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* Steven Brust's ''[[Dragaera|Khaavren Romances]]'' are homages to [[Alexandre Dumas]]'s ''D'Artagnan Romances'' (''[[The Three Musketeers (novel)|The Three Musketeers]]'' and sequels); the four main characters are [[Captain Ersatz]] [[Our Elves Are Better]] versions of the Dumas's protagonists, and the titles of ''The Phoenix Guards'', ''Five Hundred Years After'', and ''The Viscount of Adrilankha'' correspond to ''The Three Musketeers'', ''Twenty Years After'' (with [[We Are as Mayflies|the time period scaled appropriately]]), and ''The Vicomte de Bragelonne''.

* The first ''[[Hyperion]]'' book has a lot of these on top of the mixed [[Whole-Plot Reference]] to Keats' ''Hyperion'' and Chaucer's ''[[The Canterbury Tales|Canterbury Tales]]'' (or maybe Boccaccio's ''[[The Decameron|Decameron]]''). Each story the pilgrims tell is an Homage to one or more styles of literature. The Priest's Tale is an epistolary novel. The Soldier's Tale is high action military science fiction, a la ''[[Starship Troopers]]''. The Poet's Tale is a mash up of fairy tales, darker elements intact. The Scholar's Tale is Old Testament [[The Bible|Biblical]]. The Detective's Tale is [[Noir]] with elements of [[Cyberpunk]]. The Consul's Tale is a Shakespearean tragedy, mixing ''[[Romeo and Juliet]]'' with ''[[Hamlet]]''.

 

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