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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Where have you seen this? I’ve been looking for some stories like it

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OG Planet of the Apes, Horizon Zero Dawn is too in a way

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I’ve never actually seen, just the references. Guess it’s worth a go

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The Steerswoman series by Rosemary Kirstein, though sadly she never finished it.

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Shanara chronicles are set after humanity fucked everything up, demons came and fucked more shit and got sealed away and are now coming back.

It’s otherwise your sword and horse fantasy, though.

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The Wheel of Time does this.

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I’ve got to check these recs out

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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.

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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?

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The YA book series The Tripods, is medieval dystopian.

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The Broken Empire trilogy. Also Red War trilogy, which is spin-off (though uses these themes a bit less)

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