Hmmm. I know you read and liked Dan Simmons's Hyperion books... Have you tried David Brin's Startide Rising? Dan Simmons's Ilium? I know Mhoram would say Roger Zelazny's Amber series for fantasy...he also worte some great science fiction like Lord of Light... Highdrake would say Ursula K. LeGuin's Wizard of Earthsea and the rest of that series, also as fantasy, but she also wrote some great science fiction like The Lathe of Heaven... For some really dark science fiction you could try Stephen R. Donaldson's Gap series...for dark fantasy his books about Thomas Covenant... For George R. R. Martin you might like his vampire novel, Fevre Dream or his fantasy series called A Song of Ice and Fire, which begins with the novel A Game of Thrones... A very good book by C.S. Lewis is called Till We Have Faces...a retelling of the Cupid and Psyche myth...his Chronicles of Narnia is a children's classic, and his Space trilogy was fun...I am looking forward to reading his Screwtape Letters Tolkien, anything is great...I love all of his stuff...I am sure you have either read or seen parts of the Lord of the Rings... Tad Williams...Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn is good fantasy...I don't know if he has written any science fiction... And Zindell is marvelous and deep if you can find his work...I hope you can!
If you read through the general fantasy and general science fiction forums you will find mention of all sorts of other good books and lots of movies. ******************************************************
Our lives are the songs that sing the universe into existence.~David Zindell
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Perhaps I'll come for you myself some night. You ought to see me...my fur is white now, pale as snow,but the stature, the majesty, the power, those have not left me...We are the direwolves, the nightmares who haunt your racial memories, the dark shapes circling endlessly beyond the light of your fires.~George R.R. Martin<i></i>
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