Editing Hal Clement (section)

==Awards and honors==

Clement has been honored several times for his cumulative contributions including 1998 Hall of Fame induction, when Clement and [[Frederik Pohl]] were the fifth and sixth living persons{{efn|name=hof|As living inductees Clement and [[Frederik Pohl]] were preceded in the Hall of Fame by [[A. E. van Vogt]] and [[Jack Williamson]], [[Arthur C. Clarke]] and [[Andre Norton]].<ref name=sfhof-old/>}} honored, and the 1999 SFWA Grand Master Award.<ref name=sfhof-old/><ref name=SFWA/><ref name=SFAwards/>

For the 1945 short story "[[Uncommon Sense]]" he received a 50-year [[Retro Hugo Award]] at the 1996 [[World Science Fiction Convention]]. ''Mission of Gravity'', first published as a serial during 1953, was named best foreign novel by the Spanish Science Fiction Association in 1994 and it was a finalist for a 50-year Retro Hugo Award in 2004.<ref name=SFAwards/>

The [[Golden Duck Award#Hal Clement Award|Hal Clement Award for Young Adults for Excellence in Children's Science Fiction Literature]] was presented in Clement's name from 1992 to 2016.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20080525140915/http://www.goldenduck.org/guidelines.php "Submission Guidelines"]. Golden Duck Awards (goldenduck.org). Archived 2008-05-25. Retrieved 2014-08-14.</ref>

[[Wayne Barlowe]] illustrated two of Clement's fictional species, the Abyormenites and the Mesklinites, in his ''[[Barlowe's Guide to Extraterrestrials]]''.