Elf Sternberg

Elf Mathieu Sternberg, born May 7, 1966, [cite web
url= http://elfs.livejournal.com/profile
title= elfs - Profile
publisher= Livejournal
accessdate= 2007-09-22 ] is the former keeper of the alt.sex FAQ.cite news
title=Sex and the Internet: A volatile mix when kids are involved |url=http://edition.cnn.com/US/9612/14/american.edge.cyberporn/index.html
publisher= CNN
date= December 14, 1996] He is also the author of many erotic stories and articles on sexuality and sexual practices, and is considered one of the most notable and prolific online erotica authors. [cite web
url= http://www.asstr.org/~ingrid/joesguide-authors.html
title= Ole Joe's Guide
accessdate= 2007-09-22
quote= Profiles, reviews, and several thousand story links for about 600 notable authors of erotic fiction, c.1990-2004.... P JURADO and Elf Sternberg are the most prolific science fiction and fantasy writers in the group.]

Sternberg's best known piece of writing is probably the erotic short story "The Only Fair Game" [http://www.pendorwright.com/other/html/The_Only_Fair_Game.html] , which became famous/infamous for raising legal questions about fan fiction. Its speculation about homosexual and BDSM practices among Larry Niven's Kzinti got Sternberg a cease-and-desist letter from Niven's lawyers in an incident that to date remains notorious within the SF fandom community. Elf Sternberg claims the story is covered under parody protections; Larry Niven maintains that the story is a violation of copyright, but has not pursued further legal action. Larry Niven commented directly on this issue in a Slashdot interview. [cite web
url= http://interviews.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/10/167206
title= Ladies and Gentlemen, Dr. Larry Niven
accessdate= 2007-09-22
date= March 10, 2003
publisher= Slashdot
quote= I probably issued a cease-and-desist when the story was described to me as violating my copyright. It does that, of course.... "If you want more Known Space stories" was intended as an invitation to daydream, not to violate my copyrights and steal my ideas.]

Elf is also the creator of [http://www.pendorwright.com/journals/ The Journal Entries of Kennet R'yal Shardik] , a long-running series of short erotica featuring a massive body of work covering the fictional ringworld Pendor ("The Pendorwright Projects"), and the wide variety of humans, humanoid species, robots, and artificial intelligences that inhabit it. [cite web
url= http://www.cleansheets.com/archive/archreviews/annex_02.23.00.html
title= Website Review: Elf Sternberg
publisher= Clean Sheets Erotica Magazine
date= August 22, 1997
accessdate= 2007-09-25
quote= Elf Sternberg has been writing erotic fiction since 1989. That's a long time. Almost 10 years' worth of fiction has been uploaded to this website, the equivalent of two 360-page paperbacks a year...putting him in the ranks of the most prolific writers I've seen.]

He has been a regular poster on the usenet groups alt.sex, rec.arts.sf.written, rec.arts.sf.composition and alt.atheism, and is listed on the Net.Legends FAQ. [cite url
first= David
last= DeLaney
url= http://www.vic.com/~dbd/nll.11.94.update
accessdate = 2007-09-24
title= Net.Legends.FAQ (Noticeable Phenomena Of UseNet)
quote= Lesser Lights (Honorable Mention): not all of these are loons (many are quite sane), but all are notable in more than one group to some degree, or notorious in one group. There are *far* too many odd people on the net to mention all of them, or even a fraction thereof; these are some of the ones that have stuck in *other* peoples' minds as ... distinctive.]

References

External links

* [http://www.pendorwright.com/ Pendorwright Projects]
* [http://elfs.livejournal.com Elf's Blog]