After Game of Thones/George RR Martin who takes the mantle as the upcming fantasy

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wicked cool

Hero

• Aug 9, 2017

• #1

At one point I thought I was Patrick Rothfuss but i'm wondering who shows up as the next bestseller. Who gets marketed like harry Potter and Game of Thrones?


I didn't discover GOT until book 2 was first released and obviously Potter was big before the movies. People ran to the stores for new potter books especially last 2 in the harry series. Game of thrones I preordered and ordered 1 from England as I didn't want to wait for the US version

Some of you will say "never cared for GOT" etc but it was pushed to the front of bookstores so who just started a series that gets this attention

 

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Kramodlog

Naked and living in a barrel

• Aug 9, 2017

• #2

Brandon Sanderson and his Cosmere comes to mind. But I'm not sure anything close to Pottermania or GoTmania will happen any time soon. One of the reasons why they were so popular was because they moved from books to cinemas and TVs.

 

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Dioltach

Legend

• Aug 9, 2017

• #3

Perhaps if Sony's televisation of the Wheel of Time is as good as GoT, the next big author might be Robert Jordan.

 

MarkB

Legend

• Aug 9, 2017

• #4

I know it's already had a TV adaptation so there could be rights issues, but I think Jim Butcher's Dresden Files novels could work really well in a GoT-style miniseries format. Compress the timelines a bit so that you can have some events overlapping, and you could easily work through 2-3 novels in the course of a season.

 

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Zaukrie

New Publisher

• Aug 9, 2017

• #5

Dioltach said:

Perhaps if Sony's televisation of the Wheel of Time is as good as GoT, the next big author might be Robert Jordan.

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So boring. Imo, of course.

Glen Cook if they do The Black Company well.

Lies of Locke Lamora is very approachable, and could easily be done on TV.

But I don't like the odds for any books we are already reading, or have read

 

Ryujin

Legend

• Aug 10, 2017

• #6

MarkB said:

I know it's already had a TV adaptation so there could be rights issues, but I think Jim Butcher's Dresden Files novels could work really well in a GoT-style miniseries format. Compress the timelines a bit so that you can have some events overlapping, and you could easily work through 2-3 novels in the course of a season.

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It's a pity that the first try at a Dresden TV series didn't really get a fair shake.

For my part I think that a look back at Robert Adams' "Horseclans" novel series would be a reasonable successor. Lots of blood and battle, double-crosses, fornicating Undying.... And did I forget to mention Bili the Axe? (Though Sir Geros was more my speed. A better rags to war hero story arc.)

 

trappedslider

Legend

• Aug 10, 2017

• #7

Well, I'm not sure how much you'd consider it fantasy but the camp half-blood universe of books by Rick Riordan would be my bet, but it would require a new movie or even a tv show. It already has a hit musical more or less and like Harry Potter is aimed at the age group that drives the purchasing powers more or less and it also ages with that group. It also doesn't go into an age restricted grouping such as GoT.

I'd also love for the Dresden Files to be given a second chance.

 

Dannyalcatraz

Schmoderator

Staff member

Supporter

• Aug 10, 2017

• #8

There are LOTS of great options for adaptation for TV or movies, old and new.

Odds that Hollywood will find them AND do them justice? Slim.

 

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Derren

Hero

• Aug 10, 2017

• #9

No one for a while I think.
Its a SciFi market now and it will be a few years till fantasy will be big again.

 

Altamont Ravenard

Explorer

• Aug 10, 2017

• #10

It's not an easy read, and it would require about 15 seasons to do the complete story, but I would love to see a good adaptation of Steven Erikson's Malazan Book of the Fallen. It's just IMHO the best, grandest fantasy saga that is and ever will be.