Sometimes the best characters in our favorite books aren't the ones who get top billing; often, they are secondary characters, or those who shine despite time among a large cast. If you are like us and have dreamed of seeing your favorite secondary or ensemble character get their own spin-off book or series, this week's poll is for you!
Add your picks to the poll below, or to the one in our Facebook group. This round, you can nominate and vote for as many characters as you'd like; we'll pin you down to one selection next week.
*As alway this list is made up by combining votes from this blog and our Facebook group.
Which Secondary or Ensemble Sci-Fi Characters Deserve Their Own Spin-off?
River Song from Doctor Who*13%, 89 votes
89 votes13%
89 votes - 13% of all votes
Data from StarTrek TNG*9%, 60 votes
60 votes9%
60 votes - 9% of all votes
Book from Firefly*8%, 51 vote
51 vote8%
51 vote - 8% of all votes
Trillian from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams 6%, 43 votes
43 votes6%
43 votes - 6% of all votes
Bobby Draper from The Expanse by James S.A. Corey 6%, 42 votes
42 votes6%
42 votes - 6% of all votes
Hazel Stone from 'The Moon is a Harsh Mistress' by Robert Heinlein*6%, 38 votes
38 votes6%
38 votes - 6% of all votes
Worf from Deep Space 9*5%, 36 votes
36 votes5%
36 votes - 5% of all votes
Scotty Tremaine and Horace Harkness from the Honor Harrington series by David Weber*4%, 28 votes
28 votes4%
28 votes - 4% of all votes
Stockton from Blood on the Stars by Jay Allan 4%, 27 votes
27 votes4%
27 votes - 4% of all votes
The Mother Thing from Have Spacesuit, Will Travel by Robert A. Heinlein*4%, 24 votes
24 votes4%
24 votes - 4% of all votes
Anne, the “Fair Witness”, in Robert Heinlein’s Stranger in a Strange Land.*4%, 24 votes
24 votes4%
24 votes - 4% of all votes
Hagrid from Harry Potter*3%, 22 votes
22 votes3%
22 votes - 3% of all votes
Agent Pike from the Black Fleet Saga by Joshua Dalzelle 3%, 21 vote
21 vote3%
21 vote - 3% of all votes
Korg, Thor Ragnarok*3%, 19 votes
19 votes3%
19 votes - 3% of all votes
Gregor VorBarra from the VorKosigan universe by Lois McMaster Bujold*3%, 18 votes
18 votes3%
18 votes - 3% of all votes
Q from Star Trek*3%, 17 votes
17 votes3%
17 votes - 3% of all votes
Trag Morfane from Killashandra by Anne McCaffrey*3%, 17 votes
17 votes3%
17 votes - 3% of all votes
Amos from The Expanse*2%, 16 votes
16 votes2%
16 votes - 2% of all votes
Ivanova from Babylon 5*2%, 15 votes
15 votes2%
15 votes - 2% of all votes
Jeeves from EarthCent Ambassador by E.M. Foner*2%, 12 votes
12 votes2%
12 votes - 2% of all votes
Teela Brown from Ringwold by Larry Niven*2%, 12 votes
12 votes2%
12 votes - 2% of all votes
Stiller from Dune*2%, 11 votes
11 votes2%
11 votes - 2% of all votes
vanBuskirk, the Valerian space marine from the Lensmen saga*1%, 8 votes
8 votes1%
8 votes - 1% of all votes
Noah and Sean from the First Colony series by Ken Lozito 1%, 6 votes
6 votes1%
6 votes - 1% of all votes
Gabrielle from the kurtherian gambit*1%, 4 votes
4 votes1%
4 votes - 1% of all votes
Zee from Star Kingdom by Lindsay Buroker*1%, 4 votes
4 votes1%
4 votes - 1% of all votes
Quaddies from Falling Free by Louis Bujold McMaster*1%, 4 votes
4 votes1%
4 votes - 1% of all votes
Darcy Lewis from the MCU*1%, 4 votes
4 votes1%
4 votes - 1% of all votes
Major/Colonel Emily Perkins from Expeditionary Force series by Craig Alanson*0%, 1 vote
1 vote
1 vote - 0% of all votes
Fitz and Ricco from Extinction Cycle by Nicholas S Smith*0%, 1 vote
1 vote
1 vote - 0% of all votes
T*0%, 1 vote
1 vote
1 vote - 0% of all votes
Mavis Freestone & Leonardo from the Eve Dallas books by J.D.Robb*0%, 1 vote
1 vote
1 vote - 0% of all votes
Peabody from Eve Dallas books by J.D. ROBB*0%, 1 vote
1 vote
1 vote - 0% of all votes
Total Votes: 677
Voters: 313
April 20, 2021
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InstaAunt says:
No, I don’t want to discuss it. I chose the only interesting characters (that didn’t die), and fellow voters failed to recognize their greatness. The very least they (YOU) can do is read the entire EarthCent series by Foner. The books are far more worth your time than the trashy novels by Heinlein (only his YA books were good).
Agree strongly that the EarthCent books are wonderful reading. Not sure I would call Heinlein books trashy, but he did tend to trample on sexual mores of his time. The Aliens of Earthcent tend to be puritanical in viewpoint, and I have recently come to largely agree with the idea that teenage sexual liberation is insane. However my solution would be to use medical means to render the males either temporarily sterile or temporarily impotent until age 25 or so.
No, I don’t want to discuss it. I chose the only interesting characters (that didn’t die), and fellow voters failed to recognize their greatness. The very least they (YOU) can do is read the entire EarthCent series by Foner. The books are far more worth your time than the trashy novels by Heinlein (only his YA books were good).
Agree strongly that the EarthCent books are wonderful reading. Not sure I would call Heinlein books trashy, but he did tend to trample on sexual mores of his time. The Aliens of Earthcent tend to be puritanical in viewpoint, and I have recently come to largely agree with the idea that teenage sexual liberation is insane. However my solution would be to use medical means to render the males either temporarily sterile or temporarily impotent until age 25 or so.
*Stilgar