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ThisExamples page listsof [[Shout -Out|Shout Outs]] seens in literary[[Literature]] works.include:

* In ''Wolves of the Calla'', book 5 of [[Stephen King]]'s ''[[The Dark Tower]]'' series, there is a manufacturing plate on a round, flying weapon which reads: "SNEETCH" HARRY POTTER MODEL. Serial # 465-11-AA HPJKR. CAUTION EXPLOSIVE" JKR, of course, refers to [[JKJ. K. Rowling]], author of the ''[[Harry Potter]]'' series of books; the name "SNEETCH" refers to the Golden Snitch, one of the "balls" required to play Quidditch, which is similarly small, round, flying, and dangerous. "SNEETCH" may also be a reference to the Dr. Seuss book ''The Sneetches''. ''[[The Dark Tower]]'' is full of things like this, up to and including [[The Wizard of Oz (Filmfilm)|a green city that can only be entered if you have red shoes]].

** Also aAnother ''Potter'' reference,: in one of the books is a helping robot, called a "house elf", which is named Dobby, IIRC.{{verify}}

** The city that Blaine is in constantly plays a series of drums which Eddie mentions sounds suspiciously like a [[ZZ Top]] song.

* The first book of ''[[The Bartimaeus Trilogy]]'' has Twoflower from ''[[Discworld (Literature)|Discworld]]'' make a subtle and brief cameo in a marketplace for magical items containing demons (Twoflower's camera, or "iconograph", is powered by a tiny demon painting pictures ''really'' fast).

** The second book features two policemen who ask Bartimaeus and his master for their identification. Bartimaeus puts a 'glaze' on the two policemen. They then forget the object of their inquiry and move along.{{context|reason=What is this a shout-out to?}}

* ''[[Harry Potter (Literaturenovel)|Harry Potter]]'' contains a number of shout -outs to ''[[Monty Python's Flying Circus]]'', such as cockroach clusters.

*** Voldemort's talking down to his minion (a traitor nicknamed Wormtail) is reminiscent of Saruman's abusive treatment of a henchman (a traitor nicknamed Worm''tongue'') in ''[[The Lord of the Rings (Literature)|The Lord of the Rings]]''.

** And possibly,{{verify}} the whole thing about [[The Secret Garden|Lily's eyes]].

** In the ''[[Harry Potter and Thethe Deathly Hallows (novel)|The Deathly Hallows]]'' Harry and Hermione notice the quotation [[The Bible (Literature)|"Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also"]] on Dumbledore's mother's tombstone, as well as [[The Bible (Literature)|"The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death"]] on the Potters' grave.

* The Yeerks in ''[[Animorphs (Literature)|Animorphs]]'' take their name from [[JRRJ. TolkienR. (Creator)|JRRR. Tolkien]]'s [[Con Lang|Sindarin]] Elvish word for Orcs, ''yrch''.

* In Paul Robinson's ''[[Instrument of God]]'', which is a story about an Afterlife run inside a computer system, the dead people who go to orientation are given references to movies about their situation, including ''[[The Matrix]]'', ''[[Vanilla Sky]]'', ''[[Total Recall]]'' and ''What Dreams May Come''. The Preface to the book mentions other stories including [[Robert A. Heinlein]]'s ''[[Elsewhen]]'' and ''[[Stranger in Aa Strange Land]]'', as well as the movie ''[[The Green Mile]]''. Also, when Supervisor 246 is explaining to a character it might not be a good idea to mention that he's from an Afterlife in another world, she agrees with him, realizing people would think she's crazy. 246 then thinks about the scene where Avery Brooks in ''Deep Space Nine'' is trying to convince the men of a mental institution that he's actually a Starbase captain.

* In ''[[The Brothers Karamazov]]'', [[Fyodor Dostoevsky]] has several characters quote passages of ''The Robbers'', a play by Friedrich Schiller. There are also a lot of [[Shout -Out|shout outs]] to the works of M. E. Saltykov-Shchedrin, Alexander Pushkin, and Voltaire. Naturally, given the book's religious themes, [[The Bible]] is quoted very often.

* ''[[The Sookie Stackhouse Mysteries]]'' have a [[Shout -Out]] to [[Anne Rice]]; her books are actually books one can buy and read in [[The Verse]] the series takes place in, and is why vampires are considered somewhat chic. There's also a shout out to Ann Landers.

