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Do you know of any "after-the-fall-of-civilization" books?
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April 2nd, 2010
For instance, in Robert Jordan’s “Wheel of Time” series, mention is made of an Age of Legends when technological marvels such as “sho-wings” (airplanes) were commonplace. During the time of the books themselves, the Age of Legends civilization has fallen.
Another example is the Obernewtyn series, by Isobelle Carmody. The books take place long after an apocalypse called the Great White. The Oldtimers who lived just before the Great White possessed technology such as airplanes and underwater cities.
A third example is Joan D. Vinge’s Snow Queen series, which takes place long after a civilization called the Old Empire fell into ruin. Old Empire science included an immortality virus and a galaxy-spanning computer network using human beings as dataports.
Does anyone know of any other examples of books describing the aftermath of fallen high-technology civilizations? Did you like them? Why or why not?
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