I’d actually like to know as well, this sounds like an interesting topic
escaped_cephalopod12 on
This is a spoiler, but the 3rd book in the Scythe series
MKovacsM on
LOL< The End Of The World. Pick any novel like that and they are right. well sort of, usually not quite they way they imagine though.
SourPatchKidding on
The Year of the Flood. It’s the second book in Margaret Atwood’s MaddAddam trilogy that begins with Oryx and Crake.
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Well, it’s never going to be finished so I wouldn’t recommend it, but this is pretty much the backstory for >!A Song of Ice and Fire!<
>!Aenar Targaryen was a minor political figure, whose daughter said she had visions of the End Times. He and his family ran off to a remote island where they hoarded uncommonly powerful weapons and started inbreeding in preparation for the apocalypse. This was apparently going on for a while before the actual End Times happened, so I’m sure they just looked like the fantasy version of a standard guns-and-incest cult, until they were suddenly right.!<
For anyone about to come at me with cultural-relativism arguments, if you check the sources >!the earliest reference to incestuous Valyrian marriage was between two Targaryens, *after* they’d decamped to Dragonstone, there’s no evidence it was normal practice in the broader culture.!<
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I’d actually like to know as well, this sounds like an interesting topic
This is a spoiler, but the 3rd book in the Scythe series
LOL< The End Of The World. Pick any novel like that and they are right. well sort of, usually not quite they way they imagine though.
The Year of the Flood. It’s the second book in Margaret Atwood’s MaddAddam trilogy that begins with Oryx and Crake.
Well, it’s never going to be finished so I wouldn’t recommend it, but this is pretty much the backstory for >!A Song of Ice and Fire!<
>!Aenar Targaryen was a minor political figure, whose daughter said she had visions of the End Times. He and his family ran off to a remote island where they hoarded uncommonly powerful weapons and started inbreeding in preparation for the apocalypse. This was apparently going on for a while before the actual End Times happened, so I’m sure they just looked like the fantasy version of a standard guns-and-incest cult, until they were suddenly right.!<
For anyone about to come at me with cultural-relativism arguments, if you check the sources >!the earliest reference to incestuous Valyrian marriage was between two Targaryens, *after* they’d decamped to Dragonstone, there’s no evidence it was normal practice in the broader culture.!<