Locus Bestsellers   HARDCOVERS Months on list Last month 1) Joust, Mercedes Lackey (DAW) 1 - 2) Crossroads of Twilight, Robert Jordan (Tor) 3 1 3) Pattern Recognition, William Gibson (Putnam) 2 2 4) Empire from the Ashes, David Weber (Baen) 1 - 5) Worlds of Honor #4: The Service of the Sword, David Weber, ed. (Baen) 1 - 6) The Voyage of the Jerle Shannara: Morgawr, Terry Brooks (Ballantine Del Rey) 7 4 7) Golden Fool, Robin Hobb (Bantam Spectra) 3 7 8) Dune: The Butlerian Jihad, Brian Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson (Tor) 7 8 9) Humans, Robert J. Sawyer (Tor) 1 - 10) March to the Stars, David Weber & John Ringo (Baen) 4 6   PAPERBACKS 1) A Storm of Swords, George R. R. Martin (Bantam Spectra) 1 - 2) A Caress of Twilight, Laurell K. Hamilton (Ballantine) 1 - 3) Kushiel's Chosen, Jacqueline Carey (Tor) 1 - 4) The Return of the King, J. R. R. Tolkien (Del Rey) 10 2 5) Paper Mage, Leah R. Cutter (Roc) 1 - 6) Dune, Frank Herbert (Ace) 1 - 7) Permanence, Karl Schroeder (Tor) 1 - 8) Fallen Dragon, Peter F. Hamilton (Warner Aspect) 1 - 9) The Two Towers, J. R. R. Tolkien (Del Rey) 17 4 10) The Gates of Sleep, Mercedes Lackey (DAW) 1 -   TRADE PAPERBACKS 1) The Tomorrow Log, Sharon Lee & Steve Miller (Meisha Merlin) 1 - 2) The Return of the King, J. R. R. Tolkien (Houghton Mifflin) 3 - 3) The Silmarillion, J. R. R. Tolkien (Houghton Mifflin) 5 3 4) The Lord of the Rings, J. R. R. Tolkien (Houghton Mifflin) 28 1 5) The Fall of the Kings, Ellen Kushner & Delia Sherman (Bantam Spectra) 1 -   MEDIA-RELATED 1) Star Wars: Tatooine Ghost, Troy Denning (Del Rey) 1 - 2) Star Wars: The New Jedi Order: Force Heretic I: Remnant, Sean Williams & Shane Dix (Del Rey) 2 - 3) X-Men 2, Chris Claremont (Del Rey) 1 - 4) Star Trek: The Eugenics Wars: The Rise and Fall of Khan Noonien Singh, Volume Two, Greg Cox (Pocket) 2 - 5) Star Trek: Enterprise: Surak's Soul, J. M. Dillard (Pocket) 1 -   GAMING-RELATED 1) Dragons of a Vanished Moon, Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman (Wizards of the Coast) 4 - 2) Forgotten Realms: Lord of Stormweather, Dave Gross (Wizards of the Coast) 1 - 3) Warhammer 40,000: Angels of Darkness, Gav Thorpe (Black Library) 1 - 4) DragonLance: Dragons of a Lost Star, Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman (Wizards of the Coast) 12 - 5) Dungeons & Dragons: Treachery's Wake, T. H. Lain (Wizards of the Coast) 1 - *) Magic: The Gathering: Emperor's Fist, Scott McGough (Wizards of the Coast) 1 - Joust ended Crossroads of Twilight's two-month reign at the top of the hardcover list, edging it out by a narrow margin. New runner-up: Sin's Doorway and Other Ominous Entrances by Manly Wade Wellman (Night Shade). We had 62 nominees, down from 83 last month. A Storm of Swords had no close competition in the paperbacks category. There was no new runner-up. Nominees: 67, down from 102. The Tomorrow Log moved from second to first place on the trade paperback list by a solid margin. New runner-up: Jasper Fforde's The Eyre Affair (Penguin). Nominees: 43, down from 66. Star Wars: Tatooine Ghost, Star Wars: The New Jedi Order: Force Heretic I: Remnant, and X-Men 2 were all within a few points of each other on the media-related list. Nominees: 24, down from 29. DragonLance: Dragons of a Vanished Moon dominated gaming-related books with over three times as many points as the next title. Nominees: 23, down from 36. Compiled with data from Barnes & Noble/B. Dalton (USA), Basilisk Dreams (Canada), The Booksmith (CA), Borderlands (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), Totem Bookshop (WA), Waldenbooks/BGI (USA). Data period: March 2003.

June 2003