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* ArtificialAnimalPeople: Shardik creates genetically engineered species resembling anthropomorphized animals and centaur variants to populate Pendor.
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* TheAce: Ken Shardik is an [[OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent ordinary college student]] who becomes the most important person in the history of the universe -- a [[LivingForeverIsAwesome virtually immortal]], [[ReallyGetsAround omnisexual]] heroic polymath who makes a career out of creating entire worlds and species. It's perhaps noteworthy that the ''Journal Entries'' are contemporaneous with ''Fanfic/UndocumentedFeatures'', since the concept of technology enabling young people to become godlike {{Science Hero}}es may reflect the early '90s Zeitgeist of college students [[UsefulNotes/EternalSeptember starting to use the Internet for the first time]].
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* TheAce: Ken Shardik is Starting off as an [[OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent ordinary college student]] who student]], Shardik eventually becomes the most important person in the history of the universe -- a [[LivingForeverIsAwesome virtually immortal]], [[ReallyGetsAround omnisexual]] heroic polymath who makes a career out of creating entire worlds and species. It's perhaps noteworthy that the ''Journal Entries'' are contemporaneous with ''Fanfic/UndocumentedFeatures'', since the concept of technology enabling young people to become godlike {{Science Hero}}es may reflect the early '90s Zeitgeist of college students [[UsefulNotes/EternalSeptember starting to use the Internet for the first time]].
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* TheAce: Ken Shardik is an [[OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent ordinary college student]] who becomes the most important person in the history of the universe -- a [[LivingForeverIsAwesome virtually immortal]], [[ReallyGetsAround omnisexual]] heroic polymath who makes a career out of creating entire worlds and species. It's perhaps noteworthy that the ''Journal Entries'' are contemporaneous with ''Fanfic/UndocumentedFeatures'', since the concept of technology enabling young people to become godlike superheroes may reflect the early '90s Zeitgeist of college students [[UsefulNotes/EternalSeptember starting to use the Internet for the first time]].
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* TheAce: Ken Shardik is an [[OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent ordinary college student]] who becomes the most important person in the history of the universe -- a [[LivingForeverIsAwesome virtually immortal]], [[ReallyGetsAround omnisexual]] heroic polymath who makes a career out of creating entire worlds and species. It's perhaps noteworthy that the ''Journal Entries'' are contemporaneous with ''Fanfic/UndocumentedFeatures'', since the concept of technology enabling young people to become godlike superheroes {{Science Hero}}es may reflect the early '90s Zeitgeist of college students [[UsefulNotes/EternalSeptember starting to use the Internet for the first time]].
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* TheAce: Ken Shardik is an [[OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent ordinary college student]] who becomes the most important person in the history of the universe -- a [[LivingForeverIsAwesome virtually immortal]], [[ReallyGetsAround omnisexual]] heroic polymath who makes a career out of creating entire worlds and species. It's perhaps noteworthy that the ''Journal Entries'' are contemporaneous with ''Fanfic/UndocumentedFeatures'', since the concept of technology enabling young people to become godlike immortals may reflect the early '90s Zeitgeist of college students [[UsefulNotes/EternalSeptember starting to use the Internet for the first time]].
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* TheAce: Ken Shardik is an [[OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent ordinary college student]] who becomes the most important person in the history of the universe -- a [[LivingForeverIsAwesome virtually immortal]], [[ReallyGetsAround omnisexual]] heroic polymath who makes a career out of creating entire worlds and species. It's perhaps noteworthy that the ''Journal Entries'' are contemporaneous with ''Fanfic/UndocumentedFeatures'', since the concept of technology enabling young people to become godlike immortals superheroes may reflect the early '90s Zeitgeist of college students [[UsefulNotes/EternalSeptember starting to use the Internet for the first time]].
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* TheAce: Ken Shardik is an [[OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent ordinary college student]] who becomes the most important person in the history of the universe -- a [[LivingForeverIsAwesome virtually immortal]], [[ReallyGetsAround omnisexual]] heroic polymath who makes a career out of creating entire worlds and species. It's perhaps noteworthy that the ''Journal Entries'' are contemporaneous with ''Fanfic/UndocumentedFeatures'', since the concept of technology enabling young people to become godlike immortals may reflect the early '90s Zeitgeist of college students [[UsefulNotes/EternalSeptember starting to use the Internet for the first time]].
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* AGodAmI: Subverted. Ken Shardik basically creates an entire world and more than ten different races, taking his fantasies and making them reality (albeit the hard way). He also goes off and manages to save a goddess at the same time. Through all of this, plus the fact that he lives at least 37000 years (the last main-series story has him alive at 37555 Pendorian years after initial decant), he does not like to be addressed as any sort of god. "I'm just this guy, you know? No more or less special than any other interstellar traveller. What I did was so long ago the story is better told by others anyway."
** However, "oh my fah" has more or less replaced "oh my god" among Pendorians, and "fah" is short for "father," meaning Ken. Ken himself sometimes says the phrase himself reflexively a few times, but almost always lampshades the self-reference.
** Ken's more-or-less-official title is Vatare Ilio Pendoro, which translates to something like "Father of all Pendor". Given that he literally wrote the gene sequences of all the original members of the species inhabiting Pendor [[ItMakesSenseInContext when it appeared in the universe]], the title is not an idle boast.
** However, "oh my fah" has more or less replaced "oh my god" among Pendorians, and "fah" is short for "father," meaning Ken. Ken himself sometimes says the phrase himself reflexively a few times, but almost always lampshades the self-reference.
** Ken's more-or-less-official title is Vatare Ilio Pendoro, which translates to something like "Father of all Pendor". Given that he literally wrote the gene sequences of all the original members of the species inhabiting Pendor [[ItMakesSenseInContext when it appeared in the universe]], the title is not an idle boast.
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* AGodAmI: Subverted. AGodIAmNot: Ken Shardik basically creates an entire world and more than ten different races, taking his fantasies and making them reality (albeit the hard way). He also goes off and manages to save a goddess at the same time. Through all of this, plus the fact that he lives at least 37000 years (the last main-series story has him alive at 37555 Pendorian years after initial decant), he does not like to be addressed as any sort of god. "I'm just this guy, you know? No more or less special than any other interstellar traveller. What I did was so long ago the story is better told by others anyway."
**" However, "oh my fah" has more or less replaced "oh my god" among Pendorians, and "fah" is short for "father," meaning Ken. Ken himself sometimes says the phrase himself reflexively a few times, but almost always lampshades the self-reference.
** Ken's more-or-less-official title is Vatare Ilio Pendoro, which translates to something like "Father of all Pendor". Given that he literally wrote the gene sequences of all the original members of the species inhabiting Pendor [[ItMakesSenseInContext when it appeared in the universe]], the title is not an idle boast.self-reference.
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** Ken's more-or-less-official title is Vatare Ilio Pendoro, which translates to something like "Father of all Pendor". Given that he literally wrote the gene sequences of all the original members of the species inhabiting Pendor [[ItMakesSenseInContext when it appeared in the universe]], the title is not an idle boast.
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* MakingLoveInAllTheWrongPlaces: Some of the stories seem to have this as their focus.
** Actual rape is treated as a very hard form of RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil. Internal dialog in one story goes so far as to state that rapists need to be reminded of the social strictures against their actions. Fatally.
** Actual rape is treated as a very hard form of RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil. Internal dialog in one story goes so far as to state that rapists need to be reminded of the social strictures against their actions. Fatally.
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* LikeAGodToMe: Ken's more-or-less-official title is Vatare Ilio Pendoro, which translates to something like "Father of all Pendor". Given that he literally wrote the gene sequences of all the original members of the species inhabiting Pendor [[ItMakesSenseInContext when it appeared in the universe]], the title is not an idle boast.
* MakingLoveInAllTheWrongPlaces: Some of the stories seem to have this as theirfocus.
**focus. Actual rape is treated as a very hard form of RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil. Internal dialog in one story goes so far as to state that rapists need to be reminded of the social strictures against their actions. Fatally.
