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From: "Michael F. Stemper" <michael.stemper@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: "Innocents (Futanari Saga)" by Francis W. Porretto
Date: Fri, 9 Aug 2024 08:38:42 -0500
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On 08/08/2024 23.20, Chris Buckley wrote:
> 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.

Also, _Triton_, in which the viewpoint character is really messed up.
He decides that if he was a she, everybody would like her. Strangely,
after the operation, she's still unpopular, probably due to her
repellent personality.

-- 
Michael F. Stemper
Nostalgia just ain't what it used to be.