6-8:00pm, Saturday, January 17th:
Peter S. Beagle returned to read his last unicorn story from his retrospective collection, The Rhinoceros Who Quoted Nietzsche and Other Odd Acquaintances.

7:30pm, Friday, December 5th, 1997:
The Elves’, Gnomes’ and Little Men’s Science Fiction, Chowder and Marching Society hosted Vonda N. McIntyre, who read from her novel of alternate history and science, The Moon and the Sun.
1-3:00pm, Sunday, November 23rd, 1997:
Peter S. Beagle postponed for health reasons.
7:30pm, Friday, November 14th, 1997:
The Elves’, Gnomes’ and Little Men’s Science Fiction, Chowder and Marching Society (est. 1949) hosted long-time members Karen and Poul Anderson, who regaled us with a brief and entertaining history of the club’s early years.
1-3:00pm, Sunday, November 2nd, 1997:
Chelsea Quinn Yarbro signed the latest Saint-Germain novels, Writ in Blood (hardcover) and Mansions of Darkness (trade paperback), and the first of the Mycroft Holmes novels by ‘Quinn Fawcett’, Against the Brotherhood
8-9:00pm, Friday, September 26th, 1997:
The Elves’, Gnomes’ and Little Men’s Science Fiction, Chowder and Marching Society
presented Howard V. Hendrix, author of the recent novel, Lightpaths, sported a t-shirt with his book’s cover.
2-4:00pm, Sunday, August 17th, 1997:
Peter S. Beagle amused us by reading the title story from Giant Bones, a collection of all-new stories set in the world of The Innkeeper’s Song.
1-3:00pm, Saturday, August 2nd, 1997:
the ever-dapper Paul Preuss gave us background on his hard science novel, Secret Passages.