* MakingLoveInAllTheWrongPlaces: Some of the stories seem to have this as their
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* GreenSkinnedSpaceBabe: Completely literal with [[EverythingsBetterWithPrincesses Princess Anlestin]], although Ken tends to think of her as 'cute' more than anything else.
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* GreenSkinnedSpaceBabe: Completely literal with [[EverythingsBetterWithPrincesses Princess Anlestin]], Anlestin, although Ken tends to think of her as 'cute' more than anything else.
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** Character names: M'Ress (''WesternAnimation/StarTrekTheAnimatedSeries''), P'nyssa Traken (''Series/DoctorWho''), Hyzen (''Literature/WatershipDown''), Fezzik (''Literature/ThePrincessBride''), Tails (''VideoGanme/SonicTheHedgehog''), Sasami (''Anime/TenchiMuyo'').
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** Character names: M'Ress (''WesternAnimation/StarTrekTheAnimatedSeries''), P'nyssa Traken (''Series/DoctorWho''), Hyzen (''Literature/WatershipDown''), Fezzik (''Literature/ThePrincessBride''), Tails (''VideoGanme/SonicTheHedgehog''), (''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog''), Sasami (''Anime/TenchiMuyo'').
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"He is '''the''' oldest. What you have here, Tainee, is an ancient relic, an archaeological treasure. If Sasami and Ciit are to be believed, this unassuming mel is the founder of his civilization, the author of the first AIs, the terraformer who built the world that is now their capitol, the genetic engineer who created over a dozen unique interpretations of the mammalian form and let them loose."\\
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"He is '''the''' oldest. What you have here, Tainee, is an ancient relic, an archaeological treasure. If Sasami and Ciit are to be believed, this unassuming mel is the founder of his civilization, the author of the first AIs, [=AIs=], the terraformer who built the world that is now their capitol, the genetic engineer who created over a dozen unique interpretations of the mammalian form and let them loose."\\
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--->-- from [[http://pendorwright.com/journals/37553_227_Petri_Dish.html "Petri Dish"]]
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--->-- from [[http://pendorwright.com/journals/37553_227_Petri_Dish.html "Petri Dish"]]
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* BoldlyComing: Since the entire populace of Pendor would be considered aliens, and they do meet up with Earth eventually, yeah... Just a bit.
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* BoldlyComing: Since the entire populace of Pendor would be considered aliens, and they do meet up with Earth eventually, yeah... Just a bit. Shardik himself gets a (somewhat exaggerated) reputation for creating entire species just so that he can have sex with them, as well as having sex with all of the species he comes into contact with.
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** ''Literature/{{Ringworld}}'': Pendor (and later, [[spoiler:the new colony for the population of Earth]]) is designed in imitation of the Ringworld, but one with a flourishing civilization and the most advanced possible technology. Stepping discs are almost always referred to as [=SDisks=], while the term "rhysh" is derived from ''rishathra''. The name of the Felinzi is based on the Kzinti, but the Uncia more resemble the Kzinti in [[MegaNeko size]] and their ProudWarriorRace ethos (but their coloration resembles snow leopards). Also see WritingAroundTrademarks below.
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** ''Literature/{{Ringworld}}'': Pendor (and later, [[spoiler:the [[spoiler:Unity, the new colony for the population of Earth]]) is designed in imitation of the Ringworld, but one with a flourishing civilization and the most advanced possible technology. Stepping discs are almost always referred to as [=SDisks=], while the term "rhysh" is derived from ''rishathra''. The name of the Felinzi is based on the Kzinti, but the Uncia more resemble the Kzinti in [[MegaNeko size]] and their ProudWarriorRace ethos (but their coloration resembles snow leopards). Also see WritingAroundTrademarks below.
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* StableTimeLoop: Ken Shardik used to be an [[OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent ordinary college student]] when his future self suddenly showed up at his door and gave him Fawn, the hyper-advanced artificial intelligence who taught him the skills to build a Ringworld and master AI programming, FTL travel, genetic engineering and nanotechnology. Since he parts with Fawn when he goes back in time to give her to himself, she came from nowhere and never appears again [[spoiler:until the end of the Universe]].
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* StableTimeLoop: Ken Shardik used to be an [[OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent ordinary college student]] when his future self suddenly showed up at his door and gave him Fawn, the hyper-advanced artificial intelligence who taught him the skills to build a Ringworld and master AI programming, FTL travel, robotics, teleportation, genetic engineering and nanotechnology. Since he parts with Fawn when he goes back in time to give her to himself, she came from nowhere and never appears again [[spoiler:until the end of the Universe]].
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* WritingAroundTrademarks: Sternberg initially asked Creator/LarryNiven for permission to write a Literature/KnownSpace {{fanfic}}. Niven granted it, but got offended when he discovered the story turned out to be about "a sadomasochistic homosexual gangbang" and threatened to sue. Sternberg then reworked the setting to be an homage to ''Literature/{{Ringworld}}'' featuring genetically engineered felinoids who were [[{{Expy}} Expies]] of kzinti.
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* WritingAroundTrademarks: Sternberg initially asked Creator/LarryNiven for permission to write a Literature/KnownSpace {{fanfic}}. Niven granted it, but got offended when he discovered the story turned out to be about [[RuleThirtyFour "a sadomasochistic homosexual gangbang" gangbang"]] and threatened to sue. Sternberg then reworked the setting to be an homage to ''Literature/{{Ringworld}}'' featuring genetically engineered felinoids who were [[{{Expy}} Expies]] of kzinti.
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* IfItsYouItsOkay: Aaden is usually gay, but in "Planetfall: Making Love" he has sex with P'nyssa for the first time.
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* IfItsYouItsOkay: Aaden is usually gay, but in "Planetfall: Making Love" he has sex with P'nyssa for the first time.time in 500 years of knowing each other.
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I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say that we shouldn't link to erotica.
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A set of WebOriginal erotic science fiction stories occurring in the same universe, [[http://pendorwright.com/journals/ ''The Journal Entries of Kennet R'yal Shardik, et. al., and Related Tales'']] follows the experiences of Shardik through several centuries of events. Created by Elf Sternberg, a bisexual UsefulNotes/{{BDSM}} enthusiast and UsefulNotes/{{furry fan|dom}} from UsefulNotes/{{Seattle}}, the first story was published on Website/{{Usenet}} in 1990 and the series been updated in the years since. The series contains multiple story-arcs, including several one-shots, and is not necessarily published in chronological order.
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A set of WebOriginal erotic science fiction stories occurring in the same universe, [[http://pendorwright.com/journals/ ''The Journal Entries of Kennet R'yal Shardik, et. al., and Related Tales'']] Tales'' follows the experiences of Shardik through several centuries of events. Created by Elf Sternberg, a bisexual UsefulNotes/{{BDSM}} enthusiast and UsefulNotes/{{furry fan|dom}} from UsefulNotes/{{Seattle}}, the first story was published on Website/{{Usenet}} in 1990 and the series been updated in the years since. The series contains multiple story-arcs, including several one-shots, and is not necessarily published in chronological order.
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* {{Asexuality}}: Seen most often with the AIs, but some other characters as well.
* BedTrick: Used once to bypass restrictions on the club they're in.
* BedTrick: Used once to bypass restrictions on the club they're in.
* BiggerIsBetterInBed: {{Zigzagged}}. Although Shardik never fails to please his lovers when his penis is, by his own admission, completely average-sized for a human male, he himself enjoys taking remarkably large insertions anally -- huge dildos, huge buttplugs, fists, centaur cocks, dragon cocks, etc.
* BoldlyComing: Since the entire populace of Pendor would be considered aliens, and they do meet up with Earth eventually, yeah... Just a bit.
* BrainsAndBondage: Shardik and many of the other BDSM practitioners in this series are intelligent and erudite.
* CoitusUninterruptus: Seen often at Rhysh, but in other instances as well.
