#16: Catherynne M. Valente, Space Opera (Space Opera #1)

[kareila]

This book is unmistakably the love child of the Eurovision song contest and the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. If that sounds like the chocolate and peanut butter of your personal space escape fantasy, don't miss it.

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[kareila]

roadrunnertwice says: "IMO the crucial bit about correctly doing a Douglas Adams riff isn't the prose styling or genre trappings; it's all about joking around on the outside while being really pretty desperately torn up about something quite important and incredibly sad."

Yes, exactly this.