SOLVED. SciFi - Man's body taken by a consciousness which travelled from future, forcing the man into female body. The time travelling consciousness came back to infiltrate a neo-Nazi organization, which is set to take power in the far-future. [s]

[Patnel]

English language, I belive I read it in late 1990's, early 2000's, and it was written around that time. Here's what I remember. The M/C is an adult male, employed. The book is set in the near future, where massive unemployment has led to a huge homeless population. The man has a homeless woman who lives/squats on his terrace and he ends up saving her from some attack. It turns out that the woman's body had been possessed by someone (I'm going to stick with "consciousness") from the far future, and after the two have sex, they switch bodies, with the man ending up in the woman's body. The Consciousness has come back in time to stop a Neo-Nazi organization which evolves into a genetic purity group in the future, and is engaged in a war with the Consciousness's group, which I guess is in favor of genetic modification? I remember that it ends with a big confused battle at the neo-Nazi compound. That's about all I remember at this point. Thanks in advance.

[Lobstergirl, au gratin]

Foreign Bodies?

Bill Galloway leads a privileged twenty-first-century life. A legal citizen, he has a San Francisco apartment and affords meat once or twice yearly. His Worldwide Identification Number entitles him to services denied most city residents, including its huge homeless population, who sleep where they can. Galloway cautiously befriends Swiftie, a young woman who sleeps on his balcony, and one evening he invites her in. She immediately switches bodies with him, for she is a Bodysnatcher, a person from the future who has downloaded his or her brain into a corpse. Waking as a naked, half-starved woman, Galloway knows he will need every trick in the book to stay alive and find Swiftie. Learning that she has dark secrets, he becomes embroiled in a convoluted adventure involving white supremacists, phone sex workers, corrupt police, and a mysterious Asian dojo. Worst, he discovers that she is well along in a half-mad plot to seize the city and "cleanse" its people.

[Other reviewers call the MC Mike, not Bill...]

[Andy]

Lobstergirl: I'm glad you found this, because otherwise, I was going to have to search through old issues of "Asimovs" since I vividly remembered reading a review of this when it came out.

[Patnel]

That is amazing. Either I'm the worst google searcher in the world, or you're the best. That's definitely it. Thanks so much!

[Lobstergirl, au gratin]

If I have success searching, it tends to come from Novelist (a book database) rather than google or googlebooks (which have become nearly useless, frankly). Your queries have been easier than most people's because you remember so many details.

Google has obviously made changes to the way their search works in the past couple years because searching for books now always results in a ton of garbage results, and a ton of self-published books (not that self-published books are necessarily garbage, just that most people are not looking for them, so it makes little sense to have them ranked so highly in search results).