Timeline for Seeking sci-fi short story (1980s/1990s?) where a man puts his consciousness into an animal's brain, but then can't/doesn't want to leave
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| Jun 10, 2022 at 21:31 | comment | added | user14111 | @JRE The story you described in your comment is Poul Anderson's 1950 novelette "The Star Beast" which you can read here. | |
| Jun 10, 2022 at 17:57 | comment | added | Lexible | This is clearly a biography about me at some point in the future where I switch bodies with a healthy and well-loved house cat. | |
| Jun 10, 2022 at 17:25 | comment | added | Zeiss Ikon | There was a series of these stories published in Analog in the late 1970s or early1980s. Seems to me they started with one about a "soul trap" before working up to returning the souls to the original bodies, then (temporarily) putting them into simpler creatures. | |
| Jan 20, 2022 at 21:20 | comment | added | gidds | This exact problem also occurs in some of Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels, specifically some of those featuring witches and their ability to ‘borrow’ the minds of other animals. | |
| Jan 19, 2022 at 12:36 | comment | added | JRE | I don't remember the name or the author, or even if I have it in my collection. | |
| Jan 19, 2022 at 12:36 | comment | added | JRE | Your question reminded me of a similar story - maybe the same story. A man on Earth is bored and goes to a psychologist or psychiatrist who suggests the man spend somtime as an animal. He has himself transformed into a big cat (lion or tiger or something) and spends some time on the estate of a girl friend. There's some kind of attack on the Earth, and the guy can't be transformed back into himself. I think at one point he saves his girl friend from the invaders. At the end, he becomes more and more an animal. He gets hungry. The story ends implying that the tiger is going to eat her. | |
| Jan 19, 2022 at 12:06 | answer | added | Zab Zonk | timeline score: 5 | |
| Jan 19, 2022 at 2:01 | comment | added | Horse Brain | Thanks for the tip, @DavidW—I'm about to read it now! | |
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| Jan 18, 2022 at 21:57 | comment | added | DavidW | @HorseBrain It was originally published in Asimov's and you can read the story at the Internet Archive. | |
| Jan 18, 2022 at 21:52 | comment | added | Horse Brain | Thank you, @DavidW. But yes, I believe this date is too late. But I'll check it out just in case! | |
| Jan 18, 2022 at 21:00 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackSciFi/status/1483544754994438144 | ||
| Jan 18, 2022 at 20:14 | answer | added | Ethan | timeline score: 6 | |
| Jan 18, 2022 at 18:27 | comment | added | DavidW | Kathleen Ann Goonan wrote a story, "Memory Dog," about a man who implants his memories and, to some extent, his psyche in a dog, but 2008 is probably much too late. | |
| Jan 18, 2022 at 17:32 | comment | added | AncientSwordRage♦ | Hi and welcome to the site! Please do take the tour to learn about how voting and accepting answers work! If you can edit in any more details, as per the guidance under the story-identification tag, that would be great. | |
| S Jan 18, 2022 at 17:22 | history | suggested | Glorfindel |
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| S Jan 18, 2022 at 17:08 | history | asked | Horse Brain | CC BY-SA 4.0 |