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* ''[[Vampirates (Literaturenovel)|Vampirates]]'', a book series about [[Self Explanatory|you-guessed-it]].

** In the 1991 Steven Spielberg spinoff ''[[Hook (Film)|Hook]]'', those same delinquents are now multiracial punk skateboarders who fire catapults full of eggs.

* Peter F. Hamilton's Night's Dawn trilogy is the story of humans fighting back againstanagainst an invasion by dead souls possessing the living to escape a horrible living death afterlife and gaining superpowers in the process unleashed when an alien made of pure energy interrupts a satanic ritual and nearly winning until Al Capone comes back and takes over whole star systems then the dead take some planets to over universes except one is a horrific nightmare realm with an enemy made up of a squillion different species liquefied and mashed together into a blob of pure scary and then the guy who started it all summons the scary blob to our universe and everybody nearly dies but someone else saves the day by piloting a living starship to where a god hangs out and talks it into helping. The impressive part is this is actually done in such a way that every premise is plausible and the impacts they have on the world are realistic.

** Hamilton does this. ''Fallen Dragon'' is about mercenaries in [[Organic Technology|organic]] [[Power Armor|power armor]] sent to colonies by [[Corrupt Corporate Executive|the corporations]] that set them up. One planet refuses to bow and using unknown artifacts called [[Lost Technology|Dragon Pearls]] are able to mount [[La Résistance]]. They fine that the Dragon is the remains of an engineered race of living starships/recorders built by [[Sufficiently Advanced Alien]] [[Neglectful Precursors]] that are able to rejuvenate the hero and send him [[Time Travel|back through time]] so he can get his girlfriend back.

** ''Pandora's Star'' is about an empire of far-flung planets connected by ''[[Cool Train|trains]]'' that has been infiltrated by [[Hive Mind|aliens]] that escaped from a [[Dyson Sphere]] before its completion by [[Sufficiently Advanced Aliens]] that moved on to bigger things. One hero's quest is guided by [[Our Elves Are Better|elves]] who trigggered the Earth tales of [[The Fair Folk]], who seem to be [[Screw You, Elves|unconcerned with the fate of man]] and who travel between planets by ''walking''. There's also a lot of [[Smoking Hot Sex|sex.]]

* Elizabeth Bear's ''Edda of Burdens'' series: as of ''Book One: All The Windwracked Stars'', we have a post-apocalyptic steampunk valkyrie historian, a two-headed immortal flying cyborg warhorse, magico-genetically spliced catgirl police officers with the souls of dead angels, reincarnated rentboys with superstrength, and a few completely casual mentions of '''battle [[HPH.P. Lovecraft|shoggoths]]'''.

* [[Surfing Samurai Robots]] is about an [[Alien]] that has a [[Cyrano De Bergerac|big nose]] and has come to [[Earth Is the Center of Thethe Universe|Earth]] in order to be a [[Private Detective|detective]]. Also, there are some [[Surfer Dude|Surfing]] [[Samurai]] [[Robots]], and {{spoiler|it turns out that the whole thing was set up by the [[Femme Fatale]]'s dad, who is a lizard.}} Once again...

* ''[[Complete World Knowledge]]''. Hoboes, presidents, mole-men, cane swords, ferrets, giant iguanas, druids, masturbation out a window, [[Jonathan Coulton]], zeppelins, Time Lords, a sequel to ''[[The Catcher in The Rye (Literature)|The Catcher in The Rye]]'', samurai, thunderbirds... apparently the only thing that doesn't exist in John Hodgman's mind is {{spoiler|Chicago.}}

** Followed by ''[[Sense and Sensibility Andand Sea Monsters]]'', which features mutant lobsters, rampaging octopi, and pirates. And apparently [[Pirates of the Caribbean|Davy Jones]].

