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• i_monk0

  I've been re-reading this:
  

  

  Is it just me (and my limited frame of reference), or are all British scifi writers a bit too heavily influenced by Douglas Adams?

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  • Where do you see Adams' influence in Banks' work?detritus
  • Random injections of Adamsian humour. I think there's even a "it was widely regarded as a bad idea" line in a similar context.i_monk
  • I got the same impression from Stross' Singularity Sky.i_monk
  • His humour's totally different, but it's kind of a British trait to add 'wit' in to sci fidetritus
  • I've read British scifi that predates Adams, but never found humour/wit like his in it.i_monk

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