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Medieval-Fantasy and Space-Fantasy, what's the appeal and distinction of each? 03/02/26(Mon)03:22:38 No.25116582
Medieval-Fantasy and Space-Fantasy, what's the appeal and distinction of each? 03/02/26(Mon)03:22:38 No.25116582
Medieval-Fantasy and Space-Fantasy, what's the appeal and distinction of each? Anonymous 03/02/26(Mon)03:22:38 No.25116582 [Reply]▶
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I feel like there's a non-superficial distinction between choosing a more advanced space setting and a more primitive magical medieval one. Something about space and its vastness being more able to emphasize themes of civilizational expansion? themes that deal with infinity? And medieval fantasy is more cozy and better suited to deal with themes of personal adventure? of physical suffering?
Not sure, what do you thin anon?
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>medieval astronaut in leather compression-space-suit (not airtight except for mouthpiece)
>flies ww2 fighter plane to the moon
>highway robber holds him up a flintlock-point, steals his diesel generator
>no electricity to run the electric aether-clutch field
>stuck on the moon
>300 pages of quest to find some cave where a crashed probe left its radiothermal generator
>can return home just in time to join his liege's raid on normandy
why not both?
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Lots of fantasy blends far-future / post-apocalypse with medieval tropes. Indeed, the medieval setting actually lends itself to such things, since medieval Europeans looked back on the Roman Empire as the pinnacle of human civilization. In fantasy settings there's usually an ancient precursor civilization, or sometimes a precursor race, that was far more advanced than the present one, either technologically, or magically, or both. It's not uncommon to have that precursor civilization be an analog for modern day Earth, or even be modern day Earth.