Hilarious in Hindsight/Literature: Difference between revisions

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* In the first ''[[Discworld]]'' book, the heroes are surprised by a [[All Trolls Are Different|troll]] that appeared suddenly in their path, having been whisked away from its home in the mountains some thousands of miles away, in order to appear as a random encounter in the ''[[Dungeons & Dragons]]'' game of the Gods. While it was in reference to random [[Tabletop RPG]] encounters, the way it was described - a sound, the world looking 'strange' and a monster suddenly popping up - mirror exactly the random battles in most console RPGs. This was in 1983, three years before ''[[Dragon Quest]]'' or ''[[Final Fantasy]]'', although ''[[Ultima]] III'' was from 1983.

* ''[[Neuromancer]]'': "The sky above the port was the color of a television tuned to a dead channel". Some years after this was published, new television sets with sophisticated electronics began replacing "snow" on dead channels with a blank, sky-blue, screen.

** Which is why, in [[Neil Gaiman]]'s novel ''[[Neverwhere]]'', he describes a perfectly clear sky as being the color of "a television tuned to a dead channel," in both a homage to ''[[Neuromancer]]'' and a [[Lampshade Hanging|nod]] to the changes in technology.

* [[Young Adult Literature|Juvenile]] science fiction novel ''Rocket Jockey'', published in 1952 by Lester del Rey (under the name Philip St. John), mentions in the prologue that the first human to set foot on the Moon, in 1964, was named Armstrong. Five years early, and del Rey's Armstrong was a major, not an ex-navy civilian, but still.