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The Morphodite

M. A. Foster

First published December 1981
Type Novel
Series Transformer #1

How do you destroy a conspiracy without making waves? Because every such underground movement has a key person, the subtle way is to remove that keystone and watch the rest of the organization fall apart. <p>Their world was ultra-conservative, isolated, opposed to change. Their secret police had tried many means to keep it that way. Now they had contrived their cleverest, secret, weapon. This was a genetically-patterned laboratory-raised human genius, the Morphodite. <p>The Morphodite needed no computers to detect the key to any conspiracy - the know-how was structured into his/her brain. The Morphodite needed no assistance to make a foolproof escape after such an assassination. The know-how was built into his/her body. <p>But the Morphodite had one defect its "gestapo" parents had not planned. He/She could think for itself. And its thoughts were total subversion. (from the back cover of the DAW Books first edition)

YearAwardCategoryStatus
1983 Prometheus Award Prometheus Award for Best Libertarian SF Novel Nominee/Finalist

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
December 1981 Cover The Morphodite DAW Books Novel 5
December 1981 Cover The Morphodite DAW Books / New American Library of Canada Novel 5
January 1985 Cover The Morphodite DAW Books Novel
November 2006 Cover The Transformer Trilogy DAW Books Omnibus 1
November 2006 Cover The Transformer Trilogy DAW Books Omnibus |1