: Re: Does it make sense to set a sword & sorcery fantasy in a post-apocalyptic world on Earth? Fantasy worlds are usually set in a separate world, time, and space from our own. Many are set in

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Viability? Validity?

You're ideas are totally fine.

Seriously, as a reader I would have no idea with a disaster turning us all into cool, fantasy characters, ready to go and... Be fantasy characters. In fact, it'd be pretty cool if that actually happened. However, I think I'd like to add these notes to the slew of answers this question has accumulated:

It is arguably harder to write about something like this, because it's hard to make the public realistically react.

They probably wouldn't think 'yay!', rather... Something else. One reason it's hard to make this sort of stuff believable is because the public would react so strangely.

It is arguably harder to write about something like this, because the change happens within the book.

I think it's just so hard to make this realistic and believable. It's miles easier to just have the change happen before the book (create a prologue perhaps) or have no change at all. In fact, yeah, I think you could have a prologue saying the change then the book. It's a bit hard to write about the characters adapting because it's just... It's just so weird.

There's no problems with these ideas, they might be a bit hard to write about.

Other's may disagree, but in my experience, doing things like this is tough. So I wish you luck. You're ideas are doable and viable, and I'd love to hear how they turn out.

I hope this helped you.

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