Science Fiction Hall of Fame

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, hall and/or fame:

    The motive of science was the extension of man, on all sides, into Nature, till his hands should touch the stars, his eyes see through the earth, his ears understand the language of beast and bird, and the sense of the wind; and, through his sympathy, heaven and earth should talk with him. But that is not our science.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    We can never safely exceed the actual facts in our narratives. Of pure invention, such as some suppose, there is no instance. To write a true work of fiction even is only to take leisure and liberty to describe some things more exactly as they are.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    Her cabined, ample spirit,
    It fluttered and failed for breath.
    Tonight it doth inherit
    The vasty hall of death.
    Matthew Arnold (1822–1888)

    Paper is cheap, and authors need not now erase one book before they write another. Instead of cultivating the earth for wheat and potatoes, they cultivate literature, and fill a place in the Republic of Letters. Or they would fain write for fame merely, as others actually raise crops of grain to be distilled into brandy.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)