Career
He is also the author of many erotic stories and articles on sexuality and sexual practices, and is considered one of the most notable and prolific online erotica authors. Its speculation about homosexual and BDSM practices among Larry Niven’s Kzinti got Sternberg a cease-and-desist letter from Niven’s lawyers in an incident that to date remains notorious within the San Francisco fandom community. Elf Sternberg claims the story is covered under parody protections.
Larry Niven maintains that the story is a violation of copyright, but has not pursued further legal action.
Larry Niven commented directly on this issue in a Slashdot interview. Sternberg is also the creator of The Journal Entries of Kennet R’yal Shardik, a long-running series of short erotica featuring a massive body of work covering the fictional ringworld (The wright Projects), and the wide variety of humans, humanoid species, robots, and artificial intelligences that inhabit lieutenant
Is a fictional ringworld from the wright stories written by Elf Sternberg. lieutenant rotates around a center star Pin, its day-night cycle simulated by a ring of shadow blocks rotating between and Pin, creating 292 day/night cycles per earth year.
The system also includes a planet called Pandora, its moon Pindam and a space station called Parma.
In one of the earliest Journal Entries, Kennet Shardik travels back in time to give an earlier version of himself his Artificial Intelligence, named Fawn Destiniere. The earlier Shardik, after consultation with Fawn, decided to create They created it in a "pocket universe", where it developed while Shardik was in suspended animation. When it was ready to support life, Shardik, Fawn, and other AIs developed new species to live there, including Centaurs, Dragons, Felinzi, and Tindals.
Immediately before the first Centaur was decanted, Shardik delivered Fawn to himself and, on his return, dumped all of the databanks, so that the inhabitants, both siliconand carbon-based, would have to explore and learn about it on their own.
93 ian years later, the pocket universe was opened up and moved into our universe. As is explored, a network of SDisks is built, facilitating transportation around the world.
At the end of the universe, Fawn maintains a base on Pindam through to the singularity, and then causes a second Big Bang, speaking the words, "Let there be."
, and the races originating from collectively known as "ians", are the subject of many of Sternberg"s "Journal Entries", which form one of the oldest and certainly one of the largest erotic science fiction story collections ever created within a single universe.
