Camouflage by Joe Haldeman

Invaded the Redwood City Public Library last night to look for Tiptree Honor Books before WisCon...

Found Camouflage by Joe Haldeman (which attracted me because I just read parts of it in the Tiptree Anthology Vol 2).

More below about the actual book....but was momentarily distracted when creating alink to the book for this blog(and excited).

There are 2 signed first editions of Camouflage for sale on Amazon for $100 and $150!

So I'm not going to try to summarize the plots here because we can read them on Amazon. The part that I initially liked in the Tiptree selections, was the tale of the "changeling" who decides to come out of the ocean and learn to become a human.
(Amazon paragraph about Tiptree collection had a good summary: "an immortal, shape-shifting alien who alternates between male and female identities, human and animal. ")

The view of human culture, sexuality, war, etc was fascinating coming from this perspective (instead of the human trying to understand the alien).

It also seemed like it must have been fun to write the changeling's way out of various tight spots (being chased by someone who ripped off your arm? No problem, just jump out the window, get to the water, make yourself into a fish, and swim away!)