Transformation in Literature

[biohawk84]

Originally Posted by blood_rain

Animorphs was what got me interested TFs in the first place. I think I read through most of them and still remember most of the scenes.

The termite one was terrifying...

How were the TF's in the Animorphs books? I remember them being relatively quick and non-process centric in the TV Series. The best in my opinion was the "forced" croc-tf one due to an "allergy".

[TF-Viewer]

Originally Posted by biohawk84

How were the TF's in the Animorphs books? I remember them being relatively quick and non-process centric in the TV Series. The best in my opinion was the "forced" croc-tf one due to an "allergy".

There was definitely more process in the books.

[thatnightwolf]

Originally Posted by biohawk84

How were the TF's in the Animorphs books? I remember them being relatively quick and non-process centric in the TV Series. The best in my opinion was the "forced" croc-tf one due to an "allergy".

I recently acquired and revisited most of the Animorphs books and I will second that they contain a surprising amount of process detail. I remember them being one of the early TF triggers for me, but I didn't remember the true extent of how far the books went in describing their morphing abilities. I mean it doesn't get graphic like a lot of content in the community being that it's a YA series, but I don't think you'd be disappointed.

My favorite happens to be the book that was used as the basis for the "croc allergy" episode. The title of the book escapes me at the moment.

[SPOILERS]

There's a great scene in the book where the girl starts morphing uncontrollably like she did in the episode, except she's at home and she turns into a whole series of animals, including an elephant, which proceeds to collapse through the floor of her second story house after she busts out of her clothes.

I'm also quite partial to the horse TFs that are described pretty frequently throughout the series.

[N_brazil]

here is a very old thread CIRCA 2007 I think,
http://www.process-productions.com/f...ead.php?t=8472

Female Transformations in Books, since it is 2007 don't know how many books are available in Ebook Format, but if you are in the United States ABE.COM you can probably get most for a few pennies, plus shipping.

[blood_rain]

Oh by the way, anyone ever remember reading or heard of The Blooding by Patricia Windsor?
Read it years back, still kinda remember it, teenage girl travels to the UK to work as an au pair for a family, gets into an affair with the family's husband and later gets turned into a werewolf after a series of unfortunate events.

It kinda left on a rather bittersweet ending though.

[Coal]

Originally Posted by TF-Viewer

Well, true. But snake TFs are rare, especially ones with any detail. I think the disappointment of reading that book is what lead to me write my own snake TF later. Oh well, I just thought I'd put that out there as it's one of the few non-werewolf books I have.

Basic plot summary? Google's giving me nothing and I'm wondering if it's any good besides the tf.

[TF-Viewer]

Originally Posted by Coal

Basic plot summary? Google's giving me nothing and I'm wondering if it's any good besides the tf.

It's really not that great.

A woman turns into a snake whenever she gets upset and murders people but doesn't remember doing it. Her boyfriend meets some guy who tells him that his girlfriend was abducted by some tribe when she was a kid and and they did some magic bullshit ritual to make her the avatar for a snake god and blah blah blah, she turns into a snake a few times and kills some people. And spoiler alert, the ending was stolen right off of American Werewolf in London. It's not that amazing a read, the TF while it has some length to it leaves out lots of details and the revert to human form doesn't follow the same method. For example her legs are described as pulling up into her pants and disappearing, then when she changes back at the end her tail splits apart into legs. In two of her TFs her clothes fall off as she changes, but in one of them her clothes magically change with her. It's just not consistent, the story has some holes in it, and the ending was unimaginative and basically taken from AWIL which came out a few years before this book was written. So, meh.

[actionmang]

I randomly ran into a book of short stories named Amor and Psycho. Apparently the short story "She Bites" is about a woman slowly transforming into a dog while her boyfriend builds a dog house. I don't know how good it is or anything like that, but I was intrigued. If anyone wants to buy the ebook, here's a link to the amazon listing.

http://www.amazon.com/Psycho-Vintage.../dp/0307741478

EDIT: Actually, I was able to find a PDF of this... not worth anyone's time. It's not really a transformation, maybe mental...but pretty bad.