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Kingkongcrapper t1_je097bf wrote

Reply to comment by D0GAMA1 in Post book depression by bertiewoooster

Never found another Hitchhikers Guide.

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Ringosis t1_je0qh4z wrote

Terry Pratchett? If you don't need it to be sci-fi he has a really similar style and sense of humour. He frequently writes with that exact same dramatic irony back and forth between the narrator and the characters that is so good in Hitchhikers.

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sleepingnow t1_je1e5a5 wrote

I love Pratchett so much. I have never found anything to replace his writing.

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Ringosis t1_je1gbkv wrote

Douglas Adams? If you don't need it to be fantasy he has a really similar style and sense of humour. He frequently writes with that exact same dramatic irony back and forth between the narrator and the characters that is so good in Discworld.

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sleepingnow t1_je1o7rt wrote

I have read his works, but it has been decades. Time for a re-read.

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Ringosis t1_je36m9w wrote

As a less flippant suggestion for you and u/Kingkongcrapper...if you are on board with sci-fi and like that sense of humour, I could not recommend The Culture series by Iain Banks more.

It's much less explicitly comedy than Pratchett or Adams. It tends to lean more towards hard science fiction...but the series has a really similar sense of humour. The crux of the setting is a society that has become so advanced that AI run everything. Humans simply think too slowly to have meaningful input.

A lot of the plot across the series is told from the point of view of sentient AI space ships that see humans effectively as children they are morally obligated to look after. The interaction between the god like AI and the comparatively stupid organic life leads to a really similar style of humour to the narrator/character dynamic of Prachett and Adams. But rather than being a comedy space opera like Hitchhiker's Guide, it's more like a space opera that's comedic.

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anachronic t1_je2i407 wrote

Have you read the Illuminatus trilogy by Robert Anton Wilson?

It's different, but I remember it feeling like it was in the same oddball satirical ballpark.

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