Science Fiction occupies a fundamental place in our cultural, imaginative, technological, and economic lives. Who hasn't heard of, dreamed of: space travel, robots, laser weapons, unusual life forms, other habitable planets--no wait, those are known quantities after having been first conceived of and explored in science fiction--so how about time travel, FTL, galactic war, transcendent beings, and on and on. From novels and movies to extraordinarily creative imagination reflected in new characters, stories, concepts, circumstances, solutions, and heroes. And the "intellectual property" underlying these works in whatever form, particularly movies, is one of America's greatest economic and cultural exports. "In order for this genre, a National Day of Recognition is" -Yoda



