Pendor

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Pendor is a fictional ringworld from the Pendorwright stories written by Elf Sternberg. It rotates around a center star Pin, its day-night cycle simulated by a ring of shadow blocks rotating between Pendor and Pin. The system also includes moons called Pindam and Pandora.

Ken Shardik decided to create Pendor after he (from later in the time stream) gave himself an Artificial Intelligence named Fawn.

It was created 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. 93 Pendorian years after the first Centaurs were decanted, the pocket universe was opened up and Pendor moved into our universe.

Pendor, and the races originating from Pendor collectively known as "Pendorians", are the subject of many of Elf'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.