Is ASoIaF post apocalyptic and/or Far future Earth Colony type story

[Koopa]

First Men, came down from Essos. they encountered the chidlren of the forest in westeros.
As Brian pointed out Migrations where quite common. Not sure if this link is the best example, but it's the quickest one i could find:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...png/800px-Invasions_of_the_Roman_Empire_1.png

As for Valyria, it seemed to me GRRM's version of Rome. Which ruled most of Europa. In comparison to most other european nations/tribes they where ahead of their time. I considered ancient China as well, but Rome fits better.

 

[Ray McCarthy]

No, it's not post apocalyptic nor Future Earth Colony. Not in any conventional sense.

It's an imaginary fantasy world, unlike LOTR Middle Earth which is sort of an earlier age Europe (Tolkien said so). On the other hand at some early stage Terry Brooks obviously decided that Shannara series is on a post apocalyptic future of our world. I'm not convinced that this was always the case, but I've not read any of Terry Brooks comments on the origin of the story.

Lots of fiction borrows from real life. Like the original Asimov Foundation Trilogy draws on Gibbons and the Fall of Rome.

 

[Narkalui]

From what I can remember of The Sword of Shanara it seemed to me that Brooks was implying it was post apocalyptic from the beginning...

 

[Ray McCarthy]

The Sword of Shanara it seemed to me that Brooks was implying it was post apocalyptic from the beginning...

Yes, could be.

 

[Anushka Mokosh]

Some more things that occur after I rewatched ep 5

The Valyrians could be the original earth colonists and/or a faction of them who found the dragons as an indigenous species and then used them to rule the planet. Most of the magic is their high technology. The gray scale could be a bioweapon that got out of hand and destroyed them and their dragons, but not quite entirely. leaving them a strong force only recently defeated thoroughly

Um. Since this is a Book Board, I don't consider this as spoilers. Sorry if they are for you.
You do know that in the books, there aren't any Stone Men in Valyria and that Valyria was destroyed in pretty much the same fashion as Atlantis minus the sinking? The location where JonC gets infected are the Sorrows which are north of Volantis on Mother Rhoyne and not in the Smoking Sea which is to the south and is called Smoking likely due to heavy storms, underwater tectonic activity, and ashes and smoke from fires still active on Valyria and not creepy mist? In the books, nobody can get that close to Valyria and there are descriptions in Tyrion's chapters as he was passing by it on his voyage.

 

[Young stormlord]

You're not the first person to come up with that idea, although I approached it from the books, not the show (which I don't like very much). Observe my theory from year ago: https://www.sffchronicles.com/threads/547468/

 

[Narkalui]

I was aware of those two god's presence in an earlier GRRM work, personally I just think it's an Easter egg for fans of his earlier stories...