Okay, I just received a free book in the mail that I won through give-away. The book was released March 2nd, so I looked up some reviews on Amazon. All of the reviewers like the book and a couple mentioned how they loved the book and how they read a lot of fantasy and most of it is cliche. They said this book had a really unique and cool concept that they hadn't seen in a novel and that made it fun to read.
So, now I ask: what was the most UNIQUEe sci-fi or fantasy novel you read, and what made it unique, or different from the others?
The dragons in our midst series. It's christian but is extremely different from most fantasies. Also Harry Potter but since everyone has ripped that off, it's not anymore.
The Ghosts by Antonia Barber
Its not actually about ghosts. Its a really cool take on time travel.
It keeps your imagination open and suspence filled with a really cool twist at the end.
Its about two siblings named Lucy and Jamie and how they move to this new house and meet two being who use to live there. Well really you should read it because there is no way to explain the complexity of it.
The most unusual was Cloud Atlas, by Mitchell, so unusual that it isn't even easy to explain. There are six different narratives in it in from six different perspectives. They use six forms and are set in six time periods, starting in the 19th century and ending in a futuristic SF setting. Each ties into the following narrative, and each is split in the middle, so that after you read the last one to the end, you then read the conclusion of the earlier narrative until you're back where you started, on an obscure island in the South Pacific in the mid 19th century.
Second most unusual was Stapledon's Last and First Men, famous because the narrative arc stretches over billions of years. Stapledon's book is something of a landmark in the field and, although it is ambitious and unusual, I didn't find it particularly successful.