The semi-autobiographical novel written by Jake Sisko, begun aboard Deep Space 9 under the influence of an alien muse and shown as his celebrated debut in an alternate future.
Anslem is the book that establishes Jake Sisko as a writer. It is first mentioned in the Deep Space Nine episode The Visitor, where in a future that is later undone it has won him acclaim before he abandons writing to search for his lost father.
The Muse shows its beginnings. Jake meets a woman named Onaya, who encourages him to write by hand and stimulates his creativity to a feverish pitch, drawing off his neural energy as he works. He produces much of a first draft before his father intervenes.
Although Onaya nearly killed him, Jake keeps the pages he wrote and resolves to finish the novel by his own efforts.