Locus Bestsellers   HARDCOVERS Months on list Last month 1) 1634: The Galileo Affair, Eric Flint & Andrew Dennis (Baen) 1 - 2) The Confusion, Neal Stephenson (HarperCollins/Morrow) 1 - 3) King of Foxes, Raymond E. Feist (HarperCollins/Eos) 2 9 4) Sethra Lavode, Steven Brust (Tor) 1 - 5) The Highwayman, R. A. Salvatore (CDS Books) 2 6 6) Wellspring of Chaos, L. E. Modesitt Jr (Tor) 1 - 7) Fool's Fate, Robin Hobb (Bantam Spectra) 3 4 8) Quicksilver, Neal Stephenson (Morrow) 6 - 9) Balance of Trade, Sharon Lee & Steve Miller (Meisha Merlin) 2 8 10) The Swords of Night and Day, David A. Gemmell (Ballantine Del Rey) 1 -   PAPERBACKS 1) Talon of the Silver Hawk, Raymond E. Feist (HarperTorch) 1 - 2) March to the Stars, David Weber & John Ringo (Baen) 1 - 3) No Phule Like an Old Phule, Robert Asprin & Peter J. Heck (Ace) 1 - 4) The Lord of Castle Black, Steven Brust (Tor) 1 - 5) Crossroads of Twilight, Robert Jordan (Tor) 6 5 6) Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury (Del Rey) 5 6 7) Devlin's Justice, Patricia Bray (Bantam Spectra) 1 - 8) The Return of Santiago, Mike Resnick (Tor) 1 - 9) Kushiel's Avatar, Jacqueline Carey (Tor) 2 2 10) American Gods, Neil Gaiman (HarperTorch) 15 - *) A Game of Thrones, George R. R. Martin (Bantam Spectra) 5 -   TRADE PAPERBACKS 1) Pattern Recognition, William Gibson (Berkeley) 3 1 2) Midnight Tides, Steven Erikson (Transworld/Bantam UK) 1 - 3) The Labyrinth Key, Howard V. Hendrix (Ballantine Del Rey) 1 - 4) Broken Angels, Richard K. Morgan (Ballantine Del Rey) 2 2 5) Lost in a Good Book, Jasper Fforde (Penguin) 1 -   MEDIA-RELATED 1) Star Trek, the Next Generation: A Time to Sow, Dayton Ward & Kevin Dilmore (Pocket) 1 - 2) Star Wars: The New Jedi Order: The Unifying Force, James Luceno (Del Rey) 6 4 3) Star Trek The Next Generation: A Time to Die, John Vornholt (Pocket) 2 3 4) Star Trek The Next Generation: Genesis Force, John Vornholt (Pocket) 1 - 5) Star Trek The Next Generation: A Time to Be Born, John Vornholt (Pocket) 2 -   GAMING-RELATED 1) Halo: First Strike, Eric Nylund (Del Rey) 5 1 2) Halo: The Flood, William C. Dietz (Del Rey) 10 2 3) MechWarrior: Dark Age: The Patriot’s Stand, Mike Moscoe (Roc) 1 - 4) Halo: The Fall of Reach, Eric Nylund (Del Rey) 8 3 5) Warhammer 40,000: Ursun's Teeth, Graham McNeill (Black Library) 1 - 1634: The Galileo Affair went from last month’s runner-up to number one in the hardcover category, with the next three titles jostling for position. New runner-up: Absolution Gap by Alastair Reynolds (Ace). We had 51 nominees, down from 57 last month. Talon of the Silver Hawk tromped the competition, easily taking the paperback category. New runner-up: Kristine Kathryn Rusch’s Consequences (Roc). Nominees: holding at 78. Pattern Recognition kept its lead in the trade paperback category for the third month in a row, beating out Midnight Tides by a single vote and closely followed by The Labyrinth Key. New runner-up: Tithe: A Modern Faerie Tale by Holly Black (Simon Pulse). Nominees: 38, down from 49. The new “Star Trek, the Next Generation” novel boldly went to the top of the media-related category with a tremendous lead in its debut month, and was joined by three other titles from the same series. Nominees: 30, up from 28 last month. Halo: First Strike prevails for the fifth month straight, with Halo: The Flood, in its tenth appearance on the gaming-related list, taking second. Nominees: 18, same as last month. — — 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: April 2004.

July 2004