Can comedy and science fiction be combined?

of course

Douglas Adams did it in Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Kurt Vonnegut did it in nearly every book he ever wrote. Norman Spinrad always had a good sense of humor. Poul Anderson and Gordon Dickinson's Hoka series invented the comedy of teddy bears with guns, long before George Lucas lifted them for his little saga and renamed them ewoks. Quite a few science fiction authors have parodied themselves and others. The old sci-f conventions were populated by a jolly bunch. It's easy to parody the pop sci-fi, impossible to parody good sci-fi.

Spider Robinson, while a good sci-fi writer, found his greatest fame writing Callahan's Crosstime saloon stories. A variation of Arthur's C. Clarke's club tales found in Tales of the White Hart.

The more I consider this, the more I realize that a great many of the sudden twist story endings qualify as mild humor, often as dark comedy. The people who emerge from a bomb proof bunker only to find that world wasn't destroyed, the reveal that the character is his own father, etc... have all been used for a slightly comic effect.

Now go watch the british tv show Red Dwarf in it's entirety.

The best one, and pretty much the beginning of this kind of science fiction...

The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. It is a very famous book written in the fifties that's about fifty years ahead of its time. A fun book and a huge classic. Read it, it's a trilogy but the first is the best and a must read for any science fiction fan. :)

Daniel

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Yes, it's been done before with books like Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy and stuff. I'm not very keen on comedy science-fiction though. I prefer more serious ones.

The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy - the only one i can think of right now.

Yes, it's been done repeatedly.

Ben Bova has done it for years; Stephen Baxter to a lesser extent.

Yea, ofc. Haven't u thought of Honey I shrunk the kids?

Yes, some aspects of "Star Trek" can be humourous too and I agree with "Hitchikers........"