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    #32
    MOH
    Registered Users Posts: 6,464 ✭✭✭MOH


    Trojan wrote: »
    I forgot about Douglas Hill. Try:

    The Fraxilly Fracas
    The Colloghi Conspiracy

    I haven't read any of his other ones so don't know if they're comedy.

    God, I haven't read those in years. *goes rummaging*


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    #33
    Odaise Gaelach
    Registered Users Posts: 1,235 ✭✭✭Odaise Gaelach


    There is also the Vorkosigan Saga by Lois McMaster-Bujold. It's more dramatic and not as funny as Douglas Adams, but it's got some great moments in it.


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    #34
    Derfelcadarn
    Registered Users Posts: 8 ✭Derfelcadarn


    Try Simon R Green. He's got a trilogy, think it's the forest kingdom trilogy, with a knight riding round on an intelligent unicorn, and of course only virgins can ride unicorns....


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    #35
    growler
    Registered Users Posts: 2,188 ✭✭✭growler


    as already suggested Robert Rankin and George McDonald Fraser fit the bill -ish and Good Omens is a great read also. Rankin is mental though with running gags that go on through all x-million books he's written to date. Think all that prevents him writing more is the lack of suitable movie titles to satirise.


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    #36
    Dan_Solo
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 10,087 ✭✭✭✭Dan_Solo


    Dramocles by Robert Sheckley would be a suggestion, or indeed any of the legion of Xanth books by Piers Anthony.


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    #37
    spongehaed
    Registered Users Posts: 26 ✭spongehaed


    I think the Thraxas novels by Martin Scott are comic fantasy but i haven't read them, just saw them on shelves.


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    #38
    ferretone
    Registered Users Posts: 638 ✭✭✭ferretone


    Good suggestions in the thread so far, but on reflection, the next best humourous fantasy out there is without doubt Alan Dean Foster's Spellsinger series.

    Michael Marshall Smith's Only Forward, while not as overtly comic, has quite a few hilarious moments as well.


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