Playing off his suggestion for A Canticle for Lebowski (Jeff Bridges as an immortal Dude wanders post-apocalyptic America searching for an intact bowling alley), Campbell Award-winning author Jay Lake is asking his blog readers to come up with similar science fiction/comedy mashups.
Me, Myself, and I Robot. A man discovers he has two personalities, one being a robot he was bonded with in an emergency operation in his youth. Chaos ensues.
A Boy and His Dogma: A young archangel rescues the mother of God from a gang of roving ex-angels and attempts to conform to her human expectations. Rated R for the grisly ending where Alanis Morissette and Alan Rickman… well, I won’t give it away.
A Series of Unfortunate Event Horizons: A trio of orphaned kids must investigate the starship where their parents disappeared years ago into a black hole. But things in the ship are not as they seem and the search for truth hazards dangerous accidents and reveals ghastly visions. Jim Carrey plays the monster.
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Ender’s GameBoy
Still in beta, but if you reach level 9 there are no more bugs. Anywhere.
Stranger In A Strange Land That Time Forgot
In which a young Doug MacLure with a Martian hairdo is plucked from the ocean by a German U-boat, which later runs aground on a deserted island in SoCal, where Doug spouts fortune-cookie aphorisms and has kinky agape sex with dinosaurs. This was a sleeper hit that might have become a religion if Scientology hadn’t been even weirder.
On The Beach Blanket Bingo
In which Frankie and Annette are the last two people alive, and she still won’t give it up to him.