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 science of Humboldt is one thing, poetry is another thing. The poet to-day, notwithstanding all the discoveries of science, and the accumulated learning of mankind, enjoys no advantage over Homer.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    A reader who quarrels with postulates, who dislikes Hamlet because he does not believe that there are ghosts or that people speak in pentameters, clearly has no business in literature. He cannot distinguish fiction from fact, and belongs in the same category as the people who send cheques to radio stations for the relief of suffering heroines in soap operas.
    Northrop Frye (b. 1912)

    Go where he will, the wise man is at home,
    His hearth the earth,—his hall the azure dome;
    Where his clear spirit leads him, there’s his road,
    By God’s own light illumined and foreshadowed.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    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)