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Science Fiction
Blood Music, by Greg Bear (ISBN 0-7434-4496-5)
The technological/sci-fi side of nanomek comes straight from this book (they're called "noocytes" in Blood Music). Written in the 80s, Blood Music presages many sci-fi concepts that became more mainstream in 90s. The first act is better paced and more tightly told than the second (and the disappointing third, which is a retelling of Childhood's End), but it's the second two acts that contain all the transformation fetishism and wacky information theory that inspired Galatea/Venus' "I'm one individual spread over a collective, not a collective spread over a group individuals" speech in Act One, and the plot points that develop from it.
Hyperion, by Dan Simmons (ISBN 0-3852-6348-1)
Best sci-fi book ever written. Period. Has a bunch of sex, a little transformation fetishism, and nanomek-style artificial intelligences in it, too.
Midnight at the Well of Souls, by Jack L. Chalker (ISBN 0-3452-9769-5)
The start of the Well World series, the oldest, longest, non-stop transformation fetish story disguised as hard sci-fi of which I am aware. Mr. Chalker turns people into animals, into aliens, into hermaphrodites, into each other, ad infinitum. And he wrote it all before Al Gore discovered he'd invented the Internet, too.
Olympos, by Dan Simmons (ISBN 0-3809-7894-6)
Not the best sci-fi book ever written, but probably one of the best sci-fi novels to twist Greek myth into a kinky pretzel. Although Greek myth is pretty kinky already. Oh, and there's a little Zentai suit fetishism in it, too.
Solaris, by Stanislaw Lem (ISBN 0-1560-2760-7)
Ignore both movie adaptations unless you are trying to cure a bout of insomnia. In Solaris, the main character travels into the depths of space and makes love to a goo girl the size of a planet. No, I am not making that up. Solaris is hard, psychological science fiction, however, about the nature of consciousness, love, memory, and the Problem of Other Minds. So don't read it for the goo sex, just know that it happens and smile knowingly when it does.
Weird Fiction
The King of Elfland's Daughter, by Lord Dunsany (ISBN 0-3454-3191-X)
Some people think some guy named Tolkien was the father of modern fantasy fiction and the greatest fantasy novelist of all time. I respectfully disagree.
Perdido Street Station, by China Miéville (ISBN 0-333-78172-4)
Miéville had me reaching grudgingly for the dictionary more than once. His ornate prose fits his subject well: decadent, steampunk, kitchen-sink fantasy-horror. Lots of transformation (mostly horrific) and anthropomorphism (mostly fantastic). Nyx's scenes (her emergence from the fridge, and then her appearance on the road) are attempted emulations and homages of Miéville, particularly his descriptions of the (very unsexy) slake-moths in Perdido.
The Sandman, Vertigo Comics
A seventy-five issue comic book series written by Neil Gaiman, Sandman creates a syncretic mythology, combining world myth and comic book tropes into a coherent whole. It sparked my interest in comic books and remains my favorite.
Zothique Cycle, by Clark Ashton Smith
The weirdest of the old school weird, Clark Ashton Smith wrote many short stories set in the dying lands of Zothique. You'll find quite a few of Galatea and Nyx's nastier relatives there.
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