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Bestsellers New Titles & Bestsellers 

Locus Bestsellers, August 2020

August 19, 2020July 30, 2020 locusmag 0 Comments
The Locus Bestsellers for August include top titles The City We Became and The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin, Dune by Frank Herbert, and Star Wars: Thrawn: Treason by Timothy Zahn.
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Weekly Bestsellers, 17 August 2020

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Tamsyn Muir’s Harrow the Ninth (Tor.com) and Laurell K. Hamilton’s Sucker Punch (Berkley) each debut on three lists.
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Weekly Bestsellers, 10 August 2020

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Silvia Moreno-Garcia’s Mexican Gothic returns to three lists after dropping off a couple weeks ago.
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Weekly Bestsellers, 3 August 2020

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Lindsay Ellis’ debut novel Axiom’s End (St. Martin’s) debuts solidly on three lists.
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Weekly Bestsellers, 27 July 2020

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Jim Butcher’s Peace Talks (Ace) debuts strongly on four lists; David Mitchell’s Utopia Avenue (Random House) also debuts.
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Locus Bestsellers, July 2020

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The Locus Bestsellers for July include top titles The City We Became by N.K. Jemisin, Dune by Frank Herbert, This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone, and Star Wars: Thrawn: Treason by Timothy Zahn.
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Weekly Bestsellers, 20 July 2020

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Silvia Moreno-Garcia’s Mexican Gothic remains in the top 10 on two lists.
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Weekly Bestsellers, 13 July 2020

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Silvia Moreno-Garcia’s Mexican Gothic (Del Rey) debuts strongly on four lists.
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Weekly Bestsellers, 6 July 2020

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Stephen King’s four-novella collection If It Bleeds remains prominent on a couple lists after two months.
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Weekly Bestsellers, 29 June 2020

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Max Brooks’ Devolution: A Firsthand Account of the Rainier Sasquatch Massacre (Del Rey) debuts strongly on four lists.
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Weekly Bestsellers, 22 June 2020

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Suzanne Collins’ The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes remains high on two print lists, and prominent on all three Amazon sites.
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Locus Bestsellers, June 2020

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The Locus Bestsellers for June include top titles Smoke Bitten by Patricia Briggs, Imaginary Numbers by Seanan McGuire, The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin, and Star Trek: Picard: The Last Best Hope by Una McCormack.
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Weekly Bestsellers, 15 June 2020

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While Suzanne Collins’ The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes remains high on two print lists, a new Star Wars novel by E.K. Johnston, Queen’s Peril (Disney Lucasfilm) debuts on two lists.
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Weekly Bestsellers, 8 June 2020

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Suzanne Collins’ new Hunger Games novel, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes remains at #1 on two print lists.
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Weekly Bestsellers, 1 June 2020

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Suzanne Collins’ new Hunger Games novel, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (Scholastic) debuts at #1 on two print lists. (New York Times won’t list it individually; The Hunger Games is #1 this week on its Children’s Series list.)
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Weekly Bestsellers, 25 May 2020

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Suzanne Collins’ new Hunger Games novel, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes published last Tuesday, is riding even higher on Amazon lists this week than last. Look for it on print lists next week.
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Locus Bestsellers, May 2020

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The Locus Bestsellers for May include top titles Agency by William Gibson, Storm Cursed by Patricia Briggs, The Last Wish by Andrzej Sapkowski, and Star Trek: Picard: The Last Best Hope by Una McCormack.
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Weekly Bestsellers, 18 May 2020

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Suzanne Collins’ new Hunger Games novel, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (Scholastic), to be published tomorrow, sits at or near the top of all three Amazon lists today.
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Weekly Bestsellers, 11 May 2020

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Lawrence Wright’s pandemic thriller The End of October (Knopf) debuts on four lists.

The complete L.A. Times list seems to have moved behind the paywall, though a shorter, hardcover-only list is in the sidebar of this page.

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Weekly Bestsellers, 4 May 2020

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Stephen King’s four-novella collection If It Bleeds (Scribner) debuts strongly on three lists.

L.A. Times is missing a list this week.

