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Four Inducted Into SF Hall of Fame
maxentius writes "There are four new members of the Science Fiction Hall of Fame: Chesley Bonestell, Philip K. Dick, Ray Harryhausen, and Steven Spielberg. The Hall, once located in Lawrence, Kansas, is now a part of the Science Fiction Museum in Seattle. This brings to 40 the number of inductees; the newest members will be officially welcomed May 6. According to the SF Museum site, "The event will include a cocktail hour, seated dinner, induction ceremony, and after-party." The ceremony will occur in the middle of the Eaton Conference, a three-day presentation co-sponsored by the museum and the University of California Riverside's Eaton Collection. This year's topic is "Inventing the 21st Century: Many Worlds, Many Histories.""
For anyone with a taste for the bizarre (like me), I recommend checking out A Tribute to Ray Harryhausen. (Macromedia Flash required)
You're not the only one who thinks that highly of Dune - it's ranked #1 on the Locus list: http://www.locusmag.com/SFAwards/Db/LocusAT1975.ht ml#allnvl
Given that, he should be in soon...
E.T.
I still have more fans than freaks. WTF is wrong with you people?
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000229/
E.T, Jurassic Park Series, Back to the Future Series, Batteries Not Included, Men In Black just to name a few.
All of those are classics or wee massively popular, some are both (not going to categorize here)
Not the greatest contributor ot SciFi of all time but definitely certianly a candidate for the hall of fame.
ET, Close Encounters, Minority Report, AI, and so on...
E.T.
Close Encounters Of The 3rd Kind
Minority Report
Back To The Future (Producer)
Innerspace (Producer)
Pinky And The Brain (Producer)
Jurassic Park
A.I.
Men In Black (Producer)
Sure, these aren't "hardcore" SF offerings, but its hard to imagine another guy, other than Lucas, who consistently churns out enjoyable Scifi fare.
That would be Michael Crichton. And Minority Report was based on a story by Phillip K. Dick. I don't think they inducted Spielberg for his writing, I'm sure it's for his work bringing Sci-Fi to the movies.
I don't agree with it. Spielberg always strikes me a director who likes to use cheap appeals to emotion to manipulate his audience. A little heavy handed for me.
Sometimes my arms bend back.
Are people too young to have seen this? One of the best of the genre. I'm am not a UFO believer, but this had me going. The encoounter with the mothership at devils tower was to die for and sets the standard in first contact scenarios. Totally realistic and fully realized on an epic scale. Required no suspension of disbelief in this hardened cynic.
And indeed it was. An SGI Irix system running 3D File System Navigator.
Sometimes my arms bend back.
The Hall, once located in Lawrence, Kansas, is now a part of the Science Fiction Museum in Seattle.
The Hall was originally run be a group in Lawrence, Kansas, but there was no actual physical place. They would hold meetings to induct members, then send plaques to the new inductees. It wasn't until the Science Fiction Museum worked out a deal to house the place that it became a physical reality, some place that you could go visit.
Also, the Kansas group was the Sci Fi/Fantasy Hall of Fame, but the Seattle Sci-Fi Museum didn't want to include fantasy. Fortunately, all the members with a background in fantasy also had at least some sci-fi in their ouevre.
Don't forget that Friday is Hawaiian shirt day.
This wonderful, talented painter, illustrator and architect did a stunning series of paintings -- many reproduced in an article in Collier's Magazine in 1948 -- graphically depicting nuclear attacks on New York and Moscow (both the detonations themselves and their aftermath). Prints of these have never been made available to the public, although several are reproduced in the book "The Art of Chesley Bonestell". After Bonestell's death, they were left/given to the New York Historical Society. They are not currently on display, but interested parties can contact the Collections Manager at the Society, and can make an appointment for a viewing.
http://www.nyhistory.org/
Not quite. There's Mary Shelly, Brian Aldiss, Arthur C Clarke, Jules Verne, Eric Frank Russell and Michael Moorcok, for instance. But now they're indicting movie directors and stop-motion animators don't hold your breath for many names not known to the presenters of "Entertainment Tonight".