Authors / Series

March 17, 2016 2:43 AM

The first and most important post! Which authors / books / series do you feel fit the remit of the club.
posted by Just this guy, y'know to SSFF (5 comments total)

I'm going to start us off with the obvious big hitters:

Douglas Adams with Hitchhikers guide and Dirk Gently
Terry Pratchett's Discworld, Strata, Carpet People and so on.
posted by Just this guy, y'know at 2:44 AM on March 17, 2016 [1 favorite]

Robert Sheckley, especially his short stories.
posted by Kattullus at 3:00 AM on March 17, 2016 [1 favorite]

I second all my nominations from the previous post (and everyone else's, for that matter, all suggestions seemed awesome).
posted by possibilityleft at 8:02 AM on March 17, 2016 [2 favorites]

The only thing I thought of outside of the stuff in the last post was To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis.
posted by hobgadling at 9:17 AM on March 17, 2016 [4 favorites]

There's a newish series out there by Rachel Aaron, first book is Nice Dragons Finish Last second is One Good Dragon Deserves Another.; they're funny urban fantasy, though more in the funny-comes-second category where I'd place Connie Willis & Jo Walton versus the Douglas Adams mold. I highly recommend them and it might be nice to have some newer blood to offset some of these classics, as fantastic and classic-for-a-reason as they might be.

Also newerish, Victor Gischler's Go-Go Girls of the Apocalypse is superb.

Classic - Alan Mendelsohn, the Boy from Mars by Daniel Pinkwater

That said, Asprin's Another Fine Myth is the book out of all the previous thread's recs which I would take to a desert island so that would be my first pick in the older offerings.
posted by phearlez at 12:33 PM on March 18, 2016