* BoldlyComing: Since the entire populace of Pendor would be considered aliens, and they do meet up with Earth eventually, yeah... Just a bit.
* BrainsAndBondage: Shardik and many of the other BDSM practitioners in this series are intelligent and erudite.
* CoitusUninterruptus: Seen often at Rhysh, but in other instances as well.
* EthicalSlut: As Shardik puts it, "Making love is my favorite way of saying I like you. I don't want something from you, I want to give you something I think you might like."
* EverybodyFornicates: Pendorians do not get married as such, only setting up contracts for raising children.
* EverybodyFornicates: Pendorians do not get married as such, only setting up contracts for raising children.
* ExoticEquipment: Not present with most of the Pendorian races (though the quadrupeds do require some additional maneuvering), but does occur with the Llerkindi.
* FreeLoveFuture: Most of Pendor, though monogamy is not necessarily looked down upon.
* HappilyMarried: Rather a LOT of these, in fact, just according to a different standard.
* {{Hermaphrodite}}s: The Han. {{Justified|Trope}} in that they were deliberately created that way to improve their chances of survival on the rather inhospitable planet their makers had landed on more or less by accident [[spoiler:before the latter died themselves]].
** Subverted by the Sterlings, a human colony founded by radical feminists. They've genetically engineered themselves so that women are still women, but men are replaced by dickgirls.
* HotForStudent: Explored a few times, notably with Tylia.
* IdealizedSex: Subverted. Most of the characters do in fact have conversations about the preparations ([=STDs=] and the like) and the bed conversation typically includes movement considerations.
* {{Hermaphrodite}}s: The Han. {{Justified|Trope}} in that they were deliberately created that way to improve their chances of survival on the rather inhospitable planet their makers had landed on more or less by accident [[spoiler:before the latter died themselves]].
** Subverted by the Sterlings, a human colony founded by radical feminists. They've genetically engineered themselves so that women are still women, but men are replaced by dickgirls.
* HotForStudent: Explored a few times, notably with Tylia.
* IdealizedSex: Subverted. Most of the characters do in fact have conversations about the preparations ([=STDs=] and the like) and the bed conversation typically includes movement considerations.
* IncestIsRelative: As [[Creator/RobertAHeinlein Uncle Bob]] pointed out, you really can't maintain a parent-child relationship over the centuries among effectively ageless beings. In a society where there really are people who treat sex as a greeting...
* MakingLoveInAllTheWrongPlaces: Some of the stories seem to have this as their focus.
** Actual rape is treated as a very hard form of RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil. Internal dialog in one story goes so far as to state that rapists need to be reminded of the social strictures against their actions. Fatally.
** Actual rape is treated as a very hard form of RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil. Internal dialog in one story goes so far as to state that rapists need to be reminded of the social strictures against their actions. Fatally.
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* SexTropes: Just about all of them, including:
** {{Asexuality}}: Seen most often with the AIs, but some other characters as well.
** BedTrick: Used once to bypass restrictions on the club they're in.
** BiggerIsBetterInBed: {{Zigzagged}}. Although Shardik never fails to please his lovers when his penis is, by his own admission, completely average-sized for a human male, he himself enjoys taking remarkably large insertions anally -- huge dildos, huge buttplugs, fists, centaur cocks, dragon cocks, etc.
** BoldlyComing: Since the entire populace of Pendor would be considered aliens, and they do meet up with Earth eventually, yeah... Just a bit.
** BrainsAndBondage: Shardik and many of the other BDSM practitioners in this series are intelligent and erudite.
** CoitusUninterruptus: Seen often at Rhysh, but in other instances as well.
** ADateWithRosiePalms.
** EthicalSlut: As Shardik puts it, "Making love is my favorite way of saying I like you. I don't want something from you, I want to give you something I think you might like."
** EverybodyFornicates: Pendorians do not get married as such, only setting up contracts for raising children.
** ExoticEquipment: Not present with most of the Pendorian races (though the quadrupeds do require some additional maneuvering), but does occur with the Llerkindi.
** {{Fetish}}: A couple... hundred...
** FreeLoveFuture: Most of Pendor, though monogamy is not necessarily looked down upon.
** HappilyMarried: Rather a LOT of these, in fact, just according to a different standard.
** {{Hermaphrodite}}s: The Han. {{Justified|Trope}} in that they were deliberately created that way to improve their chances of survival on the rather inhospitable planet their makers had landed on more or less by accident [[spoiler:before the latter died themselves]].
*** Subverted by the Sterlings, a human colony founded by radical feminists. They've genetically engineered themselves so that women are still women, but men are replaced by dickgirls.
** HotForStudent: Explored a few times, notably with Tylia.
** IdealizedSex: Subverted. Most of the characters do in fact have conversations about the preparations ([=STDs=] and the like) and the bed conversation typically includes movement considerations.
** IKissYourFoot.
** IncestIsRelative: As [[Creator/RobertAHeinlein Uncle Bob]] pointed out, you really can't maintain a parent-child relationship over the centuries among effectively ageless beings. In a society where there really are people who treat sex as a greeting...
** InterspeciesRomance: Uh, duh?
** TheLoinsSleepTonight.
** {{Lust}}.
** MakingLoveInAllTheWrongPlaces: Some of the stories seem to have this as their focus.
*** Actual rape is treated as a very hard form of RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil. Internal dialog in one story goes so far as to state that rapists need to be reminded of the social strictures against their actions. Fatally.
** SafeSaneAndConsensual: UsefulNotes/{{BDSM}} is almost always presented this way, and its participants scrupulously adhere to the use of safewords.
** ZeroGSpot: Used a lot (not all the time due to artificial gravity) during space travel.
** {{Asexuality}}: Seen most often with the AIs, but some other characters as well.
** BedTrick: Used once to bypass restrictions on the club they're in.
** BiggerIsBetterInBed: {{Zigzagged}}. Although Shardik never fails to please his lovers when his penis is, by his own admission, completely average-sized for a human male, he himself enjoys taking remarkably large insertions anally -- huge dildos, huge buttplugs, fists, centaur cocks, dragon cocks, etc.
** BoldlyComing: Since the entire populace of Pendor would be considered aliens, and they do meet up with Earth eventually, yeah... Just a bit.
** BrainsAndBondage: Shardik and many of the other BDSM practitioners in this series are intelligent and erudite.
** CoitusUninterruptus: Seen often at Rhysh, but in other instances as well.
** ADateWithRosiePalms.
** EthicalSlut: As Shardik puts it, "Making love is my favorite way of saying I like you. I don't want something from you, I want to give you something I think you might like."
** EverybodyFornicates: Pendorians do not get married as such, only setting up contracts for raising children.
** ExoticEquipment: Not present with most of the Pendorian races (though the quadrupeds do require some additional maneuvering), but does occur with the Llerkindi.
** {{Fetish}}: A couple... hundred...
** FreeLoveFuture: Most of Pendor, though monogamy is not necessarily looked down upon.
** HappilyMarried: Rather a LOT of these, in fact, just according to a different standard.
** {{Hermaphrodite}}s: The Han. {{Justified|Trope}} in that they were deliberately created that way to improve their chances of survival on the rather inhospitable planet their makers had landed on more or less by accident [[spoiler:before the latter died themselves]].
*** Subverted by the Sterlings, a human colony founded by radical feminists. They've genetically engineered themselves so that women are still women, but men are replaced by dickgirls.
** HotForStudent: Explored a few times, notably with Tylia.
** IdealizedSex: Subverted. Most of the characters do in fact have conversations about the preparations ([=STDs=] and the like) and the bed conversation typically includes movement considerations.
** IKissYourFoot.
** IncestIsRelative: As [[Creator/RobertAHeinlein Uncle Bob]] pointed out, you really can't maintain a parent-child relationship over the centuries among effectively ageless beings. In a society where there really are people who treat sex as a greeting...
