High Couch of Silistra - Morris, Janet
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One woman's mythic search for self-realization in a distant tomorrow...Her sensuality was at the core of her world, her quest beyond the civilized stars. Aristocrat. Outcast. Picara. Slave. Ruler."Engrossing characters in a marvelous adventure." - Charles N. Brown, Locus Magazine"The amazing and erotic adventures of the most beautiful courtesan in tomorrow's universe" - Frederik Pohl"The best single example of prostitution used in fantasy is Janet Morris' Silistra series... Estri's character is most like that of Ishtar who describes herself as "'a prostitute compassionate am I'" because she…mehr

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One woman's mythic search for self-realization in a distant tomorrow...Her sensuality was at the core of her world, her quest beyond the civilized stars. Aristocrat. Outcast. Picara. Slave. Ruler."Engrossing characters in a marvelous adventure." - Charles N. Brown, Locus Magazine"The amazing and erotic adventures of the most beautiful courtesan in tomorrow's universe" - Frederik Pohl"The best single example of prostitution used in fantasy is Janet Morris' Silistra series... Estri's character is most like that of Ishtar who describes herself as "'a prostitute compassionate am I'" because she "symbolizes the creative submission to the demands of instinct, to the chaos of nature ...the free woman, as opposed to the domesticated woman". Linking Estri with these lunar and water symbols is not difficult because of the moon's eternal virginity (the strength of integrity) links with her changeability (the prostitute's switching of lovers). [...] Morris strengthens the moon imagery by having Estri as a well-keepress because wells, fountains, and the moon as the orb which controls water have long been associated with fertility, [...] In a sense, she is like the moon because she is apparently eternal, never waxing or waning except in her pursuit of the quest; she is the prototypical wanderer like the moon and Ishtar. She is the eternal night symbol of the moon in opposition to the Day-Keepers [...] At her majority (her three hundredth birthday), she is given a silver-cubed hologram letter from her mother, containing a videotape of her conception by the savage bronzed barbarian god from another world. [...] If Estri's mother then acts as a bawd, willing her lineage as Well-Keepress to her daughter, then Estri's great-grandmother Astria as foundress of the Well becomes a further mother-bawd figure when she offers her prophetic advice in her letter: "Guard Astria for you may lose it, and more. Beware of one who is not as he seems. Stray not in the port city of Baniev ...look well about you, for your father's daughter's brother seeks you". Having no brother that she knows of does not stay Estri from undertaking the heroic quest of finding her father." - Anne K. Kaler, The Picara: From Hera to Fantasy Heroine
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Janet Morris is the creator of numerous novels, stories, and works of nonfiction, as well as the editors of the Heroes in Hell series, winner of the Hugo Award. Morris is the only science fiction writer invited to participate in the Rolex fiction program. She is widely known for her nonfiction works on national security topics such as nonlethal weapons and Russian technology as well as her fiction. Morrises' fiction includes her novel of the Hittite Empire, I, the Sun; The Silistra Quartet (High Couch of Silistra (once titled Returning Creation, The Golden Sword, Wind from the Abyss, The Carnelian Throne; her Sacred Band of Stepsons novels (Beyond Sanctuary, Beyond the Veil, Beyond Wizardwall), and her Kerrion Consortium novels (Dream Dancer, Cruiser Dreams, Earth Dreams.