** The short story "Bacon" from the anthology ''Strange Brew'' contains one for [[The Dresden Files|the Dresden Files]]:

{{quote| "Actually, a girl can't make a living at full-time sorcery anymore," Kathy [a witch] said with a brave smile. "Not with so many of the supernaturals trying to do things the official, human way. The only sorcerer who's gone public is in Chicago, and I hear he's struggling."}}

* ''[[Pale Fire]]'' by [[Vladimir Nabokov]] has a [[Shout -Out]] for all comers. The eponymous poem's third canto has a [[Shout -Out]] to ''[[The Brothers Karamazov]]''. The commentary to one of the lines mentions how a Hurricane [[Lolita]] has recently passed over New Wye. Charles Kinbote proposes calling the poem Solus Rex, a reference to one of Nabokov's short stories. There's a minor character named Pnin, which is also the name of one of Nabokov's other novels. Various authors and poets are mentioned, discussed, discarded at length by one of the novel's [[Unreliable Narrator|Unreliable Narrators]].

* [[HPH.P. Lovecraft]] was ridiculously fond of shouting out to his other works to the point where most of the time it didn't really make any sense. The names just ''happened'' to be the same. Also, he and his circle of author friends absolutely ''loved'' shouting out at each other and shared several eldritch deities.

* The [[Stephen King]] book ''Eyes of the Dragon'' has a minor [[Shout -Out]] to [[HPH.P. Lovecraft]] when the narrator mentions how Flagg's spellbook was bound in human skin, written on the Plains of Leng by the Mad Arab Abdul Alhazred, which is the exact description in most [[HPH.P. Lovecraft]] stories of his famous [[Tome of Eldritch Lore|Necronomicon]].

** ''Needful Things'' also has some shout outs to [[HPH.P. Lovecraft]]. The antagonist has cocaine which he claims comes from the Plains of Leng and there's some graffiti in a parking garage that reads "[[Cosmic Horror|Yog-Sothoth]] rules." Also, his name is Leland Gaunt; Night-Gaunts are a fictional race in Lovecraft's work.

* In P. D. James's ''Death of an Expert Witness'', there are several subtle references to the much earlier detective novels of [[Dorothy L. Sayers]], the most prominent being a discussion of whether a man struck on the head could have regained consciousness and locked himself into a building before dying, as in ''Busman's Honeymoon'', and a character's saying "I'd rather make love with the public hangman", as in ''Murder Must Advertise''.

* ''[[House of Leaves]]'' has shout outs mostly to the works of French thinker [[Jacques Derrida]]. The structure of the novel is reminiscent of [[Vladimir Nabokov]]'s ''Pale Fire'', and colored text could be a subtle [[Shout -Out]] to Nabokov's synesthesia. There are also an unusual number of similarities between the {{color|blue|hhouse}} and the House of Change from [[Michael Ende (Creator)|Michael Ende]]'s ''[[The Neverending Story (Literaturenovel)|The Neverending Story]]''. [[Jorge Luis Borges]], Sylvia Plath, and Franza Kafka are also paid tribute in various, small ways throughout the book.

* The ''[[Eisenhorn]] Trilogy'' ([[Warhammer 4000040,000]]) features a scene where the titular Inquisitor recounts talking with a retired [[Humongous Mecha|Titan]] Princeps (commander) named Hekate during one of his travels. Princeps Hekate just happens to be the main character of the ''Titan'' series of graphic novels.

* The [[Dragaera]] page quote on the [[Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?]] page is an alteration of an earlier quote said by Vlad about the House of Athyra. As their [[Planet of Hats|hat]] is being wizards, the original is likely a [[Shout -Out]] to a much-parodied quote from [[The Lord of the Rings]], "Do not meddle in the affairs of Wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger". This line also gets referenced in [[Discworld]] on a couple of occasions. Once, when Vlad is warned that a sorcerous adversary could [[Monty Python and Thethe Holy Grail|turn him into a newt]], he replies, "I'd get better". Also, the most recent book, ''Jhegaala'' has a [[Shout -Out]] to [[Nero Wolfe]]- Vlad is bedridden and is using his familiar, Loiosh as his "legs". He comments that this could work well as an arrangement, leading Loiosh to comment that Vlad would soon end up several hundred pounds heavier.