** InterspeciesRomance: Uh, duh?
** TheLoinsSleepTonight.
** {{Lust}}.
** MakingLoveInAllTheWrongPlaces: Some of the stories seem to have this as their focus.
*** Actual rape is treated as a very hard form of RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil. Internal dialog in one story goes so far as to state that rapists need to be reminded of the social strictures against their actions. Fatally.
** SafeSaneAndConsensual: UsefulNotes/{{BDSM}} is almost always presented this way, and its participants scrupulously adhere to the use of safewords.
** ZeroGSpot: Used a lot (not all the time due to artificial gravity) during space travel.
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* SexTropes: Just about all of them, including:
** {{Asexuality}}: Seen most often with the AIs, but some other characters as well.
** BedTrick: Used once to bypass restrictions on the club they're in.
** BiggerIsBetterInBed: {{Zigzagged}}. Although Shardik never fails to please his lovers when his penis is, by his own admission, completely average-sized for a human male, he himself enjoys taking remarkably large insertions anally -- huge dildos, huge buttplugs, fists, centaur cocks, dragon cocks, etc.
** BoldlyComing: Since the entire populace of Pendor would be considered aliens, and they do meet up with Earth eventually, yeah... Just a bit.
** BrainsAndBondage: Shardik and many of the other BDSM practitioners in this series are intelligent and erudite.
** CoitusUninterruptus: Seen often at Rhysh, but in other instances as well.
** ADateWithRosiePalms.
** EthicalSlut: As Shardik puts it, "Making love is my favorite way of saying I like you. I don't want something from you, I want to give you something I think you might like."
** EverybodyFornicates: Pendorians do not get married as such, only setting up contracts for raising children.
** ExoticEquipment: Not present with most of the Pendorian races (though the quadrupeds do require some additional maneuvering), but does occur with the Llerkindi.
** {{Fetish}}: A couple... hundred...
** FreeLoveFuture: Most of Pendor, though monogamy is not necessarily looked down upon.
** HappilyMarried: Rather a LOT of these, in fact, just according to a different standard.
** {{Hermaphrodite}}s: The Han. {{Justified|Trope}} in that they were deliberately created that way to improve their chances of survival on the rather inhospitable planet their makers had landed on more or less by accident [[spoiler:before the latter died themselves]].
*** Subverted by the Sterlings, a human colony founded by radical feminists. They've genetically engineered themselves so that women are still women, but men are replaced by dickgirls.
** HotForStudent: Explored a few times, notably with Tylia.
** IdealizedSex: Subverted. Most of the characters do in fact have conversations about the preparations ([=STDs=] and the like) and the bed conversation typically includes movement considerations.
** IKissYourFoot.
** IncestIsRelative: As [[Creator/RobertAHeinlein Uncle Bob]] pointed out, you really can't maintain a parent-child relationship over the centuries among effectively ageless beings. In a society where there really are people who treat sex as a greeting...
** InterspeciesRomance: Uh, duh?
** TheLoinsSleepTonight.
** {{Lust}}.
** MakingLoveInAllTheWrongPlaces: Some of the stories seem to have this as their focus.
*** Actual rape is treated as a very hard form of RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil. Internal dialog in one story goes so far as to state that rapists need to be reminded of the social strictures against their actions. Fatally.
**SafeSaneAndConsensual: UsefulNotes/{{BDSM}} is almost always presented this way, and its participants scrupulously adhere to the use of safewords.
** ZeroGSpot: Used a lot (not all the time due to artificial gravity) during space travel.safewords.
** {{Asexuality}}: Seen most often with the AIs, but some other characters as well.
** BedTrick: Used once to bypass restrictions on the club they're in.
** BiggerIsBetterInBed: {{Zigzagged}}. Although Shardik never fails to please his lovers when his penis is, by his own admission, completely average-sized for a human male, he himself enjoys taking remarkably large insertions anally -- huge dildos, huge buttplugs, fists, centaur cocks, dragon cocks, etc.
** BoldlyComing: Since the entire populace of Pendor would be considered aliens, and they do meet up with Earth eventually, yeah... Just a bit.
** BrainsAndBondage: Shardik and many of the other BDSM practitioners in this series are intelligent and erudite.
** CoitusUninterruptus: Seen often at Rhysh, but in other instances as well.
** ADateWithRosiePalms.
** EthicalSlut: As Shardik puts it, "Making love is my favorite way of saying I like you. I don't want something from you, I want to give you something I think you might like."
** EverybodyFornicates: Pendorians do not get married as such, only setting up contracts for raising children.
** ExoticEquipment: Not present with most of the Pendorian races (though the quadrupeds do require some additional maneuvering), but does occur with the Llerkindi.
** {{Fetish}}: A couple... hundred...
** FreeLoveFuture: Most of Pendor, though monogamy is not necessarily looked down upon.
** HappilyMarried: Rather a LOT of these, in fact, just according to a different standard.
** {{Hermaphrodite}}s: The Han. {{Justified|Trope}} in that they were deliberately created that way to improve their chances of survival on the rather inhospitable planet their makers had landed on more or less by accident [[spoiler:before the latter died themselves]].
*** Subverted by the Sterlings, a human colony founded by radical feminists. They've genetically engineered themselves so that women are still women, but men are replaced by dickgirls.
** HotForStudent: Explored a few times, notably with Tylia.
** IdealizedSex: Subverted. Most of the characters do in fact have conversations about the preparations ([=STDs=] and the like) and the bed conversation typically includes movement considerations.
** IKissYourFoot.
** IncestIsRelative: As [[Creator/RobertAHeinlein Uncle Bob]] pointed out, you really can't maintain a parent-child relationship over the centuries among effectively ageless beings. In a society where there really are people who treat sex as a greeting...
** InterspeciesRomance: Uh, duh?
** TheLoinsSleepTonight.
** {{Lust}}.
** MakingLoveInAllTheWrongPlaces: Some of the stories seem to have this as their focus.
*** Actual rape is treated as a very hard form of RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil. Internal dialog in one story goes so far as to state that rapists need to be reminded of the social strictures against their actions. Fatally.
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** ZeroGSpot: Used a lot (not all the time due to artificial gravity) during space travel.
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** RapeIsLove: Subverted, to an extent. Used when [[spoiler: Kennet]] returns from being MIA for several years.
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A set of WebOriginal erotic science fiction stories occurring in the same universe, [[http://pendorwright.com/journals/ ''The Journal Entries of Kennet R'yal Shardik, et. al., and Related Tales'']] follows the experiences of Shardik through several centuries of events. Created by Elf Sternberg, a bisexual UsefulNotes/{{BDSM}} enthusiast and UsefulNotes/{{furry fan|dom}} from UsefulNotes/{{Seattle}}, the first story was published on {{Usenet}} Website/{{Usenet}} in 1990 and the series been updated in the years since. The series contains multiple story-arcs, including several one-shots, and is not necessarily published in chronological order.
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** ''Literature/{{Dune}}'': The term "tleil" for vat-grown clones is derived from the Tleilaxu. There are references to Gurney Halleck as an author of books on the art of assassination.
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** ''Literature/{{Dune}}'': ''Franchise/{{Dune}}'': The term "tleil" for vat-grown clones is derived from the Tleilaxu. There are references to Gurney Halleck as an author of books on the art of assassination.
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* FreakyFridayFlip: In the story "Switch", Ken and P'nyssa use cross-connected [[Film/{{Brainstorm}} Brace-Reynolds biocybe interfaces]] to have sex with while controlling and receiving sensory input from each others' bodies.
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* FreakyFridayFlip: In the story "Switch", Ken and P'nyssa use cross-connected [[Film/{{Brainstorm}} Brace-Reynolds biocybe interfaces]] to have sex with while controlling and receiving sensory input from each others' bodies.
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* IfItsYouItsOkay: Aaden is usually gay, but in "Planetfall: Making Love" he has sex with P'nyssa for the first time.
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** Character names: M'Ress (''WesternAnimation/StarTrekTheAnimatedSeries''), P'nyssa Traken (''Series/DoctorWho''), Fezzik (''Literature/ThePrincessBride''), Sasami (''Anime/TenchiMuyo'').
