Looking for books (or other media) with this very specific trope.
Hello!
I realised that a lot of books and Media that I absolutely love share this common trope/plot line: basically stories where characters live in a world with mysterious background lore and discover the ‘truth’ of their world or the ‘outside world’, which is usually unknown/undiscovered/hidden.
For example
– Stormlight Archives By Brandon Sanderson (I’ve just finished book 3) (where characters slowly discover what the desolations that happened thousand years ago were, what the voidbingers were etc etc were and what’s the truth of their world)
– Attack on titan (discovering what lies beyond the wall and what titans are, what happened in the past)
– Divergent (discovering what lies outside their city and what happened in the past)
– The mirror visitor (discovering what caused the formation of the Arks)
I’m open to all genres such as sci fi, fantasy, historical fiction etc as long as it has this ‘something mysterious happened in the past’ trope. I’d appreciate anything whether it’s books/manga/shows.
by Myromanholiday
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NK Jemisin’s Broken Earth series has this and it’s incredibly well written.
Iron Widow briefly covers this but the sequel Heavenly Tyrant will being going deeper into it, its a sci-fi duology
Road to High Saffron (Dystopian novel of future England under extreme authoritarian rule)
Spell For Chameleon (fantasy novel, young man in a magical version of Florida tries to find way of avoiding banishment to mundane version of Earth)
Aeon Flux (movie, 5 million people left in one walled city)
Dark City (movie, man is suspected of murder, but can’t remember who he is or how to get out of town)
Vivarium (movie, couple meets with bizarre real estate agent)
Val (movie, man hides from police with a prostitute)
The Silo Trilogy by Hugh Howey! Start with the first book, *Wool*, and see how you like it. I loved those books!