** At one point, [[Honor Harrington (Literature)|Honor Harrington]] enjoys a [[Horatio Hornblower]] novel. Consider that the ''Honor Harrington'' series is best described as ''[[Horatio Hornblower]] [[Recycled in Space|IN SPACE]]''.

* In John Barnes's ''[[One for Thethe Morning Glory]]'', Deacon Dick Thunder is a [[Shout -Out]] to [[Robin Hood]]. Indeed, the prime minister Cedric explicitly says they can draw him into certain plans because he wouldn't miss the chance to play [[Robin Hood]].

** Also, the Riddling Beast's [[Riddle of the Sphinx]] ends "[[The Hobbit (Literaturenovel)|And what has it got in its pockets]]?"

* ''Sideways Arithmetic From [[Wayside School]]'', Wayside's think outside the box puzzle book, features in the first chapter a series of prototype algebra problems where numbers are substituted with letters. The first such problem is [[The Lord of the Rings|ELF + TOOK = FOOL]].

* ''The Game'' by [[Diana Wynne Jones]] makes several shout outs to much of [[Greek Mythology]], [[Russian Mythology and Tales]], "[[Hansel and Gretel (Literature)|Hansel and Gretel]]", ''[[The Lord of the Rings (Literature)|Lord of the Rings]]'', and many other fantasy stories from across the entire genre. She also makes a less obvious reference to the TARDIS from ''[[Doctor Who (TV)|Doctor Who]]'', as the characters use it at one point in the book without naming it. (Nearly every other reference has at least a name you can associate with a book or myth, but the TARDIS shout out has no way to tell unless you know about [[Doctor Who (TV)|Doctor Who]].)

* In Dean Koontz's ''[[Odd Thomas]]'' novels, Odd says of his abilities, "[[I See Dead People|I see dead people]]," in a knowing nod to ''[[The Sixth Sense]]'', adding, "but then, by God, I do something."

* The ''[[Inheritance Cycle]]'' has a few, ranging from subtle: the name of the first ever bonded dragon, which is [[Dune|Muad'Dib]] spelled backwards, to just plain clumsy: Arya writing a ''[[Doctor Who (TV)|Doctor Who]]'' reference on the ground, with no explanation of any sort given. To make the second one even more ridiculous, Paolini's elves are extremely skeptical atheists, so it's really quite out of character for one of them to spontaneously come up with:

{{quote| ''Adrift upon the sea of time, the lonely god wanders from shore to distant shore, upholding the laws of the stars above''.}}

* [[Peter David]]'s ''[[Sir Apropos of Nothing]]'' contains a shout-out to ''[[The Last Unicorn (Literaturenovel)|The Last Unicorn]]'' by [[Peter S. Beagle]]. When Apropos and Princess Entipy encounter a herd of unicorns, Entipy cautions Apropos, "You must never run from anything immortal, it attracts their attention." This is word for word what the Unicorn told Schmendrick to discourage him from running from a harpy.

* In Henry Fieldings' ''[[Tom Jones (Literature)|Tom Jones]]'', Fielding drops in a shout-out to his sister's novel ''David Simple'', which Sophia Western reads in one scene.

* ''[[The BabysittersBaby Sitters Club]]'' contains a plethora of shout-outs to ''[[I Love Lucy]]'', including Stacey's last name.

* [[John Ringo]] tends to throw tons of [[Shout -Out|shout outs]] to various things his works, including but not limited to:

** ''[[Troy Rising (Literature)|Troy Rising]]'' uses a whole lot of them to other [[Science Fiction]] works, many of them intentional on the part of the characters using them.

* ''[[Lord Darcy (Literature)|Too Many Magicians]]'', by Randall Garrett, contains a [[Shout -Out]] to the [[Nero Wolfe]] novels by Rex Stout. The Marquis of London is clearly modelled after Wolfe, from physical appearance to his refusal to talk business over a meal. His assistant, Lord Bontriomphe, is an even clearer reference to Wolfe's assistant Archie Goodwin.

** In the same book the symbol of the King's Messengers is a lens of grey glass, which glows in the hand of the right man, created by the great magician Sir Edward Elmer; a [[Shout -Out]] to [[EEE. E. "Doc" Smith]] and the ''[[Lensman]]'' books.

