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YOUR VIRTUAL BOOK RACK OF TG SCI-FI /FANTASY/THRILLER/HORROR BOOKS

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BEYOND REJECTION
Justin Leiber
Del Rey Book
Isbn 0-345-29054-2

SOMEONE STOLE HIS BODY  - AND THERBY HANGS THE TALE...

Ismael Forth woke up to find he was dead-killed on a remote planet, the report was. His personality recording predating his death was now implanted in a new body.

But Forth knew he would never have traveled in space...that the report was a lie-and he learned that his body had been stolen for a highly profitable, highly illegal mind implant.

Companioned by Candy Darling, a Federation agent whose eleven-year-old body housed an intelligence seven times that age, he set out to track down his old body-for the new form that now housed Ismael Forth once belonged to an attactive woman-with an elegant, if rather inconvenient tail...

"Forty years ago I was dazzled by Fritz Leiber's first flash accross the science-fiction firmament. Today I'm equally stunned by the brilliant display of Justin Leiber's talent in 'Beyond Rejection'. Like father, like son-never has the old adage been so dramatically demonstrated as in this exciting first novel. Here is science fiction at its very best"  - Robert Bloch

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BLACK QUEEN
Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Spectra
ISBN: 0553581155
August 3, 1999


BOOK ONE OF BLACK THRONE
From one of the most acclaimed creators of fantasy fiction comes the epic tale of the Black Throne, a stirring saga of tumultuous conflict set in a magical world, in a powerful family, and in the tortured and divided mind of its monarch.

The Fey Empire has been at peace for fifteen years. But Queen Arianna, who holds the Black Throne, has become increasingly troubled by a mysterious presence that is waking in her mind. It is a force of ruthless power, determined to seize the throne even if it means destroying Arianna's very essence in the process.

And when the queen's body is not her own, it spells trouble for a warlike empire already beginning to chafe under the strictures of peace.

Worse, it seems that the only person who can help Arianna is her brother, Gift, the legitimate heir to the Black Throne--and the one the Throne itself has chosen as ruler. To refuse its summoning could bring disaster, but to accept it could be more dire still. So while his sister is locked in a battle to save her very soul, Gift must use his incomplete knowledge of magic in a desperate fight to discover a solution. At stake is the fate of the entire world--which stands poised on the brink of unimaginable chaos.

 
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CHANGING PLACES
Susan Smith
Scholastic Inc.
ISBN 0-590-33580-4

WHO WOULD BELIEVE IT? THEY'D SWITCHED BODIES.
CHANGED PLACES .

Josh slipped his feet into fluffy pink slippers while he gaped at Jenny's
bedroom. Jenny stumbled over baseball equipment and groped her way to Josh's
closet. Had they really changed places.

They'd had a lot of arguments lately - about schedules, about ballet and
baseball, about the differences between being a boy and being s girl. They'd
'talked' about walking around in each other's shoes.
They never thought they'd get the chance to do it!


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CHAUVINISTO
Sam Merwin Jr.
Major Books
ISBN 0-89041-085-2

THE GENDER ZONE

By the 22nd century, there was no question whatsoever of the superiority of women-emotionally, intellectually, and physically.  The male species was merely tolerated; at best, treated with tender care as lovable but inept beings.

When Gerry was forced to kill the female gladiator, the universe was outraged by his audacity.  Self-defense was no excuse for murdering his superior.  While he knew he'd be punished, he couldn't imagine to what lengths they would go!

 

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CORIOLANUS, THE CHARIOT!
Alan Yates
Ace Books
July 1978
Cover art by Alex Ebel

ON THE PLANET THESBOS, THE WORD OF SHAKESPEARE IS LAW

Through the myster of his Works, embodied in his living Arcana, the power of illusion holds the eyes-and mind-of the entire galaxy in thrall.

At the center of this web of dreams within a dream lie the Council of Five.  They have given up their very selves to become the Major Arcana, to possess power beyond the dreams of groundlings. But the lastest object of their sadistic whimsy may face them with a rude awakening-if he can survive his trial through the mazes of flesh to become Choriolanus, the Chariot!

 
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Ian Wallace
Berkley Medallion Books

INTER-GALACTIC
ESPIONAGE

An alien race from another planet is bent on destroying not only the Earth but it's entire galaxy. Croyd, a superhuman secret agent of the future, who has the ability to move himself and events uptime or downtime, is assigned to prevent this destruction.

But Croyd's body becomes inhabited by the mind of a "gnurl" princess, Lurla, an alien agent who has infiltrated Earth, while his own mind is transplanted into the body of a surprised female earthling

Trapped in this inferior body, Croyd must work fast to recover his own. At the same time, he must destroy Lurla, before she has time to complete her deadly mission....

"...an action-packed adventure which is as well written as the Bond books; the book could well be the start of a series."  -Library Journal

"For the devotee of the genre, this will be a must."   -Sacramento Bee

 

 

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FORIEGN BODIES
Stephen Dedman
TOR Books
ISBN 0312868642
December 1999

"ONE OF AUSTRALIA'S HOTTEST WRITERS...

Synopsis
In a suspenseful thriller set in the near future by the author of The Art of Arrow Cutting, Mike Galloway struggles to survive a twenty-first-century Depression, until an encounter with a mysterious homeless woman named Swifty who swaps bodies with him and embroils him with a time traveler that has a  deadly agenda.


From Kirkus Reviews

"Science fiction outing for the author of the excellent mystery/fantasy The Art of Arrow Cutting (1997). By 2014, despite rising seas, a faltering economy, a bankrupt UN, and a Big Brotherish US state, Australian Mike Galloway survives in San Francisco as a bucket-shop travel agent.

