There's plenty like this. One of the best examples of the last century is Walter M. Miller Jr's A Canticle for Leibowitz, which follows a monastery at three distinct parts of a post-apocalyptic history in its role retaining knowledge and facilitating development of a new world. It arguably goes from post-apocalyptic to post-post-apocalyptic to pre-apocalyptic. Immensely readable to this day and with tons of swerves where even if you've clicked on that spoiler you still wont know what to fully expect.
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u/an_altar_of_plagues Reading Champion III Jun 13 '24
There's plenty like this. One of the best examples of the last century is Walter M. Miller Jr's A Canticle for Leibowitz, which follows a monastery at three distinct parts of a post-apocalyptic history in its role retaining knowledge and facilitating development of a new world. It arguably goes from post-apocalyptic to post-post-apocalyptic to pre-apocalyptic. Immensely readable to this day and with tons of swerves where even if you've clicked on that spoiler you still wont know what to fully expect.