** ''And'' there's a character called Tia Einzig, a defector from the Polish Hegemony whose Uncle Neapeler escaped with the help of a Manxman named Colin MacDavid and is now living on the Isle. "Einzig" is German for "only", so Neapeler Einzig, the uncle from Man, has a name that translates as [[The Man Fromfrom UNCLEU.N.C.L.E.|Napoleon Solo]], while MacDavid's name is a simple rearrangement of David McCallum.

{{quote| "I should like to call your attention to the peculiar condition of that knife."<br />

Master Sean frowned. "But... there was nothing peculiar about the condition of that knife."<br />

** The Lord Darcy stories have a lot of this stuff. Another is a clear parody of ''Murder On The Orient Express'', in which a Hercule Poirot [[Expy]] comes to completely the wrong solution (but the same one [[Agatha Christie (Creator)|Agatha Christie]] used), while Darcy comes up with the real solution undercover as an unassuming priest named [[GKG. K. Chesterton|Father Brun]].

* [[Older Than Feudalism]]: ''[[The Aeneid (Literature)|The Aeneid]]'' (written by [[Virgil (Creator)|Virgil]] for Caesar Augustus) contained a shout-out to Augustus's recently deceased nephew, where Aeneas is in the underworld and sees a man with a dark cloud around him. His guide goes on with a mournful speech about how Aeneas should weep for the tragic fate of his distant descendant and describes Marcellus's tomb on the Tiber.

** In the second book, Vince mentions that a girl named Willow could "turn on a guy in a [[My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels|hovercraft full of eels]] and can recite [[Monty Python and Thethe Holy Grail]] in its entirety from memory.

{{quote| Again, there was an exotic combination of old and new technology. The three great turrets of the ancient battleship swivelled, just as if it were still sailing the Pacific. But the guidance mechanisms were state-of-the-art Doge technology. And the incredible laser beams which pulsed out of each turret's three retrofitted barrels were something new to the galaxy.... Only a ship as enormous as the old ''Missouri'' could use these lasers. It took an immense hull capacity to hold the magnetic fusion bottles.}}

* [[JRRJ. TolkienR. (Creator)R. Tolkien|JRR Tolkien]]'s unfinished novel ''The Notion Club Papers'' contains several shout-outs to ''[[The Space Trilogy]]'' by his friend, [[CSC. LewisS. (Creator)Lewis|CS Lewis]].

** [[CSC. LewisS. (Creator)Lewis|CS Lewis]] himself used various names which are alike or very similar to some Middle-earth names. The Space Trilogy main character, Ransom, is also a philologist and the Martian languages bear a certain similarity to Elvish.

** Tolkien made several self-Shout Outs in his work, arguably, quite apart from the myriad in-universe references to 'older' tales: not expecting his 'ancient histories' of Middle Earth (which often genuinely were written much earlier) to ever be published when he was writing ''[[The Lord of the Rings (Literature)|The Lord of the Rings]]'', he occasionally recycled names from his existing mythology into the latter. These would have remained private S.O.s, but for ''The Silmarillion'' appearing decades later and highlighting them - as well as throwing up odd inconsistencies such as a name migrating from one race to another (e.g. Denethor, Gothmog; some instances were [[Retcon|retconned]] in supplementary works as in-universe [[Shout -Out|Shout Outs]] where the later users were said to have taken their names from heroes of old - or of the ''The Silmarillion'' character Glorfindel, whose First Age death was [[Retcon|retconned]] via a [[Deus Ex Machina|one-off offscreen miracle]] to retrospectively make him possibly/probably the same person as the ''LotR'' character of the same name.

*** Don't forget all of LOTR's shout outs to ''[[Macbeth (Theatre)|Macbeth]]'', all taken from Act IV, Scene i, when the Witches tell Macbeth their prophecies of his death. First of all, the phrase "Crack of Doom" was coined by [[ShakespeareWilliam (Creator)Shakespeare|Shakespeare]] in this scene. The Ents' besiegement of Isengard and the Witch-King's defeat by Éowyn are references to two of the three prophecies—namely, that it will not happen until "Great Birnam Wood...shall come against him" and that "[[No Man of Woman Born|none of woman born]] shall harm" him. Of course, the trees do come to the castle when Macduff's army uses their branches as camoflauge, just as the Ents come to Isengard, and Macbeth is killed by a man who was not ''[[Exact Words|born]]'', but removed from his mother's womb, just as the Witch-King, who can be killed by "no living man," is killed by a woman.

