SWILnews #6 for the week of October 16-22, 1988. EVENTS: Michael Swanwick, author of _Vacuum Flowers_ and _In the Drift_, will be SWIL's guest speaker on Thursday, October 20, at 7:30 PM, in DuPont 190. Everyone is invited and, in fact, welcomed to come hear him talk. The title of his talk will be "Fun With Your New Head" (which is the title of a Thomas Disch story, but the talk will have nothing to do with said story). Reading of his works is not required for comprehension of the talk, though I certainly encourage such reading on purely artistic grounds. _Blade Runner_, co-sponsored by SWIL and Movie Committee, is being held over for the reunion. It will be shown on Friday night. We actually managed, once again, to decide on t-shirt specifics. Kir's "SWIL Crazy After All These Years" design will appear in silver ink on forest green t-shirts, and in black ink on dark royal electric blue t-shirts. The actual t-shirt order won't be made until after the reunion, so there's still time. To order, send check or money order... Ahem. That is, sign up on the order sheet on the SWIL board; include your name and your color and size preferences. All of which paragraphs bring to mind the fact that this very week is SWIL's Tenth Anniversary Reunion (STAR) Celebration (STARC?). Events of various kinds, including filksinging, videotape viewing, a treasure hunt, live chess, and possibly a writing workshop, will be happening from Thursday evening through Sunday afternoon with varying regularity. Anyone who has room to put up visiting alumni is requested to talk to Julie Love or sign up on the list on the SWILboard, soon. There will be an ongoing list of events posted throughout the reunion. Another reminder for PhilCon: It may not be too late, by the time you read this, to give your $15 pre-registration fee to Julie to send to PhilCon. LOCUS: A summary of various info from this month's _Locus_, selected from that issue at my whim, is posted on the SWIL bulletin board, including a list of Hugo Award winners and the title of Douglas Adams' new book. ATTENDANCE: Three persons are in danger of becoming (gasp!) non-members at the next meeting. You probably know who you are. The rest of you who signed this latest attendance sheet included: 1. Largely elsewhere, 2. Alex "not" Weirich, 3. Devin "Well all right, maybe it is my real name after all" Milton III, 4. Sally "most unquestionably accept no substitutes" Carter, 5. Fran "not the Lady Max" Altvater, 6. Ranger Rick, 7. Jessica "I don't care if my last name sounds familiar" Hines, Bruce Hahne and his amazing toaster oven, 8. James "Jumble? What Jumble?" Deane, 9. Jill McElderry, Marguerite "Why am I taking Orgo II?" Eisenstein, 11. "Because you love it and you know it" Janice Frankel, Joel "Another-Off-the-Cuff-Done!!" Offenberg, 12. John "Is this the Spanish table?" Gastil, 13. Topher "free hugs" LeRoy, 14. Luke "Not warm" Hankins, 15. Glenn "That's me!", A lost and often lonely child (_not_ sweet 16), 16. Andy "If you mix root beer with applesauce, it tastes more like rhubarb than peanut butter. Now tell me what you know." Perry, 17. Peter Picked a Peck o' Peppers Wagner, 17. Jim (it's no accident it's 17) Moskowitz, 17. Josh "not Mackay" Smith, 20. Rick "skip a bit, brother" Post, 20. Michael, 99. SAFR, 100. The door ghost, 22. "22", 23. Captain Jed, Edmund Blackadder, Fran/Max -- the only one, and I've got my helmet on and My shoes are on top of the world. "That star's not real bright. It's dim, Jed!" --from "Unreality Warp" Unreally, Captain Jed