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.""

Comments

Re:No Frank Herbert?

[mustbepatient]

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...

Re:Steven Spielberg?

[raitchison]

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.

Never really was in Kansas

[L-Train8]

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.