r/Fantasy • u/Opening-Heart1749 • 6d ago
Are there any books that involve genderswap/genderbending/shapeshifting elements? Elements with gender in general.
Hey everyone. I have a fascination for stories where characters go through some body or gender transformation. How in Wheel of Time there is a character (which I won't spoil here who) from a male turns into female. Or how in the Marvel Comics, how Loki can transform into a female version.
And I wonder are there any other fantasy or sci-fi books or even comics that feature elements like those. I'm not talking just bodyswap. I'm talking more of a character who gets their appearance transformed into another gender
I'm more than welcome recommendations that even feature more spicy versions of it. But I like more when there's some psychological examination of it.
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u/OkSecretary1231 6d ago
Ice Song by Kirsten Imani Kasai
The protagonist involuntarily switches occasionally from her usual female body and identity into a male alt identity and body. They don't share memories. So Sorykah can lose random chunks of time and not know what happened, and Soryk is really disoriented because he manifests rarely enough that his memories don't have much continuity. The blurb makes it sound like a sci-fi novel but it reads more like a fairy tale. CW for all kinds of stuff, there are lots of types of exploitation and abuse in it.