note mirod <p>It's not Sci-fi, but for me it would be Terry Pratchett. The DiscWorld is messy, flawed, anarchic, but in the end a bunch of semi-random characters make it work nevertheless, by understanding its true nature (and the law of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discworld_%28world%29#Narrative_causality">Narrative Causality</a> of course). A bit like Perl indeed.</p> 847494 847494