July SFF Cat - Ch-ch-changes

This month's challenge is to read a book that features some sort of change whether through magic, chemistry, evolution, or whatever.

Classics could include The Strange Story of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson, Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka, Dracula by Bram Stoker and classic children's stories like The Little Mermaid, Cinderella, Alice in Wonderland. There are a number of YA stories such as the Twilight series by Stephenie Meyer, the werewolf series starting with Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater, and the marvelous use of Polyjuice Potion in the Harry Potter series.

The True Blood series by Charlaine Harris featured people becoming vampires, shape shifters, werewolves and werepanthers.

The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham

The Stepford Wives by Ira Levin

Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes

Adding - World War Z by Max Brooks and all of the Walking Dead stories

Happy Hunting!

Thanks for posting the thread, now I can start planning my reads!

I have Abaddon's Gate by James S. A. Corey for a June read, but have not yet started it...so if I don't get it finished this month, I'll put it in July!

Hopefully Artifact will fit this. And maybe Fortress in the Eye of time ?

>3 majkia: do it!!!

This sounds like the perfect time to read one of my not-so-secret indulgences - a zombie book where something causes people to turn into flesh eating monsters! I will probably go for Day By Armageddon: Beyond Exile as I have been wanting to get back to this series for some time.

>5 DeltaQueen50: I was actually coming back tonight to include zombie stories. Definite changing going on in those stories!

Now that Justin Cronin has finally finished The Passage trilogy, I think it's time for me to re-read The Passage and then continue gorging on The Twelve and finishing off with The City of Mirrors.

I just finished The Rithmatist by Brandon Sanderson. This would be a great choice for July, magic, chalklings, and a whole lot of fun. It is YA.

I finished and reviewed J. Kathleen Cheney's new short story Whatever Else, about a woman who discovers that her husband may not be who she thought he was. Among other things, it features a character who can change the appearance of their body at will.

I finished The City of Mirrors by Justin Cronin, a wonderful end to an excellent trilogy about a virus that changes people into vampires.

>10 sturlington: Great to hear! I just started my re-read of The Passage yesterday and while I can't wait to get to the next two, I am really enjoying the re-read!

I think that The Fall of Hyperion might work for this but I can't explain why without spoilers...

>12 leslie.98: That happened to me with RandomCAT this month. It was a borderline fit, but I since I thought it belonged there, I just said they had to trust me, as dangerous as that might be. ;)

Looking at the reviews for that one, I think it might fit this month's challenge too, but mamzel is, of course, the final arbitrator.

As I am going away tomorrow and won't be back for a couple of weeks I have posted the August SFFFKit thread. It can be found Here

I am rereading the Harry Potter series.

I was happy to discover The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul by Douglas Adams fit this month's SFF category. Definitely some ch-ch-changes going on! When I started the book, I didn't realize it would fit 3 of this month's challenges, yay me! (also RandomCat and AlphaCat).

I finished The Passage this morning and have started The Twelve.

I read J. Kathleen Cheney's excellent Golden City trilogy (The Golden City, The Seat of Magic, and The Shores of Spain) that feature selkies (change from seal to human and vice versa) and, in the third book, magic that can change the properties of stone.

finally finished Fortress in the Eye of Time by C.J. Cherryh

Finished a post-apocalyptic tale (Sleepless by Charlie Huston) which features a disease which renders its victims unable to sleep for the months leading up to a final stage called the suffering and then death.

Here's a link to the Wiki so everyone can add their entries for this month.

Finished The Twelve on Saturday and started The City of Mirrors.

I read another one that fits this month's theme: Vanishing Point by Michaela Roessner. It is a post-apocalyptic novel in which 90% of the population vanished suddenly about 30 years before the story begins. I can't give away what the changes were because that would be spoiling, but there are changes.

I finished up the Void Trilogy - The Temporal Void - which has more than it's fair share of changes! Excellent Sci Fi series, although if you intend to delve into it, I'd suggest starting with the first book of the Commonwealth series before jumping into the Voids.

I have completed Beyond Exile by J.L. Bourne and with 90% of North Americans becoming zombies there was plenty of ch-ch-changes in this book!

I'm getting in a book for my own month - finally. Started The Day of the Triffids last night. So far so great!

I finished Cronin's The Passage viral vampire trilogy with The City of Mirrors - racing through ~1300 pages to do it! Lots of people changing into vampires, and also the kinds of changes that occur over 1000 years, which is the time period the trilogy covers.

Really enjoyed the trilogy - I think the first book, The Passage, remains my favorite though.

Well I squeaked my book in before the end of the month. Finished Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke today. I did the audio read by Simon Prebble. Excellent, excellent, I recommend it though I did miss out on the illustrations.

I had to return my ILL copy of Abaddon's Gate before we went on vacation, so I'm hoping to try again in August, if the ILL comes through shortly.

I finished The Graveyard Book yesterday, which also fits this month's theme.

I finished the last couple of pages of The Day of the Triffids this morning. The change featured in this book is that most of England's population went blind after viewing unusual green lights.

Thanks everyone for participating. In retrospect this was a very challenging topic and I appreciate the effort to find titles to fit.

Sorry, I'm a bit late with my update. In July, I finished The Humans by Matt Haig. It was about an alien who takes over the body of a mathematician and eventually learns to be "human" in the best ways.