Sci-fi special: Your all-time favourite science fiction


	Sci-fi special: Your all-time favourite science fiction

Fast T friend

11-17-2008 5:53 AM

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Fast T friend says:

"Science fiction is a genre often ignored by the mainstream, but this poll reveals the profound influence that sci-fi has on many of you".
I quite agree!

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/db653975-34b2-451a-98c1-33aae41c8855/F32962EC-8A72-4F90-A01A-BA3A37127067/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20026826.300-scifi-special-your-alltime-favourite-science-fiction.html" href="http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20026826.300-scifi-special-your-alltime-favourite-science-fiction.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.newscientist.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20026826.300-scifi-special-your-alltime-favourite-science-fiction.html">In the film category, you voted for 129 titles, but two stole the show. The favourite was <A target="nsarticle" href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083658/"><I>Blade Runner</I></A>, Ridley Scott's 1982 film based loosely on the Philip K. Dick novel <A target="nsarticle" href="http://www.philipkdick.com/works_novels_androids.html"><I>Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?</I></A>, which attracted 12 per cent of votes. "This film literally drips with atmosphere and foreboding, offering us a dystopian world which is all too easy to imagine," commented one voter.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20026826.300-scifi-special-your-alltime-favourite-science-fiction.html">A close second was <A target="nsarticle" href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062622/"><I>2001: A Space Odyssey</I></A></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20026826.300-scifi-special-your-alltime-favourite-science-fiction.html">By far the favourite of the 254 books you voted for was <A target="nsarticle" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dune_(novel)"><I>Dune</I></A>, Frank Herbert's 1965 epic set on the desert planet Arrakis</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20026826.300-scifi-special-your-alltime-favourite-science-fiction.html">Second place went to Isaac Asimov's <A target="nsarticle" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundation_series"><I>Foundation series</I></A></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20026826.300-scifi-special-your-alltime-favourite-science-fiction.html">"The history of the future," wrote one voter</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20026826.300-scifi-special-your-alltime-favourite-science-fiction.html">The 1985 Orson Scott Card novel <A target="nsarticle" href="http://www.ender.com/ender/"><I>Ender's Game</I></A> (in which child genius Ender Wiggin must save the world from aliens) was voted in fourth, followed by Dan Simmons's <A target="nsarticle" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperion_(novel)"><I>Hyperion</I></A> series - a futuristic <I>Canterbury Tales</I>, the first of which was published in 1989.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/F32962EC-8A72-4F90-A01A-BA3A37127067/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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