Best Sci-Fi universe/story (new poll)

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

Why so many votes for Hitchhiker's Guide?

A lot of Adams's concepts are pretty much impervious to becoming dated, plus(/because) it's funny.

I voted for the four that aren't monuments to the preachiest impulses of mid-century liberalism, although Star Trek at its best is really good too and I wouldn't vote for Doctor Who if I weren't taking its distant past into account.

My actual answer is still the Hainish Cycle, even though the more I know about Le Guin's creative process the less I want to know. A Canticle for Leibowitz would stand as a near-perfect self-contained gem if Saint Leibowitz and the Wild Horse Woman hadn't been so badly bungled (although I'll maintain as long as I live that Wild Horse Woman had good ideas that it just didn't execute well).

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

(1) The appeal of Doctor Who is baffling. It's like Pinky and the Brain meets Back to the Future except all of the characters are British and it looks like it was filmed on a camcorder on a budget of a few hundred dollars per episode and left in someone's basement for years until later it looks as like something filmed under the direction of a person who specializes in creating television for toddlers.

The appeal of Doctor Who to me is camp for the sake of camp.