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- <font size=6>Brentford
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- <font size>W</font>ritten SF discovered sexuality in a
- big way in the
- sixties, with writers like Philip JosĪ Farmer and
- Michael Moorcock exploring the possibilities of future
- sex. Humour has been around longer. <font size=5>F</font>redrick
- Brown with Martians, Go Home and E. F. Russell
- with Next of Kin typify early attempts, where the
- tongue was so far in the cheek that it came out the
- other side. <font size=5>T</font>hese are basically adventure
- stories
- with a humorous approach, rather than the out-and-out
- hilarity best typified by Robert Rankin's Brentford
- trilogy, which strays wildly into magic and lunacy, but
- still has a science fiction basis. <font size=5>T</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 size=5>D</font>ouglas
- Adams proves (as usual) the exception to the rule.
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