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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Chaldfont" data-source="post: 598620" data-attributes="member: 1472">I don't know about anyone else here, but even though I am thoroughly addicted to Sci-Fi and Fantasy, I have trouble finding books that aren't "more of the same". I look for something that is a little different. For other people in the same boat, here is a list of things I have read that I really enjoyed because I had not read anything like them before. If you have others I have missed, let me know!Michael Morcock's Elric stories: The hero is a the arrogant and sickly last emperor of a decadent and truely evil race. He can't even survive without his soul-sucking demon sword. While even these stories start to look the same after a while, they are fun in small doses.Roger Zelazny's Amber series: I love it when you wake up with amnesia only to find out you can travel to any reality you can dream up.China Mieville's Bas Lag stories: I can't get enough of this. What if your PC had to tongue kiss a fish-greasy kuo-toan magic item to get it to work? Freaky.Phillip Pullman's His Dark Materials series: Young Adult but still fun.  What if everyone had a familiar?Sabriel by Garth Nix: What if necromancers are there to keep the dead dead?George R. R. Martin's Tuf Voyaging: I can't get into this Fire & Ice series. I have tried to read the first book about three times and its just not my thing. But Tuf Voyaging is a sci-fi book about a kilometer's long space-ship with the ability to clone and genetically alter any organism in the known universe. Its used for ecological warefare. At least it was until a quirky merchant gets a hold of it.Anyone else have anything out of the ordinary?</blockquote>

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