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The Original Hitchhiker Radio Scripts

Douglas Adams · 248 pages

Screenplay FormatSatireAbsurdist HumorScience Fiction
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Interior Chinatown

Charles Yu · 288 pages

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Being John Malkovich

Charlie Kaufman · 113 pages

An out-of-work puppeteer takes a filing clerk job on the cramped seventh floor of an office building where he discovers a hidden tunnel allowing him to enter the mind and life of actor John Malkovich for 15 minutes before being ejected onto the New Jersey Turnpike.

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Ape and Essence

Aldous Huxley · 153 pages

Life in Los Angeles a century after the Third World War, when atomic and bacterial warfare have left the area in ruins.

Screenplay FormatSatireScience Fiction
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The Road To Mars

Eric Idle · 309 pages

On a tour of planets in the 24th century, two comedians are caught in a terrorist plot to sabotage a spaceship. They are rescued by their robot, the third member of their act.

Absurdist HumorSatireScience FictionSpace Exploration
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Mostly Void, Partially Stars

Joseph Fink, Jeffrey Cranor · 304 pages

Screenplay FormatAbsurdist Humor
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A Bit of Fry & Laurie

Stephen Fry, Hugh Laurie · 240 pages

Screenplay FormatAbsurdist Humor
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Blackadder: The Whole Damn Dynasty, 1485-1917

Richard Curtis, Ben Elton · 480 pages

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The Complete Monty Python's Flying Circus: All the Words, Vol. 2

Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, Michael Palin · 384 pages

Screenplay FormatAbsurdist Humor
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Willful Child

Steven Erikson · 344 pages

Absurdist HumorSatireScience FictionSpace Exploration
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Hollywood Said No!: Orphaned Film Scripts, Bastard Scenes, and Abandoned Darlings from the Creators of Mr. Show

Bob Odenkirk, David Cross · 270 pages

"Bob Odenkirk and David Cross, creators of HBO's classic sketch comedy show Mr. Show, present to you this collection of never-before-seen scripts and ideas that Hollywood couldn't find the gumption to green-light. Simply put ... Hollywood said no! Since Mr. Show closed up shop, Bob and David have kept busy with many projects-- acting in fun, successful, movies and TV shows, directing things, and c

Screenplay FormatAbsurdist Humor
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Terra!

Stefano Benni · 360 pages

In the year 2157, during the nuclear winter of six atomic wars, a bizarre collection of irreverent representatives of the remaining superpowers competes in a frenzied space race to reach Terra, the planet that promises the new Eden.

Absurdist HumorSatireScience FictionSpace Exploration
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The Complete Monty Python's Flying Circus: All the Words: Volume 1

Graham Chapman, Eric Idle, Terry Gilliam, John Cleese, Terry Jones, Michael Palin · 352 pages

Screenplay FormatAbsurdist Humor
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And Another Thing...

Eoin Colfer · 288 pages

And Another Thing... is the sixth novel in the increasingly inaccurately named Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy trilogy. Eight years after the death of its creator, Douglas Adams, widow Jane Belson sanctioned the project to be written by the international number-one bestselling children's writer Eoin Colfer, author of the Artemis Fowl novels.Belson said of Eoin Colfer, "I love his books and could

SatireAbsurdist HumorScience FictionSpace Exploration
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Johnny Mnemonic

William Gibson, Terry Bisson · 162 pages

Screenplay FormatScience Fiction
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The Dancers at the End of Time

Michael Moorcock · 672 pages

Absurdist HumorSatireScience Fiction
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The Big Lebowski

Joel Coen, Ethan Coen · 119 pages

The Big Lebowski begins with a case of mistaken identity which escalates when Jeffrey Lebowski - alias The Dude - attempts to seek recompense for the despoilation of his ratty-ass little rug, and then finds himself entangled in a kidnapping caper as a bagman - a situation that goes from bad to worse due to the interference of his hapless bowling partners. In The Big Lebowski the Coen brothers have

Screenplay FormatAbsurdist Humor
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Venus on the Half-Shell

Philip Jose Farmer · 204 pages

The controversial Kilgore Trout episode was neither the first nor the last time Farmer would impishly slip out of his own skin and assume the persona of another author. In Venus on the Half-Shell and Others, Philip Jose Farmer transforms himself into fictional personalities as compelling as they are diverse: Cordwainer Bird, Paul Chapin, Rod Keen, Harry "Bunny" Manders, Leo Queequeg Tincrowdor, Jo

Absurdist HumorSatireScience FictionSpace Exploration
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Strata

Terry Pratchett · 192 pages

Un monde plat tel qu'on se le représentait au Moyen Âge. Qui avait pu inventer une pareille planète? Pour en avoir le coeur net, Kin Arad n'a qu'une solution : partir à la recherche des maîtres du Disque, direction le centre du monde, un gigantesque dôme de cuivre incrusté dans une île de sable noir.--[Memento].

Absurdist HumorSatireScience FictionSpace Exploration
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Starter Villain

John Scalzi · 264 pages

Absurdist HumorSatireScience Fiction
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The Making of Zombie Wars

Aleksandar Hemon · 307 pages

"The seriously, seriously funny roller-coaster ride of sex and violence that Aleksandar Hemon has long promised Script idea #142: Aliens undercover as cabbies abduct the fiance;e of the main character, who has to find a way to a remote planet to save her. Title: Love Trek. Script idea #185: Teenager discovers his girlfriend's beloved grandfather was a guard in a Nazi death camp. The boy's grandpar

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The Steampunk Trilogy

Paul Di Filippo · 354 pages

Absurdist HumorSatireScience Fiction
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Gun, With Occasional Music

Jonathan Lethem · 266 pages

Absurdist HumorSatireScience Fiction

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