Date: Thu, 07 Aug 2003 14:23:29 -0400
To: WSFAlist at keithlynch.net
From: Elspeth Kovar <ekovar at worldnet.att.net>
Subject: [WSFA] From the current issue of Ansible
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

MICHAEL SWANWICK reports momentous news which, if confirmed, could shake
the very foundations of sf scholarship. `I had a surprising conversation
at Readercon with literary superstar Samuel R.Delany, who told me of how
at an early Clarion the students and teachers had decided to see exactly
how bad a story they could write if they put their minds to it. Chip
himself contributed a paragraph to the round robin effort. Its title?
"The Eye of Argon".' Paging Jim Theis ...

. . .

SSHH! Ray Bradbury is 83 on 22 August, and The Planetary Society hopes
to surprise him with the world's largest birthday card. Enter your
greetings at https://planetary.org/bradbury/ by the 20th, and I assume
they will be transcribed to some suitable medium, such as Mars.