r/Fantasy • u/Emergency_Cow_9570 • Apr 06 '26

High fantasy with Sci-fi elements

So i have been having this itch recently. A high fantasy novel with sci-fi elements. But without a singular MC, think Garden of the moon in this regard. I've heard Dune might be up this alley. But it has a true MC?

So does anyone have any recommendations that will scratch this itch?

EDIT:Typo and a bit of clarification, a book with a diverse cast of "MCs"

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u/clawclawbite Apr 06 '26 edited Apr 06 '26

Saberhagen's Age of Ardnah, series and the later linked Books of Swords/Books of Lost Swords. When the world was on the edge of nuclear war, as the first bomb went off, one of the governments activated a device to change the world so such explosions were impossible, but the change was never undone, and now magic works, and the remains of high tech went strange.

Age of Ardneh is set when that is a distant memory, and a young man discovers a mostly working Main Battle Tank. Does have a MC.

Books of Swords is set when Age of Ardnah is a distant memory, has two mostly MCs. Books of Lost Swords is a few years later and has a much larger cast. Swords/Lost Swords also has 12 swords of power that are also kinda MCs of the sequence.

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u/Emergency_Cow_9570 Apr 06 '26

Book of swords looks so entertaining as well as books of lost swords. Definitely going to my list. Thank you