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Weekly Bestsellers, 27 April 2020

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John Scalzi’s The Last Emperox (Tor) debuts on two lists.
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Weekly Bestsellers, 20 April 2020

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Veronica Roth’s Chosen Ones (John Joseph Adams/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) debuts on three lists.
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Locus Bestsellers, April 2020

April 15, 2020March 26, 2020 locusmag 0 Comments
The Locus Bestsellers for April include top titles Agency by William Gibson, Dune by Frank Herbert, Blood of Elves by Andrzej Sapkowski, and Forgotten Realms: Timeless by R.A. Salvatore.
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Weekly Bestsellers, 13 April 2020

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A new thriller by Dean Koontz, Devoted (Thomas & Mercer), debuts on this week’s Publishers Weekly list.
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Weekly Bestsellers, 6 April 2020

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N.K. Jemisin’s The City We Became (Orbit) debuts on three lists.
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Bestsellers New Titles & Bestsellers 

Weekly Bestsellers, 30 March 2020

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Two titles debuts strongly. Patricia Briggs’ Smoke Bitten (Ace) ranks as high as #3 on the USA Today list. And Rae Carson’s Star Wars novelization The Rise of Skywalker: Expanded Edition (Del Rey) hits #2 on the Publishers Weekly list.
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Weekly Bestsellers, 23 March 2020

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New titles by Cassandra Clare and Sarah J. Maas slip from the debut positions last week but still rank significantly. Again this week, the hourly-updated bestseller lists on Amazon sites, especially in the US and Canada, are overwhelmed by orders for children’s books.
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Locus Bestsellers, March 2020

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The Locus Bestsellers for March include top titles Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir, The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss, The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin, and Star Wars: Master & Apprentice by Claudia Gray.
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Weekly Bestsellers, 16 March 2020

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New titles by Cassandra Clare (Chain of Gold) and Sarah J. Maas (House of Earth and Blood) leap to the top of bestseller lists this week. Meanwhile, as schools shut down in response to the coronavirus pandemic, the hourly-updated bestseller lists on Amazon sites, especially in the US and Canada, are overwhelmed by orders for children’s books.
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Weekly Bestsellers, 9 March 2020

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Three titles debut on lists this week, though none impressively. Eoin Colfer’s Highfire (Harper Perennial) is #17 at LA Times, Seanan McGuire’s Imaginary Numbers (DAW) is #65 at USA Today, and Ben Aaronovitch’s False Value (DAW) is #84 at USA Today.
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Weekly Bestsellers, 2 March 2020

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YA novels by Sarah J. Maas and Cassandra Clare, House of Earth and Blood (Bloomsbury) and Chain of Gold (McElderry) respectively, due for publication tomorrow, are bestsellers already on Amazon sites with preorders.
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Bestsellers New Titles & Bestsellers 

Weekly Bestsellers, 24 February 2020

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Melissa de la Cruz’ The Queen’s Assassin (Putnam) debuts on the New York Times Young Adult Hardcover list.
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The Year in Review 2020 by Ian Mond
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The Year in Review 2020 by Ian Mond

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Horrific Year, Superb Horror by Gabino Iglesias
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Horrific Year, Superb Horror by Gabino Iglesias

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Brandon Sanderson: Ever More Epic
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Brandon Sanderson: Ever More Epic

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Year End Review by Colleen Mondor
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Year End Review by Colleen Mondor

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My Whole Existence Is Flawed, You Get Me Closer to God: Josh Pearce and Arley Sorg Discuss <b><i>Soul</i></b>
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My Whole Existence Is Flawed, You Get Me Closer to God: Josh Pearce and Arley Sorg Discuss Soul

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Disney/Pixar returns to the afterlife in Soul, the story of middle school teacher and jazz musician Joe Gardner (voiced by Jaime Foxx) who winds up in a coma after his body and spirit are separated in an accident. While trying to avoid going into the Great Beyond, Spirit-Joe escapes into the Great Before, where newly created souls are prepared for corporeal existence.

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Blinks: Lisa Tuttle at Guardian; Bill McKibben cites KSR; Greg Bear’s life story

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Blinks: Guardian Reviews; the Essential Octavia Butler; Off the Radar F&SF

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Blinks: Bloom on Le Guin; LARB on Dune; WaPo’s Best SF/F/H Books of 2020

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Blinks: Reviews at Guardian, New Scientist, WSJ; Kim Stanley Robinson; Penguin SF classics

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Roundtable 

Russell Letson: On revolutionary vs normal SF (in the pseudo-Kuhnian sense) and other matters

February 10, 2009 locusmag 1

First I have to say that the notion of revolution in art is one that puts me on guard right away—unlike scientific models, which are structures of propositions and evidence always open to reformulation, art is not an attempt to produce a coherent and testable system, nor is it fundamentally propositional, nor does it react to surprising new “data” in the way that science must if it is to remain ...Read More

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Jordan Ifueko Guest Post–“The Watchmaker Author”

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Roundtable: Ian McDonald's Developing Economies Stories

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