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I think I read this short story before 1989 in Asimov's SF Magazine (which started publication in 1971 and I was reading back through old ones in a collection, so it could be any time in the 70s or 80s). It concerned a young adult male protagonist (on Earth, who thinks he's human) who meets an "uncle" who looks a lot like him, from whom he learns that he is not human, but an alien passing among humans, who goes through a maturational process whereby two genetically related individuals fuse into one, and his "uncle" who is looking younger by the day and he are fated to merge into one person.

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Anybody recognize this story?

morivoveso

I remember one christmas in the mid to late 90s asking for Animorphs books and nothing else. I ended up getting books about kids who could turn into things instead of animals. I ended up throwing them out, but recently remembered this event, but not the name of the books. I never read them as I was so disappointed, so I don't havea lot to go on, and google has been no help.

ewyn

Hi everyone, I am wondering about a book-series (at least what I remember being a series) I read in the mid-2000s.

From what I can remember, the book was centred around two children/teenagers. One of them a boy, the other a girl. They might have been related, as well. Somehow, they arrange some magic stones that open a portal into a different world where magic is present. It becomes apparent that there are several different worlds that they can travel to through these rocks, each rock having signs that symbolize what world they visit might consist most of (like rocks with ice, water and snow will send them into a very cold and chilly world). They meet a wizard (I'm pretty sure), who belongs to an order. He turns out to be not that nice. The girl has strong magic abilities, she also finds out that her father might belong to one of these worlds and she becomes desperate to find him. I think the wizard hatches a basilisk, who is very intelligent, and who begins to turn everyone in the village to stone. The boy, if I am not remembering wrong, has the ability to shapeshift. I am pretty sure he is able to turn into a wolf.

I cannot for the life of me find out what this series is called, please help me! I would love to revisit them.

drikkity

, I was wondering if anyone would be kind enough to tell me the name of a series that I am trying to remember.
Details I remember about it are:
The main character is a superhero who is a male but can change shape and turns female to protect his identity when doing super things.
His powers come mainly from an experiment that gave him the ability to change his power level in ways such as more speed but less strength, more strength but less durability, and so on.
At first he doesn't want to be a hero but is convinced in the first book.
In one of the books he starts a school for super powered children on an old villian? base that's technically not part of any nation. It gets attacked and some of the students are kidnapped.
He has a relationship with one of his superhero teammates both as his normal self and his female alterego. (Same sperson and she does know about him being both)
His neice attends the school

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sschoenthaler

Hi All. Funny how the brain works. Randomly thought of this book when my fiance and I were talking about cool books we read in high school!

So what I CAN tell you about this book.

• It was made between 2007-2010 (I read in HS)
• It had to be young adult.
• Fantasy book.
• They could shape shift, into big cats.
• I DON'T recall it being a series....however I could very well be wrong.

Where it gets wishy-washy with my memory:

I believe the story had a plot similar to a girl can shape shift into a large cat of some sort. So can an "attractive guy" that could also shape shift. I believe he either asked her or captured her to live with him in a huge house (or castle). I vaguely remember this place having a large garden and they spent some time bonding and getting to know each other in the garden. I remember the guy being some what of a jerk but kind of a soft guy at the same time.

As all young adult books go - I'm sure there was some type of love triangle going on. I sort of remember there being something like that in this book.

ANYTHING in the right direction would be GREATLY appreciated. As I'm pretty sure I'm wearing out google by searching everything I can think of.... LOL

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