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* [[Apocalypse How]]: ''Dark Is The Sun'' takes place on Earth billions of years in the future. At one point, humankind's civilization was so advanced that they found a way to move the Earth to avoid being burned away by the Sun when it eventually expanded into a red giant star. When the book starts, civilization has reverted to a primitive level, and eventually the group of protagonists discover that the universe itself is coming to an end via the Big Crunch. Their new goal is to find a way to enter another universe to avoid being crushed into a singularity along with everything else in their universe.
* [[Author Avatar]]: Farmer often put himself into his books, always with characters that share his initials - for example, Peter Jairus Frigate in ''[[Riverworld]]'' and Paul Janus Finnegan in ''[[World of Tiers]]''.
* [[Badass Family]]: The Wold Newton Family is a mixture of this and [[Massive Multiplayer Crossover]]. The family tree includes: [[Solomon Kane]]; [[Rafael Sabatini|Captain Blood]]; [[The Scarlet Pimpernel (Literature)|The Scarlet Pimpernel]]; [[Sherlock Holmes]]'s nemesis Professor Moriarty; [[Around the World In Eighty Days (Literature)|Phileas Fogg]]; [[The Time Machine|The Time Traveller]]; [[Allan Quatermain]]; [[Raffles|A.J. Raffles]]; [[Professor Challenger]]; [[Richard Hannay]]; [[Bulldog Drummond (Literature)|Bulldog Drummond]]; the evil [[Fu Manchu]] and his adversary, Sir Denis Nayland Smith; G-8; [[The Shadow (Radio)|The Shadow]]; [[Sam Spade]]; [[Doc Savage]]'s cousin Patricia Savage, and one of his five assistants, Monk Mayfair; [[The Spider]]; [[Nero Wolfe]]; Mr. Moto; [[The Avenger]]; [[World of Tiers|Paul Janus Finnegan]]; [[Philip Marlowe]]; [[James Bond (Literature)|James Bond]]; Lew Archer; Travis McGee; Monsieur Lecoq; and [[
* [[Catgirl]]: Kilgore Trout's ''Venus On The Half Shell'' (ghostwritten by Philip José Farmer instead of Kurt Vonnegut <ref>Farmer was mistaken for Vonnegut by critics, which pissed Vonnegut off no end.</ref>) has a cat-like alien queen who makes love to the hero and grants him immortality.
* [[Deconstruction Crossover]]: This trope, combined with the [[Literary Agent Hypothesis]], is the main premise of many works taking place in Farmer's Wold Newton Universe.
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* [[Literary Agent Hypothesis]]: In ''Tarzan Alive'' and ''Doc Savage: His Apocalyptic Life,'' Farmer claims that Edgar Rice Burroughs and Lester Dent were just the biographers of [[Tarzan]] and [[Doc Savage]]. He claims that their books were highly fictionalized and sensationalized and presents somewhat more mundane, but still sensational versions of the stories that correct various factual inaccuracies and continuity errors. For example, he explains that whenever Tarzan encountered a lion, a plains dwelling animal, in the jungle, it was actually a leopard and Burroughs exaggerated because lions were bigger and more dangerous looking.<br /><br />He also tries to explain away both characters' great strength and intelligence by claiming their [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wold_Newton_family ancestors were irradiated by a meteor], and that other relatives of Tarzan and Savage whose ancestors were exposed to that radiation include [[Pride and Prejudice|Elizabeth and Fitzwilliam Darcy]], [[Sherlock Holmes]], [[Fu Manchu]], and [[Bulldog Drummond]]. Farmer is in a class of his own!
* [[Massive Multiplayer Crossover]]: The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wold_Newton_family Wold-Newton] [[The Verse|universe]] includes scores of [[Public Domain Character|public domain characters]] as well as many characters popular from early [[Radio Drama]] and film, such as [[The Shadow]] and Tarzan, who are not quite out of copyright. [[Fanfic|Fans]] have added many modern TV characters to the list. The ''[[Riverworld]]'' series does this with actual people from history (and how!)
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* [[Meta Origin]]: The Wold Newton Family concept posited the Wold Newton meteorite as a source of mutation, which, while generally not producing metahumans, produced an extended family including Tarzan, Doc Savage et al.
* [[Perspective Flip]]: ''The Other Log of Phileas Fogg'' and ''A Barnstormer in Oz''. In the latter, Glinda the Good assassinates U.S. President [[Warren Harding|Warren G. Harding]].
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* [[The Von Trope Family]]: Ralph von Wau Wau from several stories including "A Scarletin Study," "The Doge Whose Barque Was Worse Than His Bight" (Via the [[Literary Agent Hypothesis]] framing device of it being written by Jonathan Swift Somers III.)
* [[Tangled Family Tree]]: The Wold Newton Family has several fictional characters, including [[Sherlock Holmes]], [[Tarzan]], and [[Doc Savage]] as part of a set of inter-married families descended from seven couples exposed to a [[Green Rocks|radioactive meteorite]].
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* [[Villainous Incest]]: In his Wold Newton works, Farmer suggests that Carl Peterson (archfoe of [[Bulldog Drummond]]) and his lover Irma (who sometimes posed as his daughter) were, in fact, father and daughter.
* [[Lottery of Doom]]: in his Father Carmody short story ''Attitudes''.
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