[Aleya]

Okay FitzFlagg, I trawled through the topics. I sincerely hope I'm not dupilcating one this time, though no doubt this will have come up before at some point. http://www.sffworld.com/ubb/smile.gif

I am doing a bit of research, and since it isn't my area I am hoping you guys can help me out.

So far I have:
-The Xanth series by Piers Anthony
-The Kai Lung stories by Ernst Bramah
-The Myth series by Robert Lynn Asprin
-The Discworld series by Terry Pratchett

Can anyone think of any more humourous authors or series? Did you like or hate them?

Aleya - http://silver-oak.com

[Cadfael]

Alan Dean Foster's Spellsinger series is very funny, so to, are sections of JV Jones The Book Of Words.

[Cygnus]

You can't omit the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series by Douglas Adams!

[EE]

Landover series by Terry Brooks is clearly humourous fantasy. I think it starts with "Magic kingdom for sale", some more books are "Tangle box", "Witches Brew", "The black unicorn" and "Wizard at large"

Could be some more... (;

[Barbarossa]

Besides those mentioned the "master Li" Trilogy by Barry Hughgard (sp?) would qualify, three great books set in a sort of fantasy china, first volume is "bridge of birds"

[Pathir]

The magnificent duology The Eyes of the Overworld and Cugel's Saga by Jack Vance makes for non-stop grinning and laughing.
Not only very funny, but it introduces one of the most entertaining scoundrels of fantasy literature: Cugel the Great!
May he live forever...(not very likely as he lives on a dying earth, but there you go)

[Pathir]

The magnificent duology The Eyes of the Overworld and Cugel's Saga by Jack Vance makes for non-stop grinning and laughing.
Not only very funny, but it introduces one of the most entertaining scoundrels of fantasy literature: Cugel the Great!
May he live forever...(not very likely as he lives on a dying earth, but there you go)

[Rupert Avery]

Ok I will say it!
Eddings books do have some good humour.And a very good running joke.

[FitzChivalry]

Cygnus, i believe she didn't mention The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy because it's sci fi.

Every series (or most of them) have humor somewhere, but when do you call a series humoristic, what quantity of humor it should have? Dragonlance Chronicles for example has some of the funniest characters in fantasy but is it a humoristic series?
I think many of the series you mentioned (The book of words, Eddings) are series with humor but i wouldn't call them humoristic series.

[Rob B]

What about ]Good Omens by Pratchett and Gaiman?? Though only one book it is damn hilarous.

Thanks for looking in the older stuff Aleya. The only new/repeated topics that really irk me are when a new Recommendations, Tokien or Jordan topic pops up.

Not that I've read him, but I have seen an author by the name of Daniel Pinkwater listed as humorous sff.