Slippery Jim DiGriz, The Stainless Steel Rat himself! Particularly as he doesn't really change his methods, just redirects them...

The bit that reduced me to tears was on the info page where he says he no longer responds to emails because of the weirdos...

Windle Poons in Reaper Man becoming a zombie is another great Pratchett one.... Feersum Endjinn by Iain M Banks has characters that after death become sort of AI agents...

@ellecordova.bsky.social if she'd do it... Or how about someone from @vivaladirtleague.bsky.social ? If you haven't seen some of their skits about gendered armour in games for example, you're in for a treat...

The Long Earth books Pratchett/Baxter) switching between timelines. Arguably, The Magical Faraway Tree, although Enid Blyton is rather urghh...

I enjoyed Proxima by Stephen Baxter, the sequel - Ultima - led so. Portals between planets that seem also to shift timelines are integral to the plot. Many SF FTL drives - Alderson Points in Mote in God's Eye for example. The Monolith in 2001. IMO they work best when effort is needed to find them!

A lot of Arthur C Clarke comes to mind, especially Rendezvous with Rama where at one point the captain of the ship that lands is being talked about by a committee as a good if not spectacular officer. Clarke tends to rely on good people reacting to external situations which is surely competence!

Anne McCaffrey's The Ship who Sang, and its sequels, with a human embedded into a ship? Eustace waking up as a Dragon in CS Lewis' Voyage of the Dawn Treader? AE van Vogt's The World of Null-A has a protagonist with a series of clone bodies that his mind transfers to upon death...

Reductio ad Python strikes again...

Tonight, on "It's the mind," we examine the phenomenon of déjà vu. That strange feeling we sometimes get that we've lived through something before, that what is happening now has already happened....

... And then there's the ethics of AI on top. Will the auteur get paid if it's derivative of their work? Combine the two - should we be cleansing LLMs of work by disgraced authors - and who makes those decisions? Musk complains Grok is woke, and orders it changed - who do we trust to be in charge?

For me, the question devolves in part to "can you separate the art from the artist". Witness controversy about Eric Gill for example - and discussions about whether his work should be on display. Or Picasso, an undoubted genius but a horrible man in many ways as Hannah Gadsby and others point out...

Not quite genre but Groundhog Day - I can't hear "I got you Babe" without thinking of it!

Technicolor Time Machine by Harry Harrison has a classic where a character hands a note to his past self and ends up querying who wrote it! He pulls a similar thing in Stainless Steel Rat Saves the World. And of course Pyramids by Terry Pratchett.

Stephen Lawhead did a whole series linking the Atlantis and Arthur legends... Elements too in Alan Garner's Weirdstone of Brisingamen.

Crivens!

umm, lots of good suggestions already. Trying to add something else - I found Eric Frank Russell's Next of Kin had humorous intent - and my Eustace agreed. Not quite Fantasy, but loved Tom Holt, especially Flying Dutch and Faust Among Equals. And of course Pratchett, Adams, Harry Harrison.

Inevitable Pratchett Reference: Going Postal. I love how Moist seeks redemption while still being a rascal.