Re: "Serious" writers writing TF fiction.
Jack L. Chalker wrote a lot of books with TF/TG content.
His Well World books had alien poof transformations.
The River of Souls series had a mix of slow and poof changes into few mythological creatures. A couple of the main characters got turned into a were. JUST a were. Every full moon, they would turn into a copy of whatever the nearest living being was. This included each other.
His Wonderland Gambit trilogy has a LOT of poof TG. Unfortunately, most of those changes happened at the start of each book. WARNING: DO NOT read this series if you question reality in any shape, manner, or form. It took me 3 months to stop seeing things out of the corner of my eyes. Seriously, this series will twist your perceptions of reality.
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