I'm cursed!

[elfs]

Two weeks ago, I reviewed Kate Orman's Walking to Babylon. Curious to see if she'd had any other comments on it I went and read through and sure enough, she had one and labeled the review "delightful." I'm glad to have been of service.

One of her commenters, however, wrote, "Wow, Elf Sternberg. Some of my first experiences on the web involved reading stuff by him."

Grief, why is it everytime my name comes up in conversation the basic thought is, "Oh, yeah, I used to read him. Is he still around?" Or better yet, "Isn't he dead?"

Comments

[wyrdone.livejournal.com]

Not cursed. Some of us found you again. You did lapse into obscurity for a while there in the mid 90's.

[wyrdone.livejournal.com]

Wow, that sounded really internet stalkery there. *grin*

[elfs.livejournal.com]

And with the Largo icon, no less.

[antonia-tiger.livejournal.com]

Which was about when I got onto the net.

I think they were the days when the Web was starting to replace other technologies for distributing archives. I picked up a few pointers to FTP sites and stuff, and found some of your stories. As I recall, they'd come from alt.sex.stories posts.

If it wasn't for search engines, the net would be overwhelmed by obscurity.