The Science Fiction Hall of Fame can refer to:
- Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame in Seattle, Washington, founded in 1994
- The hall of fame located there
- The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume One, 1929–1964, a popular anthology of short stories judged the best by the Science Fiction Writers of America (SFWA)
- The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume Two, a 1973 collection of novellas selected by the SFWA
Famous quotes containing the words science fiction, science, fiction, hall and/or fame:
“I have been a soreheaded occupant of a file drawer labeled “Science Fiction” ... and I would like out, particularly since so many serious critics regularly mistake the drawer for a urinal.”
—Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (b. 1922)
“For eighteen hundred years, though perchance I have no right to say it, the New Testament has been written; yet where is the legislator who has wisdom and practical talent enough to avail himself of the light which it sheds on the science of legislation?”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Space or science fiction has become a dialect for our time.”
—Doris Lessing (b. 1919)
“I was afraid the waking arm would break
From the loose earth and rub against his eyes
A fist of trees, and the whole country tremble
In the exultant labor of his rise;”
—Donald Hall (b. 1928)
“Celebrity-worship and hero-worship should not be confused. Yet we confuse them every day, and by doing so we come dangerously close to depriving ourselves of all real models. We lose sight of the men and women who do not simply seem great because they are famous but are famous because they are great. We come closer and closer to degrading all fame into notoriety.”
—Daniel J. Boorstin (b. 1914)