Locus Bestsellers   HARDCOVERS Months on list Last month 1) Fool's Fate, Robin Hobb (Bantam Spectra) 1 - 2) Seduced by Moonlight, Laurell K. Hamilton (Ballantine) 1 - 3) New Spring, Robert Jordan (Tor) 2 1 4) Loamhedge, Brian Jacques (Philomel) 1 - 5) Time's Eye: A Time Odyssey, Arthur C. Clarke & Stephen Baxter (Ballantine Del Rey) 2 6 6) Dragon's Kin, Anne McCaffrey & Todd McCaffrey (Ballantine Del Rey) 4 3 7) Gods’ Concubine, Sara Douglass (Tor) 1 - 8) Deathstalker Return, Simon R. Green (Roc) 1 - 9) Alta, Mercedes Lackey (DAW) 1 - 10) The Last Light of the Sun, Guy Gavriel Kay (Roc) 1 -   PAPERBACKS 1) Crossroads of Twilight, Robert Jordan (Tor) 4 2 2) The Hobbit, J. R. R. Tolkien (Del Rey) 27 3 3) Evolution, Stephen Baxter (Del Rey) 1 - 4) The Magicians’ Guild, Trudi Canavan (HarperCollins/Eos) 1 - 5) Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury (Del Rey) 3 - 6) Omnifix, Scott Mackay (Roc) 1 - 7) Wasteland of Flint, Thomas Harlan (Tor) 1 - 8) The Fellowship of the Ring, J. R. R. Tolkien (Del Rey) 20 5 9) The Doomsday Brunette, John Zakour & Lawrence Ganem (DAW) 1 - 10) The Silmarillion, J. R. R. Tolkien (Ballantine) 2 -   TRADE PAPERBACKS 1) Pattern Recognition, William Gibson (Berkeley) 1 - 2) The Lord of the Rings, J. R. R. Tolkien (Houghton Mifflin) 36 2 3) Wicked, Gregory Maguire (HarperCollins) 2 5 4) The Silmarillion, J. R. R. Tolkien (Houghton Mifflin) 12 1 5) The Boys Are Back in Town, Christopher Golden (Bantam) 1 -   MEDIA-RELATED 1) Star Wars: Survivor's Quest, Timothy Zahn (Del Rey) 1 - 2) Star Trek The Next Generation: A Time to Be Born, John Vornholt (Pocket) 1 - 3) Star Wars: The New Jedi Order: The Unifying Force, James Luceno (Del Rey) 4 5 4) The Lord of the Rings: Weapons and Warfare, Chris Smith (Houghton Mifflin) 4 2 5) Star Trek: Captain's Peril, William Shatner, with Judith Reeves-Stevens & Garfield Reeves-Stevens (Pocket) 1 -   GAMING-RELATED 1) Halo: First Strike, Eric Nylund (Del Rey) 3 1 2) Forgotten Realms: Extinction, Lisa Smedman (Wizards of the Coast) 2 2 3) Forgotten Realms: The Yellow Silk, Don Bassingthwaite (Wizards of the Coast) 1 - *) Forgotten Realms: Paths of Darkness Collector's Edition, R. A. Salvatore (Wizards of the Coast) 1 - 5) DragonLance: The Wizard's Fate, Paul B. Thompson & Tonya C. Cook (Wizards of the Coast) 1 - *) MechWarrior: Dark Age: Fortress of Lies, J. Steven York (Roc) 1 - Fool's Fate won first place in the hardcover category, beating out Seduced by Moonlight by a single vote, a striking debut for both. New runner-up: Alphabet of Thorn by Patricia A. McKillip (Ace). We had 65 nominees, up from 54 last month. Crossroads of Twilight took back its reign of the paperback category, unchallenged by the other titles. New runner-up: Kris Longknife: Mutineer, by Mike Shepherd (Ace). Nominees: 81, down slightly from 83. Pattern Recognition trounced the competition, breaking through the Tolkien barrier to take first in the trade paperback category. New runner-up: Max Barry's Jennifer Government (Vintage). Nominees: 45, down one from last month. Star Wars: Survivor's Quest had no close competition in the media-related titles. Nominees: 23, down from 28. Halo: First Strike maintained its strong lead at the top of the gaming-related category for a third consecutive month. Nominees: 19, down from 21. Compiled with data from Barnes & Noble/B. Dalton (USA), Basilisk Dreams (Canada), Borderlands (CA), Borders Bookstores (USA), Heroes & Dragons (CO), Lone Star (TX), Midtown Comics (NY), 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), White Dwarf (WA). Data period: February 2004.

May 2004