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* 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]]'' 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]]'' Adam describes [[Show Within a Show|a story he once wrote]]:

* There is a children's book in which the Loch Ness Monster teams up with little green men from Mars to fight evil spider aliens.

* [[Isaac Asimov]]'s novel ''I Robot'' features a telepathic robot.

* 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]].

* The prose of writer [[Francesca Lia Block]] often comes off like a "girly" version of this trope. For example:

—Weetzie Bat

* Andrey Valentinov's adventure series ''The Eye of Power'' (''Око Силы'') has scary recurring villain Vseslav Volkov, who looks like a tall handsome man with an [[Red Right Hand|unnaturally reddish skin]]. Really he is [[Really Seven Hundred Years Old|seven hundred years old]] Russian [[Aristocrats Are Evil|prince]]. And a necromancer. And a vampire. ''And'' a werewolf. ''And'' a member of an [[Ancient Conspiracy]]. ''And'' a [[Dirty Communists|Communist]]. ''And'' a [[Badass Army|Spetznaz]] officer. With a [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast|Name to Run Away from Really Fast]]. And yes, Volkov is awesome.