http://www.qz.to/erotica/assm/Year98/7903.txt (Review)
http://www.qz.to/erotica/assm/Year98/8063.txt (Top 20)

Celestial Reviews 253 - January 28, 1998

"Starlight" by SandMan (sandman@bitsmart.com).  Steve Whiley is a private dick
- a detective, that is.  Crystal Dawn (about whom a country western song
should be written, if there isn't one already) is a netstar who needs
protection from a stalker. Steve gets the gig.  My husband says I am sexy when
I use technical terms.

Crystal is a beautiful dame.  She has the nicest set of teeth the author has
come across in a long time.  The author didn't say that, but maybe he will in
another story.  It's something Sergeant Friday would have said, had he been
allowed to say what was really on his mind.  I think Magnum P.I. actually DID
say it once, but maybe that's something I just made up.

The story is set in the future, at a time when soaps are virtual reality on
the Internet instead of the simple fare we have on TV now and when earthquakes
could be predicted so accurately that Californians time their lovemaking to
take advantage of the movement of the earth.  Hemingway would love that.
Ernest - not the blonde Hemingway.  Anyway, they do sex about the same way we
do it now, except that they occasionally line up their beds to point to the
epicenter.  Imagine that.

This is not so much a sex story as a very good detective story with sex in it.
I liked it a lot.

The most novel spellcheck mistake award goes to this author's accidental use
of "prescient" instead of "precinct" - unless P.I stands for Pussy Inspector,
in which case prescience would be more useful than a precinct.  At least I
think so.  Sometimes the gang down at the precinct think they are prescient,
but they probably just make a good guess now and then about whether she's
wearing panties or not.

Also, "uno momento" is a tiny amount of time in Spanish.  A "memento" is a
sort of souvenir.  Look for the word "memory" in the root.  I am a cunning
linguist - a sort of a word dick.  That's my job.  Mark VII.

Ratings for "Starlight"
Athena (technical quality): 10
Venus (plot & character): 10
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 10

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1. "Forget All That" by Uther Pendragon

http://x9.dejanews.com/getdoc.xp?AN=312070547&CONTEXT=886366408.2030436496&hit
num=17

2. "A Child's Christmas" by Mat Twassel
     http://www.qz.to/erotica/assm/Year98/6930.txt
3. "Mind Games" by Uther Pendragon
     http://x9.dejanews.com/getdoc.xp?AN=314530255
4. "Power and the Word" by Taria
     http://www.qz.to/erotica/assm/Year98/7309.txt
     http://www.qz.to/erotica/assm/Year98/7341.txt
5. "The Call of Desire" by DG
     http://www.qz.to/erotica/assm/Year98/7340.txt
6. "Jealousy" by Friar Dave
      http://x9.dejanews.com/getdoc.xp?AN=312565754
      http://x9.dejanews.com/getdoc.xp?AN=312561539
7. "Pause that Refreshes" by OddManOut Anywhere
      http://www.qz.to/erotica/assm/Year98/7327.txt (1/2) 
      http://www.qz.to/erotica/assm/Year98/7328.txt (2/2)
8. "Doubts and Uncertainties" by Kim
     http://www.qz.to/erotica/assm/Year98/6921.txt
9. "Please Watch the Closing Doors" by Taria
     http://www.qz.to/erotica/assm/Year98/7687.txt
10. "Starlight" by SandMan
     http://www.qz.to/erotica/assm/Year98/7617.txt
11. "Somewhere on the Circle of Life" by Tooshoes
     http://www.qz.to/erotica/assm/Year98/7549.txt
12. "Flowers" by Vickie Tern
     http://www.qz.to/erotica/assm/Year97/6495.txt
13. "Blossoms" by Malinov
     http://www.qz.to/erotica/assm/Year98/6974.txt
14. "LeAnn Rimes - A Bodyguard's Tale" by El Diablo
      http://www.qz.to/erotica/assm/Year98/7870.txt
15. "A Christmas Triple" by Kim
     http://www.qz.to/erotica/assm/Year97/6761.txt
16. "Coming in Last" by Sven the Elder
     http://www.qz.to/erotica/assm/Year98/7118.txt
17. "Sorrows End" by Sandman
     http://www.qz.to/erotica/assm/Year98/7188.txt
18. "The Bandit" by Mike Metlay
     http://www.qz.to/erotica/assm/Year98/7017.txt
19. "Burning Letters" by Lord Malinov
     http://www.qz.to/erotica/assm/Year98/7300.txt
20. "Pentaprism (Chapters 1-3)" by Mary Jorsay Gandmar
     http://www.qz.to/erotica/assm/Year98/7396.txt
     http://www.qz.to/erotica/assm/Year98/7395.txt
     http://www.qz.to/erotica/assm/Year98/7397.txt