/lit/ - Literature

How do you strike a balance between making a world that is surreal and dreamlike, but still grounded enough for the reader to relate to? I feel like Dying Earth did a good job of doing both.

>>23503774
Though not book-accurate it gives a great sense of what the stories entail

what's the point of the dying earth setting? like, do they ever acknowledge that the earth is about to die? Does it have any bearing on the characters and story?

Was setting fantasy worlds in another universe separate from our own just not a common “thing” until some point in recent history?

I kinda just notices, a lot of the old fantasy stuff, like pre 60’s roughly, that I am familiar with all takes place in THIS universe at some different point in time or space. Conan and Middle earth, take place in misty prehistory of earth, dying earth and nightlands far future, john carpenter is this universe, but on mars.

maybe this is just happenstance with what i’m familiar with. It would be kinda interesting if the idea of a whole separate reality wasn’t really in the public “register” of common fantasy considerations before some soft point in time.

sffg niggas would sooner read 150000 chapters of chinks cultivating their microdicks than the purest fantasy kinoteka like this

>>22126101
this, or picrel if you'd prefer the shorter source material

The Dying Earth anthology by Jack Vance is a great time.

>>21219671
Anyone Read dying Earth? I did a while ago, and it absolutly oozes style. Id recomend it on the prose alone and the tone. Its a bunch of short stories of a far future earth after countless eons falls and rises, in the waning days of the red sun. some stories in abstract are kinda schlocky and simple in a way, but they all embody a real "mythic" feel to them thats really impressive.