In conjunction with the debut of Adam P. Knave’s Crazy Little Things at the 51st Annual Lunacon in New York, DMD! surveyed con-goers for what they considered to be the Greatest Science Fiction Movie of All Time. We began with a ballot listing five titles designed to foment controversy: Metropolis, Plan 9 From Outer Space, Star Wars, Alien, and Independence Day, along with a space for a write-in nomination. The votes were tallied and the results are as follows:

1. Plan 9 From Outer Space, despite having the requisite spaceships, aliens, and other science fictiony stuff, came in last with only 5 votes.
2. Independence Day, which has aliens, spaceships, and Will Smith, garnered only 7 votes.
3. Metropolis, Fritz Lang’s silent spectacular, came in third, with 12 votes.
4. Alien, Ridley Scott’s big-budget remake of IT! The Terror From Beyond Space, racked up a decent 20 votes.
5. And, topping them all, and reigning supreme at the top of the heap, was Star Wars (retroactively known as Star Wars Episode 4: A New Hope–and my girlfriend tells me that it is sad that I know this), with a stunning 42 votes. This, despite all efforts from various DMD staffers to rig the vote in favor of Ed Wood’s clearly superior and infinitely more heartfelt anti-classic.

The write-in votes are also worth noting:

• The 13th Warrior (1)
• 2001: A Space Odyssey (5)
• Aliens (1)
• Barbarella (1)
• Bladerunner (12)
• The Birds (1)
• Brazil (1)
• Children Of Men (1)
• Close Encounters of the Third Kind (2)
• Cloverfield (1)
• The Day The Earth Stood Still (7)
• Demolition Man (1)
• The Empire Strikes Back (2)
• Equilibrium (1)
• Fantastic Voyage (1) 
• The Fly ‘86 (1)
• Forbidden Planet (6)
• Gattaca (1)
• Godzilla ‘54 (1)
• Howard The Duck (1)
• Just Imagine (1)
• Killer Klowns From Outer Space (1)
• Logan’s Run (1)
• Pitch Black (1)
• Planet Of The Apes ‘69 (2)
• Royal Space Force (1)
• Santa Claus Conquers The Martians (1)
• Serenity (8)
• Solaris ‘72 (1)
• Things To Come (1)
• The Time Machine ‘60 (1)
• Tron (1)

…and, finally, the oddest write-in vote:

• Singing In The Rain (1) 

So, you might have just seen us at Lunacon. We hope you did! That GREATEST SF MOVIE OF ALL TIME list is coming. As soon as someone who updates the site gets the actual list.

In the meantime, look at the catalog, buy something from the store and don’t forget your copy of our newest release: CRAZY LITTLE THINGS by Adam P. Knave.

Well folks, the Store is open. Everything is discounted and ready to ship out to you! Go forth and browse.

Enjoy!

There are some books coming. Info on those will be released as soon as it can be. Contracts to be singed, people to be locked in cages - you know the deal.

The Catalog is 95% finished, so why not give it a look? See the stuff that DMD has produced! Go on, it won’t hurt. And while you’re there looking note that bit about a store… No it isn’t up yet but it will be. Mid-October should see the launch of the DMD Web Store.

Special offers! Packages! Shiny things for cheap! Oh yes.

Stay tuned…

Yes folks, Die Monster Die! books is getting a major facelift. So, over the next few days we will be adding all sorts of content and stuff and things for your enjoyment. Feel free to sniff around and look, but do understand that things can change with a moments notice right now. Thanks for understanding and for reading yet another damned Under Construction post.

Because let’s face it, how many web pages aren’t under construction? The dead ones. The ones no one gives a damn about. So I suppose we’re unique - just like everyone else.

Anyway: back to work.