* Tom Holt's ''Only Human'' features something of a [[Terry Pratchett]] [[Shout -Out]], in which a man sentenced to [[Ironic Hell]] for complaining to authors that their new stuff wasn't as good as their old stuff... was forced to read the same book over and over again for the rest of eternity. His final line was that he'd just gotten up to the part where "[[Discworld (Literature)/The Colour of Magic|the tourist has just met the wizard]]".

* In ''[[Young Wizards|High Wizardry]]'', a man apparently fitting the description of the fifth [[Doctor Who (TV)|Doctor]] saves Dairine from the servants of the Lone Power chasing her.

* In the ''[[Star Trek]]'' [[Alternate Universe]] novella ''Seeds of Dissent'' by James Swallow, the deceased members of the ''Botany Bay'' crew are all named after ''[[Doctor Who (TV)|Doctor Who]]'' companions.

* In the first four books of [[Peter David]]'s [[Star Trek: New Frontier]] series, he's able to sneak in the first and/or last names of all the actors who played the main characters of his TV Series ''[[Space Cases]]''.

* A very subtle [[Shout -Out]] exists in David Gerrold's ''Blood and Fire''. While one group of characters is preparing to engage on a dangerous mission, the captain tells them "[[Catch Phrase|Let's be careful out there.]]" The protagonist mentally notes that it was a watchword on her previous ship, the ''Michael Conrad''. A shout out to [[Hill Street Blues]] and the actor who spoke the line.

* In Umberto Eco's ''[[The Name of the Rose (Literature)|The Name of the Rose]]'', [[Amateur Sleuth|William of Baskerville]] talks about his good friend William of Ockham.

* A trilogy of ''Warhammer40000'' novels are entitled ''Ravenor'', ''Ravenor Returned'' and ''Ravenor Rogue''; a rather highbrow nod to John Updike's equally [[Added Alliterative AppealAlliteration|alliterative]] "Rabbit" series (''Rabbit, Run'', ''Rabbit Redux'', ''Rabbit is Rich'', ''Rabbit at Rest'' and ''Rabbit Remembered'').

* The [[SMS.M. Stirling]] novel ''Conquistador'' features South African villains with the same names as the South African antagonists of the [[Harry Turtledove]] novel ''Guns of the South''. There is also a reference to a landholder named Morrison, like the titular hero of [[H. Beam Piper]]'s ''Lord Kalvin of Otherwhen''. Morrison's House motto is "Death to Styphon!," a reference to the "Gunpowder God" cult of the Kalvin stories.

* The [[Emberverse|Novels of the Change]] are full of these, encompassing subjects as diverse as ''[[Monty Python]]'' and ''[[Dirty Harry]]''. ''[[LordThe of the Rings (Literature)|Lord of the Rings]]'' gets so many shout-outs, even the toilet-humor ''[[National Lampoon (magazine)|National Lampoon]]'' parody figures heavily into the plot. And even though nobody in the novels has heard of ''[[Harry Potter]]'' (as only the first book camehad come out before [[After the End|everything went to hell]]), the resident Wiccans still manage to get in a good laugh about the Sorting Hat.

{{quote| When she turned back to the Mirror, there were excited voices coming from it, a great green dragon leaped at them, mouth wide, fire whooshing at them, then the dragon went round the curve of the Mirror and vanished—but not before she saw the dark-clad rider perched between the delicate powerful wings. More of the dragons whipped past, all of them ridden, all of them spouting gouts of fire at something Serroi couldn’t see. They were intensely serious about what they were doing, those riders and the beasts they rode, but Serroi couldn’t make out what it was they fought.}}

* ''[[Don Quixote (Literature)|Don Quixote]]'': Hundreds upon hundreds of them, although many would be unrecognizable to the modern reader because of [[Weird Al Effect]].

** Chapter I part I mentions [[Aristotle (Creator)|Aristotle]], philosopher widely regarded as the greatest abstract thinker of Occidental Civilization. Even he has no chance to make sense of the purple prose that plagued [[Chivalric Romance|Chivalry Books]]. Also in the Chapter III part II, Don Quixote's opinion about history and poetry reflects the theory exposed in Aristotle's ''[[Poetics (Literature)|Poetics]]''.

