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GMRC February Review Poll
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Darker Than You Think by Jack Williamson (charlesdee)
Prelude to Space by Arthur C. Clarke (valashain)
A Time of Changes by Rober Silverberg (Emil)
The Golden Apples of the Sun and Other Stories (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)
This is a multiple choice poll.

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Posted 2012-03-02 3:50 PM (#3079)
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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 9 featured reviews below and cast you vote for the February GMRC Review of the Month!

Winner gets the following:

  • GMRC T-shirt - your choice of colors so long as it's black
  • GMRC button - you can never have too much flair
  • Set of WWEnd Hugo Award bookmarks - I'll be honest, we over-bought these for WorldCon so we need to unload some but they're still pretty cool and they will, in fact, hold your place in any paper book.
  • Book of your choice from the WWEnd bookshelf - the winner will get a list of ~20 titles to pick from
  • Everlasting Glory - So you'll have that goin' for ya. Which is nice.

Runners up will get a GMRC button and a set of bookmarks.

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jedi timothy
Posted 2012-03-03 9:40 AM (#3080 - in reply to #3079)
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Location: Dallas,Tx.		the best two out of those books are:

darker than you think by jack williamson got that on my nook color
the big time by fritz leiber also got that on my nook color

the others I had to hit the library
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Posted 2012-03-03 11:10 AM (#3081 - in reply to #3079)
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Rhondak101 sent me these interesting stats to share with everybody:

Authors with the most books read:

Authors with the most different titles read:

Authors without any books read yet:

Books most frequently read:

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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jfrantz
Posted 2012-03-03 9:56 PM (#3083 - in reply to #3081)
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Location: Florida		Awesome list of stats. Will Rhondak101 be maintaining them till the end of the challenge?
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Rhondak101
Posted 2012-03-04 6:38 AM (#3085 - in reply to #3083)
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Location: SC, USA		Jeremy, I had not really considered it. The idea of 984 books at the end seems a little bit daunting. However, I think that I might have figured out a way to keep track without having to do much recounting. We'll see if it works.
Rhonda
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Emil
Posted 2012-03-05 11:26 AM (#3088 - in reply to #3079)
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Location: Grootfontein, Namibia		Very interesting, these stats. I hope you can sustain it, Rhonda.
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Scott Laz
Posted 2012-03-05 1:18 PM (#3089 - in reply to #3079)
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Location: Gunnison, Colorado		Can we vote for more than one review?
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Rhondak101
Posted 2012-03-05 1:23 PM (#3090 - in reply to #3089)
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Rhondak101
Posted 2012-03-05 1:25 PM (#3091 - in reply to #3090)
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Location: SC, USA		@Scott, I think we can vote for 3 reviews.
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Posted 2012-03-05 1:25 PM (#3092 - in reply to #3089)
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Location: Dallas, Texas		@Scott Laz:  You can vote for up to 3 reviews.  Technically the software will let you vote for all of them (it's off the shelf software) but we ask that you limit yourself to 3.
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Emil
Posted 2012-04-13 7:16 AM (#3170 - in reply to #3079)
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Location: Grootfontein, Namibia		Thanks Dave, I've received "Planesrunner" and the additional items. The badges are awesome!
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Posted 2012-04-13 3:26 PM (#3173 - in reply to #3170)
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Emil - 2012-04-13 7:16 AM Thanks Dave, I've received "Planesrunner" and the additional items. The badges are awesome!

Glad you got your stuff!  T-shirt should be coming soon too.  When it does, send us a pic of you wearing it and I'll post it in the blog.

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