Message-ID: <6915eli$9803131535@qz.little-neck.ny.us> From: Lady Cyrrh <LadyCyrrh@aol.com> Subject: The Annex Reviews, 3/12/98 Newsgroups: alt.sex.stories.d,alt.sex.stories.moderated,alt.sex.stories Followup-To: alt.sex.stories.d Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Path: qz!not-for-mail Organization: The Committee To Thwart Spam Approved: <usenet-approval@qz.little-neck.ny.us> X-Moderator-Contact: Eli the Bearded <story-admin@qz.little-neck.ny.us> X-Story-Submission: <story-submit@qz.little-neck.ny.us> X-Original-Message-ID: <34864ad4.3508dd7f@aol.com> X-Is-Review: yes I am still trying catch up (pant pant). If I haven't reviewed your story, be patient. To fill up space before the reviews begin, and in case any of you have tuned in late, these are the newsgroups I cull my reviews from: alt.sex.stories (ASS) alt.sex.stories.moderated (ASSM) alt.sex.stories.gay (ASSG) alt.sex.stories.gay.moderated <ASSGM) alt.sex.stories.bondage (ASSB) soc.sexuality.spanking (SSS) soc.subculture.bondage-bdsm (SSBB) alt.startrek.creative.erotica.moderated (ASCEM) The stories: Bronze Lust, Chapters 1, 2, 3, 4 by Pulp Fan (M/F, F/F, superhero) Duty, by Uther Pendragon (M/F, nc, rape) Hypno Celeb 32: Drew Barrymore, by MAW (M/F, mc, celeb) Fuck Decency 348: Dungeon of Desire, by Andrew Roller (sex e-zine) Seven Sins, by David Blackstone (F/F Star Trek, mild BDSM) Bronze Lust [A-] When posted: 2/98 Where posted: ASS, ASSM Author: Pulp Fan Address: anon584c@nyx.net Doc Savage, a pulp hero of the 1930s, can be considered the direct ancestor of today's comic book superheroes. He has a physique like Superman, the gadget-filled hideouts of Batman, and the faithful companions of the X-men, who all have animal companions like...Tarzan! Take all this, and combine it with the adventures of Indiana Jones, and you'll get a good idea of how fun the pulp magazines were fifty years ago. This story, however, focuses on knockout Pat Savage, Doc's cousin, who is a neo-Aryan female version of himself, and the story veered off into superheroine territory. Pat is a rabid sex maniac, happily fucking Doc's sidekicks, her employee in the beauty salon she runs as a cover, and herself (in a shower) and it's pretty clear the writer is enthralled with her powerful athleticism and sexual skills the same way Batgirl story writers are enthralled with Batgirl. The story eventually gets going as Pat witnesses a kidnapping and chases after the criminals first in a car, then a helicopter. She tracks them to their hideout and lands in a fight, but is overpowered and captured by the bad guys. (In the course of all this she also acquires a really cute pussy, and there's a cute post-coital winsomeness there as well. ) The story was less of pulp homage than I thought it would be--the 1930s stage dressing was very slim--but on the other hand, there was a lot of sex. This ultimately hurt the story rather than helped it, for it took a long time for the plot to get rolling as we ooze from one long encounter to another. For a long piece of fiction, like a novelette, it's better to space the sexual encounters and keep them short to give equal time to the plot, as 50,000 words of nothing but sex can get tedious very quickly. There's only so many ways to do it. But overall the writing was excellent and the characters interesting (though I suspect they'd appeal more to men). If you like old-fashioned pulp adventures or superheroine stories, you'll like this. Duty [A+] When posted: 3/2/98 Where posted: ASS Author: Uther Pendragon Address: anon584c@nyx.net This story was more of a story about sex and sexual situations rather than a sex story--that is, a story engineered primarily to get you horny. Short, but a real gem. It starts off as the narrator and his troops invade a rebel village in an unnamed South American country. They take advantage of the women, and the narrator commandeers one young peasant girl to be his "sweetheart," the word a nice touch that lets us know we're dealing with another culture. After all, an American would just say "whore." The soldiers occupy the village and the officer uses his teenage sweetheart every night with neither regret or brutality, but with a detached, yet somehow touching, practicalness. Until