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Originally Posted by covingtoncat73
To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis. Time travel and homages to Victorian comic novels. I wasn't sold at the very beginning but, once the protagonist was in Victorian Oxford, I was having a great time.
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Thanks for the rec. I just finished this up and really enjoyed it. It's one of those books where you're not fully aware of how invested you've become in the characters/story until it wraps up.
I think I need a "Speculative Fiction with Heart (and some humor)" thread. Slapstick/wacky humor is OK (but I have to be in the right frame of mind for it), and gallows or buddy-cop humor tends to get old very quickly. But both of those seem to represent the majority of the humor found in SFF. I need a guide to speculative fiction that bridges that gap and includes heartfelt, everyday humor (while telling a compelling story). I assume it's hard to pull off successfully (consistently anyway).