There Can Be Only One

If you're anything like me, Dear Reader, you have opinions. Occasionally those opinions are dearly held. And when it comes to sci-fi/fantasy, those opinions are a matter of life and death. Luckily, the internet has come through for us (as it is wont to do). I present: polls of moderate importance to the online sf/f community.

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First up at io9.com, March Movie Madness. Through a steady string of votes, they've narrowed the most popular sf/f movies (among readers of io9, at least) to the Final Round: The Empire Strikes Back vs. Serenity

Y'all. Really now. That would be like choosing which of my children I love most. I don't know that I can bring myself to vote. Because on the Empire hand there's this, and on the Serenity hand there's this. I don't even. I can't choose, y'all. I can't.

Second up, Suvudu.com's fantasy character Cage Match. Last year Rand al'Thor from the Wheel of Time series trounced the competition. The cool thing about Suvudu: it's run by Del Rey Spectra, a big hitter in the publishing world, and they attract the attention of the real creators of the characters in the cage matches, who occasionally pop by to post narratives of how they imagine the contest would go. In the 2010 match, George R.R. Martin and Brandon Sanderson (among others) stopped by to give their own accounts of their characters' victories. So. Freakin'. Cool.

I bid you, Dear Reader, to go forth and exercise your internet-given democratic rights.