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* Speaking of ''[[Twilight]]'', lord help you if you're an author who wrote a [[Young Adult]] [[Paranormal Romance]] before Stephenie Meyer published hers. Fans and detractors alike tend to dismiss these novels as ripoffs. This hasn't been entirely bad, as some teen paranormal series written in the 90s got rereleased in an attempt [[Follow the Leader|to cash in on the growing vampire trend.]] The most notable example is ''[[The Vampire Diaries]]'' by LJ Smith, which was rereleased in 2007, as well as receiving a reboot and a TV adaptation in 2009.
* Many people think that Plato was the first to use the word "Atlantis". While most historians agree that Plato created the legend of the lost island of Atlantis, which first appeared in the dialogue ''Timaeus'', there was a book called ''Atlantis'' that predates the dialogue by about one hundred years. Only fragments remain of this book, which was written by Hellanicus, and there is no evidence that this book had anything to do with the legend of a lost civilization.
* And then there are fictional works just plain foreshadowing real events, with varying degrees of accuracy. ''Titanic'' appears in literature well before [[Titanic|the 1997 James Cameron film]] and well before [[The Edwardian Era]], in ''Futility: or the Wreck of the Titan'' in 1894.
* Bumping into anything done by [[Rudyard Kipling]] is unavoidable even if you're not reading people as strongly influenced as [[Robert A. Heinlein]]. [[Tractor Beam]]? ''As Easy as ABC'' -- for that matter, one of the first Sci Fi as we know it, ''and'' the articulate re-introduction of [[Mundane Fantastic]] as an approach outside of mythology and its derivatives. ''[[More Deadly Than the Male]]'' -- [[Trope Namer]]. [[Stiff Upper Lip]], one of [[Trope Codifier|Trope Codifiers]]. [[The Vamp]] -- probably the [[Trope Namer]] (''The Vampire''). [[POV Sequel]]? Among the first known outside of Japan. [[Steampunk]]? Was predicted in the last few lines of ''The King''. [[Troll|Trolling]]? He got more advanced variations from XX century [[Trickster]] arsenal described (''Stalky'' series) and actively used them. Use of [[The Raj]] setting? Mostly have to either follow or dispute with him.
* [[Fanfic| Fan Fiction]] goes far back long before the Internet. In fact, the practice is [[Older Than Print]] when a poem called '''Troilus and Criseyde''' by Geoffrey Chaucer came out in 1380s inspired Robert Henryson to write The Testament of Cresseid.
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