"Serious" writers writing TF fiction.

[Kyutetsuki]

Ovid. Metamorphoses. That is all.


Also, Stephen King has plenty of transformations. Tommyknockers, for example, in which the population of a small town slowly turn into aliens, and it even has a scene where the protagonist's love interest tries to seduce him with her new alien body.

[Quadhouse]

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.

[Dr. Otto]

Originally Posted by dtx

While Tommyknockers was the most TF-dense of any of King's books that I've read, the degree of TF is limited.

I'd argue SALEM'S LOT has just as much TF content, and even the protagonist's love interest gets tragically vampirized. But once again, most of the actual biting and infecting takes place "off-screen", so to speak.