Prologues: The Poll

[thirdworld]

I've been to panels at cons where editors/writers believed that many/most readers don't read prologues and it made no sense to me. Surely a reader would always read the prologue? Or am I wrong? A recent poll of hands at our writers' group saw a 70%-30% split, with most agreeing with me. Well, almost. Truth is few had just a yes or no answer, so I thought I'd create this poll, ask all of you Science fiction and fantasy readers and writers to tell me what you think, and maybe get a good idea of the real answer.

Please spread the word if you can, from yout LJ, Twitter, FB, etc. The more folks who fill this in the more meaningful the results.

Poll Prologues: Great, useless or just okay