Wonderlands.(Western Wanderings)(Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame)

From: Sunset | Date: August 1, 2004| Author: | Copyright information

The USS Enterprise is close to crunching the flying saucer from The Day the Earth Stood Still, which brushes near Star Wars' Millennium Falcon.

"Look," Donna Shirley says as another craft floats in from galactic sector 17. "The mother ship from Close Encounters of the Third Kind."

It's interstellar gridlock here at Seattle's Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame.

Opened earlier this summer, SFM is the world's only major science fiction museum, a multimillion-dollar, multimedia extravaganza launched by Microsoft cofounder and sci-fi buff Paul Allen. Its location is ...

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