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From: celeste801@aol.com (Celeste801)
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Subject: Celestial Reviews 103 - July 27 (1/2)
Date: 27 Jul 1996 11:43:27 -0400
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Celestial Reviews 103 - July 27, 1996 (1/2)
Note: I get literally hundreds of requests from people I don't know who
want me to send them copies of stories or at least to tell them where they
can find the stories I review. I don't have time to respond to these
messages individually.
All the stories that I review are found on alt.sex.stories. They are
almost always posted within a few days of the time when my reviews appear.
Many authors are kind enough to repost their stories after I review them.
Furthermore, I post monthly and annual lists of Top Stories, and authors
whose stories make these lists often repost their stories.
In addition, many authors have Web Sites at which their stories can be
found. Here is a list of web sites that I know about.
Mark Aster has set up a Web site with all the Allens stories:
http://users.aol.com/myfrthal/
There is a Web site for Deirdre stories. If someone sends me the address,
I'll post it.
Robot Fetish stories are posted at:
http://users.aol.com/robotdoll/asfr.html
Some hot femdom stories can be found at
http://www.webcom.com/~akasha/
Elf Sternberg stories are posted at: http://www.halcyon.com/elf/index.html
Sisters Ng stories are posted at:
http://members.aol.com/deidreng/index.htm
Tooshoes, the author of the Supergirl stories, has a site at
http://www.netcom.com/~tooshoes/PenPartners.html
Cindy archives her own stories and some others at
http://members.aol.com/cyntil8ing
A good set of TG stories by several authors is found at
http://satchmo.physik.TU-Berlin.DE/~zirzlaff/nienor/pub/Stories/Nostrumos_
Book/
Warthog stories are posted at: http://www.connect.net/linetwo/stories.html
Estragon's stories are posted at:
ftp://unix.tpe.com/pub/estragon
The Wulf stories (and apparently some others) are archived at:
http://www.teleport.com/~marawuti.
Mary Anne Mohanraj posts her own stories at
http://mud.bsd.uchicago.edu.
The following web page contains my reviews of the Top 100 Stories of 1995
along with the stories themselves:
http://proffa.cc.tut.fi/~k113973/
If any of these are no longer current or if there are others I should add,
please contact me. I am interested only in free, non-commercial sites.
However, I'll also plug the following organization; although they charge
for membership, they GIVE stories away to non-members. (I suppose they
hope you'll eventually join.)
The BackDrop Club offers a service of helping people who are looking for
a specific file, story, or a chapter or section of a story. If you are an
adult and know the name of the file you wish to receive, send a request
using the following format:
TO: file.archives@backdrop.com
SUBJECT: (the name of the file you wish as a single word)
I HAVE used this service myself, and it is my opinion that it is NOT a
rip-off. If you need more information, contact robin@backdrop.com. The
BackDrop Club also has a Web Page at http://www.fantasies.com.
Another interesting service is the "Diana Rhodes Efficient Amazon Mail
Story-server," DREAMS for short. This service archives and will
automatically mail to you upon request several of my Top 100 Stories of
last year plus many other stories. To get help, send for the document
help01 by sending a message to na644546@anon.penet.fi. The subject of
that email should be "Request story".The content of the email should be:
X-Story-code: help01
X-address: youraddress@server.com
X-Declaration: I am over 18 years old
Second Note: Another source of stories might be the reposts that often
appear in flurries on a.s.s. If you use my reviews as a basic list, you
may be able to find many of the stories in these reposts. Currently THC
is reposting a huge archive of stories, which are of uneven quality and
several of which I have reviewed in recent weeks. EBS is also reposting
stories, mostly of poor to medium quality and with bdsm themes. Somebody
else is reposting stories labeled "TG Repost"; and these are almost always
of high quality - but they invariably have transgender plots that might
not appeal to everyone.
An unnamed reposter is currently reposting 71 stories, which usually
appear in sets of about 20 stories, with "Repost:" beginning each title
line. The advantage here is that the reposter is posting only what he/she
considers to be "good" stories; and so if your opinion of good coincides
with his/her opinion (and mine often does), you may find a large number of
good stories. Ironically, although the author says, "I did not write
these stories; the credit should go to the authors," the names of all the
authors have been systematically omitted. I hate this omission of
authorship, not only for reasons I have previously stated but also because
it makes it impossible for a reader to verify that a story is really the
one I am looking for. For example, one repost was labeled "Brandi," but
it is not the story to which I gave a positive rating in CR 102 - although
it does appear to be a pretty good story in its own right. Likewise, the
author claims that the stories "should be complete"; but I noted that
"Bird Watchers" - an excellent story - is far from complete. However,
even though it is not the whole story, the segment of "Bird Watchers" that
is reposted does contain a whole episode from the original story, and so
it is likely to be enjoyable to readers who are unaware that they are
missing a lot more. {Please do not write to me asking to send you the
"missing parts." I won't do it; and I won't respond to the request. My
time and generosity are finite.} My advice is (1) that readers might like
to check out this person's reposts and (2) that this person should post
the authors' names with their stories, if he/she really wants the credit
to "go to the authors."
Third Note: At school I have access to the Deja News search engine. I
have found that I can locate and download almost any recent story by
simply typing its title or (usually more simply) the author's e-mail name
(e.g., Celeste801) into the search box. If you are able to access this
service, you should be able to get this issue's "Trinity Trilogy" stories
(for example), by seraching for "Trinity Trilogy stbush." I imagine you
could get "Caitlin's Tale" by simply searching for Caitlin, since that is
an unsual name. I do not get a commission from Deja News for telling you
this; and I suggest that you be careful not to leave traces (as in
Netscape's GO or BOOKMARK menus) that will accidentally give children
access to these stories.
- Celeste