Please don’t say, “Neuromancer” or some other drivel like that. I’m looking for future-satire-action-comedy. I’m well aware of the works of Gibson, Dick, etc. Snow Crash has a Comic-Book style that just grips me. Noir-Cyberpunk-Comedy-Satire or Noir-Future Fiction-Comedy Satire is what i’m shooting for. The only other examples I can come up with are those two wonderful Varley novels, Golden Globe and Steel Beach and Stephensons Zodiac. If you’ve read those and Snow Crash, then you know the common thread I’m looking for, Heinlien-esque but with maybe a bit less rhetoric regarding incest.
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June 25th, 2009 at 10:49 pm
The tone is the most difficult part of the question. The only author that comes close, in my opinion, is Gaiman. And unfortunately he doesn’t write Sci-Fi. I’m assuming you’ve read Adams. Stephen Brust has a sort of Ironic tone to some of his fantasy Novels (It goes a little too far in some cases) And Tad Williams’ Otherland series is similar in setting…but Stephenson’s Tone is unique.