Humorous Fantasy

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Eyre Affair
By Jasper Fforde
SCIFI FFORDE
It's 1985 in England, at least on the calendar; the Crimean War is in its hundred-and-thirty-first year; time travel is nothing new; and the literary branch of the special police, led by the beguiling Thursday Next, are pursuing Acheron Hades, who has set his sights on kidnapping the Jane Eyre, a theft that could have disastrous consequences for Brontë lovers who like their story straight.

Good Omens
By Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett
SCIFI GAIMAN
The world will end on Saturday. Next Saturday. Just before dinner, according to The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch, the world's only completely accurate book of prophecies written in 1655. The armies of Good and Evil are amassing and everything appears to be going according to Divine Plan. Except that a somewhat fussy angel and a fast-living demon are not actually looking forward to the coming Rapture. And someone seems to have misplaced the Antichris.

Practical Demonkeeping
By Christopher Moore
SCIFI MOORE
Meet one of the most mismatched pairs in literature. The good-looking one is one-hundred-year-old ex-seminarian and "roads" scholar Travis O'Hearn. The green one is Catch, a demon with a nasty habit of eating most people he meets. Behind the fake Tudor façade of Pine Cove, California, Catch sees a four-star buffet. Travis, though, thinks he sees a way to rid himself of his traveling companion. The winos and deadbeat Lotharios of Pine Cove have other ideas. And none of them is quite prepared when all hell breaks loose.

Unseen Academicals
By Terry Pratchett
SCI-FI PRATCHETT
The wizards of Unseen University in the ancient city of Ankh-Morpork must win a football match, without using magic, so they're in the mood for trying everything else. As the match approaches, four lives are entangled and changed forever.

Terry Pratchett Read-alikes

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Expecting Someone Taller
By Tom Holt
SCI-FI HOLT
Mild-mannered young Englishman Malcolm Fisher accidently runs over a badger and finds himself hurtled into the world of Wagnerian myth--as the new ruler of the universe.

The Big Over Easy: A Nursery Crime
By Jasper Fforde
SCI-FI FFORDE
Unconvinced that a former convict and millionaire philanthropist has been murdered by his suicide-victim ex-wife, detective inspector Jack Spratt and his assistant, Mary Mary, uncover a plot involving money laundering and asylum-seeking titans.

Warlock in Spite of Himself
By Christopher Stasheff
SCI-FI STASHEFF
In an interstellar romp that proves science and sorcery can mix, only hard-headed realist Rod Gallowglass can save the people of Gramarye from their doom by becoming--The Warlock in Spite of Himself--if only he believed in magic.

To Say Nothing of the Dog
By Connie Willis
SCI-FI WILLIS
Ned Henry goes back in time to 1889 to study the Coventry Cathedral for a wealthy American who wants to build an exact replica before it is destroyed.