The trilogy follows the life of Pell from a lowly farmhand in a desolate landscape to become Tigron of Immanion, one of the Wraeththu nations. Har look androgynous with feminine bodies but lacking breasts and body hair. Har sex organs are described as “like a sea-anenome” and can open and retract or protrude, having aspects of both male and female sex organs. There are different kinds of sex, including sacred sex, reproductive sex, and informal sex, each with its own special term. Since this is a fantasy setting about a hermaphroditic race, sex plays an integral element to the storyline. In addition, there are nine castes of har, which har can ascend through ritualized sex magic. Unlike humanity, har must have a specific kind of sex called aruna or else they will weaken. This new species also possesses magical abilities like psychokinesis and telepathy.
(Don’t fret, the trilogy has a comprehensive glossary.) They spread via a blood-sharing ritual known as inception and reproduce by gestating a leathery egg. hara), but they called themselves Wraeththu. When they first appeared among the human population, they were considered mutants and persecuted. In terms of “being human,” the Wraeththu are not human. Constantine wrote the trilogy only a few short years after William Gibson’s groundbreaking Neuromancer(1984) and readers well aware of David Bowie’s alien androgyne persona of Ziggy Stardust. The trilogy has aspects of both postapocalyptic science fiction and epic fantasy, Constantine blending the two genres and stretching them to new strange ends. The titles reflect the flavor one can expect from this brilliant visionary series: The Enchantments of Flesh and Spirit (1987), The Bewitchments of Love and Hate (1988), and The Fulfillments of Fate and Desire (1989). The three novels tell the story of a hermaphroditic race that overtake humanity in a postapocalyptic future. Wraeththu is the title of a novel trilogy written by Storm Constantine.
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