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** Really, the series has puns ''everywhere'', including the titles of all the books and of the series itself.
* Ian Watson is another author who has an inordinate fondness for bad puns.
* [[Terry Pratchett]]'s ''[[Discworld]]'' series has the "Oh God of Hangovers" in ''[[
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*** And the Fat Mines contained BCBs (Burnt Crusty Bits) that Vimes said died because they were battered to death.
*** There's also an example of him being entirely unable to stop himself with the story of Fingers Mazda, who stole the secret of fire from the gods. He was unable to fence it, it was too hot. He really got burned on that deal.
*** Granny Weatherwax's lodgings in the Shades are made are all the better for being next door to a notorious reseller of stolen items. Because good fences make good neighbours.
*** Magrat believes that broomsticks are sexual metaphors when witches ride them. But this is a phallusy.
** The name of the countries Djelibeybi and Hersheba. Terry Pratchett's realization that American audiences weren't getting the Djelibeybi pun inspired the creation of nearby Hersheba, which most audiences in general aren't getting. (If you've heard of the candy, the Djelibeybi pun is criminally easy to get, due to it being mentally pronounced the same way, ''[[Viewers are Morons|and]]'' [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshaded]] when we're told Djelibeybi means "[[wikipedia:Jelly Babies|Child of the Djel]]." Hersheba is not as easy—this is due to variation in pronunciation ({{spoiler|Her-[[King Solomon's Mines|Sheba]] or Hershe[y]-ba[r]}}), the fact that it doesn't have a lampshade, ''and'' it doesn't have a book focused on it.)
* [[Peter David]] loves puns, especially name puns. This includes naming people just for the pun: Sir Umbridge in ''[[Sir Apropos of Nothing]]'' is offered to him as the knight he squires under, and refusing would be a horrible offense, so "in order to not cause offense, I had to take Umbridge".
* In [[Jasper Fforde]]'s ''[[Thursday Next]]'' novels, the name of ''every'' character (except for fictional characters from other works) is a pun.
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