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?

@zlatiah · 7 hours ago

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?

Boozilla · 7 hours ago

Not 100% sure, but these come to mind.

Science Fantasy
Dying Earth
Post-Apocalyptic Fantasy

@[email protected] · edit-2 1 hour ago

Dying earth isn’t really a genre, it’s series of books by Jack Vance that popularized this trope and was also a major inspiration for DnD

@cordlessmodem · 6 hours ago

These sound right to me, especially Dying Earth - a podcast I listen to covered Gene Wolf’s Book of the New Sun trilogy and they described it as such. Wikipedia calls it Science Fantasy. Great books by the way