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Originally Posted by JSWolf
I know this isn't SF but Fantasy. I'd highly recommend the Discworld series by Terry Pratchett. It's highly fun and highly addictive. Also, it's not hard fantasy. It's also quite funny too. Terry makes fun of a lot of fantasy elements that you find in a lot of fantasy type works. So if you like something with good characters that's funny, then Discword is it.
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To second Jon's recommendation, and to give you an idea of how they're not hard fantasy, but also science-fiction-friendly, there have been three
Science of Discworld books which alternate between talking about "science" (in our world) and a Discworld storytelling. They manage even this in an amusing manner.
As Jon says, they can make fun of "fantasy type works", but also there's a rational science behind them too that is also made fun of (in that it's only rational within the logical bounds of irrationality that pervade Discworld - trust me, it makes perfect, easy sense in the books.
). Here's a wikipedia link to a few "Minor Discworld Concepts":
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minor_Discworld_concepts
Have a look at "Quantum" and "Retrophrenology" for instance. I think the "soft"ness of the definitions might be right up the alley of someone who doesn't want to get bogged down in hard science while waiting for a plot to come along.
Cheers,
Marc