Vallejo - High Couch of Silistra Cover Art The Silistra Quartet is well discussed by Kaler in The Picara, where she compares the Silistra Quartet to the Picara model, from which it does purposely diverge. The books explore the differences and complementarities between men and women and the exercise of power, both personal and societal they aren’t about a man who happens to live in a woman’s body.
JEM: When I wrote High Couch of Silistra, I was twenty-five and loved being female my body and mind were my laboratory, and I wanted to write the book I couldn’t find to read: not a book that was a clumsy attempt to treat a woman as a man, or as an enemy or competitor of men, or as a victim of men, but as someone powerful in a different society for genetic and political reasons a protagonist whose sensuality and sexuality are at the heart of her world, and whose travails are self-created, so that I could explore the genetics of behavior: Estri, protagonist, is a courtesan and an adventuress, but not a sword-swinging hero tougher than any man around her. Her below comment suggested she had a lot more to share: " Men in woman-suits do not women make, and the novel's purpose in the world is to create story to carry forth common values and shared ethos when those values are deformed, and that deformation taken for true, we all suffer." Janet E. She frequently interacts in the Sword & Sorcery Group on Goodreads-com, which is currently running a Groupread on Heroines (everyone is invited, so feel welcome to join). She is still writing, recently contributing to Writing Fantasy Heroes: Powerful Advice from the Pros. Incidentally, her expanded editions of her Sacred Band books are being re-released now ( Video Trailer).
JEM has pushed people's expectations of sexuality and the role of women in fantasy fiction since 1976 she has since published more than 20 novels, many co-authored with her husband Chris Morris (including the Sacred Band of Stepsons of the Thieves World series she also created and edited the Bangsian fantasy series Heroes in Hell).
Via the Sword & Sorcery Group on Goodreads-com, I engaged author Janet Morris (JEM) about these themes.
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