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Mailing Date:
31 August 2004
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THE MAGAZINE OF THE SCIENCE FICTION & FANTASY FIELD
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Locus Bestsellers
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Months
on list |
Last
month |
| 1) | Ringworld's Children, Larry Niven (Tor) | 1 | - |
| 2) | The Dark Tower VI: Song of Susannah, Stephen King (Donald M. Grant/Scribner) | 1 | - |
| *) | A Hat Full of Sky, Terry Pratchett (HarperCollins) | 2 | 6 |
| 4) | The Confusion, Neal Stephenson (HarperCollins/Morrow) | 3 | 1 |
| 5) | Marion Zimmer Bradley's Ancestors of Avalon, Diana L. Paxson (Viking) | 1 | - |
| 6) | Gardens of the Moon, Steven Erikson (Tor) | 1 | - |
| 7) | Dead to the World, Charlaine Harris (Ace) | 2 | 5 |
| 8) | The Hero, John Ringo & Michael Z. Williamson (Baen) | 1 | - |
| 9) | Forty Signs of Rain, Kim Stanley Robinson (Bantam) | 1 | - |
| 10) | King of Foxes, Raymond E. Feist (HarperCollins/Eos) | 4 | 4 |
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PAPERBACKS | | |
| 1) | Naked Empire, Terry Goodkind (Tor) | 1 | - |
| 2) | Darwin's Children, Greg Bear (Ballantine Del Rey) | 1 | - |
| 3) | The Wee Free Men, Terry Pratchett (Harcourt/Harvest) | 1 | - |
| 4) | Callahan's Con, Spider Robinson (Tor) | 1 | - |
| 5) | I, Robot, Isaac Asimov (Bantam Spectra) | 1 | - |
| 6) | A Fistful of Sky, Nina Kiriki Hoffman (Ace) | 1 | - |
| 7) | Dime Store Magic, Kelley Armstrong (Bantam Spectra) | 1 | - |
| 8) | Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury (Del Rey) | 6 | - |
| 9) | The War of the Flowers, Tad Williams (DAW) | 2 | 1 |
| 10) | Red Thunder, John Varley (Ace) | 2 | 2 |
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TRADE PAPERBACKS | | |
| 1) | Pattern Recognition, William Gibson (Berkeley) | 5 | 1 |
| 2) | The Hobbit, J. R. R. Tolkien (Houghton Mifflin) | 25 | - |
| 3) | Grass for His Pillow, Lian Hearn (Riverhead) | 1 | - |
| 4) | The Lord of the Rings, J. R. R. Tolkien (Houghton Mifflin) | 38 | 2 |
| 5) | Broken Angels, Richard K. Morgan (Ballantine Del Rey) | 4 | 4 |
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MEDIA-RELATED | | |
| 1) | Star Wars: The Cestus Deception, Steven Barnes (Del Rey) | 1 | - |
| 2) | The Chronicle of Riddick, Alan Dean Foster (Del Rey) | 2 | 1 |
| 3) | Spider-Man 2, Peter David (Del Rey) | 1 | - |
| 4) | Star Trek, the Next Generation: A Time to Love, Robert Greenberger (Pocket) | 1 | - |
| 5) | Star Wars: Shatterpoint, Matthew Stover (Del Rey) | 4 | 2 |
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GAMING-RELATED | | |
| 1) | Forgotten Realms: The Lone Drow, R. A. Salvatore (Wizards of the Coast) | 5 | - |
| 2) | Halo: First Strike, Eric Nylund (Del Rey) | 7 | 1 |
| 3) | Halo: The Fall of Reach, Eric Nylund (Del Rey) | 9 | - |
| 4) | Halo: The Flood, William C. Dietz (Del Rey) | 12 | 2 |
| 5) | The Thousand Orcs, R. A. Salvatore (Wizards of the Coast) | 10 | - |
Larry Niven's Ringworld's Children easily rose above the next closest hardcovers, which were in tight competition with each other. New runner-up: Dead Lines by Greg Bear (Ballantine). We had 59 nominees, down from 64 last month.
Naked Empire dominated paperbacks, with Darwin's Children trailing behind. New runner-up: Zandru's Forge, Marion Zimmer Bradley & Deborah J. Ross (DAW). Nominees: 69, down from 85.
Pattern Recognition continued its first place run in the trade paperback category for a fifth month. New runner-up: Memory by Linda Nagata (Tor). Nominees: 54, up slightly from 51.
Steven Barnes’s Star Wars: The Cestus Deception debuted strongly in the media-related category, with The Chronicles of Riddick close behind. Nominees: 27, down from 33.
Forgotten Realms: The Lone Drow is back on the gaming-related list with a solid lead. Nominees: 21, down from 30.
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Compiled with data from Barnes & Noble (USA), Basilisk Dreams (Canada), Borderlands (CA), Borders Bookstores (USA), Lone Star (TC), Midtown Comics (NY), Mysterious Galaxy (CA), Pages for All Ages (IL), Saint Mark’s (NY), Toadstool (2 in NH), Totem Bookshop (WA), Uncle Hugo’s (MN), University Bookstore (WA), White Dwarf (Canada). Data period: June 2004.
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