First Fandom Hall of Fame award is an annual award for contributions to the field of science fiction

Science fiction

Science fiction is a genre of fiction dealing with imaginary but more or less plausible content such as future settings, futuristic science and technology, space travel, aliens, and paranormal abilities...

 dating back more than 30 years. Contributions can be as a fan, writer, editor, artist, agent, or any combination of the five. It is awarded by First Fandom

First Fandom

First Fandom is an association of experienced science fiction fans.In 1958 a number of fans at Midwestcon realized amid table-talk that they all had been active in fandom for more than 20 years. This inspired the creation of an organization for longstanding fans under the initial chairmanship of...

 and is usually presented at the beginning of the World Science Fiction Convention's Hugo Award

Hugo Award

The Hugo Awards are given annually for the best science fiction or fantasy works and achievements of the previous year. The award is named after Hugo Gernsback, the founder of the pioneering science fiction magazine Amazing Stories, and was officially named the Science Fiction Achievement Awards...

 ceremony.

List of winners

1963

• E. E. Smith
  E. E. Smith
  Edward Elmer Smith, Ph.D., also, E. E. Smith, E. E. "Doc" Smith, Doc Smith, "Skylark" Smith, and Ted was a food engineer and early science fiction author who wrote the Lensman series and the Skylark series, among others...
  
  

1964

• Hugo Gernsback
  Hugo Gernsback
  Hugo Gernsback , born Hugo Gernsbacher, was a Luxembourgian American inventor, writer, editor, and magazine publisher, best remembered for publications that included the first science fiction magazine. His contributions to the genre as publisher were so significant that, along with H. G...
  
  

1966

• David H Keller

1967

• Edmond Hamilton
  Edmond Hamilton
  Edmond Moore Hamilton was an American author of science fiction stories and novels during the mid-twentieth century. Born in Youngstown, Ohio, he was raised there and in nearby New Castle, Pennsylvania...
  
  

1968

• Jack Williamson
  Jack Williamson
  John Stewart Williamson , who wrote as Jack Williamson was a U.S. writer often referred to as the "Dean of Science Fiction" following the death in 1988 of Robert A...
  
  

1969

• Murray Leinster
  Murray Leinster
  Murray Leinster was a nom de plume of William Fitzgerald Jenkins, an award-winning American writer of science fiction and alternate history...
  
  

1970

• Virgil Finlay
  Virgil Finlay
  Virgil Finlay was an American pulp fantasy, science fiction and horror illustrator. While he worked in a range of media, from gouache to oils, Finlay specialized in, and became famous for, detailed pen-and-ink drawings accomplished with abundant stippling, cross-hatching, and scratchboard techniques...
  
  

1971

• John W. Campbell Jr.

1972

• C. L. Moore
  C. L. Moore
  Catherine Lucille Moore was an American science fiction and fantasy writer, as C. L. Moore. She was one of the first women to write in the genre, and paved the way for many other female writers in speculative fiction....
  
  

1973

• Clifford D. Simak
  Clifford D. Simak
  Clifford Donald Simak was an American science fiction writer. He was honored by fans with three Hugo awards and by colleagues with one Nebula award and was named the third Grand Master by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America in 1977.-Biography:Clifford Donald Simak was born in...
  
  

1974

• Forrest J Ackerman
  Forrest J Ackerman
  Forrest J Ackerman was an American collector of science fiction books and movie memorabilia and a science fiction fan...
  
  
• Sam Moskowitz
  Sam Moskowitz
  Sam Moskowitz was an early fan and organizer of interest in science fiction and, later, a writer, critic, and historian of the field.-Biography:...
  
  

1975

• Donald A. Wollheim
  Donald A. Wollheim
  Donald Allen Wollheim was an American science fiction ' editor, publisher, writer, and fan. As an author, he published under his own name as well as under pseudonyms, including David Grinnell....
  
  

1976

• Harry Bates
  Harry Bates (author)
  Harry Bates was an American science fiction editor and writer. His 1940 short story "Farewell to the Master" was the basis of the well-known 1951 science fiction movie The Day the Earth Stood Still.-Biography:Harry Bates was born Hiram Gilmore Bates III on October 9, 1900 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania...
  
  

1977

• Frank Belknap Long
  Frank Belknap Long
  Frank Belknap Long was a prolific American writer of horror fiction, fantasy, science fiction, poetry, gothic romance, comic books, and non-fiction. Though his writing career spanned seven decades, he is best known for his horror and science fiction short stories, including early contributions to...
  
  

1978

• E. Hoffmann Price

1979

• Raymond Z. Gallun
  Raymond Z. Gallun
  Raymond Zinke Gallun was an American science fiction writer.Gallun was born in Beaver Dam, Wisconsin...
  
  

1980

• George O. Smith
  George O. Smith
  George Oliver Smith was an American science fiction author. He is not to be confused with George H. Smith, another American science fiction author.-Biography:...
  
