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* In [[Neil Gaiman]]'s short story "The Goldfish Pool", a young writer struggles to adapt one of his novels to film. Due to [[Executive Meddling]], he is forced to discard the title, plot, characters, themes and even genre of his original book; ultimately changing it from a psychological horror story into a romantic comedy.

* Briefly seen in the ''[[Doctor Who]]'' [[Virgin New Adventures|New Adventures]] novel ''Lucifer Rising'', when [[Bernice Summerfield]] sees the end of a 22nd century holo-drama in which a beautiful computer expert defeats the Martians and claims the handsome museum curator. She is surprised to realise that this is meant to be the Martian invasion of 2090... just as the readers are surprised to realise it's meant to be 1969 serial "[[Doctor Who/Recap/S6 E5 The Seedsof Death|The Seeds of Death]]", in which the computer expert is a [[SPOCK]] and the museum curator is an elderly eccentric. And there's apparently no mention of the Doctor's involvement either.

* Briefly seen in the ''[[Doctor Who]]'' [[Virgin New Adventures|New Adventures]] novel ''Lucifer Rising'', when [[Bernice Summerfield]] sees the end of a 22nd century holo-drama in which a beautiful computer expert defeats the Martians and claims the handsome museum curator. She is surprised to realise that this is meant to be the Martian invasion of 2090... just as the readers are surprised to realise it's meant to be 1969 serial "[[Doctor Who/Recap/S6/E05 The Seedsof Death|The Seeds of Death]]", in which the computer expert is a [[SPOCK]] and the museum curator is an elderly eccentric. And there's apparently no mention of the Doctor's involvement either.

* The [[Agatha Christie]] novel ''Mrs McGinty's Dead'' includes a playwright adapting one of [[Author Avatar]] Ariadne Oliver's books about Sven Hjerson, an elderly, Finnish, vegetarian, [[Celibate Hero]] detective. The playwright doesn't like the idea of him being a vegetarian, thinks he has to have a [[Token Romance|love interest]], which means he can't be elderly, and decides he isn't even a Finn any longer, he's in the Norwegian resistance.