Hi all, I've been on the hunt lately for a fantasy book that has strong futuristic tech elements to it. I haven't actually played it, but Horizon Zero Dawn seems very close to what I'm looking for. The aesthetics of other video games like Far Cry New Dawn and Apex Legends seem close as well. I'm not too picky, if it has any combination of fantasy with tech, cyberpunk, or anything like that, I would love to check it out!
by BlueyBomb
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* Rocannon’s World by Ursula K. Le Guin. Nothing in this is *framed* as magic, but advanced technology looks like magic to those involved.
* Dreamsnake by Vonda N. McIntyre. No magic, sci fi written as if it were fantasy.
* Three Parts Dead by Max Gladstone. This is an urban fantasy novel with a lot of magic and modern-level technology.
* Alif the Unseen by G. Willow Wilson. Fantasy with some cyberpunk elements. It’s set in the modern day real world and is not futuristic.
* I have *not* read these yet, but they’re on my to-read list: Elder Race by Adrian Tchaikovsky, Too Like the Lightning by Ada Palmer, An Alien Light by Nancy Kress, Eifelheim by Michael Flynn, and Windhaven by George R. R. Martin and Lisa Tuttle
Dragonriders of Pern series.
The Locked Tomb series by Tamsyn Muir is a fantasy sci-fi about space necromancers. Set in the future, lots of magic, lots of high tech, little bit of horror. The protagonists fly spaceships through the River of the Dead, devour the souls of planets, and fight with swords and guns and horrifying atrocities made of human bones. Very weird and very well written.