Newsgroups: alt.sex.stories.moderated,alt.sex.stories,alt.sex.stories.d Followup-To: alt.sex.stories.d Organization: The Committee To Thwart Spam Approved: X-Moderator-Contact: Eli the Bearded X-Story-Submission: From: celeste801@aol.com (Celeste801) Subject: Celestial Reviews 158 - Feb 15 X-Is-Review: yes Moderator's Note ------ Sorry for the delay in getting this stuff out. I am working on a robomoderator to put in place for days I am not around, but it doesn't work well yet. ------ end note Celestial Reviews 158 - February 15, 1997 Note: Happy Valentine's Day! As I mention in one of these reviews, I started out deliberately looking for at least one weak story - maybe a new author who would break my string of perfect 10s. But after five in a row, I said to myself, "What the heck! We'll proclaim this to be a Valentine's Day Special and bombard the readers with nothing but Perfect 10 Erotic Stories in this issue. Your personal taste may cause you to dislike one or another of these stories, but in my opinion they're all excellent. Happy Valentine's Day!" - Celeste "Testing the Device" by Tom Bombadil (virtual sex) 10, 10, 10 "Excerpt: Virtual Reality" by Tom Bombadil (virtual sex) 10, 10, 10 "Mercedes" by Morgan Preece (slut training) 10, 10, 10 "A Tale of New Eden: Tomiko" by Voltaire (hedonistic happiness in the harem) 10, 10, 10 "Valentine's Surprise" by Dulcinea (romance) 10, 10, 10 "Second Hand Rose" by Vickie Tern (surrealistic romantic revenge) 10, 10, 10 "Testing the Device" by Tom Bombadil (stbush@iglou.com). This story is an interesting mixture of the erotic and the technological. In a surrealistic atmosphere several people are participating in a scripted sexual encounter that involves simulated or vicarious interactions with other people. These virtual encounters are perceived as real, and the pleasures experienced by the individuals are real. This story gives an interesting insight into how technology could someday influence sexual behavior. A problem with the story is that while I was reading it I often found it to be difficult to ascertain who was doing what to whom. After I finished the story and checked back over the previous text, I managed to make complete sense out of everything and to verify that the author had been consistent. In spite of my difficulty, I found this to be a complex but most enjoyable reading experience. Ratings for "Testing the Device" Athena (technical quality): 10 Venus (plot & character): 10 Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 10 "Excerpt: Virtual Reality" by Tom Bombadil (stbush@iglou.com). This is an excerpt from a work in progress. The author wants input. Nevertheless, this segment itself is a good story, and it deserves to be reviewed here. John has invented one of the biggest breakthroughs in medical science: His computer reads the nervous sensations traveling up a person's spine to the brain, and produces a signal that counteracts them. Such a device could provide the ideal surgical anesthesia -- without drugs! It could eliminate chronic pain forever! Not bad, you might say, but there's more. If the device can read nervous sensations, it can record them. And if it can cancel them, maybe it can produce them. John needs help (a) acquiring the sensations and (b) testing his machinery. In the name of science, the narrator agrees to help. Very soon, we make interesting discoveries. Not only can the device record a blowjob; but by reversing polarities or something it can also let the person who gave the blowjob experience that same activity. And when you attach the machine to two people simultaneously.... Well, you read the story and find out. This story offers the potential for an interesting combination of science fiction, transgender self-discovery, and just plain hot sex. For my part, I think this story has great potential! Ratings for "Excerpt: Virtual Reality" Athena (technical quality): 10 Venus (plot & character): 10 Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 10 "Mercedes" by Morgan Preece (zanna@whoever.com). The narrator is a gigolo, I suppose; he hangs onto his piece of life by latching onto older women, who like him for his good looks and the sex he is able to throw their way. As he says, " Sex is all in the mind anyway and I approached each woman as an intellectual puzzle subject to physical manipulation, like one of those multicolored cubes. But things begin to change one day when he tries to seduce a rich woman who drives a Mercedes. He finds himself trapped, enslaved; and he undergoes experiences that had never even occurred to him before. I usually don't like sex-slavery stories or those that involve piercing and diapers; but I did enjoy this story. It's hard to explain. I recommend you check it out for yourself. Ratings for "Mercedes" Athena (technical quality): 10 Venus (plot & character): 10 Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 10 "A Tale of New Eden: Tomiko" by Voltaire (france@france.net). As I explained in a an issue of CR in early January, I felt the beginning of a new year would be a good time to re-align or re-calibrate my rating system. I didn't want to become excessively harsh, but too many stories were getting straight 10s. Since I try to select stories that sound interesting, I'm not surprised that I get a lot of high ratings; but I have been pleased in recent weeks to note a nice sprinkling of 8s and 7s in my ratings - and even lower numbers for weaker stories. So when I hit two straight 10s to start this issue, I figured I'd read a couple of sex slavery stories: they're usually pretty inane, I figured, and one of them should snap my streak. No way! Mercedes was excellent, and so is this one. I guess I had better look for an incestuous wife-swapping story! Tomiko is a young woman who is a member of a Utopian harem. Her only goal is to serve her master, who is apparently an insatiable sex machine, copulating with dozens of beautiful women each day and having others fondle his genitals, feed him grapes, and wipe his ass between the more specifically orgasmic love-making sessions. The preceding sentence summarizes the story, but the author makes it sound a little more interesting. One of the interesting things about Utopian stories is that if we violate just one of their assumptions, we woould often have an anti-Utopian story. For example, this story assumes no jealousy among the members of the harem: if we simply insert the possibility of jealousy we might have hell rather than heaven in the harem. But "a woman's tits should exceed a man's grasp - else what's a heaven for?" Ratings for "A Tale of New Eden: Tomiko" Athena (technical quality): 10 Venus (plot & character): 10 Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 10 "Valentine's Surprise" by Dulcinea (imdulcinea@aol.com). The woman has been instructed by her husband to dress nicely and to be ready for a romantic date on Valentine's Day. She complies. A limousine arrives at about the appointed time and drives her - back to her house, into which her husband has sneaked and set up a summer picnic in February. It's very romantic - and very sexy. Ratings for "Valentine's Surprise" Athena (technical quality): 10 Venus (plot & character): 10 Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 10 "Second Hand Rose" by Vickie Tern (VickieTern@aol.com). The man and his wife differ in their selection of friends. He figures hers are a bunch of snobs, and she gets embarrassed when he drinks to much and makes a fool of himself in front of her friends. They go to a "stuffy" party at her boss's house. He's a publisher, and since the book he's currently working on requires some research on anal sex, and since the husband is already making an ass of himself - well, they make him part of the plot. This is a really bizarre idea, but the author carries it off well. Ratings for "Second Hand Rose" Athena (technical quality): 10 Venus (plot & character): 10 Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 10 -- Story Submission: Newsgroup FAQ: Archive site: (Not pretty yet)