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'''Shangri L'Affaires''' is the official organ of the Los Angeles Science Fantasy Society.

Published in Los Angeles, California, U.S.A., ''Shangri L'Affaires'' is a long running zine with a number of editors at different times in its history. It is regarded as a focal point fanzine around which fandom could gather.

The first issue appeared in March 1940 and was published by Forrest J. Ackerman and Walt Daugherty. Throughout 1941 it was a split zine and was alternately backed with [[The Damn Thing]], [[Polaris]] and [[Voice of the Imagi-Nation]]. Other editors in the 1940s were Arthur L. Joquel ([[FMZ Digest]], [[Sun Trails]]) (1942-1943, 1944), Phil Bronson ([[The Fantasite]], [[Scienti-Comics]]) (1943), Charles Burbee (1944-1947), Gerald Hewett (1945), Dale Hart (1948), E.E. Evans ([[Nova (1940s)|Nova]]) (1949) and Len Moffatt (1949). 

In the 1950s, it was edited by Freddie Hershey (1950), Rick Sneary (1951), Dave Ossman and Bill Mosleigh (1953), Djinn Faine (1958-1959) and Al Lewis (1959).

In the 1960's, the editors were John Trimble and [[Bjo Trimble]] (1960-1961), Fred Patten (1961), Al Lewis and Ron Ellik (1962), Steve Tolliver (1963), Redd Boggs ([[The Lovecraftsman]], [[Sky Hook]]) (1963-1964), Ted Johnstone (David McDaniel) (1965), Ken Rudolph (1968). 

Contributions included a column by Richard Bergeron ([[Warhoon]]) and articles by Dirce Archer, Len Atkins, Len Bailes, Ron Bennett ([[Ploy]], [[Skyrack]]), Ruth Berman (later editor of [[SH - sf Fanthology]]), John Berry ([[Pot Pourri]], [[The Damned Patrol]]), William Blackbeard, Robert Bloch, Ray Bradbury ([[Futuria Fantasia]]), Rich Brown, Ted Carnell ([[Novae Terrae]]), Terry Carr ([[Innuendo]]), William Crawford, Walt Dougherty,  Morris Scott Dollins ([[Science-Fiction Collector]]), Ron Ellik has the column "Squirrel Cage", E. Everett Evans, Djinn Faine, Rory Faulkner, Joe Fortier ([[Starlight (1941)|Starlight]]), Al HaLevy, Jack Harness, Dale Hart ([[Ichor]]), Larry Janifer, Ted Johnstone, David H. Keller, Henry Kuttner, Francis T. Laney ([[The Acolyte]]), Fritz Leiber, Al Lewis, Hal Lynch, William Nolan ([[Rhodomagnetic Digest]]), Alexei Panshin, Fred Patten, Alva Rogers, Edward E. Smith, Rick Sneary, Roy Tackett, Steve Tolliver, Bjo Trimble ([[Melange]]) and John Trimble, Bob Tucker ([[Le Zombie]]), Tetsu Yanto, and T. Bruce Yerke ([[The Damn Thing]]).

Contributions of art work came from Poul Anderson, Richard Bergeron, Vaughn Bode, Tom Gould, Tim Kirk and [[Bill Rotsler]]. Issue #41 featured a close look at the art of Morris Scott Dollens by Bjo Trimble. 

Along with [[Atres Artes]], [[Black Flames]], [[Chanticleer]], [[Guteto]], [[Ichor]], [[Le Zombie]], [[Lethe]], [[Nova (1940s)|Nova]], and [[Voice of the Imagi-Nation]], ''Shangri L'Affaires'' was included in the anthology fanzine [[Pacificon Combozine]] for the 1946 Pacificon Fourth World Science-Fiction Convention. 

==External Links==
*[http://fanac.org/fanzines/Shangri-LA/index.html '''Shangri LA''' Fall-Winter 1953  issue on-line]

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