Humourous Science Fiction and Fantasy Books
The following is a list of books
I've read that I feel combine humour with science fiction or fantasy well.
If you have any recommendations, please contact me
at ajy@sentex.net. I intend to add brief reviews of these books at a later date.
Really Funny Books
- Douglas Adams, The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy
- Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
- Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe and Everything
- Douglas Adams, So Long, and Thanks For All the Fish
- Douglas Adams, Mostly Harmless
- Douglas Adams, Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
- Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
- Terry Pratchett, The Colour of Magic
- Terry Pratchett, The Light Fantastic
- Terry Pratchett, Equal Rites
- Terry Pratchett, Mort
- Terry Pratchett, Sourcery
- Terry Pratchett, Wyrd Sisters
- Terry Pratchett, Pyramids
- Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards!
- Terry Pratchett, Eric
- Terry Pratchett, Moving Pictures
- Terry Pratchett, Reaper Man
- Terry Pratchett, Witches Abroad
- Terry Pratchett, Small Gods
- Terry Pratchett, Lords and Ladies
- Terry Pratchett, Men at Arms
- Terry Pratchett, Soul Music
- Terry Pratchett, Interesting Times
- Terry Pratchett, Maskerade
- Terry Pratchett, Feet of Clay
- Terry Pratchett, Hogfather
- Terry Pratchett, Jingo
- Terry Pratchett, The Last Continent
- Terry Pratchett, Carpe Jugulum
- Terry Pratchett, The Fifth Elephant
- Terry Pratchett, The Truth
- Terry Pratchett, Thief of Time
- Terry Pratchett, Night Watch
- Terry Pratchett, Monstrous Regiment
- Terry Pratchett, Truckers
- Bob Shaw, Who Goes Here?
- Bob Shaw, Warren Peace
- Robert Sheckley, Dramocles
- Grant Naylor, Red Dwarf
- Grant Naylor, Better Than Life
- Rob Grant, Backwards
- Doug Naylor, Last Human
- Harry Harrison, Bill, the Galactic Hero
- Harry Harrison, Bill, the Galactic Hero: The Planet of the Robot Slaves
- Harry Harrison and Robert Sheckley, Bill, the Galactic Hero: On the Planet of Bottled Brains
- Harry Harrison and David Bischoff, Bill, the Galactic Hero: On the Planet of Ten Thousand Bars
- Piers Anthony, Faun and Games
- Piers Anthony, Roc and a Hard Place
- Piers Anthony, Cube Route
- Eric Idle, The Road to Mars
- Terry Jones, Douglas Adams' Starship Titanic
- Mark F. Parker, X-Calibre
- Nick Nielsen, ELV 2: Time's Square
- Tom Holt, Who's Afraid of Beowulf?
- Tom Holt, Valhalla
- Tom Holt, The Portable Door
- Tom Holt, Snow White and the Seven Samurai
- Tom Holt, Nothing but Blue Skies
- Tom Holt, Here Comes the Sun
- Tom Holt, Odds and Gods
- Tom Holt, You Don't Have to be Evil to Work Here, but it Helps
- Robert Asprin, Myth Conceptions
- Robert Asprin, Myth-Ing Persons
- Robert Asprin, M.Y.T.H. Inc. Link
- Robert Asprin, Myth-Nomers and Im-Pervections
- Robert Asprin, M.Y.T.H. Inc. In Action
- Robert Asprin, Myth-Ion Improbable
- Robert Asprin, Sweet Myth-tery of Life
- Robert Asprin, Something M.Y.T.H. Inc.
- Robert Asprin with Peter J. Heck, A Phule and His Money
- Robert Asprin with Peter J. Heck, Phule Me Twice
- Spider Robinson, Callahan's Secret
- Douglas Hill, The Fraxilly Fracas
- Patrick Tilley, Star Wartz
- Craig Shaw Gardner, Slaves of the Volcano God
- Craig Shaw Gardner, An Excess of Enchantments
- Lawrence Watt-Evans and Esther M. Friesner, Split Heirs
- Dan McGirt, Dirty Work
- Andrew Harman, The Sorcerer's Appendix
- Simon Hawke, The Inadequate Adept
- John DeChancie, Bride of the Castle
- Mike Ashley, ed., The Mammoth Book of Seriously Comic Fantasy
- Stanley Schmidt, ed., Analog's Lighter Side: Wild and Whimsical Tales from the Leading Science Fiction Magazine
- Eric Flint, ed., Keith Laumer: The Lighter Side
Honourable Mentions
- Robert Sheckley, Crompton Divided
- Harry Harrision, The Stainless Steel Rat Saves the World
- Michael Marshall Smith, Only Forward
- Christopher Stasheff, A Wizard in the Way
- Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five
- Philip C. Jennings, Tower to the Sky
- Sharyn McCrumb, Bimbos of the Death Sun
- Terry Pratchett, Ian Stewart & Jack Cohen, The Science of Discworld II: The Globe
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