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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I've mostly read Adams. Not joyless, here, just a bit nuts.
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Today's techies are the nineties investment bankers. They're there for the layout, not for the Fringe culture clan.
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Douglas had a way with descriptive humor. A personal favorite: “The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don’t.”
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