Path: ...!3.eu.feeder.erje.net!2.eu.feeder.erje.net!feeder.erje.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Chris Buckley Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written Subject: Re: "Innocents (Futanari Saga)" by Francis W. Porretto Date: 9 Aug 2024 04:20:46 GMT Lines: 49 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net TVe5COSIMDEuqIGrGsy0AggSit99IaqNGjZfTpdeIr93kpgUsn Cancel-Lock: sha1:KfiBO9pBf8XXfcvbASePbqPbZ4w= sha256:qw0Ei5Uhc5fmewuafb3O5Le29abRzV+W/61BfLLbiHI= User-Agent: slrn/1.0.3 (Linux) Bytes: 3201 On 2024-08-08, Bobbie Sellers wrote: > On 7/24/24 15:25, Lynn McGuire wrote: >> "Innocents (Futanari Saga)" by Francis W. Porretto >>    https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/197314042X/ >> >> Book number one of a four book science fiction series.  I read the well >> printed and well bound POD (print on demand) trade paperback that the >> author self published on Amazon in 2017.  I have purchased the second >> book in the series and will read it soon. >> >> This may be the weirdest science fiction book that I have ever read. And >> I have read thousands of science fiction and fantasy books over my many >> years.  It is a very interesting take on what the future genetic >> engineers may bring us. >> >> In the non so distant future, security specialist Larry Sokoloff is >> vacationing in his RV in a Virginia RV park.  He rises in the morning >> one day and finds a pretty young woman being accosted by three young men >> under the awning of his RV.  He saves her from them and thus begins the >> craziness. >> >> In the Futanari Saga Universe, 100 to 200 Futanaris are born every year. >>  The author's definition of a Futanari is female appearance, female >> size, and XX chromosomes with male genitals instead of female genitals. >> Yeah, you read that correctly as this does not match the Wikipedia >> definition that I looked up.  But, somebody is now cloning Futanaris and >> raising them as incredibly expensive sex slaves. >> >> The author has an active website at: >>    http://www.libertystorch.info/ >> >> My rating:  4.4 out of 5 stars >> Amazon rating:  4.2 out of 5 stars (51 ratings) > > Every read any of Samuel Delaney's books. i cannot recall > the particular title but real sex change not cosmetic Gender > Reassignment surgery is no big thing done in shops for body > modification shops in a short peroid of time. One of the cool > images I retain is that the hero gets a tiny dragon install in > his chest. I see that lots of the old stuff by Delany is now > fabuluously expesive. Will have to find the old books probably > in boxes. _Babel-17_, A Favorite of mine (number of re-reads certainly in the double digits). Though it wasn't the hero with the implanted dragon but a staid Customs Officer greatly impacted by the hero(ine). Beautiful imagery in the book. Chris