I liked that! Great story!
Kisses.
Silvia.

Sorry to say, but this seems to me to be far from Julie's best work. I had serious problems with suspension of disbelief through parts I and II. I've never been in the military (perhaps the author has?) and never attended a secret briefing, but the way the initial briefing begins with discussing the main character as though he were not there in the room just didn't ring true for me. In the course of the transformation, sperm samples are periodically taken from the main character while he is still male. There is a medical procedure for doing that, and it does not consist of a room "in there" with porno videos. This becomes even less plausible when it turns out to be a plot device for the main character to pleasure himself and discover his increasingly more sensitive body. While these erotic elements work well (because they are fully integrated) in Turbulence, they have no place (no context) in Change of Course (and you will notice that they are subsequently omitted in the rest of parts I and II). Finally, none of the motivations for Dr. Martz developing his genetic change process and deploying it on military personnel, as revealed in the scene at the end of part II, rings true for me-- and little else in that scene does, either (the whole "mad scientist" shtick, where a brief conversation "brings him to his senses", in particular)-- which completely blows for me the entire military/covert ops/espionage story setting.

Suspension of disbelief really only works for story elements that are not familiar to the reader. Since no one has (so far as I know) actually succeeded in rewriting significant portions of a person's DNA, we might be willing to concede that it is at least *possible* that doing so might cause a physical transformation-- especially when we get to trade that concession for a good story. Magic is even a better plot device, since few of us have had any experience with it in the real world.

When you write about human behavior and human social institutions, though, you have something entirely different, because most of us have had lots of experience with those things. Comments about good character development are usually accorded only to authors who write their human characters to think, feel, and behave the way humans actually do in the real world-- or the way we imagine they would, if exposed to unusual circumstances. Stretch those things too far, and your story breaks down. Some people might find the behavior of the characters in this story to be wholly credible, but a good chunk of it just didn't work for me.

In addition, there are loads of typos (omitted words, mostly), along with further loads of quirky syntactical errors that read as though the author changed her thoughts on what she wanted to say in mid-sentence, but then did not go back to bring the rest of the paragraph into agreement. While a few of these were amusing (such as "Normally, we would have other agents inside you..."), most were just distracting and annoying. They altogether made reading Change of Course a jarring experience, like driving over an ill-maintained road full of cracks and potholes.

A another excellent story by Julie, I hope there is more to come, Beth growing in to a woman and married. (Maybe?)

Love Karen.

after part 3:
   Good story!  I like the character of Beth and that she seems to be merging her old identity with her developing new one successfully.  I want a wedding scene!  Beth will make a lovely maid of honor for Maggie!  :-)  Congrats, Julie.

This reads like an abridged version of a story I read before.  In the other story, I seem to remember there was a lot more detail about Commander Evans' obnoxious behavior.  Also, this is posted as part 1, and yet the author indicates it is complete; as a complete story it doersn't work, it's a beginning without a middle or end.

    Very good Julie.  
When I saw this under "What's New"  I felt almost compelled to read it.  I have read your stories before and knew when I started that I would not be disappointed.  Don't worry, I wasn't.  
In fact as I was reading along I was saddened when suddenly the 'epilogy' scrolled up on me.  I thought 'jeesh.' I wish there would have been more.  I really wanted to find out what happens to 'Beth'.  How does she adjust?  What?  How, and more specifically why, had the genetics scientist designed this little game? Surely he must have had beter reasons than,'for my amusment, and because I could?'  
Your last line indicates that this might be so.  I do hope that, that is true, as I would like to hear more about Beth's experience.

Thank you for the bit of amusment.
                                                 Sincerely: RickkiB