* In the short story [https://web.archive.org/web/20130705211617/http://www.onthepremises.com/issue_11/story_11_h1.html "Same-Day Delivery"] by Desmond Warzel, the phrase "blue bolts from the heavens" appears twice; this is a direct [[Shout -Out]] to first-edition ''Advanced [[Dungeons and& Dragons]]''; specifically, the ''Dungeon Master's Guide''.

* In the very first chapter of ''McClendon's Syndrome'' by Robert Frezza, there are bars called [[The Lord of the Rings (Literature)|the Prancing Pony]] and [[CallahansCallahan's Crosstime Saloon (Literature)|Callahan's]].

* In [[John C. Wright]]'s ''[[The Golden Oecumene (Literature)|The Golden Age]]'', ''The Phoenix Exultant'', and ''The Golden Transcedence'', Heinlein's "An armed society is a polite society" is inverted into "An unarmed society is a rude society", and Harrier Sophotect's appearance is clearly modeled on [[Sherlock Holmes]]. Characters pose as figures from [[William Shakespeare (Creator)|William Shakespeare]]'s [[Hamlet (Theatre)|Hamlet]], [[Commedia Dell 'Arte]], and [[John Milton]]'s ''Comus'' -- though enough explaination is given in story for them to be understood.

** In Daphne's [[Show Within a Show|dream universe]], a major character is a prince named Shining. While apparently she didn't intend it as a [[Shout -Out]], her husband, the protagonist, is named Phaethon -- which means "Shining."

* The ''[[Doctor Who (TV)|Doctor Who]] [[Virgin New Adventures|New Adventures]]'' novel ''The Also People'', in addition to being one long homage to [[The Culture]], also references [[Discworld (Literature)/Men Atat Arms|a cocktail called a Double Entendre]], [[Discworld (Literature)/Reaper Man|a suspicious yellow dip that always appears at parties]], [[Discworld (Literature)/The Colour of Magic|Time Lords having octagons in their eyes to see into the timestream]], and [[Discworld (Literature)/Guards! Guards!|a market trader named C!Mot]]. Ben Aaronovitch is clearly a [[Discworld]] fan.

** The [[Virgin New Adventures]] [[Sherlock Holmes]] crossover ''All-Consuming Fire'', as well as multiple Holmesian references, features an appearance by ''[[The Lost World (Literaturenovel)|The Lost World]]'''s Lord John Roxon, and references to Professor Challenger, [[Fu Manchu]], and [[Kim Newman]]'s Diogenes agent Charles Beauregard. It's also one of several New Adventures to have references to [[The Cthulhu Mythos]].

* The short story [https://web.archive.org/web/20111118150225/http://abyssandapex.com/201004-black.html "The Black Sheep of Vaerlosi"] by Desmond Warzel makes reference to a mineral whose unrefined form is too sharp to handle safely. The mineral is called "costnerite"--because it's [[The Untouchables|untouchable]].

* The climax of Robert Frezza's novel ''The VMR Theory'' contains a string of [[Shout -Out|Shout Outs]]. Among them:

** A final showdown in [[The Lord of the Rings (Literature)|the interior of a large volcano]], which a signpost has helpfully designated "[[The Dark Tower]]".

** Several items that end up being disposed of in said volcano, including [[The Naked Gun (Film)|a bloody glove]], a [[John F. Kennedy|"Grassy Knoll"]] diagram, and [[Richard Nixon|eighteen-and-a-half minutes of audiotape]].

** A [[Isaac Asimov|seemingly-human robot]], [["Three Laws "-Compliant|programmed to obey and protect humans]], but [[Zeroth Law Rebellion|capable of overriding that programming for the greater good of humanity]].

** Said robot's dying words: [[The HitchhikersHitchhiker's Guide to Thethe Galaxy|"Forty-two"]] and [[Citizen Kane (Film)|"Rosebud"]] (for no apparent reason).

* In [[John C. Wright]]'s ''[[Chronicles of Chaos (Literature)|Fugitives of Chaos]]'', when Quentin shows Amelia a book, Amelia says, "[[The Lord of the Rings (Literature)|I can not read the faerie letters]]."

