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.