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The Murderbot novellas by Martha Wells have a cheeky, sarcastic narrator. The first one is called All Systems Red.
I prefer the word "irony" rather than "sarcasm." Whatever one calls it, it is diffcult to pull off in print because to do it right depends on the tone of the delivery and some body language. I think Jonathan Kellerman does an OK job with it with his Alex Delaware murder mysteries. They are not, however, short stories.
If by "sarcastic" you're actually looking for snark, then pick up anything by Scalzi. If you're up for a novel I recommend Old Man's War for sure. Or, since you asked for a shorter story, I quite appreciated Fuzzy Nation.
Well, if you mean snarky, then...
"Rumpole" by John Mortimer consists of short stories of the fictional character Rumpole of the Bailey, an English barrister who enjoys tweaking the collective noses of judges and the English judicial system in general. In fact, that seems to be all he does. I love it. There is a TV show of the same name. Also very good.
"Live Free or Die" by John Ringo. This book is based on the comic universe of Schlock Mercenary. This is a libertarian look at what would happen if a warp gate was dragged near to Earth and aliens suddenly appeared. What would we do with only rockets and an international space station? Well... we'd sell them something. :-) My favorite part of the book is when aliens release a deadly virus that will kill off all brunettes and make blondes give multiple births. They manage to stop the majority of the problems of the virus except one... "Oh, no, no, no, no, nooo! Blondes in heat? Why couldn't it have been mutant cyborgs?" (page 276)
"1632" by Eric Flint. Although I can't exactly say that this is snarky, it is certainly satire. A modern West Virginia town is picked up, sent into the past and dumped into central Germany in the midst of the 30 Years War. It is hillbillies armed with modern weapons against flintlock-armed mercenaries. The citizens of Grantville decide to start the American Revolution early and establish the United States of Europe. Despite the horror involved with the 30 Years War, the author keeps the narrative light in a manner that Lois McMaster Bujold managed to do in her book "Cryoburn".
That is all that comes to mind at the moment.
Lois, I think you're getting caught in a round of poorly thought out assignments for school kids. I'm seeing lots of these and the language smells of a school teacher filtered through a lazy student's attempt at making the request believable. I could be wrong but it just keeps going on... Anyway, I love seeing your responses but I wonder if you're feeling an undue pressure to respond to these somewhat bad faith requests?
Scott: that might be so. I wonder when people stopped using Google, and why this is the other option. When I put the words "short stories that include sarcastic statements" in Google a lot of things show up. So Nora, who asked this question, see if that helps you too.
Oh sure! I would LOVE to do your homework for you! (That's a sarcastic statement.)
Gabi, that was not necessarily a sarcastic statement. I've done homework for people I love and I was glad to do it. I hated to see them suffer, and the class was doing nothing but filling a checkbox. No sense in the pain.
Alex, that's part of the point. You can't tell if a statement is sarcastic or not just by looking at it. So I need to add the explanation to tell everyone that *I AM* being sarcastic. It's also a reply to the OP, asking Lois to do his homework for him.
David Sedaris, hands down. I laugh so hard at his take on life that I've publicly embarrassed myself. Hope you all are doing well.
Scot, Heather, Susan and Gabi thank you very much for your valuable and truthful comments. You do not understand what my question is.
The rest of the commenters, I am so grateful for your replies, I got what I was searching for, and this is because of your help. Thank you again.
by the way, what I wrote to Scott, Gabi, Heather and Susan is a sarcastic statement
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I prefer the word "irony" rather than "sarcasm." Whatever one calls it, it is diffcult to pull off in print because to do it right depends on the tone of the delivery and some body language. I think Jonathan Kellerman does an OK job with it with his Alex Delaware murder mysteries. They are not, however, short stories.
If by "sarcastic" you're actually looking for snark, then pick up anything by Scalzi. If you're up for a novel I recommend Old Man's War for sure. Or, since you asked for a shorter story, I quite appreciated Fuzzy Nation.
Well, if you mean snarky, then..."Rumpole" by John Mortimer consists of short stories of the fictional character Rumpole of the Bailey, an English barrister who enjoys tweaking the collective noses of judges and the English judicial system in general. In fact, that seems to be all he does. I love it. There is a TV show of the same name. Also very good.
"Live Free or Die" by John Ringo. This book is based on the comic universe of Schlock Mercenary. This is a libertarian look at what would happen if a warp gate was dragged near to Earth and aliens suddenly appeared. What would we do with only rockets and an international space station? Well... we'd sell them something. :-) My favorite part of the book is when aliens release a deadly virus that will kill off all brunettes and make blondes give multiple births. They manage to stop the majority of the problems of the virus except one... "Oh, no, no, no, no, nooo! Blondes in heat? Why couldn't it have been mutant cyborgs?" (page 276)
"1632" by Eric Flint. Although I can't exactly say that this is snarky, it is certainly satire. A modern West Virginia town is picked up, sent into the past and dumped into central Germany in the midst of the 30 Years War. It is hillbillies armed with modern weapons against flintlock-armed mercenaries. The citizens of Grantville decide to start the American Revolution early and establish the United States of Europe. Despite the horror involved with the 30 Years War, the author keeps the narrative light in a manner that Lois McMaster Bujold managed to do in her book "Cryoburn".
That is all that comes to mind at the moment.
Lois, I think you're getting caught in a round of poorly thought out assignments for school kids. I'm seeing lots of these and the language smells of a school teacher filtered through a lazy student's attempt at making the request believable. I could be wrong but it just keeps going on... Anyway, I love seeing your responses but I wonder if you're feeling an undue pressure to respond to these somewhat bad faith requests?
Scott: that might be so. I wonder when people stopped using Google, and why this is the other option. When I put the words "short stories that include sarcastic statements" in Google a lot of things show up. So Nora, who asked this question, see if that helps you too.
Oh sure! I would LOVE to do your homework for you! (That's a sarcastic statement.)
Gabi, that was not necessarily a sarcastic statement. I've done homework for people I love and I was glad to do it. I hated to see them suffer, and the class was doing nothing but filling a checkbox. No sense in the pain.
Alex, that's part of the point. You can't tell if a statement is sarcastic or not just by looking at it. So I need to add the explanation to tell everyone that *I AM* being sarcastic. It's also a reply to the OP, asking Lois to do his homework for him.
David Sedaris, hands down. I laugh so hard at his take on life that I've publicly embarrassed myself. Hope you all are doing well.
Scot, Heather, Susan and Gabi thank you very much for your valuable and truthful comments. You do not understand what my question is. The rest of the commenters, I am so grateful for your replies, I got what I was searching for, and this is because of your help. Thank you again.
by the way, what I wrote to Scott, Gabi, Heather and Susan is a sarcastic statement
