Is there a name for the trope where a story is high fantasy at first glance, except for it's not fantasy and is actually set in a post-apocalypse dystopian future?
Is there a name for the trope where a story is high fantasy at first glance, except for it's not fantasy and is actually set in a post-apocalypse dystopian future?
I'm embarrassed to say that I have encountered this, this particular type of story on multiple occasions... So I got curious, is there a name to this trope?
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Where have you seen this? I've been looking for some stories like it
The Wheel of Time does this.
Yeah, though clues are few and far between; the
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museum in Tanchico with the Mercedes hood ornament
is the biggest clue. From Jordan's other writings, the
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First age was our time, then humans created an AI powerful enough to genetically engineer humans to be able to do magic,
and that led to the Age of Legends.
Yup. I think there are a few more, on a re read rn and Great Hunt they go to a parallel world where there appear to be Jet contrails and large swatches of burned ground where absolutely nothing will grow - nuclear fallout?
I hadn’t heard of the AI bit before but it sort of makes sense. sAIdin and sAIdar? No?
I've got to check these recs out
Shanara chronicles are set after humanity fucked everything up, demons came and fucked more shit and got sealed away and are now coming back.
It’s otherwise your sword and horse fantasy, though.
OG Planet of the Apes, Horizon Zero Dawn is too in a way
I don't think there's supernatural stuff on HZD
There's not, maybe that's what he means by 'in a way'?
Great games, highly recommend them. Not sure they really fit the trope, though.
OG Planet of the Apes took place on Soror, a planet in the Betelgeuse system.
I've never actually seen, just the references. Guess it's worth a go
The YA book series The Tripods, is medieval dystopian.
The Broken Empire trilogy. Also Red War trilogy, which is spin-off (though uses these themes a bit less)
The Steerswoman series by Rosemary Kirstein, though sadly she never finished it.
Yor: Hunter From the Future