From: pechever@phakt.usc.edu (The Heckler)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Elf Sternberg (Was: Re: Pair-allel Universes) *long*
Date: 11 Dec 1992 21:41:12 -0800
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In article <1g99q9INNqvj@escargot.xx.rmit.OZ.AU> s903040@minyos.xx.rmit.OZ.AU (Christopher Francis Anderson) writes:
>Comments: Where can I get a copy of Elf's Journal Entries?

"About 88 of the 94ish, 95ish Journal Entries can be ftp'd from 
(opens x-window, rummages around)
"tezuka.rest.ri.cmu.edu; a few caveats follow:

(from 'The Unofficial List of Journal Entries', by Jerry D. Hedden
(hedden@esdsdf.dnet.ge.com)):

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I had trouble with one Journal Entry called "Spinning Amanda".  It
is mentioned in the index on tezuka.rest.ri.cmu.edu. <Elf's reply to Jerry's
inquiry>:

> Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 23:57:27 -0700
> From: Elf Sternberg <elf@halcyon.halcyon.com>
> Subject: Re: Request for Journal Entry "Spinning Amanda"
>
>   How many times to I have to _say_ this?  Spinning Amanda was
> included in that index because I was 3/4 finished with it when I
> created the index and fully expected to release it later that
> week.  SA, however, did not 'finish' the way I had anticipated and
> in my frustration I left it on my WIP directory and didn't back it
> up.  It was destroyed in a head crash, and no copies exist.
>   Maybe someday I'll bother re-writing it, but until then this
> story simply does not exist.
>                                       Elf !!!

As to the archive sites mentioned above, reed.edu's versions are
very outdated.  They do not have titles, and the index is very much
out-of-date.  tezuka.rest.ri.cmu.edu is better, but is not complete
or up-to-date.  I am going to try to contact whoever maintains the
archive there in order to update it.  (If the 'tezuka archiver'
happens to read this, please save me some trouble by contacting me
first, or if anyone knows who this person is, please help me out by
emailing me the info.  Thanks!)

Until such time as that occurs, I will honor requests for specific
Entries.  Send your request by email (I will ignore requests posted
to newsgroups) such that it contains your email address and the
Dates of the Entries you'd like (from the list below) in the
following format:

<your email address>
yyyy.ddd
yyyy.ddd
yyyy.ddd
...

(Note:  "Brieanna" and "Travellogue 0916.188", while posted in two
parts, have been combined into single files.  Just use 0057.201 and
0916.118, respectively, to get the whole Entry.)

Please adhere to the format above as I will be automating the
mailing process to save myself work.

Enjoy,
Jerry D. Hedden
hedden@esdsdf.dnet.ge.com

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"I can tell you right away that the Entries not on tezuka are:

0093.181  "Starlight, Starbright, First Star I See My Life"
0119.082  "Healing the Dragon" / "Love of the Dragon"
0164.212  "Ambassadors"
0164.218  "Hiding in New Hampshire"
0192.158  "Travelling by Water"
0265.070  "Post-Partum Depression in the Male of the Species"
0918.097  "Turing Attraction"

and you can get these from Jerry.  There are two new Entries that have
been published within the last couple of weeks, and you can tap me for
them if you want to complete your collection.  My email, as usual, is
pechever@scf.usc.edu (I'll be gone from 19Dec to about 7Jan), so drop me a
line if you can't find em.  Response will be about a day or two, since I'm in
finals and have to dig em up from discs where they're archived, but rest 
assured I'll get em to ya.

"You can also hit me up for a complete listing of Entries, which is way too
hefty to post here."

"Hope I've been of some help to all of you."

>Cocoa: Make it two and it's my shout.

"You heard the man, Mike.  Get him his cocoa."

*plink* goes the silver on the wood; Impu-Sebek chats a moment with Mike, then
remembers something important.

"A warning, before you read this:  Elf is *very* open about sex.  If
gay, bi, S&M (some of it pretty heavy, though always consensual), or furry
anthropomorphic interspecies sex (described in loving and never crude detail)
offends or disturbs you, don't read any of this.  Well, I'll amend that.
There are some JE's with very little or no sex in them (critical to character
development and plot), but they are few and far between.

"The sex is never gratuitous, the characters are real, and the world he 
creates is very alive, and very different.  A lot of love has been poured into
the creation of Pendor (the ringworld where all this takes place).

>Hugs:  HUG!

"*HUG* yerself, you furry thing."  Impu-Sebek gives the Kat a hug, as best
he can, considering the Kat's size.

>ThunderKat (a.k.a. Chris Anderson)    s903040@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au

"Cheers, and appy polly loggies for the monumental-size post."

			Impu-Sebek
			the Wordster
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