For those who do want a story about a human mind in a dog’s body, I recommend the novels “The Dog Days of Arthur Cane” by T. Ernesto Bethancourt (Holiday House, October 1976), “Fluke” by James Herbert (New English Library, November 1977), “Lady; My Life as a Bitch” by Melvin Burgess (Andersen Press, September 2001), and the novella “A Matter of Form” by H. L. Gold (Astounding Science-Fiction, December 1938; reprinted in a half-dozen anthologies of “great science fiction”). I am deliberately avoiding the novelizations of Disney’s “The Shaggy Dog”. The movie version of “Fluke” is good, too, but it changes the plot considerably.
For those who do want a story about a human mind in a dog’s body, I recommend the novels “The Dog Days of Arthur Cane” by T. Ernesto Bethancourt (Holiday House, October 1976), “Fluke” by James Herbert (New English Library, November 1977), “Lady; My Life as a Bitch” by Melvin Burgess (Andersen Press, September 2001), and the novella “A Matter of Form” by H. L. Gold (Astounding Science-Fiction, December 1938; reprinted in a half-dozen anthologies of “great science fiction”). I am deliberately avoiding the novelizations of Disney’s “The Shaggy Dog”. The movie version of “Fluke” is good, too, but it changes the plot considerably.
Fred Patten