* StableTimeLoop: Ken Shardik used to be an [[OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent ordinary college student]] when his future self suddenly showed up at his door and gave him Fawn, the hyper-advanced artificial intelligence that allowed him to build a Ringworld and master AI programming, FTL travel, genetic engineering and nanotechnology. Since he parts with Fawn when he goes back in time to give her to himself, she came from nowhere and never appears again [[spoiler:until the end of the Universe]].
* StableTimeLoop: Ken Shardik used to be an [[OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent ordinary college student]] when his future self suddenly showed up at his door and gave him Fawn, the hyper-advanced artificial intelligence that allowed him to build a Ringworld and master AI programming, FTL travel, genetic engineering and nanotechnology. Since he parts with Fawn when he goes back in time to give her to himself, she came from nowhere and never appears again [[spoiler:until the end of the Universe]].
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** Character names: M'Ress (''WesternAnimation/StarTrekTheAnimatedSeries''), P'nyssa Traken (''Series/DoctorWho''), Hyzen (''Literature/WatershipDown''), Fezzik (''Literature/ThePrincessBride''), Tails (''VideoGanme/SonicTheHedgehog''), Sasami (''Anime/TenchiMuyo'').
* StableTimeLoop: Ken Shardik used to be an [[OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent ordinary college student]] when his future self suddenly showed up at his door and gave him Fawn, the hyper-advanced artificial intelligencethat allowed who taught him the skills to build a Ringworld and master AI programming, FTL travel, genetic engineering and nanotechnology. Since he parts with Fawn when he goes back in time to give her to himself, she came from nowhere and never appears again [[spoiler:until the end of the Universe]].Universe]].
* TriangRelations: Ken is in a stable, non-exclusive polyamorous relationship with P'nyssa and Aaden that has endured for over 35,000 years.
* StableTimeLoop: Ken Shardik used to be an [[OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent ordinary college student]] when his future self suddenly showed up at his door and gave him Fawn, the hyper-advanced artificial intelligence
* TriangRelations: Ken is in a stable, non-exclusive polyamorous relationship with P'nyssa and Aaden that has endured for over 35,000 years.
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** EthicalSlut: As Shardik puts it, "Making love is my favorite way of saying I like you. I don't want something from you, I want to give you something I think you might like."
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** ''Literature/{{Ringworld}}'': Pendor (and later, [[spoiler:the new colony for the population of Earth]]) is designed in imitation of the Ringworld, but one with a flourishing civilization and the most advanced possible technology. Stepping discs are almost always referred to as [=SDisks=], while the term "rhysh" is derived from ''rishathra''. The name of the Felinzi is based on the Kzinti, but the Uncia more resemble the Kzinti in [[MegaNeko size]] and their ProudWarriorRace ethos (but their coloration resembles snow leopards). Also see WritingAroundTrademarks below
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** ''Literature/{{Ringworld}}'': Pendor (and later, [[spoiler:the new colony for the population of Earth]]) is designed in imitation of the Ringworld, but one with a flourishing civilization and the most advanced possible technology. Stepping discs are almost always referred to as [=SDisks=], while the term "rhysh" is derived from ''rishathra''. The name of the Felinzi is based on the Kzinti, but the Uncia more resemble the Kzinti in [[MegaNeko size]] and their ProudWarriorRace ethos (but their coloration resembles snow leopards). Also see WritingAroundTrademarks belowbelow.
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** "Petri Dish" is an homage to Literature/TheCulture. Ciit is even about to explain that "culture" is one of the definitions of the alien word "Petri", but Ken interrupts her.
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** ''Literature/{{Ringworld}}'': Pendor (and later, [[spoiler:the new colony for the population of Earth]]) is designed in imitation of the Ringworld, but one with a flourishing civilization and the most advanced possible technology. Stepping discs are almost always referred to as [=SDisks=]. The name of the Felinzi is based on the Kzinti, but the Uncia more resemble the Kzinti in [[MegaNeko size]] and their ProudWarriorRace ethos. Also see WritingAroundTrademarks below
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** ''Literature/{{Ringworld}}'': Pendor (and later, [[spoiler:the new colony for the population of Earth]]) is designed in imitation of the Ringworld, but one with a flourishing civilization and the most advanced possible technology. Stepping discs are almost always referred to as [=SDisks=]. [=SDisks=], while the term "rhysh" is derived from ''rishathra''. The name of the Felinzi is based on the Kzinti, but the Uncia more resemble the Kzinti in [[MegaNeko size]] and their ProudWarriorRace ethos.ethos (but their coloration resembles snow leopards). Also see WritingAroundTrademarks below
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* FreakyFridayFlipFreakyFridayFlip: In the story "Switch", Ken and P'nyssa use cross-connected [[Film/{{Brainstorm}} Brace-Reynolds biocybe interfaces]] to have sex with while controlling and receiving sensory input from each others' bodies.
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** HotForStudent: Explored a few times.
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** MemeticSexGod: InUniverse, Shardik gets a reputation for creating new species solely to have sex with them.
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* ShoutOut: To ''Literature/{{Ringworld}}'', ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'', ''WesternAnimation/StarTrekTheAnimatedSeries'', the Literature/{{Uplift}} series, ''Film/{{Brainstorm}}'', ''Manga/{{Appleseed}}'', ''ComicBook/IronMan'' and Literature/TheCulture, among others.
* StableTimeLoop: Ken Shardik used to be an [[OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent ordinary college student]] when his future self suddenly showed up at his door and gave him Dawn, the hyper-advanced artificial intelligence that allowed him to build a Ringworld and master AI programming, FTL travel, genetic engineering and nanotechnology. Since he parts with Dawn when he goes back in time to give her to himself, she came from nowhere and never appears again [[spoiler:until the end of the Universe]].
* StableTimeLoop: Ken Shardik used to be an [[OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent ordinary college student]] when his future self suddenly showed up at his door and gave him Dawn, the hyper-advanced artificial intelligence that allowed him to build a Ringworld and master AI programming, FTL travel, genetic engineering and nanotechnology. Since he parts with Dawn when he goes back in time to give her to himself, she came from nowhere and never appears again [[spoiler:until the end of the Universe]].
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* ShoutOut: To ''Literature/{{Ringworld}}'', ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'', ''WesternAnimation/StarTrekTheAnimatedSeries'', Among others --
** Ken Shardik's surname comes from the eponymous bear god in Richard Adams' ''Literature/{{Shardik}}''.
** ''Literature/{{Ringworld}}'': Pendor (and later, [[spoiler:the new colony for the population of Earth]]) is designed in imitation of the Ringworld, but one with a flourishing civilization and the most advanced possible technology. Stepping discs are almost always referred to as [=SDisks=]. The name of the Felinzi is based on the Kzinti, but the Uncia more resemble the Kzinti in [[MegaNeko size]] and their ProudWarriorRace ethos. Also see WritingAroundTrademarks below
** ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'': Pendor's official language is based on Quenya.
** ''Literature/{{Dune}}'': The term "tleil", and references to Gurney Halleck as an author of books on the art of assassination.
** The Literature/{{Uplift}}series, ''Film/{{Brainstorm}}'', ''Manga/{{Appleseed}}'', ''ComicBook/IronMan'' series: The terms "mel" and Literature/TheCulture, among others.
"fem" for male and female, and "Anglic" as the future descendant of English.
** ''Film/{{Brainstorm}}'': The "Brace-Reynolds biocybe interface" is the headset and laser tape recording system invented in this film.
** ''Manga/{{Appleseed}}'': Shirow powered armor suits are Landmates.
** ''ComicBook/IronMan'': Stark powered armor is the 1960s concept of the Iron Man suit, a skintight nanotech-based metal mesh.
** "Petri Dish" is an homage to Literature/TheCulture. Ciit is even about to explain that "culture" is one of the definitions of the alien word "Petri", but Ken interrupts her.
