Knights of Madness: Further Comic Tales of Fantasy
by Peter Haining (Editor)
Comic Tales of Fantasy (3)
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When comedy enters the world of fantasy, anything can happen - and it usually does in the inventive hands of such brilliant writers as Terry Pratchett, Tom Sharpe and Spike Milligan, all of whom are featured in this uproarious new collection. Following on from the spectacular success of THE WIZARDS OF ODD and THE FLYING SORCERERS, KNIGHTS OF MADNESS presents fantasy at its most comic in a collection of SF, heroic romance and crime. With Terry Pratchett creating mayhem on the Hollywood show more freeway and Peter S. Beagle running riot with a New Yorker who just happens to be a werewolf; with manic knights, crazed astronauts and bungling criminals, here are stories that rollick from hilarity to absurdity, from satire to the bizarre, in a glorious melange of wit and imaginative genius. show lessTags
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Not themed about knights. At least one was much more poignant than mad. Even using the broadest sense of 'speculative fiction' instead of fantasy, not all fit the genre. Many tales are not anthologized elsewhere because they're not worthy of being so, even those by some of my favorite classic humorists. Many are dated and sexist & otherwise stupid. I did learn that, apparently, the Luggage of Discworld gets married, so I'll have to look for that. Otherwise, I'm pretty much dissatisfied.
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- Canonical title
- Knights of Madness: Further Comic Tales of Fantasy
- Original publication date
- 1998
- Epigraph
- When fishes flew and forests walked,
And figs grew upon the thorn,
Some moment when the Moon was blood,
Then surely I was born.
G.K. Chesterton, The Song of Quoodle. - First words
- I once had a dream in which all my hair fell out. (Introduction)
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)On the whole, he reflected, it could have been a lot worse.
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- 5 — Czech, English, German, Japanese, Polish
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