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Originally Posted by Gandulf
I offer a challenge, name a fantasy series that comes close to this. Malazan book of the fallen come close and please don't name WOT, it's a children's book compared.
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Nearly any fantasy series whose final book has been released.
I'm not really going to acknowledge "adult" (as it's being used in this thread) as a particularly positive attribute of ASoIaF. It's extremely subjective to the point of near meaningless in my opinion. Nor do I choose to conflate word-count with scope, or character-count with complexity.
But still, I found the first three books in this series to be very compelling reading. So how many fantasy series have I read that I found equally compelling? Quite a few actually. Off the top of my head:
Robin Hobb's Realm of the Elderlings
Daniel Abraham's Long Price Quartet
Neal Stephenson's Baroque Cycle
Jaqueline Carey's Kushiel's Legacy
Greg Keyes' Kingdoms of Thorn and Bone
Greg Keyes' Age of Unreason
Paul Kearney's Monarchies of God
N. K. Jemisin's Inheritance Trilogy
I'm sure I'll think of more later.
EDIT - later:
Joe Abercrombie's First Law trilogy
KJ Parker's Fencer trilogy
Brian Ruckley's Godless Word trilogy
R.F. Kuang's Poppy War trilogy (what I've read of it so far).
Peter V Brett's Demon Cycle