10 Fantasy Series That Could Be The Next Game Of Thrones
9. The Wizard Knight
Gene Wolfe is one of the world's best fantasy authors. Imagine the stereotype of a geek kid, with huge glasses, snot running down his nose, the one who could never stop talking about Dungeons and Dragons. Now fuse that child with Vladmir Nabokov, Dostoyevsky, and Hope Merliss, and you get Gene Wolfe.
The Wizard Knight tells the tale of a boy who falls through a hole in the world into another part of existence - one of nine worlds, heavily based on Norse mythology.
Soon after, he becomes a man through magical means and sets about becoming a knight and then a wizard. It's one of the most bombastic and imaginative fantasy novels ever. It also takes every single silly thing you could imagine happening and then portrays it so humanly, so realistically, that you can do nothing but take it all in.
It is what Game of Thrones in its most fantastic moments hopes it can be. The only problem with it replacing Game of Thrones is that it doesn't have as much creepy sex or naked zombies. But if you're okay with it being less mind-bogglingly weird, then The Wizard Knight will fill your fantasy fix.