Other than Red Dwarf and Hitchhikers Guide to the galaxy.
2007-06-16 20:46:53 · 17 answers · asked by BenignSource 4 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
"Up the Line" by Robert Silverberg. A comedy about inept Time Couriers.
"Who Goes There?" by Bob Shaw is a parody of militaristic SF.
"Star Smashers of the Galactic Rangers" by Harry Harrison is a space opera parody which owes quite a debt to the "Skylark of Space" books.
"Battlefield: Earth" by L. Ron Hubbard was supposed to be a serious SF book but it's so utterly terrible it reads like a parody!
2007-06-18 09:16:26 · answer #1 · answered by Huh? 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Humorous sci-fi is a very subjective genre. Robert Rankin is very popular, but I would say that the best current practioner of the genre is Andy Secombe. If you like Hitchhikers, you'll love him.
2007-06-17 10:19:04 · answer #2 · answered by RealRui 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't know if you'd classify this as sci-fi or fantasy, but Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett is really good. Anything by Pratchett is worth reading, especially his Discworld series. They're in line humor wise with Hitchhikers...
2007-06-16 21:04:53 · answer #3 · answered by geekgirl82 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
A proper recommendation would take into account your particular tastes. Without knowing you, i cannot tell what you may find interesting.
That said, I would recommend the novels of Isaac Asimov. He was one of the founders of the genre. His novels are considered among the best of all time. There is a series of nine books that deal with how human invented robots, set out to colonize the galaxy, set an empire, then collapse of the empire, then a second empire born from telepaths.
I would also recomend the berseker books, by Fred Saberhagen . In this universe, humans have colonized other planets, found other intelligences. They also found killing machines. It seems two races were at war, then one of them created the bersekers, machines capable of reproducing themselves, as a weapon against the enemy. Something went wrong, and the machines now attack all life. Both races have been long extinct, but the machines are still around seeking to destroy the humanity.
2007-06-16 23:30:50 · answer #4 · answered by epistemology 5 · 0⤊ 3⤋
Robert Sheckley.
John Sladek.
2007-06-17 02:13:26 · answer #5 · answered by Colin G 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Robert Asprin's Phule's Company series
2007-06-17 01:34:59 · answer #6 · answered by felineroche 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They may not exactly be post apocalyptic, but Robert A. Heinlein's "Red Planet", "Starman Jones" or for the more mature,"The Moon is a Harsh Mistress" are all exceptional sci-fi books for young adults.
2016-05-17 21:05:17 · answer #7 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'd recommend Terry Pratchett's Discworld series. There's quite a few of them (36!) but many can be read individually. They really are quite hilarious and die hard sci-fi/fantasy fans will love his use of cliches and footnotes.
2007-06-17 03:49:25 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, there is Kurt Vonnegut. His Player Piano is a work of science fiction and it is funny. Some of his other novels are even funnier, but they may not fit your definition of science fiction. I also think some of Harlan Ellison's work is funny. Mark Twain wrote a little known novel called Tom Sawyer Abroad. It has some science fiction. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (also by Twain) deals with time travel.
2007-06-16 20:59:34 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
"the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy"
2007-06-16 20:54:34 · answer #10 · answered by candrus71 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