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Posted by Joe (@joe) on Sept. 3, 2025, 9:56 p.m.
They Shoot Pictures has it trending up. These numbers are it’s position in the top 1000 list over the years:
EYES WIDE SHUT (Stanley Kubrick) 601 > 627 > 789 > 806 > 769 > 672 > 529 > 401 > 437 > 458 > 437 > 331 > 325 > 333 > 336 > 281 > 270 > 281 > 271 > 264
I was going to post all of his movies as they appear in the top 1000, but the cut and past was messy and it’s easy to sort the table:
https://www.theyshootpictures.com/gf1000_all1000films_table.php
This is a list compiled from other lists. It’s clearly not a survey of the general public, since Barry Lyndon is the 2nd highest ranking Kubrick movie, and Full Metal Jacket is below Eyes Wide Shut and Paths of Glory.
The other most famous David Brin books are Startide Rising and The Uplift War, which are part of the same series.
Most SF authors are only famous to SF fans, but in that market Martin was really big, mostly for short fiction, from the mid-70s through the mid-80s. He published in the most of the big publications of the era: Analog, Omni, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Asimov’s; won awards, appeared in “Year’s Best” collections, was anthologized in collections like The Oxford Book of Science Fiction and the Norton Book of Science Fiction (co-edited by Le Guin)
After that he started working more in television, on shows like the ’80s Twilight Zone and the live action Beauty and the Beast with Ron Pearlman. He worked alot editing and writing for some sort of shared universe superhero anthology series called “Wild Cards.”” It’s still going on, but I know know what it is from reading about his career.
The first episode of the 90s Outer Limits series was a feature length adaptation of one of his most famous stories, Sandkings, which appeared in Omni in 1979.
The reason he walked away from the first phase of his career and a mainstay of the magazine market was that it didn’t pay as well as working on TV, not because he wasn’t having enough success at it.