; 0-425-06427-1; $2.95]
   [Demon: ?]
       "  Another universe (Titan, Wizard, Demon) has a huge, intelligent
     orbital space colony with the ability to alter and create life-forms."
     -38
       "A space-exploration crew undergoes various transformations on an
     intelligent, but insane, worldlet." -42

- Vinge, Joan D.      Ladyhawke                             //42
   [?]
       "A novelization of the movie.  Not recommended." -42
       [For those who haven't seen the movie, it involves a cursed couple; the
     man turns into a wolf by night, and the woman into a hawk by day.  Thus
     making the relationship somewhat difficult. -MP]

+ Vonarburg, Elizabeth Silent City                          TG//
   [?]

--------------------------------------- W --------------------------------

0 Wallace, Ian        Croyd                                 42,TG
   [Berkley; 1967; X1616; $.50]
       "Personality transfer." -42
- Wallace, Ian        The Lucifer Comet                     //42
   [DAW; 1980; 0-87997-581-4; $2.25]
       "Incidental transformation when one of the protagonists turns another
     into a Neanderthal." -42

? Weaver, Michael D.  Wolf-Dreams                           MP
   [Avon; 1987; 0-380-75198-4; $2.95]
       [Lycanthropy; not read. -MP]

0 Weinberg, Robert    The Devil's Auction                   11
   [Leisure; 1988; 0-8439-2997-9; $3.95]
       "Rating: 4 Type: L Significance: 0 Description: 0 Saturation: 0.  H;
     Lycanthropy.  The story itself is about an auction of perhaps the most
     powerful magic item on the Earth.  One of the more involved minor
     characters is a werewolf." -11

0 Weis, Margaret;
   Hickman, Tracy     Darksword series                      43
   [?]
       "The cleric (Saryon rings a bell, but I could be wrong) gets turned
     into stone." -43
       [And does he do anything interesting afterward? :) -MP]

0 Wells, H. G.        Food of the Gods                      22
   [?]
       "advanced foodstuffs make superhuman giants" -22

0 Wheeler, Scott      Matters of Form                       28
   [DAW; 1987; 0-88677-225-7; $2.95]
       "Uses a very advanced genetic virus to induce shapechanging." -28

0 White, T.H.         The Book of Merlyn                    20
   [Berkley; 1977; 0-425-03826-2; $2.25]
0 White, T.H.         The Once and Future King              20
   [Ace; 1985; 0-441-62740-4; $5.50]

- Wilhelm, Kate       Where Late The Sweet Birds Sang       //50
   [Pocket; 1977; 0-671-80912-1; $1.75]
       "I'm not sure this is appropriate for 'transformation' but: Using
     cloning techniques, rather than preserve the human race as intended,
     the resulting humans are transformed into a somewhat different species
     with radically different mental and emotional makeups and
     capabilities." -50

0 Williams, Walter J  Hardwired                             42
   [Tor; 1987; 0-812-55796-4; $3.50]
       "Cyborg enhancements.  But that's true of most cyberpunk or related
     books.  A good read." -42

0 Williams, Tad       Memory, Sorrow and Thorn trilogy      45
   [The Dragonbone Chair: DAW; SFBC]
   [Stone of Farewell: DAW; SFBC]
       "In the second book, the evil priest of the story learns the Words of
     Changing.  The third book hasn't come out yet.  REALLY good (IMHO, of
     course)." -45

0 Williamson, Jack    Darker Than You Think                 3,15,22,31,42
   [Dell; 1979; 0-440-11746-1; $1.95]
       "if you can find it, [it's] very good." -3
       "an SF horror about werewolves in space " -31
       "...And it is very good." -42

0 Wodehouse, P. G.    Laughing Gas                          3
   [?]
       "A pretty funny novel about an Englishman who switches bodies with a
     boy movie star while under the influence of a dentist's anesthetic.
     The switch is the whole reason for the novel, so I guess it fits the
     saturation quotient." -3

0 Wolfe, Gene         Book of the New Sun                   42
   [?]
       "One of the best sf/f ever written.  Some transformation, including a
     robot trapped in humanoid form, but it's not central." -42
? Wolfe, Gene         Castleview                            MP
   [TOR; 1990; 0-812-50625-1; $4.95]
       [Reviewed in OtherRealms 28.16; may have some transformation, but not
     read. -MP]

+ Woods, Jack         Wolffile                              11//
   [Pageant; 1988; 0-517-00043-1; $3.50]
       "Rating: 2 Type: L Significance: 0 Description: + Saturation: +.  H;
     lycanthropy" -11

+ Woolf, Virginia     Orlando                               49//
   [Granada; 0-586-04448-5; 1977]
       "a fictional 'biography' spanning four centuries and many of the royal
     courts of Europe, featuring an abrupt sexual transformation in the middle
     of it.  Rather satirical, it's one of Virginia Woolf's most famous
     novels." -49

0 Wrede, Patricia C.  Snow White and Rose Red               MP
   [TOR; 1990; 0-812-55825-1; $3.95]
      [Part of the Fairy Tales series.  One character is turned into a bear.
    -MP]

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--------------------------------------- Y --------------------------------

0 Yarbro, Chelsea Q.  A Baroque Fable                       42
   [Berkley; 1986; 0-425-09081-7; $3.50]
       "An amusing fantasy featuring a dragon-slaying prince trying to kill a
     maiden who has been transformed into a pint-sized dragon." -42
       [Any book that comes with sheet music in the back can't be all bad.
     Also, Chuq von Rospach gave this book a ****+ out of 5 stars. -MP]

