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regulargonzalez posted:I haven't read them in decades but this feels like one of the Well World books If you're thinking Jack Chalker you're probably thinking of Web of the Chozen, where a bonkers AI created a virus to change the inhabitants of a religious colony into four-legged things with a weird reproductive system (well, dur, Chalker's the case study for weird sex stuff in SF before the Internet came along. Well, one of them....) Scout lands, gets changed, finds out he can still control his spaceship because it's hands-free, escapes and infects the galaxy, everyone lives happily ever after as four-legged egg-laying things.
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Runcible Cat posted:If you're thinking Jack Chalker you're probably thinking of Web of the Chozen, where a bonkers AI created a virus to change the inhabitants of a religious colony into four-legged things with a weird reproductive system (well, dur, Chalker's the case study for weird sex stuff in SF before the Internet came along. Well, one of them....) Scout lands, gets changed, finds out he can still control his spaceship because it's hands-free, escapes and infects the galaxy, everyone lives happily ever after as four-legged egg-laying things.  What's with Chalker and horse sex? Didn't one character, turned into a donkey, have intercourse with another character, turned into a centaur, in one of the Well of Souls books?
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Dec 7, 2019 18:26
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Absurd Alhazred posted:
Trap sprung, but a character who's had his mind put in a deer (as an emergency medical procedure) has sex with another character who's been turned into a centaur in the first one. The later ones have a character who gets half-turned into a donkey (limbs and ears) and, later, her boyfriend who she ordered the same thing done to when he was a child with severe burns and, well, later. (I read the things when I was too young to know better, and they stick in the memory. Oh god, do they stick in the memory.)
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Dec 7, 2019 18:45
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Runcible Cat posted:Trap sprung, but a character who's had his mind put in a deer (as an emergency medical procedure) has sex with another character who's been turned into a centaur in the first one. The later ones have a character who gets half-turned into a donkey (limbs and ears) and, later, her boyfriend who she ordered the same thing done to when he was a child with severe burns and, well, later. Yikes to the Yikes
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Dec 7, 2019 19:19
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Absurd Alhazred posted:Yikes to the Yikes They get even yikesier. And that's even without the later series (plural) where he got into making women superobese with magic, and the various magical/sf ways of making women (and occasionally men in women's bodies) into mindcontrolled superhot nympho sex slaves, and oh god why did you remind me of this poo poo. Dude was basically a Voltron of horrible internet fetish communities before the internet existed.
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Goodness, no. That is not what I’m looking for. None of it. My horse-people were plains horse-people, not spacefaring horse-people.
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Dec 7, 2019 19:36
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Runcible Cat posted:They get even yikesier. And that's even without the later series (plural) where he got into making women superobese with magic, and the various magical/sf ways of making women (and occasionally men in women's bodies) into mindcontrolled superhot nympho sex slaves, and oh god why did you remind me of this poo poo. Dude was basically a Voltron of horrible internet fetish communities before the internet existed. So you are saying there’s a mainstream author preview than piers Anthony?
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Hughlander posted:So you are saying there’s a mainstream author preview than piers Anthony? Is that autocorrectese for pervier? Philip Jose Farmer is shoving his way to the front of the crowd and glaring at everyone. But yeah. There is always more and it is always worse, as they say...
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Runcible Cat posted:Is that autocorrectese for pervier? Philip Jose Farmer is shoving his way to the front of the crowd and glaring at everyone. But yeah. There is always more and it is always worse, as they say... Yes  phone typing and I thought I fixed it.
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Wikipedia posted:The Well World series is a series of science fiction novels by Jack L. Chalker. It involves a planet-sized supercomputer known as the Well of Souls that builds our reality on top of an underlying one of greater complexity but smaller size. The computer was built by a now-extinct race, the Markovians, who developed the Well of Souls with the goal of creating a new species that would transcend their own. Runcible Cat posted:They get even yikesier. And that's even without the later series (plural) where he got into making women superobese with magic, and the various magical/sf ways of making women (and occasionally men in women's bodies) into mindcontrolled superhot nympho sex slaves, and oh god why did you remind me of this poo poo. Dude was basically a Voltron of horrible internet fetish communities before the internet existed. 
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Splicer posted:Sounds neat! I'll check it out! Chalker has some low lows, but also some really fantastic stuff, especially The Wonderland Gambit. He has a Thing, and that Thing is body swapping/alteration, so if you can't deal with that, stay far away.
