Altered Humans

In a world where enhanced animals have altered the ecology beyond repair, the great protective enclaves are beginning to be built, but there will be no refuge there for altered humans, nor for normal humans trying to protect their enhanced pets. A woman with feline genes, bred for sex slavery. A man who kills to protect his pet. Two truckers who don?t care about laws designed for the cities. All are on the run across a surreal landscape where their odyssey takes them into the dangerous wilds, along roads and highways rapidly becoming impassable, and into cities where they have to live as outlaws. There is a chance for them to find a normal life if they can survive long enough to be accepted as immigrants to the moon. But only two of them can go, and only if they aren?t caught first. Altered Humans is a novel set in the days before the pet plague reaches its peak, where society is in flux, where survival is for the strong, but where goodness and generosity can still be found?if you don?t die first. Three Classic SF Novellas About Women Changed into Men. The number of female-to-male transsexuals has increased dramatically in recent years, and they have received much national publicity. But science fiction writers predicted the phenomenon more than three-quarters of a century earlier. Straight from the cutting-edge of the 1920s and '30s, when glandular research was first unearthing clues about the effect of the sex hormones on the body, here is a trio of dangerous visions in which the greatest authors of the time speculated about what might if science could transform females in to males. In "The Sex Serum," a young artist discovers his fiancee has been turned into a man by her scientist guardian, and swears to kill the guardian unless he turns her back. But neither fully understands the forces they are dealing with, leading to a final, unexpected conclusion. For psychiatrist David H. Keller, the notion was a horror, a repugnant act that could only upset the natural order of things, unleashing chaos and destruction, and his scientific-detective Science fiction is quick to put women back in their place and lecture them sternly about being good wives. But first, he must uncover the conspiracy of brilliant, Amazonian scientists he views as "The Menace." But, for Science Fiction Hall of Fame author, Stanley G. Weinbaum, the new discoveries about hormones becomes the departure point for a thought-provoking tale of a future dictator and a surprising love story. One of the cabal of men in the inner circle of a future dictator was once a woman. Why s/he is there and how it effects the future of the United States will surprise and thrill you! In addition there is an informativeIntroduction by transgender author Raven Kaldera and a list of recommended readings for those interested in learning more about this phenomenon. Whether you read this unique anthology for its insights into 1930s science fiction or into the contemporary female-to-male movement--read it! Would You Like a Merspouse? Or Marriage to a Centaur/Ess? Where love leads, people follow. Whether for the love of a sweetheart, a job, or a parent, people find extreme choices are sometimes necessary. This unique, ensorcelled collection of fantasy stories from the keyboard of world-famed artist/creator of "photomorphs," Brian Brookwell of the web-based Mermaids Tail galleries, follows people (and others) as they make these choices to get what they want regardless of cost. If you love the work of Jack Vance or Thomas Burnett Swain, you will love such lovers as Willy and Gillian, a honeymoon couple tragically injured in a car accident that leaves them financially set for life except that she's in a coma. The only hope is an experimental project that will take them from their homes and jobs and drop them in an underwater colony on a world not even in this universe. Willy is faced with losing everything in this world and, becoming a merman, to follow his transformed wife in "His Merwife." An unrequited love for the man of her dreams leads a teen to make a deal with an alien. It turns out that the woman of his dreams isn't quite what Kira expected and she is returned to him a centauress. A junior researcher, as part of an undercover operation to prove a life-changing institute is a fraud, must become a mermaid to get that Proof, or lose his job! An accident with a magical brew that created a magical evening's fantasy for Jim and Tina becomes a lifetime on a distant water world in "Tea for Two." Follow the plight of a desperate alien child accidentally trapped in our universe as it causes havoc attempting to make contact in "Open a Channel." You will find all these and more in thisunforgettable, one-of-a-kind collection. Will a canine bring about a truce between two untrusting lovers? A wicked, erotic, full length, Regency romance set in early 1800 England, Lt. Griffith Spencer, once a full-fledged libertine, is "drummed out" of Wellington's army as a pervert. He agrees to act as male escort/whore for Countess Eberley. When she ups the ante on their original agreement, he is commanded to seduce and marry the countess's stepdaughter. Lady Dulcina Trayhern is the only child of the deceased Earl of Eberley. Her closest companion is her dog, Simon. Forced to visit London by her stepmother to seek a husband, Dulcie and Griff are thrown together under the roof of the wicked Countess. Attraction between the two flares into an uncontrollable passion when they are slipped a powerful love potion. Before they marry, Griff heads for the Peninsula again to reclaim his honor, and Dulcie escapes London to her father's country estate. Devising a way to get rid of Dulcie, Countess Eberley and her lesbian lady's maid, Emma Trent, follow Dulcie to Surrey, there, to do away with her before the marriage deadline is reached as spelled out in the Earl's will. Meanwhile, badly wounded, Griff is sent to an overcrowded London hospital where he must recuperate or die. Can he overcome fever and hallucinations quickly enough to save the girl he now knows he loves? Will Dulcie forget that she believes Griff is in cahoots with the Countess and forgive him for his lies and seduction?