Los Angeles Science Fiction Society | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-06-07

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00:01:24 1 History
00:07:35 2 Officers
00:08:08 3 Cultural references



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The Los Angeles Science Fantasy Society, Inc., or LASFS,  is a science fiction society that meets in the Los Angeles area. The current meeting place can be found on the LASFS website.
LASFS is the oldest continuously operating science fiction club in the world, helped considerably in that record by being one of the few to own a clubhouse. The organization continues to hold regular weekly meetings on Thursdays. The club maintains a private lending library of books, videos, and other genre-related materials, for use by members.
Members of the club have run the World Science Fiction Convention several times, initiated the regional science-fiction convention Westercon, and hosts a yearly science fiction convention called Loscon. It maintains a web site and discussion forum, publishes (at irregular intervals) an amateur magazine called Shangri L'Affaires, and hosts the collations of a weekly amateur press association, APA-L. The LASFS monthly newsletter, De Profundis, is named for the club motto, De Profundis ad Astra ("From the Depths to the Stars"). DeProf is available (in PDF format) for reading at the LASFS web site, and can be obtained by writing its editor/publisher, Marty Cantor.