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Originally Posted by silasgreenback
Ender's Game, yet again. I can't help but wonder if people keep voting for it in all the polls that place it in the top or second slot because they feel they're supposed to.
Sure, it's decent, even three star decent, but I'd rate anything by Frederik Pohl, C. J. Cherryh or Nancy Kress over Ender's Game in any "best of" ranking.
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I'm disappointed at that, too. I'm a big fan of Cherryh, but would her vote have been too divided? Has she written too many good books without any one really standing out? It's notable that Tolkien and Herbert, the two winners, clearly have only one great book each. (Okay, maybe two for Tolkien, but it's still not really splitting the vote.)
And I think Pohl's Gateway might be my favourite idea anywhere. It is in the list at number 20, which is more than Cherryh and Kress can manage, but I'd agree that Ender's Game is hugely overrated. Being a popularity poll, it's always going to end being the books that everyone has read, no matter how great something else might be.
I'd have been very disappointed if Ender's Game had won, but at least I can respect Dune.