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| Author: | MsMary [ Fri Oct 18, 2002 7:43 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Douglas Adams and humor in the genre |
What did I say??!! ~MsMary~ "Does the walker choose the path, or the path the walker?"<i></i> |
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| Author: | danlo60 [ Wed Oct 23, 2002 4:41 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Douglas Adams and humor in the genre |
"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 The true human being is the meaning of the universe. He is a dancing star. He is the exploding singularity with infinite possibilities. <i></i> |
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| Author: | taraswizard [ Wed Mar 17, 2004 4:07 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Douglas Adams and humor The little black bag |
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 Allan Rosewarne N9SQT/WDX6HQV Chicago area W/T forever, always Plan C - http://planc.bravepages.com/main.html<i></i> |
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| Author: | autojay [ Wed Mar 17, 2004 6:22 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Douglas Adams and humor The little black bag |
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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