A Preview Of The Real Great Shift? - (Stewart, VOTGS #1)
Despite all the time that had passed since The Great Shift had occurred, there were only two things everyone was certain of: that The Great Shift was a world-wide phenomenon that swapped millions of people with each other, and that people's minds were affected in various ways. Abstracting from the shock, dysphoria, or exhilaration that many people experienced after they found themselves in bodies that weren't their own, researchers all around the world had found that a person's mind could be affected by the hormonal and neurological chemistry of their new bodies. Given the unknown mechanisms that could be behind The Great Shift , this meant that in theory, someone affected by it could completely change into somebody else in both mind and body, thus making this still poorly understood phenomenon into a possible identity killer. In practice though, the scientific community had unanimously concluded that the effects were very small and nothing to worry about. Some individu...