[Mithfânion]

Do you know any?

Ones that come to mind are the Book of New Sun by Gene Wolfe and Friedman's slightly disappointing Coldfire trilogy.

What precisely is the mix composed of?

[Gary Wassner]

Try Dragon Lords, by C. Dunbar. Really brilliant!!! sci fi with fantasy overtones - dragons, magic etc.

[Mithfânion]

Same book where a review is up for here sffworld?

[LeMort]

Hmm... Dune, perhaps?

Any of the Star Wars or Star Trek drek, too.

Perhaps Perdido Street Station and The Scar?

Maybe a lot of the steampunk stuff as well.

And The Dancers at the End of Time...

These are just off the top of my head. There's quite a lot of fantasy that blends in elements of science fiction, likewise there is a lot of science fiction that has strong elements of fantasy.

[Gary Wassner]

Yes!! Exactly! In fact, I wrote the review. I loved the book.

[Rob B]

Heroes Die
Blade of Tyshalle by Matthew Woodring Stover. The hero, Hari Michaelson/Caine , is an actor from our world in the future who is teleported to a not-so-typical fantasy-land.

I am giving the books the least amount of justice with the synopses above, but FWIW they both rate in my top 10 all time.

Another one, perhaps one of the earliest of these "blenders" is Jack Vance's Dying Earth sequence. The novels usually are mostly considered fantasy, but the setting is Earth thousands of years in the future. A very stong inspiration on Wolfe's BOTNS.

[kaseryn]

Mordants Need by Donaldson has a crossover sci-fi element to pretty great effect :)

[Mithfânion]

Interesting mentions :)

Off-topic, it occurs to me that this new-style forum seems to attract a much larger number of posters than we've had before. The number of new member seems disproportionate compared to the previous months. Did we merge? ;)

[Rob B]

kaseryn:

how in the heck does Mordant's Need employ sci-fi?

Terisa goes through the mirrors because they are magic, not any kind of technology or science.

Mithf, don't think we've merged. There has always been a steady growth in membership.

[Qin]

One word: Planescape. Mmm. Although the novels are horrendously suckful, the videogame, at the very least, seemed to be an enjoyable match the scifi-fantasy blend. And it helps that the script for the game was actually quite good. Of course, whether or not a videogame can be considered an interactive novel I'll leave for another discussion.