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Bay Area Science Fiction Association (BASFA) is a science fiction fandom social club. The organization was founded after a committee meeting for the SiliCon science fiction convention in 1991 by several Bay Area convention organizers (SMOFs) looking for a reason to meet other than at committee meetings.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.basfa.org/ )〕 The club has met weekly since 1991, currently at a Coco's Bakery location in Sunnyvale, California.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.basfa.org/ )〕 ==Organization== BASFA has an elected president, vice-president, treasurer, and secretary, who serve until a new election is called or until that official has missed thirteen consecutive meetings.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.basfa.org/ )〕 Terms of service often last several years uninterrupted. The club's activities revolve mainly around social meetings held at a restaurant in the San Francisco Bay Area (Silicon Valley). Meetings themselves involve recreational parliamentary procedure, including official reports, announcements of upcoming events, reviews of books and movies of genre interest, and a meeting-ending "rumor of the week".〔 These, along with the designation of the previous meeting's minutes, tend to be hotly contested battles involving members buying votes. The minutes of BASFA are published in the online magazine ''Science Fiction/San Francisco''.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Science Fiction/San Francisco )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://file770.com/?p=17 )〕 BASFA contributes yearly lists of recommendations for the Hugo Awards〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://community.livejournal.com/hugo_recommend/ )〕 and has hosted appearances by authors such as Tad Williams. The association also regularly runs parties at local and international science fiction conventions. BASFA has been listed in the ''Locus Magazine'' online portal since 2002.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.locusmag.com/Links/Portal.html )〕 BASFA's main sources of income are auctions of donated material and taxation of puns. The club has a "Numismatic Responsibility Act"〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.basfa.org/puntax.shtml )〕 that taxes members for the making of puns and for erratic marksmanship when paying said taxes. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Bay Area Science Fiction Association」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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