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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!

• 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)

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.

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:

• James E. Gunn
• Damon Knight
• Hal Clement

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!

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.