The first one instantly made me think of Douglas Adams
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zqwzzle@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Is there an author that writes like this? I would like to read an entire book of this.
90s_hacker@reddthat.com 3 weeks ago
NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks ago
I can see the similarity but IMO this isn’t that close to Douglas Adams.
Sekoia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
Well, in the first bit of the Hitchhiker’s guide, there’s:
“You’d better be prepared for the jump into hyperspace. It’s unpleasantly like being drunk.”
“What’s so unpleasant about being drunk?”
“You ask a glass of water.”
Which does fit, even if it’s not necessarily a “well-known phrase”
NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks ago
I’ll take it, and I stand corrected.
90s_hacker@reddthat.com 3 weeks ago
His dark green rubbery skin was thick enough for him to play the game of Vogon Civil Service politics, and play it well, and waterproof enough for him to survive indefinitely at sea depths of up to a thousand feet with no ill effects.
Mr. L. Prosser was, as they say, only human. In other words he was a carbon-based life form descended from an ape
something like these, perhaps? There are probably better examples, I just skimmed through the first couple chapters of Hitchiker’s Guide to the galaxy
LNRDrone@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
Terry Pratchett Discworld books? From memory the ones about witches at least had a good bit of it.
tetris11@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
check out Ann Leckie’s Ancillary Justice series. For a long while you’re not actually sure what species the characters are, what they look like, if they even have gender, and how many limbs they have.
It’s a series that focuses solely on plot and has a very loose definition of identity (and it’s awesome)
LilB0kChoy@midwest.social 3 weeks ago
Depending on what specifically appeals to you, you’d probably like Literary nonsense aithors or Absurdist fiction authors.
Enkrod@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
A few pages later
Terry Pratchett - The Wee Free Men
Terry Pratchett - Guards Guards
MagicShel@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
I love Douglas Adams and HHGttG probably did more to inform my politics than any other single source, and it feels completely relevant today. If anything, Adams wasn’t cynical enough when writing Zaphod.
LilB0kChoy@midwest.social 3 weeks ago
Christopher Moore as well! Let me go find some snippets.