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* [[Agatha Christie (Creator)|Agatha Christie]]'s short story "The Rajah's Emerald" featured a mild-mannered clerk called "James Bond".▼
* Place example: Katherine Patterson, author of ''[[Bridge to Terabithia]]'' asserts she "just made up" the name of the kids' imaginary world, but she also acknowledges she did read [[CS Lewis (Creator)|CS Lewis]]'s ''[[The Chronicles of Narnia]]'' growing up and thinks maybe she was subconsciously thinking of the island from the books, Terabi''n''thia.▼
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▲* Place example: Katherine Patterson, author of ''[[Bridge to Terabithia]]'' asserts she "just made up" the name of the kids' imaginary world, but she also acknowledges she did read [[
* The children's book ''Blubber'' stars a girl named Jill Brenner. Jill Brenner is also the name of the protagonist of ''Nothing Human'', in which she's targeted by a psychopath who tortures and mutilates his victims as on offering to a Mayan god. Oh, and her boyfriend committed suicide just before the book's beginning.
* [[Stephen King]]'s ''[[
** [[Peter Jackson]] is also the name of a cigarette company.
** And a character in Michael Crichton's ''The Andromeda Strain''.
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* There is a popular series of urban fantasy novels by Patricia Briggs whose protagonist is named [[Mercy Thompson|Mercedes "Mercy" Thompson]]. There is another slightly less well-known but still successful series of urban fantasy novels by Toni Andrews whose protagonist is named Mercedes "Mercy" Hollings, and every novel in Andrews's series features the word "Mercy" as part of the title.
* Aside from involving interstellar travel, [[Andre Norton]]'s ''Star Born'' and George Zebrowski's ''Omega Point Trilogy'' have only one thing in common that I know of: in each, one of the heroes is named Raf Kurbi.
* [[
** Probably unintentional, but Hufflepuff Zacharias Smith should not be confused with a more lovable dirty coward, who both older and a Doctor. [[Lost in Space|Doctor Zachary Smith.]]
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** It's got to be a coincidence, but the murderer in the 1933 [[Ellery Queen]] short story "The Adventure of the Seven Black Cats" is named Harry Potter. His name is, in fact, the last two words of the story.
* The [[Doctor Who Expanded Universe]] Eighth Doctor Adventures feature a character named Trix MacMillan. Sound familiar? It's almost exactly the same as the real name of Trillian from [[The
** Could be a [[Shout
* [[Little Monsters]]. The short-lived franchise featuring a bunch of underaged miscreants created by [[Danger Mouse]] creator [[Tony Garth]] should not be mistaken for a franchise that features literal monsters that's created by long-time kids books author [[Mercer Mayer]]. The former was only popular in the UK and parts of Europe while the latter was only popular in North America tho.
** Additionally, neither franchise should not be confused for Maurice Sendak's [[Seven Little Monsters]], or the movie that's also called [[Little Monsters]] and starring [[Fred Savage]] which is neither related to Tony Garth's or Mercer Mayer's works.
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* John Steakley's novels ''Armor'' and ''Vampire$'' both feature characters named Felix and Jack Crow. ''Vampire$'' features the caveat "This Jack Crow is no other Jack Crow; this Felix is no other Felix" on the copyright page.
* Madeline L'Engle's book ''[[A Wrinkle in Time]]'' uses the name [[Transformers Generation 1|Megatron]]...several years before the G1 Cartoon came out.
* In ''[[Wuthering Heights (
* The older-children's book ''[[Follow My Leader]]'' is about a boy who becomes blind and learns how to work with a seeing-eye dog. The boy's name? Jimmy Carter. (The book was published decades before [[Jimmy Carter|James Earl Carter]] became President of the United States.)
* There are two [[High Fantasy]] series titled "Inheritance." [[The Inheritance Cycle|One]] is a [[
** Even more complicated before the former underwent [[Trilogy Creep]].
* A Gothic heroine named Isabella? Do you mean the heroine of Shakespeare's play ''[[
* Don't confuse the respectable ''Twilight'', a Holocaust novel by Elie Wiesel, with the [[Hatedom|not-so-respectable]] ''[[Twilight]]'', a book about vampires who [[Our Vampires Are Different|for some reason sparkle.]]
* The [[Dr. Seuss]] book ''Scrambled Eggs Super'' featured a fictional species of bird called [[How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (
* Both [[Harry Turtledove]] and [[Newt Gingrich]] have written (or co-authored) an [[Alternate History]] novel titled ''Days of Infamy'' about Japan pursuing a different path after Pearl Harbor.
* ''[[A Song of Ice and Fire]]'' has Davos Seaworth, who is nicknamed "The Onion Knight" because he gained his noble status by supplying a castle with foodstuffs during a siege. The ''[[Final Fantasy]]'' JRPG series has a weak job class called "Onion Knight", named so because in Japanese culture, onions are often used as a symbol of inexperience.
** There's Arya, an [[Action Girl]] who escapes prison with the help of a commoner who is of higher descent than he seems, magic powers, and [[Psychic Dreams for Everyone]], and then there's [[Eragon|that]] Arwen [[Expy]]...
* In the frame story of ''[[Who Cut the Cheese?]]'' by Mason Brown, Cisco Systems' stock (CSCO) outperforms that of Sysco (SYY), and Lewis passes the blame for a miscommunication about which stock to buy to his boss.
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