List of science fiction comedy works

In the tall tales of Baron Munchausen, his adventures included visiting the Moon and travelling underwater

This is a list of science fiction comedy works—those mixing soft science fiction or science fantasy with comedy.

Literature

• Douglas Adams' novels:
  • The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and sequels[1][2]
  • Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency[2]
• Robert Asprin's Phule series
• Fredric Brown's Martians, Go Home and other novels and short works.
• Steven Erikson's Willful Child
• Jasper Fforde's novel The Eyre Affair[2]
• David S. Garnett's Stargonauts, Bikini Planet and Space Wasters
• Most of Ron Goulart's work
• Rob Grant and Doug Naylor's Red Dwarf
• The novels of Rob Grant (Colony, Incompetence and Fat).
• Harry Harrison's Stainless Steel Rat, Star Smashers of the Galaxy Rangers and Bill, the Galactic Hero novels
• Simon Haynes's Hal Spacejock novels
• Eric Idle's The Road to Mars
• Stanislaw Lem's novel Cyberiad and his Ijon Tichy stories.
• Larry Niven's collection The Draco Tavern[2]
• John Scalzi's Redshirts: A Novel with Three Codas[2]
• Much of Robert Sheckley's work
• Jonathan Swift's novel Gulliver's Travels, a proto-science fiction satire
• Kurt Vonnegut's novel The Sirens of Titan, and a lot of his work,^[citation needed] including Slaughterhouse-Five[2]
• Much of the work of Connie Willis
• D. Harlan Wilson's novels Dr. Identity and Codename Prague
• The novels of John Sladek.
• Charles Yu's novel How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe[2]

Films

Main article: List of science fiction comedy films

Television

Main article: List of science fiction sitcoms

There are many animated Japanese series which use a science fiction-comedy or science fiction-fantasy-comedy setting. Urusei Yatsura, Dr. Slump, FLCL, Irresponsible Captain Tylor and Tenchi Muyo! are examples.

Video games

• Giants: Citizen Kabuto
• Ratchet & Clank series[3]
• Space Quest series
• Leather Goddesses of Phobos series
• Mother series
• Portal series
• Day of the Tentacle
• Borderlands series
• Earthworm Jim series
• Rex Nebular and the Cosmic Gender Bender

Machinima

• Red vs. Blue (2003–present)

Web series and streaming television

• Lobo (2000)
• The Crew (2008–present)
• Voyage Trekkers (2011–present)
• Other Space (2015)

Webcomics

• Starslip Crisis (2005–present)
• Brewster Rockit: Space Guy! (2004–present)
• Schlock Mercenary (2000–present)

Manga and anime

• Agravity Boys series by Atsushi Nakamura
• Gin Tama series by Hideaki Sorachi
• Hyper Police series by Minoru Tachikawa
• Space Dandy series by Shinichirō Watanabe

Radio

• The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1978–2005)
• Canadia: 2056 (2007–present)
• Nebulous (2005–2008)
• Space Hacks (2007–2008)
• The Spaceship (2005–2008)
• Undone (2006–2010)

Audio

• Ruby the Galactic Gumshoe (1982–present)

See also

• Comic fantasy

References

1. "Douglas Adams, Author of 'Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy,' Dies at 49". The New York Times. The Associated Press. May 12, 2001. Retrieved November 9, 2019.
2. Ahlin, Charlotte (November 23, 2015). "The 11 Funniest Science Fiction Books". Bustle. Retrieved November 9, 2019.
3. Agnello, Anthony John (April 23, 2013). "Sony and Insomniac go to the movies with a big screen version of 'Ratchet & Clank'". Digital Trends. Retrieved November 9, 2019.