  

1981

• Stanton A. Coblentz
  Stanton A. Coblentz
  Stanton Arthur Coblentz was an American author and poet. He received a Master's Degree in English literature and then began publishing poetry during the early 1920s. His first published science fiction was "The Sunken World," a satire about Atlantis, in Amazing Stories Quarterly for July, 1928...
  
  

1982

• Bill Crawford
  Bill Crawford
  William Crawford is a Canadian-born former American football offensive lineman in the National Football League....
  
  

1983

• Manly Wade Wellman
  Manly Wade Wellman
  Manly Wade Wellman was an American writer. He is best known for his fantasy and horror stories set in the Appalachian Mountains and for drawing on the native folklore of that region, but he wrote in a wide variety of genres, including science fiction, fantasy, historical fiction, detective...
  
  

1984

• H. L. Gold
  H. L. Gold
  Horace Leonard Gold was a science fiction writer and editor. Born in Canada, Gold moved to the United States at the age of two...
  
  

1985

• Wilson Tucker
  Wilson Tucker
  Arthur Wilson "Bob" Tucker was an American mystery, action adventure, and science fiction writer, who wrote professionally as Wilson Tucker....
  
  
• Robert Bloch
  Robert Bloch
  Robert Albert Bloch was a prolific American writer, primarily of crime, horror and science fiction. He is best known as the writer of Psycho, the basis for the film of the same name by Alfred Hitchcock...
  
  

1986

• Julius Schwartz
  Julius Schwartz
  Julius "Julie" Schwartz was a comic book and pulp magazine editor, and a science fiction agent and prominent fan. He was born in the Bronx, New York...
  
  
• Don Wandrei

1987

• Beatrice Mahaffey

1988

• Lloyd Eshbach
• Neil R Jones
• David Kyle
  David Kyle
  David A. Kyle is a Potsdam, New York-based science fiction writer and prominent member of science fiction fandom.-Professional career:With Martin Greenberg, Kyle founded Gnome Press in 1948...
  
  

1989

• Frederik Pohl
  Frederik Pohl
  Frederik George Pohl, Jr. is an American science fiction writer, editor and fan, with a career spanning over seventy years — from his first published work, "Elegy to a Dead Planet: Luna" , to his most recent novel, All the Lives He Led .He won the National Book Award in 1980 for his novel Jem...
  
  
• Donald Grant
  Donald Grant
  Donald Grant was a leader of the Industrial Workers of the World in Sydney, Australia, a member of the Sydney Twelve charged with conspiracy in 1916, and later a member of the Australian Labor Party who was elected to Sydney City Council, appointed to the New South Wales Legislative Council, and...
  
  
• L. Sprague De Camp
  L. Sprague de Camp
  Lyon Sprague de Camp was an American author of science fiction and fantasy books, non-fiction and biography. In a writing career spanning 60 years, he wrote over 100 books, including novels and notable works of non-fiction, including biographies of other important fantasy authors...
  
  

1990

• Edd Cartier
  Edd Cartier
  Edward "Edd" Daniel Cartier , was an American pulp magazine illustrator.Born in North Bergen, New Jersey, Cartier studied at Pratt Institute. Following his 1936 graduation from Pratt, his artwork was published in Street and Smith publications, including The Shadow, to which he contributed many...
  
  
• Robert A. Madle
• Alex Schomburg
  Alex Schomburg
  Alex Schomburg was a prolific American commercial and comic book artist and painter whose career lasted over 70 years.-Biography:...
  
  

1991

• Robert A. W. Lowndes
  Robert A. W. Lowndes
  Robert Augustine Ward "Doc" Lowndes was an American science fiction author, editor and fan. He was known best as the editor of Future Science Fiction, Science Fiction, and Science Fiction Quarterly, among many other crime-fiction, western, sports-fiction, and other pulp and digest-sized magazines...
  
  

1992

• Nelson S. Bond
  Nelson S. Bond
  Nelson Slade Bond was an American author who wrote extensively for books, magazines, radio, television and the stage....
  
  
• J. Harvey Haggard
• Art Saha
  Arthur W. Saha
  Arthur William Saha was an American speculative fiction editor and anthologist, closely associated with publisher Donald A. Wollheim.-Life:...
  
  
• Arthur L. Widner Jr.

1993

• Ray Beam

1994

• E. F. Bleiler
• Andre Norton
  Andre Norton
  Andre Alice Norton, née Alice Mary Norton was an American science fiction and fantasy author under the noms de plume Andre Norton, Andrew North and Allen Weston...
  
  

1995

• Jack Speer
  Jack Speer
  John Bristol Speer was an attorney, practicing law for over 60 years; a judge; and a member of the Washington House of Representatives....
  
