Best Story by Category Poll?

[merritt]

I would like to make a poll/gather some data but wonder if members are willing /interested in participating.
Since I am old I am more interested in a personal perspective & the long term deleterious effects of reading fiction...
I don't want to make it if their is no interest.

Best Story may not have sold the most copies or generated income commensurate with its merritts, but it lodged itself in a Chrons brain.

I am going to call it the Mairty award.

Best Storyy)

Juvie-Wonder
Juvie-Serious
Juvie-Impact

Series-Hard
Series-Mixed

Mature - Re-Read - either +-change/perspective
Mature-Wonder
Mature - Humorous
Mature - Most Memorable Hugo - maybe not the best, but a story you always remember -and associate with the Hugo
Mature - Favorite story or Novel
Mature - Most Impact on you
Mature - Best Story pre 1930
Mature - Most Bad-ass or Dystopian
Mature - Best Love Story Sci-Fi
I almost forgot - Mature - Best or most memorable Character / Dickhead - Anti Hero

Nobody can forget "I have no mouth but I must scream" so lets just hand it Memorable Icon status to keep it out.

I am also interested in participants age so I will probably have an age marker.

 

[Caliban]

Can you clarify the rules a bit for stupid me? These are short fiction pieces right? And what if i haven't quite read enough to fill all the categories can I still participate with the ones I can answer?

 

[merritt]

I think Best Story maybe any length, Novel, Short Fiction even a series of books, its about content that affected the respondant.
If you haven't read enough then leave some blank.

Maybe Favorite and Most Impact should be combined?

 

[Bick]

A few picks off the top of my head:

Series-Hard Riverworld (Farmer)
Mature - Re-Read Foundation (Asimov)
Mature - Wonder Hothouse (Aldiss)
Mature - Humorous Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy (Adams)
Mature - Most Memorable Hugo Flowers for Algernon (Keyes)
Mature - Favorite Short Story There Will Come Soft Rains (Bradbury)
Mature - Most Impact on you A Fall of Moondust (Clarke)
Mature - Best or most memorable Anti Hero Tik-Tok (Sladek)

 

[Caliban]

Series-Hard: Revelation Space (Reynolds)
Series-Mixed: Xenogenesis Trilogy (Butler)
Mature - Best Story or Novel: More Than Human (Sturgeon)
Mature - Re-Read: Last and First Men (Stapleton)
Mature - Wonder: Left Hand of Darkness (Le-Guin)
Mature - Humerous: Good Omens (Pratchett and Gaiman)
Mature - Most Memorable Hugo: American Gods (Gaiman)
Mature - Favorite Short Story: Virconium Knights (M. John Harrison)
Mature - Most Impact on Me: The Scar (Mieville)