** Character names: M'Ress (''WesternAnimation/StarTrekTheAnimatedSeries''), P'nyssa Traken (''Series/DoctorWho''), Fezzik (''Literature/ThePrincessBride''), Sasami (''Anime/TenchiMuyo'').
* StableTimeLoop: Ken Shardik used to be an [[OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent ordinary college student]] when his future self suddenly showed up at his door and gave himDawn, Fawn, the hyper-advanced artificial intelligence that allowed him to build a Ringworld and master AI programming, FTL travel, genetic engineering and nanotechnology. Since he parts with Dawn Fawn when he goes back in time to give her to himself, she came from nowhere and never appears again [[spoiler:until the end of the Universe]].
** Ken Shardik's surname comes from the eponymous bear god in Richard Adams' ''Literature/{{Shardik}}''.
** ''Literature/{{Ringworld}}'': Pendor (and later, [[spoiler:the new colony for the population of Earth]]) is designed in imitation of the Ringworld, but one with a flourishing civilization and the most advanced possible technology. Stepping discs are almost always referred to as [=SDisks=]. The name of the Felinzi is based on the Kzinti, but the Uncia more resemble the Kzinti in [[MegaNeko size]] and their ProudWarriorRace ethos. Also see WritingAroundTrademarks below
** ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'': Pendor's official language is based on Quenya.
** ''Literature/{{Dune}}'': The term "tleil", and references to Gurney Halleck as an author of books on the art of assassination.
** The Literature/{{Uplift}}
** ''Film/{{Brainstorm}}'': The "Brace-Reynolds biocybe interface" is the headset and laser tape recording system invented in this film.
** ''Manga/{{Appleseed}}'': Shirow powered armor suits are Landmates.
** ''ComicBook/IronMan'': Stark powered armor is the 1960s concept of the Iron Man suit, a skintight nanotech-based metal mesh.
** "Petri Dish" is an homage to Literature/TheCulture. Ciit is even about to explain that "culture" is one of the definitions of the alien word "Petri", but Ken interrupts her.
** Character names: M'Ress (''WesternAnimation/StarTrekTheAnimatedSeries''), P'nyssa Traken (''Series/DoctorWho''), Fezzik (''Literature/ThePrincessBride''), Sasami (''Anime/TenchiMuyo'').
* StableTimeLoop: Ken Shardik used to be an [[OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent ordinary college student]] when his future self suddenly showed up at his door and gave him
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* ShoutOut: To ''Literature/{{Ringworld}}'', ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'', ''WesternAnimation/StarTrekTheAnimatedSeries'', the Literature/{{Uplift}} series, ''Film/{{Brainstorm}}'', ''Manga/{{Appleseed}}'' ''Manga/{{Appleseed}}'', ''ComicBook/IronMan'' and ''ComicBook/IronMan'', Literature/TheCulture, among others.
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* WritingAroundTrademarks: Sternberg initially asked Creator/LarryNiven for permission to write a Literature/KnownSpace {{fanfic}}. Niven granted it, but then got offended when he discovered the story turned out to be about "a sadomasochistic homosexual gangbang" and threatened to sue. Sternberg then reworked the setting to be an homage to ''Literature/{{Ringworld}}'' featuring genetically engineered felinoids who were [[{{Expy}} Expies]] of kzinti.
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** BrainsAndBondage: Shardik and many of the other BDSM practitioners in this series are intelligent and erudite.
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* ShoutOut: To ''Literature/{{Ringworld}}'', ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'', ''WesternAnimation/StarTrekTheAnimatedSeries'', ''Film/{{Brainstorm}}'', ''Manga/{{Appleseed}}'' and ''ComicBook/IronMan'', among others.
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* ShoutOut: To ''Literature/{{Ringworld}}'', ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'', ''WesternAnimation/StarTrekTheAnimatedSeries'', the Literature/{{Uplift}} series, ''Film/{{Brainstorm}}'', ''Manga/{{Appleseed}}'' and ''ComicBook/IronMan'', among others.
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"He did say he was among the oldest of all his species."\\
"He is '''the''' oldest. What you have here, Tainee, is an ancient relic, an archaeological treasure. If Sasami and Ciit are to be believed, this unassuming mel is the founder of his civilization, the author of the first AIs, the terraformer who built the world that is now their capitol, the genetic engineer who created over a dozen unique interpretations of the mammalian form and let them loose."\\
Tainee was staring at me. "Is that true?"\\
"More or less. He neglects to tell you that I was the sole recipient of the last gift left behind by a transcendent species that, I feel, was having a great joke at my expense."''
"He did say he was among the oldest of all his species."\\
"He is '''the''' oldest. What you have here, Tainee, is an ancient relic, an archaeological treasure. If Sasami and Ciit are to be believed, this unassuming mel is the founder of his civilization, the author of the first AIs, the terraformer who built the world that is now their capitol, the genetic engineer who created over a dozen unique interpretations of the mammalian form and let them loose."\\
Tainee was staring at me. "Is that true?"\\
"More or less. He neglects to tell you that I was the sole recipient of the last gift left behind by a transcendent species that, I feel, was having a great joke at my expense."''
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** BiggerIsBetterInBed: {{Zigzagged}}. Although Shardik never fails to please his lovers when his penis is, by his own admission, completely average-sized for a human male, he himself enjoys taking remarkably large insertions anally -- huge dildos, huge buttplugs, fists, centaur cocks, dragon cocks, etc.
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* ShoutOut: To ''Literature/{{Ringworld}}'', ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'', ''WesternAnimation/StarTrekTheAnimatedSeries'', ''Film/{{Brainstorm}}'', ''Manga/{{Appleseed}}'' and ''ComicBook/IronMan'', among others.
* StableTimeLoop: Ken Shardik used to be an [[OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent ordinary college student]] when his future self suddenly showed up at his door and gave him Dawn, the hyper-advanced artificial intelligence that allowed him to build a Ringworld and master AI programming, FTL travel, genetic engineering and nanotechnology. Since he parts with Dawn when he goes back in time to give her to himself, she came from nowhere and never appears again [[spoiler:until the end of the Universe]].
* WritingAroundTrademarks: Sternberg initially asked Creator/LarryNiven for permission to write a Literature/KnownSpace {{fanfic}}. Niven granted it, but then got offended when he discovered the story turned out to be about "a sadomasochistic homosexual gangbang" and threatened to sue. Sternberg then reworked the setting to be an homage to ''Literature/{{Ringworld}}'' featuring genetically engineered felinoids who were [[{{Expy}} Expies]] of kzinti.
* StableTimeLoop: Ken Shardik used to be an [[OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent ordinary college student]] when his future self suddenly showed up at his door and gave him Dawn, the hyper-advanced artificial intelligence that allowed him to build a Ringworld and master AI programming, FTL travel, genetic engineering and nanotechnology. Since he parts with Dawn when he goes back in time to give her to himself, she came from nowhere and never appears again [[spoiler:until the end of the Universe]].
* WritingAroundTrademarks: Sternberg initially asked Creator/LarryNiven for permission to write a Literature/KnownSpace {{fanfic}}. Niven granted it, but then got offended when he discovered the story turned out to be about "a sadomasochistic homosexual gangbang" and threatened to sue. Sternberg then reworked the setting to be an homage to ''Literature/{{Ringworld}}'' featuring genetically engineered felinoids who were [[{{Expy}} Expies]] of kzinti.
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A set of WebOriginal erotic science fiction stories occurring in the same universe, [[http://pendorwright.com/journals/ ''The Journal Entries of Kennet R'yal Shardik, et. al., and Related Tales'']] follows the experiences of Shardik through several centuries of events. Created by Elf Sternberg, a bisexual UsefulNotes/{{BDSM}} enthusiast and {{furry UsefulNotes/{{furry fan|dom}} from Seattle, UsefulNotes/{{Seattle}}, the first story was published on {{Usenet}} in 1990 and the series been updated in the years since. The series contains multiple story-arcs, including several one-shots, and is not necessarily published in chronological order.