* In John Barnes's ''[[One for Thethe Morning Glory]]'', a ballad's main character turns out to be not a woodcutter but a butterfly who couldn't manage to dream of [[Zhuangzi|a Chinese philosopher]].

* '[[Ciaphas Cain|CIAPHAS CAIN, HERO OF THE IMPERIUM!]]' has too many shoutouts and snarky references to count, but several include a vet named Herriot (who later pens a piece named "''All Lifeforms Great And Small''", a disparaging description of the sport "Grasshopper" and several [[Bilingual Bonus|references in the cod-Latin names]] of places. The same author also likes to slip them into less jocular works, with ''Scourge the Heretic'' and ''Innocence Proves Nothing'' having references to a soldier named Rubi Tuesday, [[Expospeak Gag|overly obscured references to haggis and beans on toast]] and a haggling session where one character agrees on a cut of forty thousand - "[[Warhammer 4000040,000|40k]]? Ok, got a nice ring to it."

* Surprisingly for such a [[Grimdark]] setting and situation, the 40k ''Horus Heresy'' books are not immune. ''Nemesis'' has a [[Kill 'Em All|psychotic assassin]] who seems to feel emotions for guns (other than murderous hatred and contempt, that is, he feels that for everyone). When confronted with a cache of shiny weapons, his only response after taking his pick is "[[Firefly|...I'll be in my bunk.]]".

* The [[Warhammer 4000040,000]] novel ''Night Lords'' has a fairly subtle shout out, but one that [[Word of God|appeared to please the author when told it was noticed]]. A depleted squad of Chaos Space Marines take note of the missing seats in their transport, causing one to comment "This isn't a squad, [[Transformers: theThe Movie|this is bad comedy]]".

* ''[[Beastly]]'' (a modern-day retelling of "[[Beauty and The Beast (Literature)|Beauty and The Beast]]") has shout outs to lots of stories inspired by the fairytale, like ''[[The Phantom of the Opera]]'', ''[[Jane Eyre (Literature)|Jane Eyre]]'' and ''[[The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Literaturenovel)|The Hunchback of Notre Dame]]''.

* [[The Spymaster|Simon Illyan]] from [[Lois McMaster Bujold]]'s [[Vorkosigan Saga]] got his name from [[The Man Fromfrom UNCLEU.N.C.L.E.|Illya Kuryakin]].

** He included another blink-and-you'll-miss-it ''Firefly'' Reference in ''[[The Wise MansMan's Fear]]'' when a possibly-gay (actually bisexual) character is referred to as "Sly".

* "Macavity, the Mystery Cat" in [[TST. S. Eliot]]'s ''[[Old PossumsPossum's Book of Practical Cats (Literature)|Old Possums Book of Practical Cats]]'' is an extended [[Shout -Out]] to [[Sherlock Holmes|Professor Moriarty]].

* The ''[[Jakub Wedrowycz]]'' stories have quite a lot of references, mainly to pop culture: the protagonist [[Badass Grandpa]] villager has eaten stew from some octopus-like thing named [[Cthulhu Mythos|Ktulu]], stole a wand from some [[Harry Potter|snotty bespectacled brat with a lightning on his forehead]], and is said to have also eaten some yellow thing that wandered into his yard calling itself [[Pokémon|"Pikachu"]]. Another example is when he comes across a zeppelin, made from a metal lighter than air - his friend explains that it's an invention of one "professor Geist", a reference to the classic Polish novel ''[[The Doll]]''.

* [[Unda Vosari]] has a [http:[Unda Vosari//tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Shoutout/UndaVosariShout Out|short page]] of [[Shout -Out|shout outs]] to various other works.

{{quote| Frey--Freyda's son by her fourth or fifth contract--was walking around the consoles twirling the [[Laser Blade|light saber]]. He'd picked that up from [[Star Wars|some obscure group of galactic-wide do-gooders]] from near the end of back-time limits.}}

* In the book ''Jeremy Fink And The Meaning Of Life'' by Wendy Mass, there seems to be either an accidental [[Shout -Out]] or simply a very subtle one, as [[The HitchhikersHitchhiker's Guide to Thethe Galaxy (Franchise)/Life, The Universe And Everything|life, the universe and everything]] are mentioned a few times in that exact phrasing.

