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Best description I've heard for Game of Thrones is it's The Sopranos set in Middle Earth. I think it's disingenuous to argue GoT isn't fantasy - it's got dragons, foxfire, spellcasters and wights. The fact that Dragons = WMD, foxfire = chemical weapons, spellcasters = radical Islam and wights = global warming doesn't change the fact that you've got direct plot elements revolving around things that don't exist. Read Earthsea. They're kids books. You'll crank through them in a coffee break. Ursula LeGuin essentially wrote all of Harry Potter in 56,000 words in 1968. And she wrote it about Pacific Islanders.