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Nicholas Sansbury Smith's Hell Divers and everything to do with the character of the primary human antagonist of books two and three, Captain Leon Jordan, especially the portions written from his unreliable perspective is a spectacular parody of technocratic tyrants with messianic complexes who...

Add Cowboy Feng's Space Bar and Grille by Steven Brust to the list. . And the entire story is told from the perspective of unintentional stowaways from the present day who got shanghaied aboard the time machine when it departed, who originally have no idea what's going on.

The Ship Beyond Time and its sequel The Girl From Everywhere by Heidi Heilig. Take what would would initially seem to be a cliché young adult novel plotline with a teenager aboard a time-traveling sailboat, then add hilariously Outside Context realism in choice of villains. Specifically: Cuban...

The RoboCop: Citizens Arrest comic. It's baffling, a mainstream comic distributor was able to get this published in 2018. It takes the original eighties cyberpunk dystopia and updates it to the modern version, with mobs of nosy Useful Idiots trying to cancel people, billionaires trying to...

The Mote In God's Eye by Jerry Pournelle and Larry Niven. It isn't the moties fault that their inability to control their reproduction makes them dangerous, and none of the in-story debate frames the situation as if it was, purely in terms of 'are they a threat to humanity and the empire' and if...