The Cyberiad is delightful, but it's much more a palate cleanser than deep/hard sci-fi. It's still one of the funniest books in sci-fi, especially in how well i

The Cyberiad is delightful, but it's much more a palate cleanser than deep/hard sci-fi. It's still one of the funniest books in sci-fi, especially in how well it has been translated to English preserving many poems and puns across the translation. But it sounds like you may want a palate cleanser right about now and I recall The Cyberiad is a great book to do that.