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-->'' "Are you aware of how unique your friend is?"\\
"He did say he was among the oldest of all his species."\\
"He is '''the''' oldest. What you have here, Tainee, is an ancient relic, an archaeological treasure. If Sasami and Ciit are to be believed, this unassuming mel is the founder of his civilization, the author of the first AIs, the terraformer who built the world that is now their capitol, the genetic engineer who created over a dozen unique interpretations of the mammalian form and let them loose."\\
Tainee was staring at me. "Is that true?"\\
"More or less. He neglects to tell you that I was the sole recipient of the last gift left behind by a transcendent species that, I feel, was having a great joke at my expense."''
--->-- from [[http://pendorwright.com/journals/37553_227_Petri_Dish.html "Petri Dish"]]
A set of WebOriginal erotic science fiction stories occurring in the same universe, [[http://pendorwright.com/journals/ ''The Journal Entries of Kennet R'yal Shardik, et. al., and Related Tales'']] follows the experiences of Shardik through several centuries of events. Created by Elf Sternberg, a bisexual UsefulNotes/{{BDSM}} enthusiast and {{furry fan|dom}} from Seattle, the first story was published on {{Usenet}} in 1990 and the series been updated in the years since. The series contains multiple story-arcs, including several one-shots, and is not necessarily published in chronological order.
Individual stories run the gamut from G- to X-rated, though almost all stories contain a plot of some form.
This page is a work in progress and has not been completed yet.
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!!Provides Examples Of:
* AGodAmI: Subverted. Ken Shardik basically creates an entire world and more than ten different races, taking his fantasies and making them reality (albeit the hard way). He also goes off and manages to save a goddess at the same time. Through all of this, plus the fact that he lives at least 37000 years (the last main-series story has him alive at 37555 Pendorian years after initial decant), he does not like to be addressed as any sort of god. "I'm just this guy, you know? No more or less special than any other interstellar traveller. What I did was so long ago the story is better told by others anyway."
** However, "oh my fah" has more or less replaced "oh my god" among Pendorians, and "fah" is short for "father," meaning Ken. Ken himself sometimes says the phrase himself reflexively a few times, but almost always lampshades the self-reference.
** Ken's more-or-less-official title is Vatare Ilio Pendoro, which translates to something like "Father of all Pendor". Given that he literally wrote the gene sequences of all the original members of the species inhabiting Pendor [[ItMakesSenseInContext when it appeared in the universe]], the title is not an idle boast.
* AIIsACrapshoot: Averted and played straight, in different places and different times.
** Averted with Pendorian AIs, all of whom are crafted carefully by highly trained, well intentioned beings who know what they're doing and how to do it.
** Played straight with other AIs, particularly those created accidentally. Some are quite nice and wouldn't harm anyone (such as nice young male and female robots with quite illegal hardware upgrades that turned them from convincing sex toys into conscious beings), and some are not (a nameless AI that sends out robotic assassins).
** Played with in a few cases, such as the combat android that had her anti-sentience features defeated, and developed an aversion to killing (until the ship she and her friends were operating was attacked by pirates).
* AnyoneCanDie: Sort of. The last episode details [[spoiler:the end of the universe with all but two (secondary) characters dead.]]
* AppliedPhlebotinum: AI Fawn, gravitics, ringworld, really too many to list.
** Ken occasionally wonders about how he uses all this technology (such as teleporters for water hoses and temporal stasis fields as food preservation hardware) but decides it's OK to use technology however you want to.
* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: Pendorians can come across this way to members of other cultures. Privacy and consent are pretty much the top considerations for Pendorians, and violations of each are considered to be on a moral par. Consequently, entering someone's home without permission can be responded to with a hail of gunfire. One story involves an AI that waited several decades after it became concerned for the safety of a person living in the area it monitored (in a home it did not monitor) until someone called about her whom it judged the occupant would not kill if he forced entrance to check on her and it turned out she was fine.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Pendorians are, on the whole, kind, generous, loyal, smart, creative, and will dedicate themselves to hunting you to the ends of the universe if you try to harm them in any way.
* BigBrotherIsWatching: The quasi-omnipresent Pendorian AIs are depicted as a ''positive'' example of this -- they're a fully accepted and valuable part of Pendorian society and there's nothing visibly sinister about them, but their surveillance is nonetheless pretty much complete on Pendor and its starships or embassies.
* DiedInYourArmsTonight: [[spoiler: Donna]].
* DrivenToSuicide: Dodged a few times, first by [[spoiler: P'nyssa]], especially since suicide is taken very seriously in the universe.
* EveryoneIsBi: Not always, but much more prevalent than the present.
* FreakyFriday.
* GreenSkinnedSpaceBabe: Completely literal with [[EverythingsBetterWithPrincesses Princess Anlestin]], although Ken tends to think of her as 'cute' more than anything else.
* {{Immortality}}: HealingFactor through nanotech and other technology, ResurrectiveImmortality through the use of Brace.
* ItsPersonal: Against the entire human race, for a time, due to [[spoiler: Donna being shot and killed by human dissenters]].
* OutWithABang: Played completely straight in one episode.
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: Ken, at least twice:
** After the second time an assassin tried to kill Ken for buying Earth (and Ken wrongly thought he had killed a close friend), Ken activates the Shaa nanotech supersoldier prototype suite had been carrying for several centuries (and never bothered to get removed or upgraded to a production version). He kills the assassin by grinding his head into his neck, crushing the top of his spine.
** During the Sinox attack on Llerkin, Ken goes personally to try and rescue the Royal Family. He finds a Sinox capture team at the palace, apparently intent on the same targets. They're wearing environment suits. He's wearing power armor. Ken finds the experience traumatic. Ultimately, the Rampage may not be limited to just Ken. Later references to the Sinox are always in the past tense.
* SexTropes: Just about all of them, including:
** {{Asexuality}}: Seen most often with the AIs, but some other characters as well.
** BedTrick: Used once to bypass restrictions on the club they're in.
** BoldlyComing: Since the entire populace of Pendor would be considered aliens, and they do meet up with Earth eventually, yeah... Just a bit.
** CoitusUninterruptus: Seen often at Rhysh, but in other instances as well.
** ADateWithRosiePalms.
** EverybodyFornicates: Pendorians do not get married as such, only setting up contracts for raising children.
** ExoticEquipment: Not present with most of the Pendorian races (though the quadrupeds do require some additional maneuvering), but does occur with the Llerkindi.
** {{Fetish}}: A couple... hundred...
** FreeLoveFuture: Most of Pendor, though monogamy is not necessarily looked down upon.
** HappilyMarried: Rather a LOT of these, in fact, just according to a different standard.
** {{Hermaphrodite}}s: The Han. {{Justified|Trope}} in that they were deliberately created that way to improve their chances of survival on the rather inhospitable planet their makers had landed on more or less by accident [[spoiler:before the latter died themselves]].
*** Subverted by the Sterlings, a human colony founded by radical feminists. They've genetically engineered themselves so that women are still women, but men are replaced by dickgirls.
** HotForStudent: Explored a few times.
** IdealizedSex: Subverted. Most of the characters do in fact have conversations about the preparations ([=STDs=] and the like) and the bed conversation typically includes movement considerations.
** IKissYourFoot.
** IncestIsRelative: As [[Creator/RobertAHeinlein Uncle Bob]] pointed out, you really can't maintain a parent-child relationship over the centuries among effectively ageless beings. In a society where there really are people who treat sex as a greeting...
** InterspeciesRomance: Uh, duh?
** TheLoinsSleepTonight.
** {{Lust}}.
** MakingLoveInAllTheWrongPlaces: Some of the stories seem to have this as their focus.
** RapeIsLove: Subverted, to an extent. Used when [[spoiler: Kennet]] returns from being MIA for several years.
*** Actual rape is treated as a very hard form of RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil. Internal dialog in one story goes so far as to state that rapists need to be reminded of the social strictures against their actions. Fatally.
