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?

  • Boozilla@lemmy.worldEnglish
    21·
    9 hours ago

    Not 100% sure, but these come to mind.

    • Science Fantasy
    • Dying Earth
    • Post-Apocalyptic Fantasy
    • Omniraptor@lemm.ee
      1·
      3 hours 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@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11·
      9 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