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 Post subject: Re: Douglas Adams and humor in the genre
PostPosted: Fri Oct 18, 2002 7:43 pm 
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What did I say??!!

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 Post subject: Re: Douglas Adams and humor in the genre
PostPosted: Wed Oct 23, 2002 4:41 pm 
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"I'm so cool you could keep a side of meat in me for a month! I'm so hip I have trouble seeing over my pelvis!" - Zaphod Beeblebrox, Douglas Adams' The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
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 Post subject: Re: Douglas Adams and humor The little black bag
PostPosted: Wed Mar 17, 2004 4:07 am 
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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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 Post subject: Re: Douglas Adams and humor The little black bag
PostPosted: Wed Mar 17, 2004 6:22 pm 
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I can think of 2 SF authors that make good use of humour in their books while not writing outright comedy books - Iain Banks, and Michael Marshall Smith, it's still real SF and it's funny, can't be bad as far as I'm concerned <i></i>


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