** ZeroGSpot: Used a lot (not all the time due to artificial gravity) during space travel.
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"He did say he was among the oldest of all his species."\\
"He is '''the''' oldest. What you have here, Tainee, is an ancient relic, an archaeological treasure. If Sasami and Ciit are to be believed, this unassuming mel is the founder of his civilization, the author of the first AIs, the terraformer who built the world that is now their capitol, the genetic engineer who created over a dozen unique interpretations of the mammalian form and let them loose."\\
Tainee was staring at me. "Is that true?"\\
"More or less. He neglects to tell you that I was the sole recipient of the last gift left behind by a transcendent species that, I feel, was having a great joke at my expense."''
--->-- from [[http://pendorwright.com/journals/37553_227_Petri_Dish.html "Petri Dish"]]
A set of WebOriginal erotic science fiction stories occurring in the same universe, [[http://pendorwright.com/journals/ ''The Journal Entries of Kennet R'yal Shardik, et. al., and Related Tales'']] follows the experiences of Shardik through several centuries of events. Created by Elf Sternberg, a bisexual UsefulNotes/{{BDSM}} enthusiast and {{furry fan|dom}} from Seattle, the first story was published on {{Usenet}} in 1990 and the series been updated in the years since. The series contains multiple story-arcs, including several one-shots, and is not necessarily published in chronological order.
Individual stories run the gamut from G- to X-rated, though almost all stories contain a plot of some form.
This page is a work in progress and has not been completed yet.
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!!Provides Examples Of:
* AGodAmI: Subverted. Ken Shardik basically creates an entire world and more than ten different races, taking his fantasies and making them reality (albeit the hard way). He also goes off and manages to save a goddess at the same time. Through all of this, plus the fact that he lives at least 37000 years (the last main-series story has him alive at 37555 Pendorian years after initial decant), he does not like to be addressed as any sort of god. "I'm just this guy, you know? No more or less special than any other interstellar traveller. What I did was so long ago the story is better told by others anyway."
** However, "oh my fah" has more or less replaced "oh my god" among Pendorians, and "fah" is short for "father," meaning Ken. Ken himself sometimes says the phrase himself reflexively a few times, but almost always lampshades the self-reference.
** Ken's more-or-less-official title is Vatare Ilio Pendoro, which translates to something like "Father of all Pendor". Given that he literally wrote the gene sequences of all the original members of the species inhabiting Pendor [[ItMakesSenseInContext when it appeared in the universe]], the title is not an idle boast.
* AIIsACrapshoot: Averted and played straight, in different places and different times.
** Averted with Pendorian AIs, all of whom are crafted carefully by highly trained, well intentioned beings who know what they're doing and how to do it.
** Played straight with other AIs, particularly those created accidentally. Some are quite nice and wouldn't harm anyone (such as nice young male and female robots with quite illegal hardware upgrades that turned them from convincing sex toys into conscious beings), and some are not (a nameless AI that sends out robotic assassins).
** Played with in a few cases, such as the combat android that had her anti-sentience features defeated, and developed an aversion to killing (until the ship she and her friends were operating was attacked by pirates).
* AnyoneCanDie: Sort of. The last episode details [[spoiler:the end of the universe with all but two (secondary) characters dead.]]
* AppliedPhlebotinum: AI Fawn, gravitics, ringworld, really too many to list.
** Ken occasionally wonders about how he uses all this technology (such as teleporters for water hoses and temporal stasis fields as food preservation hardware) but decides it's OK to use technology however you want to.
* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: Pendorians can come across this way to members of other cultures. Privacy and consent are pretty much the top considerations for Pendorians, and violations of each are considered to be on a moral par. Consequently, entering someone's home without permission can be responded to with a hail of gunfire. One story involves an AI that waited several decades after it became concerned for the safety of a person living in the area it monitored (in a home it did not monitor) until someone called about her whom it judged the occupant would not kill if he forced entrance to check on her and it turned out she was fine.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Pendorians are, on the whole, kind, generous, loyal, smart, creative, and will dedicate themselves to hunting you to the ends of the universe if you try to harm them in any way.
* BigBrotherIsWatching: The quasi-omnipresent Pendorian AIs are depicted as a ''positive'' example of this -- they're a fully accepted and valuable part of Pendorian society and there's nothing visibly sinister about them, but their surveillance is nonetheless pretty much complete on Pendor and its starships or embassies.
* DiedInYourArmsTonight: [[spoiler: Donna]].
* DrivenToSuicide: Dodged a few times, first by [[spoiler: P'nyssa]], especially since suicide is taken very seriously in the universe.
* EveryoneIsBi: Not always, but much more prevalent than the present.
* FreakyFriday.
* GreenSkinnedSpaceBabe: Completely literal with [[EverythingsBetterWithPrincesses Princess Anlestin]], although Ken tends to think of her as 'cute' more than anything else.
* {{Immortality}}: HealingFactor through nanotech and other technology, ResurrectiveImmortality through the use of Brace.
* ItsPersonal: Against the entire human race, for a time, due to [[spoiler: Donna being shot and killed by human dissenters]].
* OutWithABang: Played completely straight in one episode.
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: Ken, at least twice:
** After the second time an assassin tried to kill Ken for buying Earth (and Ken wrongly thought he had killed a close friend), Ken activates the Shaa nanotech supersoldier prototype suite had been carrying for several centuries (and never bothered to get removed or upgraded to a production version). He kills the assassin by grinding his head into his neck, crushing the top of his spine.
** During the Sinox attack on Llerkin, Ken goes personally to try and rescue the Royal Family. He finds a Sinox capture team at the palace, apparently intent on the same targets. They're wearing environment suits. He's wearing power armor. Ken finds the experience traumatic. Ultimately, the Rampage may not be limited to just Ken. Later references to the Sinox are always in the past tense.
* SexTropes: Just about all of them, including:
** {{Asexuality}}: Seen most often with the AIs, but some other characters as well.
** BedTrick: Used once to bypass restrictions on the club they're in.
** BoldlyComing: Since the entire populace of Pendor would be considered aliens, and they do meet up with Earth eventually, yeah... Just a bit.
** CoitusUninterruptus: Seen often at Rhysh, but in other instances as well.
** ADateWithRosiePalms.
** EverybodyFornicates: Pendorians do not get married as such, only setting up contracts for raising children.
** ExoticEquipment: Not present with most of the Pendorian races (though the quadrupeds do require some additional maneuvering), but does occur with the Llerkindi.
** {{Fetish}}: A couple... hundred...
** FreeLoveFuture: Most of Pendor, though monogamy is not necessarily looked down upon.
** HappilyMarried: Rather a LOT of these, in fact, just according to a different standard.
** {{Hermaphrodite}}s: The Han. {{Justified|Trope}} in that they were deliberately created that way to improve their chances of survival on the rather inhospitable planet their makers had landed on more or less by accident [[spoiler:before the latter died themselves]].
*** Subverted by the Sterlings, a human colony founded by radical feminists. They've genetically engineered themselves so that women are still women, but men are replaced by dickgirls.
** HotForStudent: Explored a few times.
** IdealizedSex: Subverted. Most of the characters do in fact have conversations about the preparations ([=STDs=] and the like) and the bed conversation typically includes movement considerations.
** IKissYourFoot.
** IncestIsRelative: As [[Creator/RobertAHeinlein Uncle Bob]] pointed out, you really can't maintain a parent-child relationship over the centuries among effectively ageless beings. In a society where there really are people who treat sex as a greeting...
** InterspeciesRomance: Uh, duh?
** TheLoinsSleepTonight.
** {{Lust}}.
** MakingLoveInAllTheWrongPlaces: Some of the stories seem to have this as their focus.
** RapeIsLove: Subverted, to an extent. Used when [[spoiler: Kennet]] returns from being MIA for several years.
*** Actual rape is treated as a very hard form of RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil. Internal dialog in one story goes so far as to state that rapists need to be reminded of the social strictures against their actions. Fatally.
** ZeroGSpot: Used a lot (not all the time due to artificial gravity) during space travel.
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