SOLVED. Short story. Human astronaut crash lands on an alien planet with an automated city, but can't use the facilities as they're geared toward an alien race

[Brian]

Short story, read in the 90s, but probably older. A human astronaut crash lands on an alien planet and discovers an automated city designed as an oasis for space farers. Unfortunately the aliens that designed it were so different from humans that the facilities are useless to him: the temperatures are hellishly hot, the food is inedible, and the music is just an awful noise. The cities tries to adapt itself to his physiology, but begins to break down with the effort. Just as the astronaut has resigned himself to death, he wakes up to find the city seemingly transformed: the food is heavenly, the music divine, and the accommodations luxurious. He's so happy that he hardly realizes he now has a trunk and a tail (the city turned him into an alien).

[Andrew]

Definitely older, I read it years ago, it was also adapted into a short strip in one of those Alien Worlds comics.

[Sue]

https://jennre.wordpress.com/2012/05/...

[Sue]

Van Vogt's "Enchanted Village". The link I gave doesn't work.

[Brian]

The Enchanted Village, that was it. Thank you.

[Kris]

Glad you found your short story, Brian. Do you recall which book you read it in?

[Brian]

Kris wrote: "Glad you found your short story, Brian. Do you recall which book you read it in?"

No, it was some sort of anthology dealing with metamorphosis.

[Kris]

Do you think you read The Enchanted Village by A.E. van Vogt in one of these books:

- Shape Shifters: Fantasy and Science Fiction Tales About Humans Who Can Change Their Shapes (1978) edited by Jane Yolen (multiple authors)?

- Monsters (1948) by A.E. van Vogt (single author)?

[Brian]

Kris wrote: "Do you think you read The Enchanted Village by A.E. van Vogt in one of these books:

- [book:Shape Shifters: Fantasy and Science Fiction Tales About Humans Who Can..."

I don't think so, there were size and robotic transformations as well.