NewScientist greatest Sci-fi vote results

[flynn]

<b>Worldwide Top 10</b><br /><br />1) Firefly (TV) 884 votes <br /><br />2) Serenity (movie) 727 votes<br /><br />3) Farscape (TV) 271 votes <br /><br />4) Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (book) 171 votes<br /><br />5) Babylon 5 (TV) 157 votes<br /><br />6) Battlestar Gallactica 145 votes<br /><br />7) Dune (book) 140 votes <br /><br />8) Ender’s Game (book) 138 votes<br /><br />9) The Empire Strikes Back (movie) 126 votes<br /><br />10) Doctor Who (TV) 107 votes<br /><br /><br /><br />Top 10 Books<br />1) Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Adams) 171 votes<br /><br />2) Dune (Herbert) 140 votes<br /><br />3) Ender’s Game (Card) 138 votes<br /><br />4) Foundation Series (Asimov) 83 votes<br /><br />5) Stranger in a Strange Land (Heinlein) 55 votes<br /><br />6) Rendezvous with Rama (Clarke) 36 votes<br /><br />7) Contact (Sagan) 32 votes<br /><br />8) Mars Trilogy (Robinson) 29 votes<br /><br />9) War of the Worlds (Wells) 27 votes<br /><br />10) Hyperion (Simmons) 27 votes<br /><br />Total votes for books: 1748 <br /><br /><br /><br />Top 10 Films<br />1) Serenity 727 votes <br /><br />2) The Empire Strikes Back 126 votes<br /><br />3) Star Wars: A New Hope 104 votes<br /><br />4) 2001: A Space Odyssey 80 votes<br /><br />5) Alien 68 votes <br /><br />6) Dune 33 votes <br /><br />7) The Day the Earth Stood Still 30 votes<br /><br />8) The Forbidden Planet 23 votes<br /><br />9) Return of the Jedi 19 votes<br /><br />10) Revenge of the Sith 15 votes<br /><br />Total votes for films: 1225 <br /><br /><br /><br />Top 8 TV Shows <br />(only 9 made it to the first round) <br /><br />1) Firefly 884 votes <br /><br />2) Farscape 271 votes <br /><br />3) Babylon 5 157 votes <br /><br />4) Battlestar Gallactica 145 votes <br /><br />5) Doctor Who 107 votes <br /><br />6) Star Trek: The Next Generation 94 votes <br /><br />7) Stargate: SG1 73 votes <br /><br />8) Star Trek 47 votes <br /><br />Total votes for TV shows: 894 <br /><br />http://www.newscientistspace.com/article.ns?id=dn8211 <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <font color="#800080">"All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring" - <strong>Chuck Palahniuk</strong>.</font> </div>

 

[jmilsom]

Although I read back issues of NewScientist as they slowly get to me up here (usually four months late), this poll seems silly to me. <br /><br />It seems all to recent, has few votes, and probably many of those voting have not read or seen a large enough pool of films or books. Where is Blade Runner for instance? <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> </div>

 

[flynn]

Yeah not that many votes in the whole thing. Plenty missing but still interesting to see how a "NewScientist poll" differs from the normal of having StarWars at the top of everything. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <font color="#800080">"All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring" - <strong>Chuck Palahniuk</strong>.</font> </div>

 

[chriscdc]

I normally visit the newscientist website, but where was this poll taken? The number votes was very low which probably means that it was well hidden.<br /><br />Did the poll just have battlestar Galactica as an option, because I doubt may people would have voted much for the original series.

 

[jcdenton]

IMHO Firefly was far too short-lived to be considered among the greatest sci-fi shows. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> </div>

 

[summoner]

Only 3 of the Worldwide top 10 were books. Not sure who they polled, but I don't think there is a movie or tv show that would compete in my top 100 best of scifi. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> <br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="width:271px;background-color:#FFF;border:1pxsolid#999"><tr><td colspan="2"><div style="height:35px"><img src="http://banners.wunderground.com/weathersticker/htmlSticker1/language/www/US/MT/Three_Forks.gif" alt="" height="35" width="271" style="border:0px" /></div>

 

[yevaud]

This is similar to when my local Alternative newspaper runs a "best music of the last 25 year" poll. More not-terribly-good choices appear than not, because everyone with an axe to grind votes for their (recent) favorite people, trying to get them into the poll.<br /><br />Example: in then last poll they did, "Oasis" appeared in the top hundred all-time Punk/New Wave/Alternative classics. In a field that contains everyone from Blondie, the B-52's, to The Lemondrops and the Replacements, through Dave Matthew's and others too numerous to mention, those lamers get a rating?<br /><br />Puhhleeze.... <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p><em>Differential Diagnosis:  </em>"<strong><em>I am both amused and annoyed that you think I should be less stubborn than you are</em></strong>."<br /> </p> </div>

 

[rogers_buck]

I like the "Google" poll. Take a look at the thread with 33K hits on it - Battle Star Galactica...<br />

 

[alienhunter]

That was the worst list I ever seen! The voters can't possible represent sci-fi fans. Where's Contact, Matrix, Blade Runner, Terminator or ET? Good to see that 'The Day the Earth Stood Still' still is in the game, started my sci-fi interest. A far better list is this from imdb: http://www.imdb.com/chart/scifi.<br /><br />Firefly, sorry, haven't seen that on. Serenity, good movie but I wouldn't list it. Same with farescape. Watched Hitchhiker for ten minutes before I turned it of.

 

[arrgh]

Firefly is kind of an anomaly. It just came off of having a movie run. I think it's too fresh. It's a good show, but damn, I don't think any of those movies are better than, say, the best books out there. What, is Ender's Game supposed to be the best sci-fi book in the world? Kind of a weird comparison. <br /><br />

 

[spayss]

Good comments above. It's refreshing to know that science fiction buffs are self-thinkers aren't so easily taken in by these manipulated polls and surveys. <br /><br /> These polls are controlled by aliens who have invaded Earth and are walking among us disguised as marketing and publicity gurus whose goal is....