Looking for a book similar to The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

[o00o]

Looking for a book similar to The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy that is not written by Terry Pratchett.

 

thx

[caze]

I was a big fan of Robert Rankin when I was a kid.

[iococoi]

Red Dwarf?

 

https://www.goodreads.com/series/51701-red-dwarf

[Guest bitroast]

ye ye red dwarf book is sick.

 

i found Foundation to be pretty similar to hitchhikers guide ... but with the colourful wit replaced with a much drier wearier wit. but it's sci fi wit nonetheless, methinks.

[Tricone RC]

lol yeah Asimov wrote some great sci-fi but it's the driest shit you'll ever come across.

 

The Illuminatus trilogy is the most similar series I've read, combines the wit of Hitchhikers with the mid-sentence scene-jumping plotline of Catch 22, in a surreal but vaguely sci-fi setting

[Soloman Tump]

I recommend "Earth Inc" by Michael Bollen.

You may know him under his Cassetteboy alias, but he wrote this rather nifty sci fi dystopia novel too

[chenGOD]

I recommend "Earth Inc" by Michael Bollen.

You may know him under his Cassetteboy alias, but he wrote this rather nifty sci fi dystopia novel too

 

Oh shit, tip o' the day right there!

[Tatdylf]

Cyberiad or Futurological Congress by Stanislaw Lem

[pcock]

tom holt is nowhere near as classy, but writes the exact same sort of comic witty sort of fantasy.scifi stuff.

[o00o]

thx guys I will check these out

[tec]

I was a big fan of Robert Rankin when I was a kid.

 

Yeah same, he's decent but a lot of it is the same so only read a couple.

 

Only Forward by Michael Marshall Smith maybe? It's darkly comic and sci-fi, very good too.