* In the denouement of Matthew Stover's ''Jericho Moon'', Kheperu tells Barra several [[Blatant Lies]] about how he'd gotten himself, the MacGuffin, and her back to the city after she was knocked out. Among these obvious whoppers is one where they're scooped up and carried to safety in the nick of time by [[The Lord of the Rings (Literature)|giant eagles]].

* The planet Wunderland, in [[Larry Niven|Larry Niven's]] [[Known Space|Man-Kzin Wars]] series, has a number of inimical animals native to it. One of these, the more dangerous for its apparent [[Ridiculously Cute Critter|harmlessness and cuddly-toy aspect]] (until it [[Killer Rabbit|bites you with venomous fangs and doesn't let go]]), is called a ''Beam's Beast''. The narrator states that the etymology of the name had been lost to history, but it's a dead ringer (modulo the fangs) for [[H. Beam Piper]]'s Little Fuzzy.

* The Roman poet [[Catullus (Creator)|Catullus]] used the name "Lesbia" as a pseudonym for the illicit lover much of his poetry describes, a clear reference to the Isle of Lesbos, home to the Greek poet [[Sappho (Creator)|Sappho]], who may well have been the [[Trope Maker]] or [[Trope Codifier]] for many of the Romantic love tropes Catullus (and for that matter, much of the Western World) used in his poetry (When he wasn't being [[Sophisticated As Hell|Incredibly Explicit]], that is, and even sometimes when he was).

* ''[[Percy Jackson and The Olympians]]'' has a character called Will. He's from Apollo, the god of archery. [[RangersRanger's Apprentice|Remind you of someone?]]

* In the ''[[Sinister Six Trilogy (Literature)|Sinister Six Trilogy]]'', the Gentleman visits The Machiavelli Club, a special society of villains with class. His table has on it a welcome back card from an "elegant lady thief of his acquaintance, [[Carmen Sandiego|Carmen]]."

* ''[[The Thirteenth Tale (Literature)|The Thirteenth Tale]]'' contains shout-outs to ''[[Jane Eyre (Literature)|Jane Eyre]]'', ''[[Wuthering Heights (Literaturenovel)|Wuthering Heights]]'', and ''[[Rebecca (Literature)|Rebecca]]''.

* The authors of ''[[Warrior Cats (Literature)|Warrior Cats]]'' have admitted to sneaking in quotes from ''[[Rambo]]''. Also, the second arc was original going to be named ''The Next Generation'', after ''[[Star Trek]]''. The magazine "Cat Fancy" appears in a panel in one of the mangas, and "[[The Beatles|Here Comes The Sun]]" is the name of a chapter in one of the [[Dungeons and& Dragons]]-style game in the back of the books.

* [[Robert A. Heinlein]]'s ''[[Glory Road (Literaturenovel)|Glory Road]]''. The Never-Born creature Oscar fights a duel with has a huge nose, is a superb swordsman, likes to sing poetry while fighting, and claims to have written a book, traveled to the Moon and had a house fall on him. Although he never tells Oscar Gordon his name, he's clearly based on the [[Real Life]] person Cyrano de Bergerac.

* [[George RRR. MartinR. (Creator)Martin|George R R Martin]]'s ''[[A Song of Ice and Fire]]'' includes "House Jordayne of the Tor", after a [[The Wheel of Time|certain other series of fantasy novels published by Tor Books]]. A character also references an "Archmaester Rigney" who believes that "Time is a Wheel". Robert Jordan's given name was James Rigney.

** There is also a House [[Tad Williams|Willum]] with two brothers [[Memory, SorrowandSorrow, and Thorn|Elyas and Josua]].

* [[Creator/Kim Stanley Robinson|Kim Stanley Robinson]]'s ''[[The Years of Rice and Salt]]'': The first chapter is written in a style that imitates ''[[Journey to The West (Literature)|Journey to Thethe West]]'' and the last chapter has a shout out to ''[[Candide (Literature)|Candide]]''.

* Dozens in [[Michael Flynn]]'s ''[[Spiral Arm (Literature)|The January Dancer]]''. Including a Yellow Brick Road, a quote from [[The Bible]] and [[GKG. K. Chesterton]] both, a snippet of a Francis Thompson poem, Route 66, the Silk Road, [[Little Red Riding Hood]], and many more.