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 · 2 months 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?

@pech · 2 months ago

The Wheel of Time does this.

@dexa_scantron · edit-2 2 months 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.

@cevn · 2 months 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?

@benignintervention · 2 months ago

I’ve got to check these recs out