Nobody has posted here in a while, but I am going to open this up again. Disagreeing with MsMary, I do not think SF authors take themselves any more seriously than most other authors. And some authors have very well developed wits, Harlan Ellison, Ted Sturgeon.
However, is SF even funny at all? Should it be funny? For example, many of the short stories I am reading for my class are post apocalyptic stories, and everyone knows that concept is a real barrel of laughs. The instructor of my comm. college class, Betty Hull, believes that SF is very funny. An example, she likes to use is the the short story The little black bag, by C.M. Kornbluth. Can be read on line users.ev1.net/~holliser/P...Bag1.html, users.ev1.net/~holliser/P...Bag2.html, users.ev1.net/~holliser/P...Bag3.html, users.ev1.net/~holliser/P...Bag4.html, users.ev1.net/~holliser/P...kBag5.html taraswizard
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