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Absurd Alhazred posted:
why do you people read this poo poo NinjaDebugger posted:Chalker has some low lows, but also some really fantastic stuff, especially The Wonderland Gambit. He has a Thing, and that Thing is body swapping/alteration, so if you can't deal with that, stay far away. like this mentality is the craziest nerd poo poo to me. yeah he's into centaur breeding forced bimboification and magical inflation but other than that there's some top notch stuff in there chernobyl kinsman fucked around with this message at 06:52 on Dec 8, 2019 |
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Dec 8, 2019 06:50
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chernobyl kinsman posted:why do you people read this poo poo It was in the library under "science fiction" when I was a teenager and it sounded interesting on the surface. 
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Absurd Alhazred posted:It was in the library under "science fiction" when I was a teenager and it sounded interesting on the surface. yeah i dunno man if i caught my teen reading thinly-veiled donkey erotica i would immediately force him to join the YPG
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Dec 8, 2019 07:00
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chernobyl kinsman posted:why do you people read this poo poo I literally went through the library shelves in alphabetical order and read everything with that Victor Gollancz SF yellow spine.
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chernobyl kinsman posted:yeah i dunno man if i caught my teen reading thinly-veiled donkey erotica i would immediately force him to join the YPG
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chernobyl kinsman posted:yeah i dunno man if i caught my teen reading thinly-veiled donkey erotica i would immediately force him to join the YPG My parents did not care what I was reading. Lolita as a teenager? Librarian was concerned, parents were not. Anne Rice as a teen? No one caresssss. I wish they did care though, no one should be allowed to read Piers Anthony in middle school.
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chernobyl kinsman posted:like this mentality is the craziest nerd poo poo to me. yeah he's into centaur breeding forced bimboification and magical inflation but other than that there's some top notch stuff in there The idea that if someone writes one bad/skeevy book, or has one hosed up fetish, nothing they write can ever possibly be good is the dumbest loving poo poo to me, so we're pretty much even.
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StrixNebulosa posted:no one should be allowed to read Piers Anthony
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Absurd Alhazred posted:
I’ll maintain you can mark 3 epochs of a nerd as when they discover piers Anthony and when they come to realize what absolute poo poo it is.
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Hughlander posted:I’ll maintain you can mark 3 epochs of a nerd as when they discover piers Anthony and when they come to realize what absolute poo poo it is. I can't dispute this, try though I might.
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NinjaDebugger posted:The idea that if someone writes one bad/skeevy book, or has one hosed up fetish, nothing they write can ever possibly be good is the dumbest loving poo poo to me, so we're pretty much even. "other than the horsefucking, how was the play, mrs. lincoln?"
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Hughlander posted:I’ll maintain you can mark 3 epochs of a nerd as when they discover piers Anthony and when they come to realize what absolute poo poo it is. yeah i dunno dude even at age 14 i could tell that a dude who wrote a book titled "the colour of her panties" was probably not worth my time and i read a lot of fantasy garbage
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yaffle posted:I literally went through the library shelves in alphabetical order and read everything with that Victor Gollancz SF yellow spine. Same. When I hit time enough for love I had a definite pause though... And the John Varley titan series nailed home that I really didn't have to read everything marked SciFi. (On topic because of centaur sex)
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Okay since you all are really good at finding obscure fantasy books of yesteryear please help me remember this one. It's a fantasy book, it was maybe for young adults (like I think some of the more mature themes went over my head because I had a reading age of a young adult but was probably too young to understand a lot of it), and I would have read it in the late 90's/early 00's. Each chapter started with a little in-universe proverb and some of them were about dragons like "if you want to understand dragons, find a girl with green eyes". The main character is a girl with green eyes who feels like she doesn't fit in with her community of brown eyed people (she lives with her aunt and uncle who are both brown eyed). Oh and her mum is either dead or missing but also had green eyes like her (... I think). Then some guy takes her along on an adventure involving dragons or something because she has GREEN EYES and that apparently means she's qualified? It's not clear, I would have been like 11 when I read it. Oh and pottery (or spinning??) is a thing she does, like the book starts and ends with her doing some sort of pottery thing?? Anyways, I vaguely recall it being a series but the library didn't have any others in the series. froglet fucked around with this message at 13:37 on Dec 9, 2019 |
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I've definitely never read that book but searching for dragons and green eyes got me to this author, whose Dragon Chronicles books seem to fit the right timeline: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/119933.Susan_Fletcher
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wizzardstaff posted:I've definitely never read that book but searching for dragons and green eyes got me to this author, whose Dragon Chronicles books seem to fit the right timeline: Yeah that first one is it! Just goes to show how poo poo I am at google, haha. Edit: I laughed when I saw one of the reviews mentions the themes are a bit too mature for the target age the book is marketed at. They're absolutely right. froglet fucked around with this message at 13:39 on Dec 9, 2019 |
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Trying this again. I read this around 1990 (could be a couple of years either side) when I was a kid in the UK. I'm pretty sure it was part of a short story horror collection. I'm almost certain it was a hardcover book, primarily blue in colour. It had a bit of a Lovecraftian feel to it. All I can remember is that a man buys a statue in some kind of weird pose from a shop. He then imitates this pose when falling asleep and is transported to some ?other dimension?. The first time he imitates the pose he was unsuccessful, so had to do it again, with a better imitation of the pose. A "pine cone" made out of human fingernails was also mentioned.
