Locus Bestsellers   HARDCOVERS Months on list Last month 1) Shadow Puppets, Orson Scott Card (Tor) 2 1 2) Dune: The Butlerian Jihad, Brian Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson (Tor) 1 - 3) The Voyage of the Jerle Shannara: Morgawr, Terry Brooks (Del Rey) 2 6 4) Coraline, Neil Gaiman (HarperCollins) 3 5 5) The Fifth Sorceress, Robert Newcomb (Del Rey) 2 4 6) War of Honor, David Weber (Baen) 1 - 7) Roger Zelazny’s The Dawn of Amber, John Gregory Betancourt (ibooks) 1 - 8) 1633, David Weber & Eric Flint (Baen) 3 3 *) Requiem for the Sun, Elizabeth Haydon (Tor) 1 - 10) The Salmon of Doubt, Douglas Adams (Random House) 5 2   PAPERBACKS 1) Dune: House Corrino, Brian Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson (Bantam Spectra) 1 - 2) The Voyage of the Jerle Shannara: Antrax, Terry Brooks (Del Rey) 1 - 3) Summer Knight, Jim Butcher (Roc) 1 - 4) The Duke of Uranium, John Barnes (Warner Aspect) 1 - 5) American Gods, Neil Gaiman (HarperTorch) 5 2 6) Eternity Row, S.L. Viehl (Roc) 1 - 7) The Hobbit, J.R.R. Tolkien (Del Rey) 22 6 8) Angelmass, Timothy Zahn (Tor) 1 - 9) Probability Moon, Nancy Kress (Tor) 1 - 10) The Forge of Mars, Bruce Balfour (Ace) 1 - *) The Two Towers, J.R.R. Tolkien (Del Rey) 11 3   TRADE PAPERBACKS 1) The Two Towers, J.R.R. Tolkien (Houghton Mifflin) 7 3 2) The Last Hero, Terry Pratchett (Eos) 1 - 3) The Onion Girl, Charles de Lint (Tor) 1 - 4) Miles Errant, Lois McMaster Bujold (Baen) 1 - 5) The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien (Houghton Mifflin) 23 1   MEDIA-RELATED 1) Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Mission: Gamma Book One: Twilight, David R. George III (Pocket) 2 3 2) Star Wars: The New Jedi Order: Traitor, Matthew Stover (Del Rey) 3 1 3) Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Mission: Gamma Book Two: This Gray Spirit, Heather Jarman (Pocket) 1 - 4) Buffy, the Vampire Slayer: These Our Actors, Ashley McConnell & Dori Koogler (Simon Pulse) 1 - 5) Star Wars: The New Jedi Order: Enemy Lines II: Rebel Stand, Aaron Allston (Del Rey) 5 2   GAMING-RELATED 1) Forgotten Realms: Sea of Swords, R.A. Salvatore (Wizards of the Coast) 6 1 2) BattleTech: Endgame, Loren L. Coleman (Roc) 1 - 3) DragonLance: Dragons of a Lost Star, Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman (Wizards of the Coast) 11 2 *) Forgotten Realms: Dissolution, Richard Lee Byers (Wizards of the Coast) 1 - 5) Dungeons & Dragons: Oath of Nerull, T.H. Lain (Wizards of the Coast) 1 - Shadow Puppets led the hardcover category for the second month straight, with Dune: The Butlerian Jihad and The Voyage of the Jerle Shannara: Morgawr just a few points behind. Conrad’s Time Machine by Leo Frankowski (Baen) was the new runner-up. We had 72 nominees, down from 74 last month. Dune: House Corrino dominated the paperback category by over 100 points. New runner-up: David Farland’s Wizardborn (Tor). Nominees: 89, up from 76. The Two Towers topped trade paperbacks by a solid margin. New runner-up: Eternal Frontier by James H. Schmitz (Baen). Nominees: 62, up from 54. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Mission: Gamma Book One: Twilight headed media-related titles by a slim margin. Nominees: 35, down from 40. Forgotten Realms: Sea of Swords had a substantial lead in the gaming-related category for the second month in a row. Nominees: 27, down from 33. Compiled with data from Barnes & Noble/B. Dalton (USA), Basilisk Dreams (Canada), Dangerous Visions (CA), DreamHaven (MN), Heroes & Dragons (CO), Lone Star (TX), Midtown Comics (NY), Musicland Group (MN), Mysterious Galaxy (CA), Pages for All Ages (IL), Pandemonium Books & Games (MA), John W. Rollins, Bookseller (MI), Saint Mark’s (NY), The Stars Our Destination (IL), Toadstool (2 in NH), Uncle Hugo’s (MN), University Bookstore (WA), Waldenbooks/BGI (USA), White Dwarf (Canada). Data period: September 2002.

December 2002