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@lemmy.world · 1 month 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@lemmy.world · 1 month ago

Not 100% sure, but these come to mind.

Science Fantasy
Dying Earth
Post-Apocalyptic Fantasy

cordlessmodem@lemmy.world · 1 month 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

Omniraptor@lemm.ee · edit-2 1 month 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

Boozilla@lemmy.world · 1 month ago

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