Discworld is sometimes compared to Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. That’s to say they’re both heavily tongue-in-cheek, not “hard” scifi/fantasy. HGTTG is “hard” scifi in the same way Rincewind is Gandalf - ie not at all. They’re running more on Rule of Funny, and it works pretty well. Terry Pratchett and Douglas Adams were both English, of course, and have quite a bit of overlap in their humor, commentary and writing style.
The discworkd series
William Gibson’s books
Neal Stephenson’s books (except Anathem, too looong)
Bartimaeus series by Jonathan Stroud
Dan Simmons books
The Atrocity archives by Charles Stross (just discovered this one, a must read!)
The master and Margarita
Kunderna (the old ones)
Umberto Eco (especially Baudolino)
So basically sci-fi or fantasy in a plausible heavy setting I guess :-D
Discworld is sometimes compared to Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. That’s to say they’re both heavily tongue-in-cheek, not “hard” scifi/fantasy. HGTTG is “hard” scifi in the same way Rincewind is Gandalf - ie not at all. They’re running more on Rule of Funny, and it works pretty well. Terry Pratchett and Douglas Adams were both English, of course, and have quite a bit of overlap in their humor, commentary and writing style.
The Master and the… MARGARITA??
Edit: Bought.
You are in for a great ride. Great read.
We definitely have similar taste.
You’d probably like ‘The City & The City’ by China Mieville
Thank you, just ordered the book 😊.
Try some Vonnegut if you haven’t. hgttg really feels like a derivative of Sirens of Titan in particular. Slaughterhouse 5 is one of my favorites too
All of these are very light reading. I think the target demographic for this sort of stuff is teenagers.