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From: Lady Cyrrh <LadyCyrrh@aol.com>
Subject: The Annex Reviews, 3/12/98
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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.

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