  
• Harry Warner, Jr.
  Harry Warner, Jr.
  Harry Warner, Jr. was an American journalist. He spent 40 years working for the Hagerstown, Maryland, Herald-Mail....
  
  

1996

• Forrest J Ackerman
  Forrest J Ackerman
  Forrest J Ackerman was an American collector of science fiction books and movie memorabilia and a science fiction fan...
  
  
• Ray Bradbury
  Ray Bradbury
  Ray Douglas Bradbury is an American fantasy, horror, science fiction, and mystery writer. Best known for his dystopian novel Fahrenheit 451 and for the science fiction stories gathered together as The Martian Chronicles and The Illustrated Man , Bradbury is one of the most celebrated among 20th...
  
  
• Ray Harryhausen
  Ray Harryhausen
  Ray Harryhausen is an American film producer and special effects creator...
  
  
• Frank K. Kelly
• Erle Melvin Korshak
• Julius Schwartz
  Julius Schwartz
  Julius "Julie" Schwartz was a comic book and pulp magazine editor, and a science fiction agent and prominent fan. He was born in the Bronx, New York...
  
  

1997

• Hal Clement
  Hal Clement
  Harry Clement Stubbs better known by the pen name Hal Clement, was an American science fiction writer and a leader of the hard science fiction subgenre.-Biography:...
  
  

1998

• Jack Agnew
• John Baltadonis
  John Baltadonis
  John V. Baltadonis was elected to First Fandom's Hall of Fame in 1998 for his early contributions to science fiction, including being a founding member of the Philadelphia Science Fiction Society.-Career:...
  
  
• Milton A. Rothman
  Milton A. Rothman
  Milton A. Rothman was a United States nuclear physicist and college professor.He was also an active science fiction fan and a co-founder of the Philadelphia Science Fiction Society...
  
  

2000

• Theodore R. Cogswell
• Martin Greenberg
  Martin Greenberg
  Martin Greenberg is an American book publisher and editor of science fiction anthologies.-Biography:Greenberg married in 1941. He was in the U.S...
  
  
• Mark Schulzinger

2001

• Frank M. Robinson
  Frank M. Robinson
  Frank M. Robinson is an American science fiction and techno-thriller writer.-Biography:Robinson was born in Chicago, Illinois. The son of a check forger, Frank started out working as a copy boy for International Service in his teens and then became an office boy for Ziff-Davis...
  
  

2002

• Sir Arthur C. Clarke
  Arthur C. Clarke
  Sir Arthur Charles Clarke, CBE, FRAS was a British science fiction author, inventor, and futurist, famous for his short stories and novels, among them 2001: A Space Odyssey, and as a host and commentator in the British television series Mysterious World. For many years, Robert A. Heinlein,...
  
  
• Martha Beck

2003

• Philip José Farmer
  Philip José Farmer
  Philip José Farmer was an American author, principally known for his award-winning science fiction and fantasy novels and short stories....
  
  
• Philip Nolan
  Philip Francis Nowlan
  Philip Francis Nowlan was an American science fiction author, best known as the creator of Buck Rogers.-Career:...
  
  

2004

• Brian Aldiss
  Brian Aldiss
  Brian Wilson Aldiss, OBE is an English author of both general fiction and science fiction. His byline reads either Brian W. Aldiss or simply Brian Aldiss. Greatly influenced by science fiction pioneer H. G. Wells, Aldiss is a vice-president of the international H. G. Wells Society...
  
  
• Robert Peterson
• William L. Hamling

2005

• Howard Devore
  Howard DeVore
  Howard DeVore was an American archivist, science fiction collector, dealer, expert on pulp magazines, APA and fanzine writer, con-runner and active volunteer in science fiction fandom....
  
  

2006

• Joe L. Hensley
  Joe L. Hensley
  Joseph Louis "Joe L." Hensley was a lawyer, prosecuting attorney, member of the Indiana General Assembly, circuit court judge, science fiction fan, and writer of science fiction and mysteries...
  
  

2007

• Algis Budrys
  Algis Budrys
  Algis Budrys was a Lithuanian-American science fiction author, editor, and critic. He was also known under the pen names "Frank Mason", "Alger Rome", "John A. Sentry", "William Scarff", and "Paul Janvier."-Biography:...
  
  

2008

• Mike Ashley
  Mike Ashley (writer)
  Michael Ashley is a British bibliographer, author and editor of science fiction, mystery, and fantasy.He edits the long-running Mammoth Book series of short story anthologies, each arranged around a particular theme in mystery, fantasy, or science fiction...
  
  
• Ray Harryhausen
  Ray Harryhausen
  Ray Harryhausen is an American film producer and special effects creator...
  
  

2009

• James Gunn
  James Gunn (author)
  - Further reading :James E. Gunn The Listeners, BenBella Books, ISBN 1-932100-12-1 -External links:*...
  
  
• Ben Indick

External links

• First Fandom Hall of Fame Award official site