Another Wide SWILnews #5 For the week of Oct. 9-15, 1988. EVENTS: PhilCon won't be happening until November; but if you want to pre-register for it and save some money, you should give $15 to Julie Love by next Monday, October 17, or see the flyer on the SWILboard for the address to mail money to. The sf discussion table topic for this coming Saturday will be the work of Michael Swanwick. If some of you haven't been attending because you feel you don't know enough about sf, don't worry about it; discussions rarely require detailed knowledge of specific books. If you don't like the topics, please talk to Chris Cobb; we're trying to schedule topics for the rest of the semester now. If you have other particular reasons for avoiding these discussions, tell Chris about that, too -- we're somewhat mystified as to the reasons for such low attendance. The publication of that august organ known only as BEM will occur early next year, but we already have a request from one Kir Talmage, editor-in-chief, for submissions. We know you all have plenty of time -- how about a story or five? Poetry and art would also be nice. REVIEWS: (reviewed this week: the Fall 1988 edition of The Pterodactyl Hunt, edited by Joel Offenberg) "The best hunt we've had in three years!" --Bruce Hahne and others. "Make that four!" --Hal Pomeranz, Kir Talmage, and others. "Many thanks to all those who attended and made it spectacularly successful, especially the winners: David Underwood and Mustafa Unlu, who killed a Pterodactyl each and won a pizza each for so doing; and Luke Hankins, Alex Porter, and Jeff Zinn, who killed 18, 17, and 17 monsters respectively and thereby qualified for large chocolate bars." --Joel Offenberg As you may have gathered, the Hunt was a lot of fun and went extremely well, despite one or two minor problems (such as water balloons thrown from Parrish Third). Thank you, everyone who participated, and special thanks to Joel, without whom it probably wouldn't have happened at all. In other news, Alex Weirich has volunteered to run another Hunt in the Spring, should one be desired, thus making him the only person in the history of the Hunt to volunteer to run TWO of them. VAX AND OPINIONS: Michael Bernstein has volunteered space in his Vax account for temporary Bstorage of new GRAFFITI and QUOTATIONS files. It's in his GRAFFITI directory (note new, correct, spelling). We also have an electronic bulletin board on the Vax. Hopefully, our files from last year will be restored soon; but in case they're not, Bruce Hahne has volunteered some space on a MicroVax, Xavier, for SWIL files. ATTENDANCE: The following people were in the right room at the right time to be counted as being there: Pearl "Hemlock" Ironstone; Fran "I'm not at all short" Altvater; Jonathan "Are too" Wald; Sally "Normal height" Carter; Peter 5' 11.568931241" Wagner; Devin "Still Not My Real Name" Milton II; Just one of many Joshs; Me; Josh "not Mackay" Smith; Rick "tasty cakes" Post; Jessica "the 58th variety" Hines; Joel "I Ran a Pterodactyl Hunt and Lived to tell about it"; Deborah "I'm an invisible cumquat" Holtzman; Bruce "and it is, it is a glorious thing to be a Hobgoblin King" Hahne; Leif Kirschenbaum, Observer; The Soul-Dead; Geoff Dare; Steve "not feeling imaginative this morning" Karpf; Ed "the not-quite Swarthmore student" Cook; Alex "not D'Artagnan" Weirich; Leinal's friend; Now that I'm a non-member, I don't have to sign my real name; The Man from S.W.I.L.; Roj Blake; What is this list for?; Fran/Max -- Frangipane; Vila Restal & the legs; Topher "like Gopher with a T, _not_ like Tofu" LeRoy; Morgles; Mikles "I'm not Topher any more than Wayne is"; The "I'm sometimes mistaken for Chris Cobb" Vampire; Laura "I wanna radiation accident" Almasy; Lisa "rather short, but still not quite as short as Fran" Batt; and Jenny "Even shorter than both" Rogers. Please note that the five of you who are still members can, by coming to two more meetings, join the ranks of the non-members at our Tenth Anniversary Meeting. Who, us? We're not spies! No, really! Insincerely, The Man from S.W.I.L.