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** Though in all fairness, the novel could've been written in the aftermath of or inspired by the then-recent Exxon Valdez oil spill (occurred in 1989), which was until 2010 the worst oil disaster the United States had ever seen, with "destruction of [wild]life" being constantly reported on in the news and "disaster for years to come" predicted by all the experts.
* The ''[[Tales of the City]]'' books have many of these. There's just something about cheerful, [[Utopia|utopian]] gay-themed romantic comedies written in the 1970s.
* [[Star Trek: Articles of the Federation]] ends up having one within the context of the wider [[Star Trek Novel Verse]]. The novel ends with a somewhat upbeat comment from President Bacco's Chief of Staff and prime supporter, Esperanza Piniero, pointing out that while the first year of Bacco's term has had its ups and downs, at least the Federation is still intact. Given that Bacco herself praised a former president earlier in the novel by stating that if you complete a term with the Federation still intact, you've done the job, this is somewhat heartwarming. Two months after this novel ([[In-Universe]]), cue [[Star Trek: Destiny]]. While Bacco continued to do a fine job through the apocalyptic mayhem of "Destiny" and its aftermath, the destruction in that trilogy does render Piniero's comment a bit painful.
* In the second [[Temeraire]] novel, there's an amusing little subplot where Laurence hears about a nasty cold going around the English dragons, and many jokes are made about how dragons are such big babies when they're sick. Temeraire comes down with the cold, and it's played largely for laughs. In the fourth novel, it turns out that {{spoiler|the "cold" is a form of dragon tuberculosis that's slowly and painfully killing every dragon in England. If they hadn't stopped at exactly the right port in Africa and prepared exactly the right mushroom for Temeraire on a whim, he and every other English dragon would have died. For that matter, since Temeraire was on his way to China when he came down with the "cold," all of the Chinese dragons would probably have died, too.}}
* Reading [[Piers Anthony]]'s references to his family life in his early works' Author's Notes, and especially the dedication to his daughter Penny, "Heaven-Cent", becomes a [[Tear Jerker]] when you know that {{spoiler|Penny died of respiratory distress following brain surgery in 2009}}.
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