Sci-Fi Channel Poll Selects Top 10 Movies, Books & TV Series
Jun 20, 2008 by Bruce SimmonsThe Sci Fi Channel has compiled a list of the top 10 sci-fi books, movies and TV shows
The last time I took a survey, I got screwed over.
A few years back I participated in a survey for my cable company and it asked what specialty channels I liked. IE: Being a fervent NASCAR fan, I admitted to The Speed Channel and a few others. A year later my favorite channels were on their own special programming tier that I had to pay extra for.
After talking to a lot of people back then about that survey and what they told me, it seems all the survey did was tell the cable company what channels to charge extra for. Thanks Mr. Cable company. I’ll remember that one.
With that said: What do Blade Runner, Firefly and 1984 all have in common?
They topped their respective categories in a survey titled “Visions for Tomorrow” that The Sci-Fi Channel conducted asking site visitors to report in on their favorite movies, sci-fi shows and books.
The survey tabulated approximately 20,000 votes and the top notches for film went to Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner, the top TV spot went to Joss Whedon’s Firefly and the book with the top honors was George Orwell’s 1984.
My faith in the fandom of sci-fi has been renewed and as you are about to see, it was a healthy looking set of top 10′s that came across the results:
An interesting observation is that only one film jumped across categories, and that was 2001: A Space Odyssey, which ranked 4th in films and 8th in books. (Shouldn’t that be some bonus ranking?)
The complete list of the results are:
Top 10 Films to Watch
- Blade Runner
- The Matrix
- The Terminator
- 2001: A Space Odyssey
- Jurassic Park
- Close Encounters of the Third Kind
- The Day After Tomorrow
- The Day the Earth Stood Still
- Children of Men
- Armageddon
Top 10 Television Series to Watch
- Firefly
- Battlestar Galactica (2004)
- The X-Files
- Heroes
- Stargate: SG-1
- Doctor Who
- Star Trek: The Next Generation
- Babylon 5
- Star Trek
- Buffy The Vampire Slayer
Top 10 Books to Read
- 1984 by George Orwell
- The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells
- Dune by Frank Herbert
- The Time Machine by H.G. Wells
- I, Robot by Isaac Asimov
- The Stand by Stephen King
- Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
- 2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke
- Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
- The Andromeda Strain by Michael Crichton
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790
When I first started reading King’s the Dark Tower series I was very excited at the prospects of what the future books were going to bring to the King universe. I read; before the Internet became the medium for discussions like we have here at Screen Rant; that King himslef had stated that he was going to tie together a lot of loose ends from his books and we would see the reappearence of a lot of his characters in the Dark Tower series..CHaracters that had been killed or sacrificed themselves or had played a huge role in his books…A few of the characters he mentioned were NIck from the Stand, the Priest from Salem’s Lot, Ralph from Insomnia, Stan from IT and countless others who fans of his universe would recognize immediately…There was going to be the ultimate showdown of good vs evil and the Dark Tower Book 7 was going to be were it all culminated…Now after King has his accident I wasn’t getting the picture that this was all going where he had initially said it would so like I said before I stopped reading the books and have never read THe Dark Tower…I thought that Captain Tripps would have made an appearance in the Dark Tower somehwere to play a pivotal role but like I said I never finished. Randal Flagg is there as he was in the STand so maybe if I ever finish it I will find out. Have you read it? If so how did you think it ended without spoilers please…
Sorry Greenknight333 but I didn’t read any of the Dark Tower series. In fact back in the day before all these distractions I read more Dean Koontz than King. Sorry I can’t help ya on
that.
On Tripps I meant where did you think landed at the end of The Stand.
Since he’s a fallen Angel he knows no afterlife so he was just dumped on that beach at the end.
I remember when I was younger I thought that was a lame ending for his charcter.
I didn’t realise King had his own version of the Avengers going….
(Extra stuff).
I did hear that the guy that hit King died about 2 years after the accident and I think King even went to his funeral.
The guy was very depressed that he hit Stephen King and they said that he slid into a depression and died of a disease.
King meanwhile, seems like he’s lost the spark?
if I had his ear I would tell him to write some sci-fi stories.
790
I think he hit one of the alternate reality threads that King said all emanated from the Dark Tower..Kind of like the DC Crisis on Infinite Earths..I Thought for sure he was going to turn up in the Dark Tower Series as a helper to Flagg but like I said I haven’t read the final book…
Of course !!!
Gheesh I should have figured that out myself from your last thread. (Idiot 790 !!!!).
Yeah your totally right on Greenknight333. Thanks for that info.
Closure….ahhh.
My god, how can that be an accurate list without
Farscape?!