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== [[Literature]] ==
* The Glatun and the Rangora, two alien species from [[John Ringo]]'s ''[[Troy Rising]]'' series, have rich pop-cultures that include popular music, trash literature, movies and so on (the Glatun even have the same sort of advertising spam we get on their computer networks). The Horvath, on the other hand, are portrayed as being unimaginative to the point that their lack of a popular culture is [[Justified Trope|justified]]: they're simply not creative enough to have developed one.
* The [[Star Trek Novel Verse]] tends to avert this, for all that the TV series tended to play it straight. For example, the novel ''[[A Singular Destiny]]'' features a character owning a large collection of novels and comics (or equivalent) from Klingon popular culture - most of these had been introduced in earlier novels, only to be collected together here for [[Continuity Porn]]. In the [[Star Trek Deep Space Nine
* Despite taking place either on Earth or in a space military setting, the main ''[[Animorphs]]'' series manages to avert the trope, at least for the Andalites. In internal monologues Ax mentions musical forms from his homeworld (and that he hates Earth's), and that people who can [[Voluntary Shapeshifting|morph]] in creative ways (making themselves into [[Winged Humanoid|Winged Humanoids]] when morphing birds and so on) are bona fide performance artists.
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