the day the troops have to withdrawal. The ending is a real shocker, worthy of the finest short fiction out there. Hypno Celeb 32: Drew Barrymore [B+] When posted: 3/6/98 Where posted: ASS, ASSM Author: MAW Address: MS4EVER321@aol.com This story was #32 in a series featuring sex with hypnotized female celebrities, most of whom I've never heard of because I read People magazine only at the dentist. The author apparently got his or her information about female celebrities from People magazine, too, for the celebrities act exactly the way we expect them to. Drew Barrymore is out of rehab, but still parties and drives recklessly; that earns her a ticket from a policeman who hypnotizes her. Later, he comes back to her apartment and screws her using a post-hypnotic suggestion. Like many mc stories, the non-consensuality of the situation gets more emphasis than the sex act itself. I couldn't help wondering why this author switched from writing amusing TV-based mc fantasies to write these ones, which are considerably less amusing and interesting, and show a certain lack of imagination as well. But then, I'm not too interested in celebrities, or Drew Barrymore (or for that matter ET the extra-terrestrial) though someone who likes either would probably like this. Fuck Decency 348: Dungeon of Desire [A] When posted: 3/6/98 Where posted: ASS, ASSM Author: Andrew Roller Address: roller666@earthlink.net I like Andrew Roller. He upholds American ideals close to my heart: free speech and the exposure of hypocrisy. He's also been putting out his sex e-zine (email magazine) for over a year now, ever since I've been reading the alt.sex hierarchy, and each "issue" delivers his opinions on a variety of subjects and includes a snippet of sex story and a review of some kind--usually the latest girlie mags or videos--which are, intentionally or not, hilarious. The effect is of a never-empty cornucopia of porn, a world's fair of sex. And every other week a new issue appears in your electronic mailbox. "Naughty Naked Dreamgirls" doesn't really do the serials justice, for they're a lot more intelligent than they sound. Still porn, though, in a charming, old-fashioned way...young men and women getting together to explore their sexual desires without the rituals of romance or coercion getting in the way, in the background settings of the rich and famous...exotic locales, mansions, beaches. They often include mild D/S and B/D. Oddly enough, all the narrators I've seen have been female, and Andy is a man. Maybe he's envious of the female capacity for unlimited sex? Anyway, ignore the sensationalistic titles and give the Dreamgirls a try. Not deep, but it hits the right spot. Seven Sins [A] When posted: 3/6/98 Where posted: ASCEM Author: David Blackstone Address: David_Blackstone@prodigy.net Website: http://pages.prodigy.net/david_blackstone/home.htm I've long said that slash fiction is a viable alternative to conventional sex stories, and this story proves me out, providing us with not only a hot lesbian threesome, but a bit of BDSM as well. It also proves slash writing appeals to both genders, but in a curious way: the author of this F/F story is male, as almost all the authors of M/M pairings are female. The story is set in the Star Trek: Voyager world and concerns Captain Janeway, B'elanna Torres, and 7 of 9--in slash shorthand, J/T/7. The story follows the plot structure of the TV show pretty closely in that there's a major thread and a minor one: for the major, 7 of 9 is beginning to experience erotic urges in her human body and utilizes the holodeck to explore her feelings, while the minor concerns a special dinner the established lovers Janeway and Torres share. The two threads coincide when 7 of 9 bursts into their room worked up over a lesbian dungeon program, pulls open her doubleknit jumpsuit, and announces: "I have been a very bad girl. I should be spanked." Guess what follows. Fun to read, faithful to the show, and adhering to the high literary standards of slash fandom. Comments to: ladycyrrh@aol.com Website---> http://members.aol.com/ladycyrrh -- +--------------' Story submission `-+-' Moderator contact `------------+ | story-submit@qz.little-neck.ny.us | story-admin@qz.little-neck.ny.us |