* ''[[Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter]]''. [[Exactly What It Says Onon the Tin|That's all you need to know]]

* ''[[The Gone-Away World]]'' by Nick Harkaway. How to describe it? An [[After the End]] ''Catch-22'' cowritten by Thomas Pynchon and Douglas Adams by way of ''[[Fight Club (Literaturenovel)|Fight Club]]'' with heroic Hazmat troubleshooters vs the evil megacorp. And oh yeah, {{spoiler|ninjas vs kung fu mimes}}

** And because this warrants reiteration: A [[Badass Longcoat]]-wearing, [[FirstpersonFirst-Person Smartass|joke-cracking]] [[Private Eye]] wizard '''riding a [[Raising the Steaks|zombie]] ''[[Tyrannosaurus Rex|Tyrannosaurus]] [[EverythingsEverything's Better Withwith Dinosaurs|rex]]'' [[The Power of Rock|powered by polka]] into battle''' [[Cool Versus Awesome|against]] a legion of ghosts and super-[[EverythingsEverything's Deader Withwith Zombies|zombies]] controlled by [[Necromancer]] [[Evil Sorcerer|Evil Sorcerers]]. [[So Cool Its Awesome|Thank you and good night]].

* Jasper Fforde's [[Thursday Next]] series (and the related Nursery Crimes series) focus on the titular protagonist's adventures in [[Book World]], where all characters in fiction are the roles played by [[Book World]] actors. Gully Foyle of ''[[The Stars My Destination (Literature)|The Stars My Destination]]'' polices Science Fiction. The Racy Novels genre is in a border dispute with Feminist. Her uncle Mycroft, a mad inventor, is sought by a multinational corporation for his latest invention, the Book Portal (which started the whole mess), so he hides in the backstory of the ''Sherlock Holmes'' series - as Sherlock's elder brother. If a reference sounds vaguely literary, it is. In the "real world", things are even stranger - cloned Neanderthals, dodos, and thylacines exist, as do time travel, werewolves, and the radical Bacon Society, which claims Francis Bacon wrote Shakespeare's plays, and is willing to start riots in the streets to prove their point. If you plan to visit, bring a clear jar filled with lentils and rice, and shake it every once in a while. If the mix starts clumping as if something was sorting it, watch out, entropy's going backward.

* In ''[[Good Omens (Literature)|Good Omens]]'' Adam describes [[Show Within a Show|a story he once wrote]]:

{{quote| 'It was about this pirate who was a famous detective (...) 'Specially the bit in the spaceship where the dinosaur comes out and fights with the cowboys'}}

* The first battle in the first ''[[Kingdom Keepers]]'' book is against Audio-Animatronic [[Pirates of the Caribbean]] riding space cars that shoot [[Frickin' Laser Beams]].

{{quote| "A kiss about apple pie a la mode with the vanilla creaminess melting in the pie heat. A kiss about chocolate when you haven’t eaten chocolate in a year. A kiss about palm trees speeding by, trailing pink clouds when you drive down the strip sizzling with champagne. A kiss about spotlights fanning the sky and the swollen sea spilling like tears all over your legs."}}

* ''[[Captain Underpants|The Adventures of Ook and Gluk, Kung-Fu Cavemen From The Future]]''. [[Exactly What It Says Onon the Tin]].

* ''[[Miya Black Pirate Princess]]'' is both pirate AND''and'' princess.

* ''[[Fairytale Novels (Literature)|The Midnight Dancers]]'' has Paul Fester, a juggling, flute-playing ninja clown.'

* ''[[The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel]]''. It's not a [[Fantasy Kitchen Sink]] so much as a Fantasy Home Depot Plumbing Department. With an [[Action Girl]] [[Friendly Neighborhood Vampire]], [[Historical Domain Character|HistoricalDomainCharacters]] aplenty (the villains include Elizabethan [[Court Mage]] John Dee, Billy the Kid, and [[Niccolo Machiavelli]], while the heroes include [[Joan of Arc]] and [[William Shakespeare]]) and [[All Myths Are True]].

* The Ironborn in ''[[A Song of Ice and Fire (Literature)|A Song of Ice and Fire]]'' are essentially [[Eldritch Abomination|Cthulhu]]-[[Religion of Evil|worshipping]] Vikings.