Now that I’ve read a ton of Terry Pratchett, I can compare meaningfully to Douglas Adams.
Pratchett has better world-building, ear for language, and sociopolitical insight.
Adams has better jokes and philosophical insight
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Sadly both represented and fed a comic sensibility that was the default among techies in the 80s/90s but appears to have largely vanished. Except for Rick and Morty. Techies are starting to seem as joyless and humorless as humanities people these days.
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Nearly done with Watch novels. On Night Watch now and it is indeed Dickensian.
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Why do you think it's necessary to compare?
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Sorry, but need an explanation of what the hell you're talking about.
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Also found Douglas to be about wonderfully large ideas, big concepts about our role and scale in the cosmos and [esp later]Pratchett to be satire and amazing analogies for modern frameworks (money, justice, consumerism etc)
With you on your findings 🤙
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It's fox and hedgehog, no?
Adams is funny in one way repeated over and over.
Pratchett is bricolage, constantly changing what he is referring to.
Adams is "only" 80s Britain; Pratchett is the whole world throughout history.
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