Here's one for you, a comic SF from a familiar author:
Lost and Found by Alan Dean Foster
Again, I cannot post the link or any text here (I suspect it is something to do with my new browser) but you guys can find it easily. You'll notice that this book is a tad outside the suggested publishing time-period, but I'm allowing it because this author and his books have not been discussed at length here and this book specifically hasn't even been mentioned.