humorous sci fi or fantasy books

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The Vorkosigan Saga by Lois McMaster Bujold is great!

There are print and audio versions available and both are good. Don't let the covers turn you off.

https://www.amazon.com/Miles-Vorkosigan-16-book-series/dp/B07W9LXSYG

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The most on series by Brandon Sanderson.

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Mist born.

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Patrick rothfuss - the name of the wind (although series is unfinished)
Naomi Novik - a deadly education

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Anonymous wrote:T Kingfisher is fun but such girl books! Try Terry Pratchett, Lies of Locke Lamora, Island in a Sea of Time.

Wtf is wrong with you and this horrifically ignorant take? Do you think T. Kingfisher is writing “girl books” because there is almost always two main characters, one male and one female? And they always both have special skills that help on the mission/quest? How is that “girl” coded?

The first two books have three men and one woman on a quest. The Saint of Steel books are about a group of paladins (4 books so far, 4 male paladins).

The third Saint of Steel book has all male main characters. SO girly!!!

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Anonymous wrote:Terry Pratchett is probably the standard suggestion but imo the books are a little uneven (some very good, so very broad).

Connie Willis is very good. Her latest is about people who celebrate Area 51 but she has earlier time travel books that are good too.

I came on here to suggest Connie Willis. I love her and didn't realize she had a new book. My favorite is To Say Nothing of the Dog.

I also second Louis McMadter Bujold.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m guessing he’s read Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy?

+1 This is one of my favorite books

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Anonymous wrote:T Kingfisher is fun but such girl books! Try Terry Pratchett, Lies of Locke Lamora, Island in a Sea of Time.

Wtf is wrong with you and this horrifically ignorant take? Do you think T. Kingfisher is writing “girl books” because there is almost always two main characters, one male and one female? And they always both have special skills that help on the mission/quest? How is that “girl” coded?

The first two books have three men and one woman on a quest. The Saint of Steel books are about a group of paladins (4 books so far, 4 male paladins).

The third Saint of Steel book has all male main characters. SO girly!!!

I love Saint of Steel, but they are all romances (and honestly kind of the same romancé repeated). It’s reductive to describe them as girl fantasy. But I also haven’t ever met a man who reads romance, though I’m sure they exist.

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Anonymous wrote:T Kingfisher is fun but such girl books! Try Terry Pratchett, Lies of Locke Lamora, Island in a Sea of Time.

Wtf is wrong with you and this horrifically ignorant take? Do you think T. Kingfisher is writing “girl books” because there is almost always two main characters, one male and one female? And they always both have special skills that help on the mission/quest? How is that “girl” coded?

The first two books have three men and one woman on a quest. The Saint of Steel books are about a group of paladins (4 books so far, 4 male paladins).

The third Saint of Steel book has all male main characters. SO girly!!!

I love Saint of Steel, but they are all romances (and honestly kind of the same romancé repeated). It’s reductive to describe them as girl fantasy. But I also haven’t ever met a man who reads romance, though I’m sure they exist.

It’s reductive to call them romances. You might as well call them mysteries.

And you’ve never met a man who reads a book with a romance plot? I find that hard to believe.

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Anonymous wrote:T Kingfisher is fun but such girl books! Try Terry Pratchett, Lies of Locke Lamora, Island in a Sea of Time.

Wtf is wrong with you and this horrifically ignorant take? Do you think T. Kingfisher is writing “girl books” because there is almost always two main characters, one male and one female? And they always both have special skills that help on the mission/quest? How is that “girl” coded?

The first two books have three men and one woman on a quest. The Saint of Steel books are about a group of paladins (4 books so far, 4 male paladins).

The third Saint of Steel book has all male main characters. SO girly!!!

I love Saint of Steel, but they are all romances (and honestly kind of the same romancé repeated). It’s reductive to describe them as girl fantasy. But I also haven’t ever met a man who reads romance, though I’m sure they exist.

It’s reductive to call them romances. You might as well call them mysteries.

And you’ve never met a man who reads a book with a romance plot? I find that hard to believe.

The friendships between the male paladins are a huge part of those books too.

Anyway back on point, Kings of the Wyld is a light book about some semi-retired sword fighting/spell casting guys having to get back into the game (very much “getting the band back together”).

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Anonymous wrote:T Kingfisher is fun but such girl books! Try Terry Pratchett, Lies of Locke Lamora, Island in a Sea of Time.

Wtf is wrong with you and this horrifically ignorant take? Do you think T. Kingfisher is writing “girl books” because there is almost always two main characters, one male and one female? And they always both have special skills that help on the mission/quest? How is that “girl” coded?

The first two books have three men and one woman on a quest. The Saint of Steel books are about a group of paladins (4 books so far, 4 male paladins).

The third Saint of Steel book has all male main characters. SO girly!!!

I love Saint of Steel, but they are all romances (and honestly kind of the same romancé repeated). It’s reductive to describe them as girl fantasy. But I also haven’t ever met a man who reads romance, though I’m sure they exist.

It’s reductive to call them romances. You might as well call them mysteries.

And you’ve never met a man who reads a book with a romance plot? I find that hard to believe.

They’re not just books with a romance plot, they are written to fall within the romance genre! And it’s always the same romance: average looking middle aged person gets over deep insecurity to accept that a hot paladin could really be attracted to them. It’s not reductive to call them romances, unless you think there’s something inferior about romance as a genre.

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Anonymous wrote:Becky Chambers has a series of cozy feel-good sci-fi that is available on kindle unlimited. A long way to a distant planet and so on.

In the same vein: John Scalzi. Tons to pick from but I'd start with either Old man's War or The Collapsing Empire.

I just read Starter Villain and loved it.

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The warriors books - about clans of cats.

Or something by Iain Banks

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iain_Banks

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Absolutely Mistborn! Sanderson is excellent and it’s a great series.
Neither are humor per se, but if he liked the Martian, he might enjoy Andy Weir’s Project Hail Mary or Pierce Brown’s Red Rising saga.

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Anonymous wrote:T Kingfisher is fun but such girl books! Try Terry Pratchett, Lies of Locke Lamora, Island in a Sea of Time.

Wtf is wrong with you and this horrifically ignorant take? Do you think T. Kingfisher is writing “girl books” because there is almost always two main characters, one male and one female? And they always both have special skills that help on the mission/quest? How is that “girl” coded?

The first two books have three men and one woman on a quest. The Saint of Steel books are about a group of paladins (4 books so far, 4 male paladins).

The third Saint of Steel book has all male main characters. SO girly!!!

I love Saint of Steel, but they are all romances (and honestly kind of the same romancé repeated). It’s reductive to describe them as girl fantasy. But I also haven’t ever met a man who reads romance, though I’m sure they exist.

It’s reductive to call them romances. You might as well call them mysteries.

And you’ve never met a man who reads a book with a romance plot? I find that hard to believe.

They’re not just books with a romance plot, they are written to fall within the romance genre! And it’s always the same romance: average looking middle aged person gets over deep insecurity to accept that a hot paladin could really be attracted to them. It’s not reductive to call them romances, unless you think there’s something inferior about romance as a genre.

T. Kingfisher writes horror and fantasy. Casts having men and women who all participate without the women being accessories there to facilitate the men's character development is a GOOD thing for young people to see. This is too much shit fantasy with "woman in the fridge" tactics.