Unique Science Fiction and Fantasy Books Become Rarer

I've always been a reader.  I've always loved any kind of literature that does not lend itself to being too close to reality, but because of this love, I've also had the problem of reading the same generic story over and over and over again.

I used to love Dragonlance novels by Hickman and Weis, but they are becoming the same standard fantasy fare that you get from Tolkein, the Forgotten Realms series, Terry Brooks, and Piers Anthony among others.  Not saying that these are bad pieces of literature at all, nor are the authors subpar, but I have been wanting something different lately. 

I want more than just "Young boy must save world from Ancient Evil and along the way he meets a group of characters with differing personalities which inherently cause problems until the end of the story when everyone loves everyone else."

The books that I have found to be able to satiate my hunger for unique reads are by authors most of you have heard of.

First, we have Stephen King.  Everyone knows the Master of the Macabre.  His "Dark Tower" series is incredibly well done and draws on his other novels enough to earn its place among my all-time favorites.  King has stated that he was inspired by Browning's "Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came" and Tolkien's "The Lord of the Rings."  He combines a world of the past with modern society and traditional fantasy fare and a western motif in order to make a 7 book long tale of magic, intrigue, and unparalleled uniqueness.  He has his characters hopping between many worlds he has created in his own universe of novels, but never once do these characters lose their believability, nor does the reader for one moment doubt that a billy-bumbler can talk.  I've even been guilty of checking the sky from time to time to see if their is a "path of the Beam" above me.  King gets my award for most unique fantasy series ever written, though certainly not the most original as he is basing his work on others who pioneered the genre.