I’m embarrassed to say that I have encountered this, this particular type of story on multiple occasions… So I got curious, is there a name to this trope?

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    1 month ago

    Not 100% sure, but these come to mind.

    • Science Fantasy
    • Dying Earth
    • Post-Apocalyptic Fantasy
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      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