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- Science fiction has a reputation for being weak on sex and humour.
- In games, humour at least comes through quite strongly, but there's
- very little sex, probably reflecting a peculiarly American morality
- that thinks it's okay to show people being splattered in horrific
- detail, but finds sex is impossibly corrupting. </b></font>
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- <font color="#aa0000"><font size=5>W</font></font>ritten
- SF discovered sexuality in a big way in the sixties, with
- writers like Philip José Farmer and Michael Moorcock
- exploring
- the possibilities of future sex.
- <font color="#aa0000"><font size=5>H</font></font>umour has
- been around longer.
- <font color="#aa0000"><font size=5>F</font></font>redrick Brown with <i>Martians, Go Home</i>
- and E. F. Russell
- with <i>Next of Kin</i> typify early attempts, where the
- tongue
- was so far in the cheek that it came out the other side.
- <font color="#aa0000"><font size=5>T</font></font>hese
- are basically adventure stories </td><td><font size=4 width=50%>
- with a humorous
- approach, rather
- than the out-and-out hilarity best typified by Robert Rankin's
- <i>Brentford trilogy</i>, which strays wildly into
- magic and lunacy, but still has a science fiction basis.
- <font color="#aa0000"><font size=5>T</font></font>erry
- Pratchett had a couple of goes at funny SF before settling down
- to his epic disc-world series, but science fiction seems less
- susceptible to pure humour than fantasy.
- <font color="#aa0000"><font size=5>D</font></font>ouglas Adams
- proves
- (as usual) the exception to the rule.
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