Re: "Innocents (Futanari Saga)" by Francis W. Porretto

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.

Chris