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From: Chris Buckley <alan@sabir.com>
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Subject: Re: "Innocents (Futanari Saga)" by Francis W. Porretto
Date: 10 Aug 2024 03:43:36 GMT
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On 2024-08-09, Ted Nolan <tednolan> <ted@loft.tnolan.com> wrote:
> 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.

Another author who writes lots of sex changes or other physical
changes in his characters is Jack Chalker.  It's probably the
characteristic he's known best for. Nothing outstanding, but a very
solid B-list writer (something like 50 sf novels).

Chris