Comment by mbgerring
4 hours ago
This paper was extremely influential for me, and it’s worth reading for a perspective shift that’s not often considered in these discussions: what happens when you consider “the apocalypse” as an event in the very distant past? https://www.researchgate.net/publication/325453561_Indigenou...
You get a fantasy novel? Living in the ruins of a great civilization that lived in the distant past and faced some sort of calamity (or decline of some sort) is one of the most common setups for a fantasy novel.