[1] The club has met weekly since 1991, at various locations in the southern portion of the San Francisco Bay Area.
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".
[2] These, along with the designation of the previous meeting's minutes, tend to be hotly contested battles involving members buying votes.
[4][5] BASFA contributes yearly lists of recommendations for the Hugo Awards[6][7][8] and has hosted appearances by authors such as Tad Williams.