The Sex Slaves of Borlunth

In 3818ad. the stargate has only recently opened to the planet Kassidor and people from other planets can now reach this huge and ancient world. Dorrick’s new field assignment is to take a scientist to a distant city on this primitive planet to study the ancient sex slavers of the Borlunth basin. They are of special interest because they seem so uncharacteristic of the peaceful and pastoral world of Kassidor. Only one eccentric professor had studied that culture in depth, and written three graphic texts about it so that today the name Borlunth is a worldwide metaphor for sexual excess.

This expedition should be much easier than Dorrick’s previous assignments on Earth because the planet is peaceful. A modification to human nature called the Instinct prevents people from using force or violence on each other. Unfortunately he never worried about the wildlife, the Goblins, the Orcs, the tribesmen or the automated weapons brought by a rival expedition. But most of all, he never worried about the vast distances on a planet without modern transportation.

TongSu is distressed when her shipping contract for a genetics instrument company is terminated. Her lighter-than-air motile plant is set up for hauling cargo, not passengers but there is less and less demand for air cargo work these days. There is some work for smaller balloons, and possible passenger work in distant basins. The Kassikan uses floaters, but she doesn’t want to sell hers to them. When she is down there looking for work she finds a very different opportunity, one that will change her life for decades.

The professor, thru a newly-arrived assistant, finds that there are two expeditions bound their way. Both expeditions claim they are bound for Borlunth for study, but they both have hidden agendas that include returning artifacts for black market sales, and both have contraband that the professor is informed of. The professor has no intention of selling any artifacts and depends on the Instinct for protection, but the Instinct works only on the human mind and not on the circuitry of automated weapons.

This volume contains the first three episodes of the Dorrick and TongSu series, all concerning Dorrick's first assignment on the planet Kassidor. The story features the different aspects of sexuality in Kassidorian societies, how they differ from the human norm and how those differences affect the lives of the people. In here we see that the wizard’s modifications to human nature are not always complete and can have many unintended consequences.

Because this concerns human sexuality, there is a fair amount of sex and sexuality in the story. It is not erotica because there is plenty of other adventure also. The youngest character in the story is sixty three Earth years of age.