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* The first chapter of ''Everlot'', by Neal Shusterman. He wants to tell us to wear our seat belts...
* [[Sheri S. Tepper]]'s books tend to have a rain of hardline eco-feminist anvils; especially The Gate to Women's Country and ''The Revenants''. Along with the pervasive eco-feminism, some of her work, such as the Arbai trilogy, drops the occasional anti-religion—specifically, anti-Mormon—anvil.
* Pretty much everything written by [[Robert A. Heinlein]] is guaranteed to be sprinkled liberally with anvils; although many critics disagree on what some of those anvils are. His personal philosophy is pretty well laid out in his first, but unpublished prior to his death, novel ''For Us, The Living: A Comedy of Customs''; as well as the letters collected in ''Grumbles from the Grave''. He admitted to pandering to cultural restrictions in order to get his work published, so his books are often an odd combination of Anvilicious
** Note that the specific content of his Aesops frequently changed over his career; the [[Free-Love Future]] he espoused in ''[[Stranger in
* The ''[[Redwall]]'' series says "[[Fantastic Racism|vermin are bad]]", and they are [[Take Our Word for It|because ... they are.]] Mice, shrews, otters, squirrels, rabbits, watervoles, badgers and hares are good. Rats, foxes, stoats, weasels, frogs and lizards are [[Exclusively Evil|evil]]. OK, a lot of fantasy has clearly distinguished good and evil races, but attention is frequently drawn to the distinction and every time the lines are flirted with in Redwall books, the character dies soon after. Note, the reason vermin are bad -- [[Exclusively Evil|they lie, steal and murder]]—make no sense in a real world setting.
* The ''[[Anita Blake]]'' books 10-13: "It's OK to have sex outside of marriage. In fact, homosexuality, polygamy, one-night-stands and BDSM are also totally cool, as long as everyone consents. So don't spend hours worrying about sexual ethics when someone's life depends on you having sex in the next half hour." Anita spends three books angsting over this (and a couple more about the first bit), when the intended answer is obvious. It makes sense given [[Raised Catholic|her Catholic background]], but is extremely irritating.
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