| 1961 F. Leiber Big Time (1969) 33–4
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A strange kind of folk, bright but always in the background, with built-in nostalgia and cynicism, as adaptable as Centaurian shapechangers but with memories as long as a Lunan's six arms, a kind of Change People, you might say, the cream of the damned.
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| 1964 H. R. E. Davidson Gods & Myths N. Europe (1973) 140
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He was also the ancient one-eyed god, crafty and skilled in magic lore, a great shape-changer, and an expert in the consultation of the dead.
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| 1969 M. Z. Bradley Brass Dragon (1980) viii. 137
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‘What—what are those things?’‘Dikri ,’ said Karsten. ‘Shape-changers. You have, on your Earth, legends of werewolves. The dragon-shape is their true shape, but they can adjust it to pass as human among men.’
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| 1981 V. N. McIntyre Entropy Effect v.137
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It is also possible that the Enterprise is playing host to a shape-changer.
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| 1988 S. McCrumb Bimbos of Death Sun xiv. 210
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What kind of shape-changer is it?
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| 1989 D. Koontz Midnight iii. xxxvi. 453
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If these people were more of those shapechangers, they wouldn't be staggering up to us so hesitantly.
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| 1990 Thrust Winter 6/3
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Megaships with minds destroy ringworlds. An energy superspecies cordons off planets of the dead. The escapades of the shape-changer hero recall certain events in Raiders of the Lost Ark.
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| 1991 Locus May 25/3
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Their big job is to care for the odd tribe of albino shapechangers who inhabit the mountain.
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| 1992 Locus Aug. 19/1
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There aren't really any‥literal shape-changers transmogrifying into werewolves down in City Park.
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| 1995 Interzone Feb. 62/3
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Whereas a shapechanger is usually a receptacle of evil instincts, Charnas has created a beast that represents the wildness of youth, a vivid, vicious, amoral expression of one person's feral appetite for life.
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| 1996 SFX May 12/2
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Originally, this was going to be the definitive book of shape changer movies, but we had to squeeze about a third of it out.
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