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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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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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