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Reply to comment by sleepingnow in Post book depression by bertiewoooster
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.
Ringosis t1_je0tbxl wrote
Reply to Post book depression by bertiewoooster
The author of my favourite book series that had been my favourite for three decades died a while back. When I finished the last book I cried for quite a long time. It was genuine grief, like a friend had died.
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Reply to comment by Kingkongcrapper in Post book depression by bertiewoooster
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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Reply to comment by OSUfan88 in Guy gets mattress into garbage truck only using the claw. This guy's enthusiasm is off the charts by chaseoes
It's Blue Origin succesfully testing a reusable rocket.
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Reply to comment by NorvalMarley in Nice Catch! by westondeboer
Orangutans share 97% of their DNA with humans. Just saying.
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Reply to comment by lordofduct in me and my friends as Samhain witches by fel0ra
Sickles are used for gathering plants and herbs...witches make potions...put two and two together mate.
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Reply to comment by Mtbnz in Skate deck progress. Finally finished! by rainbowsprinkles_
> Without a point it isn't art, it's decoration.
That is not the definition of either of those words.
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Reply to comment by ruslan_merzlyakov in Milky Way core over La Palma [OC][1017x1600] astrorms by ruslan_merzlyakov
It's a picture towards the galactic center, not of the galactic center. None of the stuff you are seeing there is anywhere near the middle. It's mostly dust and stars from our local spur with the stuff in the background being the Perseus Arm. Galactic center is behind that.
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Reply to comment by sleepingnow in Post book depression by bertiewoooster
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.