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IF ONE thing is clear from our poll it鈥檚 that you love science fiction: you posted thousands of votes and comments. In the film category, you voted for 129 titles, but two stole the show. The favourite was , Ridley Scott鈥檚 1982 film based loosely on the Philip K. Dick novel , which attracted 12 per cent of votes. 鈥淭his film literally drips with atmosphere and foreboding, offering us a dystopian world which is all too easy to imagine,鈥� commented one voter.

鈥淭he movie drips with atmosphere and a sense of foreboding鈥�

A close second was , Stanley Kubrick鈥檚 1968 epic based on a story by Arthur C. Clarke, popular despite (or perhaps because of) its notoriously enigmatic finale. 鈥淚t is still the breakthrough vision of near-Earth space travel, the paragon of a robot gone bad,鈥� wrote one enthusiast. Incidentally, neither of the books that these films were based on did well in the poll.

To prove that you鈥檙e not only stuck on films from the previous century , the 2005 鈥渟pace opera鈥� from Joss Whedon (creator of Buffy the Vampire Slayer), was voted third place. If the votes for individual Star Wars films were lumped together, they鈥檇 have come in fourth, no doubt resulting in howls of protest from those who commented that 鈥�Star Wars is not science fiction鈥�.

Instead, fourth place went to , the 1956 classic starring Robby the Robot. Other popular films were The Matrix, Contact, Dark Star, Gattaca and Silent Running. Less obvious were the votes for The Truman Show, Dr Strangelove and Starship Troopers: 鈥淚t was so bad it was amazing鈥�.

By far the favourite of the 254 books you voted for was , Frank Herbert鈥檚 1965 epic set on the desert planet Arrakis. The comments accompanying your votes reveal just how much this book blew your minds: 鈥淭he immersion into an alternate universe/culture/environment is incredible,鈥� wrote one voter. But you weren鈥檛 impressed by the film based on it, directed by David Lynch (one of you described it as 鈥渄isastrous鈥�).

Second place went to Isaac Asimov鈥檚 , which started out as a short story collection published in 1951 (鈥淭he history of the future,鈥� wrote one voter). Douglas Adams鈥檚 sci-fi comedy (the 快猫短视频 staff鈥檚 favourite sci-fi book) came third. 鈥淔ull of brilliant speculation masked by liberal doses of humour,鈥� wrote one voter. The 1985 Orson Scott Card novel (in which child genius Ender Wiggin must save the world from aliens) was voted in fourth, followed by Dan Simmons鈥檚 series 鈥� a futuristic Canterbury Tales, the first of which was published in 1989.

Showing that 快猫短视频 readers are up with the modern stuff too, also popular were Neil Stephenson鈥檚 1992 cyberpunk (or post-cyberpunk?) novel and Kim Stanley Robinson鈥檚 Mars trilogy about colonising the Red Planet, published in the 1990s. The most amusing entry must be this one advocating The Bible: 鈥淎 superman creates a lot of rubbish out of dust and sets up a version of a 鈥渟imulation of a city鈥� game鈥� there鈥檚 a twist at the end but I won鈥檛 spoil it for you.鈥�

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 (also see the 鈥渓ifesaving鈥� perspective that it gave the writer William Gibson). Many of the comments that accompanied your votes reveal how a film or book caused you to question the world and what it means to be human. 鈥�Dune pretty much blew my mind when I was a teenager, and I still think about it more than a decade later,鈥� wrote one voter. Another described Childhood鈥檚 End by Arthur C. Clarke: 鈥淭his book changed me as a person like no other. When I first picked up this book at the age of 13, little did I know where it was to lead me.鈥�

Competition winners

The lucky winners of our sci-fi poll prize draw were:

Nicola Jonkers of Brisbane, Australia

Chris Tolbert of St. Robert, Missouri

Christian Breiding of Santa Monica, California

They each win the top three sci-fi films and books from our poll

Read all the comments in the film poll

Read all the comments in the book poll

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