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NoriMori
Since: Jan, 2011
9th Nov, 2023 04:13:24 AM
I found it! It's Angels & Aliens
. The zero-g sport is called Z-ball.
(I was wrong about a couple things, for example they don't take her to a space station, they just have anti-gravity technology. And she wasn't a government employee, she worked for an investment firm.)
Edited by NoriMori
The protagonist — I think he works for the government or something — meets someone at a restaurant. The person swaps his drink for something else (or slips it in). It turns out it was Applied Phlebotinum, and the next morning the protagonist has not only transformed into a woman, she also effortlessly cartwheels out of bed without meaning to. She now has superhuman strength and reflexes. Maybe higher intelligence too, I don't remember. Anyway, it turns out she's been involuntarily recruited to some secret government program, and it involved giving her this enhancement, which for some reason invariably turns you into a woman. I forget what the government program was all about.
She gets taken to a space station, which is the program's base of operations, and one of the last things I remember is her learning to play a zero gravity sport they invented. (But it isn't The Fuse. I think the sport had a similar sort of nickname as ziggyball, though.)
The protagonist wasn't the only recruit, there were others. I think they had some name, but I don't remember what it was. When I looked at Differently Powered Individual, the term "Angels" stuck out to me, but that might be a false positive. (And it definitely isn't Angels 2200, despite other similarities like space and Improbably Female Cast.)
Edited by NoriMori