Oren: I mean, find me another kind of fantasy that does this sort of thing and I’ll take it.Ĭhris: Well! Does the things I wrote myself count? Wes: Yeah that’s a good point, that’s a good point Ĭhris: I think I have some quibbles even before we get to the a hundred dollar question, why does fantasy have to be high fantasy in this case? It’d be like if you played fallout, but like everything had regrown.Ĭhris: I think at this point, whether it matters is like the a hundred dollar question. It should matter, but we can’t be that like incredibly far removed away from it. Wes: So there has to be some event in the past, some kind of cataclysm, but we can’t be that far away from it to where it shouldn’t matter. But none of those are like, it used to be the real world, or at least I may be broken earth is if you go back far enough, I didn’t, I don’t know what the history of the actual Broken Earth setting is, but in the setting itself, there’s no sign that this used to be Earth with the United States. Arguably Lord of the rings even is a fantasy setting where an apocalypse happened. Like, Broken Earth is post-apocalyptic fantasy in that it is a fantasy setting where an apocalypse happened. That’s what I think of when I say that term right now, there are many other books that would also qualify that don’t do those things. And for some reason we all became Lord of the rings, but sometimes it’s like a distant space colony where there was no single apocalypse, but like technology failed for some reason. And sometimes this isn’t an actual apocalypse and that like, it was actually earth, and the bombs fell. And so it has, you know, swords and armor and castles and usually magic, not always, but almost always magic of some kind, but it used to be more like modern day tech or sci fi tech. Oren: I defined post-apocalyptic fantasy as a story that looks like high fantasy. Wes: Should we start with, what is post-apocalyptic or what is fantasy? So first of all, let’s do the thing we always do, which is definition, debate time, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding.What is post-apocalyptic fantasy? Who is it? Wes: I’m just glad that you set expectations right at the beginning, Oren!Ĭhris: We’re finally being honest with our listeners. This episode, I may or may not have just read a post-apocalyptic fantasy novel. I want to wear a suit of medieval armor and call myself a knight because it’s post-apocalyptic fantasy. Most people are putting on their BDSM gear and yelling witness me, but that’s not how I want to do things. Oren: And welcome everyone to another episode of the mythcreants podcast. With your hosts Oren Ashkenazi, West Matlock and Chris Winkle. Volunteer to transcribe a podcast.Ĭhris: You’re listening to the mythcreants podcast.
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