Read a Shape Shifter story by edmondl and was looking for something similar or the original one.
Read a Shape Shifter story by edmondl and was looking for something similar or the original one.
SOL Quick search on "shapeshifter" lists 71 titles ...
Hmm, there should be far more stories. Most authors writing about werewolves or other wereanimals don't use the label 'Shapeshifter' for weres, so those stories won't be found using shapeshifter as search criteria.
HM.
HM,
That's probably due to werewolves or were-animals aren't necessarily thought of as "shapeshifters" but as their own category - "were-whatever".
For example, using Kris Me's stories (as I noted many of his were among the 71 listed stories), his shapeshifters included not only human-human shifts between genders, but human-animal shifts. Additional shift forms may be obtained thru interactions with other shifters ...
MD
Kris Me's [...] shapeshifters included not only human-human shifts between genders, but human-animal shifts
I've read some of his stories and the change in gender produces just a definitely male or female version of the person. The number of animal forms of the original Keltrian Shifter race was very limited.
The Wefts of Anne McCaffrey's Planet Pirates trilogy
are the ultimate form of shapeshifting aliens. In chapter 3 of Sassinak, Sassinak approached another cadet:
Her mouth was dry. "I . . . I wondered if you'd . . . you'd like to spend the night with me."
He shook his head. "Sass, you don't want that with me."
"I don't?" Reading and conversation had not prepared her for this reaction to a proposal. She wasn't sure whether she felt insulted or hurt.
"I'm not. . . what I seem." He drew his heavy brows down, then lifted them in a gesture that puzzled Sass. People did both, but rarely like that.
"Can you explain that?"
"Well . . . I hate to disillusion you, but—" And suddenly he wasn't there: the tall, almost-handsome, definitely charming cadet senior she'd known for the past two years. Nothing was there—or rather, a peculiar arrangement of visual oddities that had her wondering what he'd spiked her mug with. Stringy bits of this and that, nothing making any sense, until he reassembled suddenly as a very alien shape on the wall. Clinging to the wall.
Sass fought her diaphragm and got her voice back. "You're—you're a Weft!" She felt cold all over: she had wanted to embrace that?
HM.
I've read some of his stories and the change in gender produces just a definitely male or female version of the person.
Have you read the following?
Tara: 3. Dogs
Tara: 4. Ants
Tara: 5. Boas
and Delta: Original (specifically regarding the inhabitants of the Kazan Islands of Utopia).
Lastly, it's been more than 3 decades since I'd read the PP trilogy ... and they were not Liz Moon's or Jody Nye's best works ...
MD
Is that right? I was aware she was most likely Australian, as too many of the characters and locations in her stories were AUS or had AUS-ties. But I never saw any definitive words or comments regarding her gender in the blogs (pretty much every reference was "I"), so as "Kris", (like Chris) is not a gender specific name, I defaulted to the male pronoun.
Whatever, I enjoy most of her stories.
MD
Uncle Jim has a few
His Ley Line Witch series, the dragons shift to humans.
Actually born in human form, they can shift into dragons when older and their magic is strong enough.
HM.
Three Square Meals by Tefler includes shape shifters and body modification as secondary themes.
AJ
https://storiesonline.net/s/10325/werewolves-return-fantasy-story
Good story about shapechangers and an evil wizard and a girl who has a connection to the werewolves that live on her family farm.
SHAPE is Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe. It runs NATO which is shifting by adding countries and taking more activities involving the war in Ukraine. So yes, there is SHAPE shifting.
I can't arrest it, I am not in law enforcement.
Some might say your development has been arrested ;-)
AJ
Hmm, shapeshifter is somewhat vague.
What type of shifter?
• a Were, as a werewolf, werecat, or werebear. Shifting between human and one distinctive animal.
• shifting only between human forms, changing appearance like size, age, gender.
• Shifting between a distinctive human form and a limited number of animal forms.
• Shifting into any form: human, animal, plant, inanimate object like a desk.
Then involuntary (like only during full moon nights) and voluntary (any time at will) shifts.
Would any of the above do?
HM.
My god so many good sci fi recommendations. Didn't expect this many replies, thank you everyone. Think I have some material to keep me busy for a while!