I am looking for a series like Star Wars, basically a mix of Sci-fi and Fantasy. Do any of you know of some good books like this?
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Anonymous2008-05-01 4:02
Is the emphasis on Star Wars, or science fantasy? Take for example Gene Wolfe's Book of the New Sun, which is science fantasy, but nothing like Star Wars.
I don't really know anything similar to Star Wars, but you might want to check out Jack Vance's Dying Earth, the aforementioned New Sun, Harrison's Viriconium, Julian May's Exiles, and ummm... I guess you could make an argument for Roger Zelazny (Creatures, Jack of Shadows, Lord of Light).
Oh, and there's Poul Anderson's Three Hearts and Three Lions, wherein a man transported to a fantasy land makes use of modern day ('61) scientific principles. I'm not sure if that'd count though.
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Anonymous2008-05-01 17:13
The series OP is looking for is Dune.
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Anonymous2008-05-03 20:43
Asimov's Foundation.
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Anonymous2008-05-04 1:27
How about Charlie Stross, Gregory Benford's galactic center books, and those Warlock books by Christopher Stasheff? I guess the former two are more like sci-fi with mystical backdrop, and the latter is about the Vatican's agent on a magical planet going through its middle ages.
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Anonymous2008-05-04 6:35
Try Steve Perry's Matador series .. replace the force with martial arts and cut the space battles, and you're nearly there - it even has "rebels" vs "empire". Not much fantasy though, going by the big picture and "adventury" feel of the story here. They're entertaining light reads.
Maybe also Peter Hamilton's Night's Dawn trilogy, but it's probably more epic than your generic SW novel.
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Anonymous2008-05-04 16:06
The Brady Bunch
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Anonymous2008-05-05 6:20
C.J. Cherryh's Forigner series is pretty good.
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Anonymous2008-05-05 13:04
>>8
Oh, would they count for this? I've only read Precursor from that series. I love C.J. Cherryh.