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From: Chris Buckley <alan@sabir.com>
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Subject: Re: "Innocents (Futanari Saga)" by Francis W. Porretto
Date: 9 Aug 2024 04:20:46 GMT
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On 2024-08-08, Bobbie Sellers <blissInSanFrancisco@mouse-potato.com> 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