Locus Bestsellers   HARDCOVERS Months on list Last month 1) Krondor: Tear of the Gods, Raymond E. Feist (Eos) 1 - 2) Changer of Worlds, David Weber, ed. (Baen) 1 - 3) Shadow of the Hegemon, Orson Scott Card (Tor) 3 1 4) The Serpent's Shadow, Mercedes Lackey (DAW) 1 - 5) A Storm of Swords, George R.R. Martin (Bantam Spectra) 6 4 6) Winter's Heart, Robert Jordan (Tor) 5 3 7) Deepsix, Jack McDevitt (Eos) 1 - *) Wizardborn, David Farland (Tor) 1 - 9) The Wayfarer Redemption, Sara Douglass (Tor) 1 - 10) Past the Size of Dreaming, Nina Kiriki Hoffman (Ace) 1 -   PAPERBACKS     1) Ashes of Victory, David Weber (Baen) 1 - 2) Pegasus in Space, Anne McCaffrey (Del Rey) 1 - 3) The Second Summoning, Tanya Huff (DAW) 1 - 4) Ender's Shadow, Orson Scott Card (Tor) 4 1 5) License Invoked, Robert Asprin & Jody Lynn Nye (Baen) 1 - 6) Infinity Beach, Jack McDevitt (Eos) 2 2 7) The Hobbit, J.R.R. Tolkien (Del Rey) 5 5 8) The Stone Canal, Ken MacLeod (Tor) 1 - 9) The Fellowship of the Ring, J.R.R. Tolkien (Del Rey) 1 - 10) The Hob's Bargain, Patricia Briggs (Ace) 1 -   TRADE PAPERBACKS     1) The Mists of Avalon, Marion Zimmer Bradley (Del Rey) 54 5 2) Perdido Street Station, China Miéville (Del Rey) 1 - 3) The Hobbit, J.R.R. Tolkien (Houghton Mifflin) 4 2 4) The Big U, Neal Stephenson (HarperPerennial) 2 1 5) The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien (Houghton Mifflin) 7 3   MEDIA-RELATED     1) Babylon 5: The Passing of the Techno-Mages, Book 1: Casting Shadows,Jeanne Cavelos (Del Rey) 1 - 2) Star Trek, the Next Generation: The Maximum Warp, Book Two, Dave Galanter &Greg Brodeur (Pocket) 1 - 3) Star Trek, the Next Generation: The Maximum Warp, Book One, Dave Galanter & Greg Brodeur (Pocket) 1 - 4) Star Wars: Darth Maul: Shadow Hunter, Michael Reaves (Del Rey) 2 1 5) Batman: No Man's Land, Greg Rucka (Pocket) 1 -   GAMING-RELATED     1) Forgotten Realms: The Summoning, Troy Denning (Wizards of the Coast) 1 - 2) DragonLance: Dragons of a Fallen Sun, Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman (Wizards of the Coast) 7 1 3) DragonLance: Downfall, Jean Rabe (Wizards of the Coast) 1 - 4) Legend of the Five Rings: The Phoenix, Stephen D. Sullivan (Wizards of the Coast) 1 - 5) StarCraft #1: Liberty's Crusade, Jeff Grubb (Pocket) 1 - Ashes of Victory topped the paperback list, with Pegasus in Space not far behind. New runner-up: Stars Over Stars by K.D. Wentworth (Baen). Nominees: 103, one less than last month. The Mists of Avalon topped the trade paperback category, slightly ahead of Perdido Street Station and The Hobbit, which were only one point apart. New runner-up: H. Beam Piper's The Complete Paratime (Ace). Nominees: 58, down slightly from 60. Babylon 5: The Passing of the Techno-Mages, Book 1: Casting Shadows dominated media-related titles. Nominees: 35, down from 38. Forgotten Realms: The Summoning headed the gaming-related list. Nominees: 29, up one from last month. Compiled with data from: Adventures in Crime & Space (TX), Amazon.com (USA), Barnes & Noble/B. Dalton (USA), Basilisk Dreams (Canada), Bookshop Santa Cruz (CA), The Booksmith (CA), Borders Bookstores (USA), Dangerous Visions (CA), DreamHaven (MN), Future Fantasy (CA), Heroes & Dragons (CO), Lone Star (TX), Midtown Comics (NY), Musicland Group (MN), Mysterious Galaxy (CA), Pages for All Ages (IL), John W. Rollins, Bookseller (MI), Saint Mark's (NY), Science Fiction & Mystery Bookshop (GA), The Space-Crime Continuum (MA), Toadstool (2 in NH), Totem Bookshop (WA), Uncle Hugo's (MN), University Bookstore (WA), Waldenbooks/BGI (USA), White Dwarf (Canada). Data period: March 2001.

June 2001