The Los Angeles Science Fantasy Society, Inc., or LASFS is a science fiction society with its headquarters in Van Nuys, a neighborhood in Los Angeles, California, in the San Fernando Valley, north of L.A. city. LASFS HQ is located at the corner of Tyrone & Aetna streets, near the Van Nuys Orange Line station. 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.
The club has hosted 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, as well as its own official monthly publication, De Profundis, named for the club motto, De Profundis ad Astra ("From the Depths to the Stars"). DeProf is available (in PDF) for reading at the LASFS web site.
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