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* [[Historical Domain Character]]: The time-travel novel ''Roadmarks'' has significant cameos by several, including the Marquis de Sade and a small German man named Adolph.

* [[Human Popsicle]]: {{spoiler|In ''Permafrost'' characters are frozen solid and remain... alive.}}

* [[I Have Many Names]]: A series of short stories, collected in ''My Name Is Legion'', about a secret agent whose real name even his employer didn't know, whose aliases were always the names of obscure-but-notable historical figures. (In a break from the usual procedure, the historical figure always had nothing whatever to do with the job at hand; for instance, on his first appearance he was undercover as an engineer, but using a name whose original owner was a doctor.)

* [[Journey to The Center of The Mind]]: ''He Who Shapes'', see the main text.

* [[Virgin Sacrifice]]

* [[We Can Rule Together]]: Subverted in "The Last Defender of Camelot"

* [[You Didn't Ask]]: Used against one of the villains in ''Roadmarks''. A character is placed under a compulsion to obey the villain's orders; the villain's plan fails due to a fact the character knew all along but chose not to volunteer; the villain asks why he didn't warn him, and the character replies, with exact truth, "You never asked me."