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?

• 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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