Linkage and tissue warning
Kleenex at the ready folks as SFX guides you through some of SF’s most emotionally gruelling moments. Yeah, sure, SF and fantasy’s a genre usually more associated with abstract ideas, hardware and eye-candy, but that doesn’t mean it can’t grab a hold of your heart as well as your mind occasionally.
So we asked SF readers to vote for their favourite SF tearjerker moments and over the next few pages are the results. Even a Cyberman would shed a tear at some of this lot.
SPOILER WARNING: But be warned - by its very nature, a poll like this will contain some spoilery material. However, most of the films, shows and books here are old enough that we'd be shocked if the entries reveal anything new to you: the exceptions are the new Trek movie and The Time Travelers Wife (okay the book‘s old, but a lot of people who haven’t read it will probably be going to see the new film). These are both on the page containing entries 15 to 11 - so either click past that page using the option given or scan down the page very carefully (we've avoided bolding up anything spoilery).
(Also - Torchwood: Children Of Earth broadcast while this poll was live. Judging by the response, if the timing had been slightly different, it would very probably have nabbed a Top 10 place.)
Anyway, let the countdown commence, folks!
26-21 | 20-16 | 15-11 | 10-6 | 5-2 | 1
I almost started sobbing at #4. All were good but that affected me the most.