Comment on 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?

benignintervention@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• pech@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The Wheel of Time does this.

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  • dexa_scantron@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    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.

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    • cevn@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      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?

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  • benignintervention@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I’ve got to check these recs out

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• SomeAmateur@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  OG Planet of the Apes

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  • yamanii@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I don’t think there’s supernatural stuff on HZD

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    • SolOrion@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      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.

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  • WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    OG Planet of the Apes took place on Soror, a planet in the Betelgeuse system.

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  • benignintervention@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I’ve never actually seen, just the references. Guess it’s worth a go

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• BeigeAgenda@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The YA book series The Tripods, is medieval dystopian.

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• FuglyDuck@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  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 board fantasy, though.

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• illi@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The Broken Empire trilogy. Also Red War trilogy, which is spin-off (though uses these themes a bit less)

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• WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Yor: Hunter From the Future

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• Okokimup@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The Steerswoman series by Rosemary Kirstein, though sadly she never finished it.

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