Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame
Honoring the lives, work, and ongoing legacies of science fiction and fantasy's greatest creators.
2014 Inductees
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Frank Frazetta
Frank Frazetta’s prolific art graced the pages of comic books, the covers of paperback adventure novels, and the sleeves of record albums with a distinctively rugged style that strongly influenced future generations of illustrators. His work is immediately recognizable and larger than life. The men… more
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Hayao Miyazaki
Writer, animator, and film director Hayao Miyazaki has spent his career creating fantastic and wondrous worlds for a global audience. His films depict pastoral, sometimes utopian landscapes and celebrate nature, flight, imagination, and the simple joys of childhood. He began his animation career in… more
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Leigh Brackett
Leigh Brackett has been hailed as the “Queen of the Space Opera”—a master of richly detailed stories of planetary romance. She began writing during the early years of the Golden Age of science fiction, quickly gaining prominence as a novelist and screenwriter. A native of Los Angeles, Brackett join… more
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Olaf Stapledon
Olaf Stapledon was many things: philosopher, educator, veteran of WWI, and pacifist activist—but he is remembered most fondly as the author of ambitious, prescient, and seminal works of science fiction. A graduate of Oxford, Stapledon worked in a variety of jobs before taking up social work and tut… more
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Stanley Kubrick
Stanley Kubrick’s impact on science fiction filmmaking cannot be underestimated. He brought otherworldly concepts to wide audiences and mainstream acceptance, and his film 2001: A Space Odyssey continues to influence the genre to this day. Starting in high school Kubrick worked as a freelance photo… more
Founded in 1996, the Hall of Fame was relocated from the Gunn Center for the Study of Science Fiction at the University of Kansas to its permanent home at EMP in 2004. Hall of Fame nominations are submitted by EMP members. The final inductees are chosen by a panel of award-winning science fiction and fantasy authors, artists, editors, publishers, and film professionals.
Hall of fame MEMBERS
- Brian W. Aldiss
- Poul Anderson
- Isaac Asimov
- Betty Ballantine
- Ian Ballantine
- Alfred Bester
- James Blish
- Chesley Bonestell
- David Bowie
- Leigh Brackett
- Ray Bradbury
- Edgar Rice Burroughs
- Octavia E. Butler
- James Cameron
- John W. Campbell, Jr.
- Sir Arthur C. Clarke
- Hal Clement
- Samuel R. Delany
- Vincent Di Fate
- Philip K. Dick
- Gordon R. Dickson
- Gardner Dozois
- Harlan Ellison
- Ed Emshwiller
- Edward L. Ferman
- Virgil Finlay
- Frank Frazetta
- Frank Kelly Freas
- Hugo Gernsback
- William Gibson
- Jean 'Moebius' Giraud
- Joe Haldeman
- Harry Harrison
- Ray Harryhausen
- Robert A. Heinlein
- Frank Herbert
- Damon Knight
- Stanley Kubrick
- H.R. Giger
- Ursula K. Le Guin
- Fritz Leiber
- George Lucas
- Richard Matheson
- Anne McCaffrey
- Judith Merril
- Abraham Merritt
- Hayao Miyazaki
- Michael Moorcock
- C.L. Moore
- Andre Norton
- Frank R. Paul
- Frederik Pohl
- Richard M. Powers
- Gene Roddenberry
- Joanna Russ
- Eric Frank Russell
- Ridley Scott
- Rod Serling
- Mary W. Shelley
- Robert Silverberg
- E.E. Smith
- Steven Spielberg
- Olaf Stapledon
- Theodore Sturgeon
- James Tiptree, Jr.
- J.R.R. Tolkien
- Douglas Trumbull
- Wilson Tucker
- A. E. van Vogt
- Jack Vance
- Jules Verne
- H.G. Wells
- Michael Whelan
- Kate Wilhelm
- Jack Williamson
- Connie Willis
- Gene Wolfe
- Donald Allen Wollheim
- Roger Zelazny