An isolated colony has tried an interesting experiment in gender, but now faces the daunting task of integrating with the rest of the interstellar community. The women of the Sterling Free Worlds face challenges of who they are, what they are, and how they shall love when they are confronted with the wider and wilder universe beyond their own star. Sterlings is the first paperback novel from Elf Sternberg's long-running and popular Journal Entries space opera series.