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I don't know why I am compelled to google these things I have never heard of but I like sleuthing stuff down. This sounds like "Die Pflanzen des Doktor Cinderella" by Gustav Meyrink. I can't find the actual story in English (I don't even know if it's available in English; is that the language you read it in?) but it is cited in chapter 4 of Media, Modernity and Dynamic Plants in Early 20th Century German Culture.  
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For reference the winning google search string was horror "short story" statue sleep pose -clown -russian -prince fingernail "pine cone".
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wizzardstaff posted:I don't know why I am compelled to google these things I have never heard of but I like sleuthing stuff down. loving hell, I'm pretty certain that's it! My googling was going nowhere. Yes, I read it in English, so there must be a translation out there somewhere. Thank you!
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I've been after that story, off and on, for over twenty years.
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This is the book (it was partially blue...) https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4365296-ghost-stories
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Gambrinus posted:I've been after that story, off and on, for over twenty years. Cool, there is a lot of poo poo going on that I feel powerless to make right, but I can still make some small things better.
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wizzardstaff posted:Cool, there is a lot of poo poo going on that I feel powerless to make right, but I can still make some small things better. Just stuck it in my Amazon basket. Thank you.
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wizzardstaff posted:For reference the winning google search string was horror "short story" statue sleep pose -clown -russian -prince fingernail "pine cone". This was a heroic effort, cannot believe you found this.
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NinjaDebugger posted:Chalker has some low lows, but also some really fantastic stuff, especially The Wonderland Gambit. The Cybernetic Walrus posted:The strange fact about the reflection in the mirrors was that it wasn't me and yet I somehow knew it wouldn't be. Well, it was sort of like my old self, but maybe the ideal old self, with a body that was perfectly pumped up, muscular, in peak condition, and a lean face with neatly trimmed beard and surprisingly long brown hair to the shoulders—my color, but without a hint of gray. I was also a lot hairier than I was before, and, frankly, I had the size dick I'd always thought I wanted instead of the one nature had given me. The Cybernetic Walrus posted:Cindy allowed herself to be led back to the bed again, and Wilma, who'd had some little experience with needles helping out on the reservation, looked at the arm, found a vein, and stabbed. The March Hare Network posted:Let's see ... Why don't we switch Dannie from whatever perverted sex world she's created for herself and stick her in Cosmos City with Ben. She'll love that. Rita ... Instead of a week's experience hunting and capturing fugitives for fun and profit, let's let the good sister enjoy Dannie's pleasures. It'll give her moral fits, but we always did believe in making love, not war." She began tapping codes into the console and then got a graphics screen with Brand Box IDs as squares on the top half and subject LSUs on the bottom. After that, it was simply drag and drop to switch what was connected to what. The Hot-Wired Dodo posted:The Alice McKee of both worlds that I knew was from a good home, extremely well educated, never in want, and always assertive and confident. Occasionally, though, like everybody, she'd been turned down. Maybe it was a lover, a friend, a boss, and maybe it was a really nasty encounter at an early age with a male slimeball, but it was always there, coloring her mind-set just below the surface. The enemy was men. Men could do what she couldn't, men got the best positions, men stepped in front of more talented women. She'd always been one of those "banish-the-white-male-culture-from-society" types in academic circles, but she'd never been particularly hostile to me. Still, deep down, it had to have been more than a posture; more than just a set of committed beliefs, it was a firm and somewhat psychotic view consistent with the rest. The Hot-Wired Dodo posted:I still felt human, but I definitely wasn't. My long strawberry blond hair was back in billowing amounts, and my skin was darkly tanned but not weathered. Ordinary-looking arms and hands, if perhaps with fingers longer than symmetry would suggest, and very large but firm breasts. The arms were muscular; I felt like I could lift somebody my own size.
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wizzardstaff posted:-clown. 
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wizzardstaff posted:For reference the winning google search string was horror "short story" statue sleep pose -clown -russian -prince fingernail "pine cone".  This is great, I wish more people would post the winning searches.
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