I need to bite at this bait, and I know I shouldn’t.

There is also the most important homage to it.

“The main thing we learned [on Batman v Superman] is that people don’t like to see their heroes deconstructed,” said producer Deborah Snyder.

Another exceptional series that scratches a lot of the same itches as A Song of Ice and Fire is Malazon: Book of the Fallen. It focuses more on the macro scale, though I’ve never read another book that manages to capture the same sense of scale, or sublime world building.

Onirim should also be on this list.