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?

Boozilla@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• Omniraptor@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Dying earth isn’t a genre it’s a specific set of books by jack Vance that popularized this trope and was also a major inspiration for DnD

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  • Boozilla@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dying_Earth_(genre)

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• cordlessmodem@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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

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