One night he takes pity on Swiftie, the waiflike street person who sleeps on his balcony, and lets her inand wakes up to find she's swapped bodies with him! The man in Swiftie's body is, it seems, from the future (only your mind can time-travel back, and it must occupy a conveniently flatlined but undamaged body when it arrives). Mike perforce has to take up life as Swiftie; she calls herself Tera and feigns memory loss.

Then, after a brutal massacre of Asians by suspected white supremacists, Tera recognizes one of the perps. She helps the cops uncover a rapidly growing association of neo-Nazis, at least one of whom has knowledge of the future! Several whirling complications later, Teranow Terrilearns that the neo-Nazi leader, Skye, was sent from the future to prevent a racist takeover of the western US. Now, insanely, he's building a nuke and plans to blow them sky-high. Sexually charged but undisciplined: it might find some resonance among readers with gender-identity conflicts, but for the most part a splenetic, nonconstructive rant. -- Copyright ©1999, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved. "

 
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F.M. Busby
ACE  Science Fiction

COLLECTED FOR THE FIRST TIME THE BEST OF  F.M.  BUSBY'S SHORT FICTION

In ROADMAP.... A middle-aged widower dies, only to be reincarnated as his wife, with all his memories of his previous life intact.....

In GETTING HOME..... A man wakes each morning in the body of the person he was closest to. Some of them male, some of them female.On the back of the book one can read: “Sometimes to crying amusingly, sometimes for crying sadly”. And applies fully. Sometimes these passages lie together closely and which evenly still another merry, exciting or lucky situation was, can suddenly transform into a disaster.

 

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GIRL
David Thomas

SOMETIMES CRYING AMUSINGLY, SOMETIMES CRYING SADLY


The book told in diary form the fictitious history of Bradley bar-save, who is submitted in the hospital by a coincidence of a sex transformation operation. At first it against-strives it deeply to accept this and it tried with all means to deny the facts and to cancel the accident. But with the time and with the help of its family and friends he succeeds in accepting its fate. It states sometime that its new life is better than its old and he is not longer he, but a pretty young woman. Naturally it gives during this “conversion” time, in which everything seems to go wrong, but also much new gives it to discover. On the way it gives a few juicy sarcastic blows on the British sensation press, in addition, an explanation of the expiration of a social adjustment of sex and the consequences of this change in the social structure are investigated.
 
 
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GOODBYE CHARLIE
Marvin H. Albert
Copyright 1964 Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation
Dell Publishing Inc.  TM681510
December 1964

SHE WAS BLONDE....  SHE WAS BEAUTIFUL....
BUT WAS SHE  CHARLIE?

  Only his best friend knew for sure. The girl didn't look like Charlie. She didn't act like Charlie. But from everything she said, George knew she couldn't be anyone but Charlie.

  The same no good Charlie Sorel who'd been shot drowned and killed had come back --- as a girl.  A strictly female female who was going to have to find some new rules for those old games, because this time Charlie was catching instead of pitching.

  

 
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Todd Strasser
Scholastic Inc.
ISBN 0-590-92167-3

JAKE'S NOT THE GUY HE USED TO BE.

Jake Sherman is in a real jam this time. His on-line pen pal, Sumi, is coming for a visit and Jake has kind of led her to belive that he's a star athlete... a slight (make that toal) exaggeration of the truth. So now Sumi is expecting to see Jake Sherman, football hero. Not Jake Sherman, regular guy. The situation seems hopeless until

h. So now Sumi is expecting to see Jake Sherman, football hero. Not Jake Sherman, regular guy. The situation seems hopeless until But can a guy who bites his nails ever get used to polishing them?

 

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HERMAPHRODEITY

Hermaphirodeity, the Autobiography of a Poet
by Alan Friedman
1972
Jacket design by David Holzman
ISBN: 0-394-47291-8

With broad and elegant comedy, awesome erudition, and an inventive energy that constructs a whole world we believe in, Alan Friedman has created a Great American Figure of the 1970's.

In these extraordinary memoirs, the notorious tycoon-archaeologist-poet, M. W. Niemann, tell the story of an ordinary life that grows and grows...out of all ordinary bounds...from sensitive middle-class girl (who soon discovers that she was born

with every male as well as female potential) to tough teenage gang boy...from Harvard Man to
alluring mistress of scholars, revolutionaries, and industrialists...from millionairess and Nobel Prize poet to international celebrity investigated by Congress and immortalized in
'Life' as co-responsible (with the Pill) for the Great American Sexual Explosion.

It is only a minor detail of Millie/Willie's fabulous life that she herself gives birth to a baby he himself has fathered. Or that Baron Tieger, food king and artist, ruthlessly indifferent to his own company's strong-arm attempt to buy out Millie's Chicken Sauce
empire, yearns to re-create every inch of her for posterity in fleshlike Dermalene. Or that the titan of archaeologists, Satori, makes this heroic heroine his disciple, son-surrogate, and mate. Or that Niemann's Cigarette introduces to the world an entirely new form of pleasure. Millie/Willie, as the reader soon discovers, is even bigger than that...

Alan Friedman's enormous and enormously brilliant novel is at once comic extravaganza and illumination: a post-Ravelaisian celebration-and critique-of the two sexes, caught together in the person of Millie/Willie Niemann who searches for-who embodies-the life
force. Little by little encompassing the powers of both man and woman Millie (Yes! "he"+"she"="she") moves from conquest to conquest-sexual, financial, literary, scientific, political, mystical, until, in the end, the ultimate secret of manwomankind is plumbed...

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