Transfigurations is a novel by Michael Bishop published in 1979.
Plot summary
Transfigurations is a novel in which an anthropologist studies the Asadi, a culturally and technologically primitive alien race.
Reception
Greg Costikyan reviewed Transfigurations in Ares Magazine #8 and commented that "Despite its narrative flaws, Transfigurations is exceptionally well written, and Bishop is a writer whose work deserves close attention."
Kirkus Reviews states "Some intriguing speculations about behavior -- but Bishop's usually engaging curiosity blends poorly here with the traditional furniture of outer-space fiction."
Reviews
Review by Tom Easton (1980) in Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, January 1980
Review by Charles N. Brown (1980) in Locus, #230 February 1980
Review by John Clute (1980) in Foundation, #19 June 1980
Review by Joseph Nicholas (1980) in Vector 98
Review by Theodore Sturgeon (1981) in Rod Serling's The Twilight Zone Magazine, June 1981
