The Dark Age by Clark Ashton Smith (Audiobook) // Post Apocalyptic Adventure

[@live_destin-3408]

15:46 - personal bookmark please ignore

[@chessdad182]

Needs to be a movie.

[@phantomb8832]

It isn't difficult to see why so many great authors, from Bradbury to Wolfe to Lovecraft hinlmself, gush over his writing. Eyeing my copy of Return of the Sorcerer after this reading of yours. Thank you.

[@PanzermansBunker]

For a "Custodian" of Mankind's lost sciences, the old geezer fell prey to a very erratic emotions...... To blame the son of his rival and doom his daughter to an early death. The non happy ending was refreshing.

[@dreamsprayanimation]

Typical Boomer.

[@kangill2411]

Great story. The scene setting reminds me of some Jack Vance ‘Dying Earth’ short story.

[@TheEldritchArchives]

Ah I think I know the one you mean. It's the one where they find the ancient library with an old man in a chair that controls machines right?

[@kangill2411]

Yes exactly!

[@y9y-f9q]

The concept he's describing at the beginning, of like, a science monastery built to withstand apocalyptic events, is also the core concept in Neil Stephenson's most recent novel Anathem

[@johannageisel5390]

It also bears a lot of resemblance to Asimov's Foundation, only there it was a planetary colony of scientists, meant to keep human knowledge alive during the collapse of the empire and then to shorten the following dark ages to merely a thousand years instead of tenthousand. At some point the Foundation settlement does turn itself into a religion, though, and educates people from surrounding planets in the use of their machines. The religious aspect is meant to keep the control of the knowledge in the hands of the Foundation.

[@LazarosKalogirou]

Great narration! Thanks!

[@johncrawford8878]

Very dark , but more realistic ending to a post apocalyptic story . Excellent story telling.

[@mil_enrama]

I like that this is sort of timeless, I can't decide if it's set in the future or the distant past. Adds to the bleakness

[@keithosborne6585]

Fantastic story.

[@pajamawolfie]

I bet the old guy told the girl "that's your half-brother"

[@TheEldritchArchives]

Good catch! I handn't even considered that possibility, but that would totally explain her behaviour at the end.

[@fionbharrbutler3373]

Great job. I enjoyed that very much.

[@troutwardbound]

Good read, m8!

[@BenSHammonds]

a very enjoyable story, a reversed Brave New World in a way, will listen to this one again

[@Eduardo_Ventura]

Very good, mate!

[@BryinWillis-e8g]

Friday

[@trishmatson6496]

Awww, nuts! >:-(

[@Lymborium]

Fuckin didn't expect that ending lmao