Locus Bestsellers   HARDCOVERS Months on list Last month 1) Kiln People, David Brin (Tor) 1 - 2) Fool’s Errand, Robin Hobb (Bantam Spectra) 1 - 3) The Pillars of Creation, Terry Goodkind (Tor) 3 1 4) The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien (Houghton Mifflin) 4 3 5) The Voyage of the Jerle Shannara: Antrax, Terry Brooks (Del Rey) 5 2 6) The Peshawar Lancers, S.M. Stirling (Roc) 1 - 7) Vitals, Greg Bear (Del Rey) 1 - 8) The Excalibur Alternative, David Weber (Baen) 1 - 9) Ombria in Shadow, Patricia A. McKillip (Ace) 1 - 10) The Hobbit, J.R.R. Tolkien (Houghton Mifflin) 2 5   PAPERBACKS     1) Winter’s Heart, Robert Jordan (Tor) 1 - 2) The Skies of Pern, Anne McCaffrey (Del Rey) 1 - 3) Passage, Connie Willis (Bantam Spectra) 1 - 4) The Fellowship of the Ring, J.R.R. Tolkien (Del Rey) 11 2 5) The Two Towers, J.R.R. Tolkien (Del Rey) 3 4 6) The Hobbit, J.R.R. Tolkien (Del Rey) 15 3 7) The Return of the King, J.R.R. Tolkien (Del Rey) 3 5 8) Shadow of the Hegemon, Orson Scott Card (Tor) 2 1 9) Manifold: Space, Stephen Baxter (Del Rey) 1 - *) The Silmarillion, J.R.R. Tolkien (Del Rey) 2 10   TRADE PAPERBACKS     1) The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien (Houghton Mifflin) 16 3 2) The Fellowship of the Ring, J.R.R. Tolkien (Houghton Mifflin) 4 1 3) The Hobbit, J.R.R. Tolkien (Houghton Mifflin) 14 2 4) The Two Towers, J.R.R. Tolkien (Houghton Mifflin) 2 5 5) The Return of the King, J.R.R. Tolkien (Houghton Mifflin) 1 -   MEDIA-RELATED     1) Star Wars: The New Jedi Order: Dark Journey, Elaine Cunningham (Del Rey) 1 - 2) Babylon 5: The Passing of the Techno-Mages, Book III: Invoking Darkness, Jeanne Cavelos (Del Rey) 3 1 3) Star Trek: In the Name of Honor, Dayton Ward (Pocket) 1 - 4) Farscape: Ship of Ghosts, David Bischoff (Tor) 1 - 5) Star Trek: Enterprise: By the Book, Dean Wesley Smith & Kristine Kathryn Rusch (Pocket) 1 -   GAMING-RELATED     1) MechWarrior: The Dying Time, Thomas S. Gressman (Roc) 1 - 2) Forgotten Realms: Sea of Swords, R.A. Salvatore (Wizards of the Coast) 4 2 3) Forgotten Realms: The Siege, Troy Denning (Wizards of the Coast) 2 1 4) Forgotten Realms: Servant of the Shard, R.A. Salvatore (Wizards of the Coast) 9 5 5) Halo: The Fall of Reach, Eric Nylund (Del Rey) 1 - Kiln People topped the hardcover category, with Fool’s Errand just a few points behind. Acorna’s Search by Anne McCaffrey & Elizabeth Ann Scarborough (Eos) was the new runner-up. We had 77 nominees, well below 93 last month. Winter’s Heart dominated the paperback list, with The Skies of Pern a strong second. Ken MacLeod’s Cosmonaut Keep (Tor) was the new runner-up. Nominees: 60, down substantially from 79. Tolkien titles took the top five slots on the trade paperback list again, with The Lord of the Rings in the top spot by a wide margin. The new runner-up was Nameless Cults: The Cthulhu Mythos Fiction of Robert E. Howard (Chaosium). Nominees: 59, one more than last month. Star Wars: The New Jedi Order: Dark Journey led media-related books by a slim margin. Nominees: 31, down slightly from 34. MechWarrior: The Dying Time topped the gaming-related category by a solid margin. Nominees: 34, off from 36. Compiled with data from: Adventures in Crime & Space (TX), Amazon.com (USA), Barnes & Noble/B. Dalton (USA), Basilisk Dreams (Canada), The Booksmith (CA), Borders Bookstores (USA), DreamHaven (MN), Heroes & Dragons (CO), Lone Star (TX), Midtown Comics (NY), Musicland Group (MN), Mysterious Galaxy (CA), Pandemonium Books & Games (MA), John W. Rollins, Bookseller (MI), Saint Mark’s (NY), The Stars Our Destination (IL), Toadstool (2 in NH), Totem Bookshop (WA), Uncle Hugo’s (MN), University Bookstore (WA), Waldenbooks/BGI (USA), White Dwarf (Canada). Data period: January 2002.

April 2002