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WWEnd Grand Master Reading Challenge: February Review Poll
Month 2 of the 2012 WWEnd Grand Master Reading Challenge is now complete and it’s time to vote on the featured reivews. Here are the numbers after 2 months: 80 participants, 134 books read and 48 reviews. Compared to last month we’re up 15 participants and 28 reviews while the total books read more than doubled!
Take a look at the 8 featured reviews below and be sure to cast your vote for the February GMRC Review of the Month!
- Darker Than You Think by Jack Williamson (charlesdee)
- Prelude to Space by Arthur C. Clarke (valashain)
- A Time of Changes by Robert Silverberg (Emil)
- The Golden Apples of the Sun and Other Stories by Ray Bradbury (Rhondak101)
- The Demolished Man by Alfred Bester (Scott Laz)
- The Big Time by Fritz Leiber (jfrantz)
- The Stochastic Man by Robert Silverberg (Allie)
- The Demolished Man by Alfred Bester (jfrantz)
We’ll keep the poll open until the 15th so you have plenty of time to read all the reviews you missed. Voting is open to all WWEnd members, not just challenge participants.
Good luck to everyone and thanks for the great reviews!
Update: Rhondak101 sent me these interesting stats to share with everybody:
Authors with the most books read:
- Isaac Asimov (13)
- Robert A. Heinlein (12)
- Ursula K. Le Guin (11)
- Joe Haldeman (11)
Authors with the most different titles read:
- Isaac Asimov (8)
- Robert A. Heinlein (8)
- Ursula K. Le Guin (6)
- Joe Haldeman (6)
- Ray Bradbury (6)
Authors without any books read yet:
Books most frequently read:
- Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed (5)
- Joe Haldeman, The Forever War (5)
- Alfred Bester, The Demolished Man (4)
- Alfred Bester, The Stars My Destination (4)
- Michael Moorcock, Behold the Man (4)
- 9 other books with 3 reads
The most read authors list should come as no surprise. These folks are all giants of SF/F. That we’re only shy 3 authors to be read after 2 months is pretty cool. It occured to me the other day that we should have made Damon Knight required reading for the challenge – the award bears his name after all. You’ll note that all of the most frequently read books are SF Masterworks. It seems you guys are doubling up on your challenges!
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I think it’s an excellent idea to make reading Damon Knight compulsory. I have both Gunn and Clement on my list, and will swop someone else I planned to read for Knight. All four his short story collection is already loaded, which is always a good starting point for someone not read before.
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