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From: ted@loft.tnolan.com (Ted Nolan <tednolan>)
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Subject: Re: "Innocents (Futanari Saga)" by Francis W. Porretto
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In article <v95sob$2fi1l$1@dont-email.me>,
Lynn McGuire  <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote:
>On 8/7/2024 11:34 PM, 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.
>> 
>>      bliss
>
>John Varley's Eight Worlds books have sex reassignment shops also. 
>IIRC, I think that the actual technology proposed was a fast growing 
>clone with a brain transplant.
>    https://www.amazon.com/Steel-Beach-John-Varley/dp/0006477267/
>
>Lynn
>

Lin Carter did some subtle gender stuff in _Found Wanting_, one of his
rare books which wasn't a pastiche of somebody else's bailiwick.
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