- Yarbro, Chelsea Q.  The Palace                            /21/42
   [?]
- Yarbro, Chelsea Q.  Path of the Eclipse                   /21/42
   [?]
       "...writes about a vampire who transforms,...but skirts gingerly around
     exactly what Saint Germain transforms into....beast, wolf..." -21
       "These don't belong on the list.  Yarbro's vampires -- in the St
     Germaine stories and in the Olivia stories -- undergo no transformations
     beyond their transformation into vampires, upon death." -42
       [I'll eliminate these from the list if someone else tells me they
     don't belong. -MP]

+ Yolen, Jane (ed.)   Shape Shifters (anthology)            MP//
   [Clarion Seabury; 1978; 0-8164-3212-0; $8.95 hardcover]
       [A dozen fair-to-excellent transformation stories, listed elsewhere
     -MP]
+ Yolen, Jane (ed.);
    Greenberg, Martin
    (ed.)             Werewolves (anthology)                MP//
   [Harper & Row; 1988; 0-06-026798-4; $13.95 hardcover]
       [A quite good collection of werewolf stories. -MP]

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0 Zahn, Timothy       The Blackcollar                       22
   [?]
0 Zahn, Timothy       Cobra                                 22
   [?]
       (on both of the above) "again, military enhancements" -22

? Zelazny, Roger      (title unknown)                       24
       "has a lycanthropy one, but no name comes to mind other than I know it
     has nothing to do with Amber..." -24
0 Zelazny, Roger      The Amber Novels                      4
   [Nine Princes in Amber: Avon; 1972; 0-380-01430-0; $2.25]
   [The Guns of Avalon: Avon; 1974; 0-380-00083-0; $2.25]
   [Sign of the Unicorn: Avon; 1976; 0-380-00831-9; $2.50]
   [The Hand of Oberon: Avon; 1977; 0-380-01664-8; $1.50]
   [The Courts of Chaos: Avon; 1979; 0-380-47175-2; $2.25]
   [Trumps of Doom: ?]
   [Blood of Amber: ?]
   [Sign of Chaos: Avon; 1988; 0-380-89367-0; $3.50]
   [Knight of Shadows: Avon; 1990; 0-380-75501-7; $3.95]
       "the shape change abilities of the chaos lords" -4
0 Zelazny, Roger      The Dream Master                      MP
   [Baen; 1990; 0-671-69874-5; $3.50]
       [A therapist uses a device to share and shape the dreams of his
     patients.  He uses it to show a blind woman what it's like to see, but
     her strong will sometimes overpowers his and controls the dream instead.]
0 Zelazny, Roger      Lord of Light                         11
   [Avon; 1967; 380-00187-095; $.95]
       "SF; body-swapping; not read" -11
0 Zelazny, Roger      This Immortal                         50
   [Baen; 1989; 0-671-69848-6; $3.95]
       "This may be the title Sam Bullard couldn't remember for you list.
     It's been a long time since I read it, but I seem to remember that much
     of humanity had transformed through radioactive mutation into all manner
     of legendary beastie; wolfmen (though not true lycanthropes), centaurs,
     satyrs, etc." -50

0 Zindell, David      Neverness                             11
   [Bantam Spectra; 1989; 0-553-27903-3; $4.95]
       "SF; Genetic manipulation; not read" -11

THE LIST (SPOILER SECTION)
     The remainder of this file contains "spoiler" information.  Proceed at
your own risk and expense.  All the ratings, publication info, and non-spoiler
comments are in the regular section.
     If you're not interested in spoilers, stop reading this section now.  The
next and final section contains info on short stories.

  Author              Title
--------------------  ------------------------------------

S Awlinson, Richard   Avatar series (Forgotten Realms)
S      "Characters turn into gods at the end of the series." -54
S
S Baum, L. Frank      The Land of Oz
S      "Major spoiler: The ruler of Oz is transformed into a boy." -42
S
S Busby, F. M.        The Breeds of Man
S      "...The children produced to be resistant to the cause of the declining
S    birth rates turn out to be cyclic hermaphrodites." -11
S
S Clement, Hal        Circle of Fire
S      "A classic of hard sf about a world apparently inhabited by two
S    intelligent life forms.  Major spoiler:  They turn out to be alternating
S    generations of the same species.  Thought provoking.  Again, I don't know
S    whether it's on topic." -42

S Donaldson, Stephen  Mythical Beast
S      "The story of a man who suddenly and inexplicably starts to transform
S    into a unicorn." -11
S
S Gunnarsson,
S  Thorarinn           Make Way for Dragons!
S      [At the end of the book, the human wizard is changed into a dragon and
S    goes to live with the good dragons in their world. -MP]
S
S Niles, Douglas       Maztica series (Forgotten Realms)
S      "Gods transform their worshippers into monsters (i.e. orcs, trolls).  A
S    very minor spoiler.  Crucial to the plot; this is how the enemy army is
S    built." -54
S
S O'Keefe, Claudia     Black Snow Days
S      "The book is about this guy who is in coma for 12 years after an
S     accident.  He is enhanced with cybernetic implants to survive in the
S     nuclear winter and to help save ordinary people. He is basically the
S     modern-day messiah who has trouble coping with his superhumanity." -56

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