
Humor in science fiction often consists of taking science into the fantastical by exaggeration, while humor in fantasy is either stuff that is imagination run amok almost without limit or, more commonly successful, fantasy that is treated with doses of strange rationality. In both cases, it is the genre-bending of the expected that starts the laughter. In both cases, the writer is going to be lots more worried about being funny without being stupid than about being scientifically pure or heroically apt. One has to learn the rules of comedy as well as of speculative fiction.
- The Myth series by Robert Lynn Asprin, comprising:
Another Fine Myth
Myth Conceptions
Myth Directions
Hit or Myth
Myth-ing Persons
Little Myth Marker
M.Y.T.H. Inc. Link- Lancelot Biggs: Spaceman by Nelson Bond
- The Xanth series by Piers Anthony, comprising:
A Spell For Chameleon
The Source of Magic
Castle Roogna
Centaur Aisle
Ogre, Ogre
Night Mare
Dragon on a Pedestal
Crewel Lye
Golem in the Gears
Centaur Aisle
- The Silver Eggheads by Fritz Leiber
- Tales from Gavagan's Bar by Fletcher Pratt and L. Sprague deCamp, or the Harold Shea stories comprising, among others:
The Castle of Iron
The Land of Unreason
The Carnelian Cube
- The Retief stories by Ron Goulart, including
Retief's War
- The Kai Lung stories by Ernst Bramah:
Kai Lung's Golden Hours
Kai Lung Unrolls His Mat