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Four Inducted Into SF Hall of Fame

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the watch-for-mandroids dept.

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.""

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  1. Philip K. Dick by FunWithHeadlines · · Score: 5, Funny

    Philip K. Dick would, of course, find something darkly paranoid about this honor and would have accepted with suspicion. :)

    1. Re:Philip K. Dick by AndroidCat · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Spielberg would make a dog's dinner out of it and call it a movie. (Not so much a knock at Spielberg as at most attempts to capture PKD on the screen: much the same as the way a killing jar captures butterflies.)

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  2. Steven Spielberg? by ackthpt · · Score: 4, Insightful
    Man... The guy will have his version of War of The Worlds come out shortly afterwards. Why would this be? I don't especially associated him with Sci-Fi. Is this a ploy of some sort?

    Lord knows there's a heck of a lot of authors who have done more for Sci-Fi than his films.

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    1. Re:Steven Spielberg? by raitchison · · Score: 4, Informative

      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.

    2. Re:Steven Spielberg? by Sanga · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Are you claiming SS wrote all this (/created all of this from scratch?). If rehashing pre-told SCIFI was fair game you can include AI and Minority Report.

      That way, Kubrick has more of a claim to make it there -- he set the tone for many scifi (/fantasy) flicks to follow.

    3. Re:Steven Spielberg? by Babbster · · Score: 4, Insightful
      Closer to the hearts of /.ers, what about Gene Roddenberry?

      Having looked at the member list, I can only conclude that they're not giving TV scifi any respect. I would certainly expect Gene to enter a scifi hall of fame before Spielberg, if for no other reason than Star Trek came out and had an impact long before Spielberg's stuff. It's certainly had more impact on the scifi culture over four decades.

      A similar oversight in my view is Irwin Allen. He's created, produced and/or directed quite a bit of popular scifi material, most notably Lost in Space.

      Bottom line is that the people are probably folks who are uppity and don't consider TV high enough art (yes, there have been ST movies but the TV was and is homebase for ST).

  3. No Frank Herbert? by downward+dog · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Besides Asimov and Bradbury, I would have thought for sure that he'd be there. The Dune series (and not just the first book!) is a serious contender for greatest work of SF/Fantasy ever written.

    Someone correct me and tell me that I just missed him!

    1. Re:No Frank Herbert? by mustbepatient · · Score: 5, Informative

      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...

    2. Re:No Frank Herbert? by ackthpt · · Score: 4, Insightful
      Besides Asimov and Bradbury, I would have thought for sure that he'd be there. The Dune series (and not just the first book!) is a serious contender for greatest work of SF/Fantasy ever written. Someone correct me and tell me that I just missed him!

      Tell me about it. I used to work in a library and had to look after the sci-fi section for months. What about Clifford Simak? Ben Bova? Alice Sheldon (aka James Tipree)?

      at least not L. Ron Hubbard

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  4. Slight typo by GuyMannDude · · Score: 4, Funny

    Sure, these aren't "hardcore" SF offerings, but its hard to imagine another guy, other than Lucas, who consistently churns out enjoyable Scifi fare.

    I hate to nitpick but your sentence seems to be implying that Lucas makes enjoyable SciFi fare.

    GMD

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  5. Re:I hope that... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    You are a moron. It doesn't matter what the "fans" want or don't want. Lucas could release a 2-hour movie of himself taking a shit, call it "Star Wars Episode 3", and you would happily wait in line for 3 days for tickets. So STFU.

  6. I am now eagerly anticipating by Timesprout · · Score: 4, Funny

    The slashdot explosion of rage when George Lucas gets inducted.

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  7. Never really was in Kansas by L-Train8 · · Score: 4, Informative

    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.

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  8. Re:No Shelley until 2004? by Kiryat+Malachi · · Score: 5, Interesting

    They've been at it since 1996, and induct 4 per year (2 living, 2 dead). So she was inducted after a grand total of 16 other people. Which other people?

    Isaac Asimov. Alfred Bester. James Blish. Edgar Rice Burroughs. John Campbell, Jr. Hal Clement. Hugo Gernsback. Heinlein. Damon Knight. Fritz Leiber. Abraham Merritt. C.L. Moore (a woman). Eric Russell. Theodore Sturgeon. A.E. Van Vogt. Jules Verne. H.G. Wells. Donald Wollheim.

    And if you look at the competition, Shelley was up against some tough competition. Was Frankenstein historically important to the development of sci-fi? Absolutely. But was Shelley more important than people like Asimov, Heinlein, Campbell? I'd even argue that inducting her before PKD was doing a huge disservice to the genre. Gender-friendliness is nice, but when you're talking about the best of the best, there's no shame in acknowledging that *due to historical and cultural reasons*, the majority of those are men. Going out of your way to induct a woman just because she's a woman makes a mockery of both the idea of an award, and of the body of work of the individual so "honored".

    (Oh, yeah. LeGuin was inducted in 2001, Andre Norton in 1997, and CL Moore in 98. FOAD with your accusations of gender bias, please.)

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