Re-tweeted by Peter S. Beagle!
Well, retweeted by Beagle's publicity team, most likely, but it's still cool. But apparently they were happy to see the new entries ("Peter S. Beagle" & The Last Unicorn) in The Literary Encyclopedia.
Genre Fantasy Bestsellers through 1990
I've been studying Keith Justice's Bestseller Index , which compiles information from two separate bestseller lists -- New York Times Book Review and Publishers Weekly -- up through 1990, and the results are ridiculously fascinating. For instance, you wanna take a stab at which SFF author has the most individual books appear on a bestseller list? No, it ain't Heinlein, Clark, Herbert, or Asimov. It's not even Terry Brooks or David Eddings. No, the answer is Piers Anthony ... and even if you somehow pulled that name out of thin air, you'll still never guess how truly dominate Anthony was. Up through 1990, he had more than double than number of distinct bestsellers than Anne McCaffrey, the next most frequent bestseller. Whereas Anthony had an astounding 21 different books appear on a bestseller list, McCaffrey had "only" nine.** Now, caveats. These numbers need to be taken with one (or two) grains of salt. For instance, although Anthony had 22 two distinct...
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