2024 Inductee to the SFF Hall of Fame

By Nicola Griffith on July 25, 2024

I am being inducted into the Museum of Popular Culture's Science Fiction + Fantasy Hall of Fame. (The other 2024 Creator Inductee is Nnedi Okorafor.) When I found out I blinked. Blinked again, a bit dazed. Then, as it sank in, I started alternately grinning and blinking, thinking Yay! and What?

I am a native of sf, but not a resident.

— William Gibson, acceptance speech at MoPOP, Seattle, 2008

This is something William Gibson said at his 2008 induction into SFFHO.¹ It encapsulates beautifully how I feel: I may no longer be a full-time resident of SFF but I am a citizen: I go back to the Auld Country fairly regularly; the vocabulary and grammar of SF are my first language; and my passport is current. Still, I am amazed to be invited to join the grandees in the Hall of Fame. I mean, go look at that list!

There is nothing in the world to compare to the feeling of being honoured by peers, part of something—belonging. I feel great! You can't see me as I type this but believe me when I say: I am still grinning my head off. And I am grateful. Thank you.

I'm sure I'll have more to say in a day or two. Meanwhile, here's the press release.

Seattle Author Nicola Griffith Inducted into Science Fiction & Fantasy Hall of Fame at MoPOP

The celebrated speculative fiction author and disability activist becomes the third local creator to be honored since MoPOP became steward of the Hall of Fame exactly twenty years ago.

SEATTLE, WA. (July 25, 2024) – Seattle-based speculative fiction author and activist Nicola Griffith (Hild; So Lucky) is being inducted into the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame at Seattle's Museum of Pop Culture.

Griffith joins Nnedi Okorafor, bestselling Nigerian American writer of Africanfuturist science fiction and fantasy, as one of two annual inductees in the "Creator" category for the class of 2024.

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 MoPOP in 2004. Inductees are nominated by the public, and a panel of professionals selects the final four annual inductees—two creators and two creations.

Each addition to the Hall of Fame reshapes the whole, providing fresh inspiration and lived experience and furthering MoPOP's mission to ensure the full scope of science fiction and fantasy is honored.

Griffith's first novel, Ammonite, was just named #25 on Esquire's "75 Best Sci-Fi Books of All Time" list, and her Pride Month talk The Queer Medieval drew a crowd of hundreds to Town Hall Seattle on June 11, 2024.

The two previous Seattle-area inductees to the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame are Dreamsnake author Vonda McIntyre (2018) and Arrival author Ted Chiang (2020).

About Nicola Griffith

Nicola Griffith is a British American speculative fiction writer and activist. Author of the Hild Sequence, Ammonite, So Lucky, Slow River, Spear, and more, Nicola's work has been awarded the Nebula Award, Otherwise/Tiptree Award, World Fantasy Award, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, two Washington State Book Awards, and six Lambda Literary Awards.

https://nicolagriffith.com/

About MoPOP

The Museum of Pop Culture is a nonprofit museum in Seattle, Washington dedicated to contemporary pop culture. Founded by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen in 2000 as the Experience Music Project, MoPOP has showcased dozens of world-class exhibitions and offers extensive education and popular programming in music, film, gaming, and more.

The Museum of Pop Culture's mission is to make creative expression a life-changing force by offering participatory experiences that inspire and connect our communities.

https://www.mopop.org/

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