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== Works with their own sub-pages: ==
== ''[[Discworld]]'' ==
▲* ''[[Artemis Fowl (Literature)/Shout Out|Artemis Fowl]]''
▲* ''[[Ciaphas Cain (Literature)/Shout Out|Ciaphas Cain]]''
*
▲* ''[[Darkness Visible/Shout Out|Darkness Visible]]''
▲* ''[[The Dresden Files (Literature)/Shout Out|The Dresden Files]]''
▲* ''[[Skulduggery Pleasant (Literature)/Shout Out|Skulduggery Pleasant]]''
▲* ''[[Stuck (Literature)/Shout Out|Stuck]]''
"Well? You're old and foolish now." }}▼
== Other works ==
* 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 [[
**
** The city that Blaine is in constantly plays a series of drums which Eddie mentions sounds suspiciously like a [[ZZ Top]] song.
*** EVERY Steven King book EVER has a long list to obscure to vague shout outs to his sixty other 900-page books.
* The first book of ''[[The Bartimaeus Trilogy]]'' has Twoflower from ''[[
** 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 (
** Although it was written earlier, the original ''[[Redwall]]'' book had a line about a rat named Wormtail losing a paw.
*** 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 ''[[
** And possibly,{{verify}} the whole thing about [[The Secret Garden|Lily's eyes]].
** In
* The Yeerks in ''[[
* 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
* 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
* A recurring character in Robert Rankin's books is the "psychic youth and masturbator" Danbury Collins. This is based on Andy Collins, author of dubious New Age work ''The Knights of Danbury'' and a rival of Robert's.
* ''[[Mortal Engines]]'' has far too many shoutouts to name, a few of which are described on its page.
* ''[[The Sookie Stackhouse Mysteries]]'' have a [[Shout
** The short story "Bacon" from the anthology ''Strange Brew'' contains one for [[
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* ''[[Pale Fire]]'' by [[Vladimir Nabokov]] has a [[Shout
* In one of the ''[[Star Wars]]'' [[Expanded Universe]] novels, Han Solo points out "It's not the years, it's the parsecs." Not quite an [[Actor Allusion]] to [[Indiana Jones]], because it's a book and [[Harrison Ford]] can't say the line himself, but close.
** And of course, in the ''[[Star Wars]]'' novels, Han, and later Corran Horn, have used the fake identity "Jenos Idanian", an anagram of [[Indiana Jones]].
** Another one has a conman who's managed to sneak on board the Death Star setting up a fake ID under the name of Teh Roxxor.
* [[
** The founder of the Pickman foundation is presumably NOT the Pickman of "Pickman's Model". Lovecraft's stories tend to take place in the same small part of New England, and often concern the same kind of ladies and gentlemen from old, old families (so they can have old, old secrets). Hence, the same surnames turning up again and again is actually fairly realistic: the oldest families have a fair number of members by now, and they are fairly important to local history as well.
* The [[Stephen King]] book ''Eyes of the Dragon'' has a minor [[Shout
** ''Needful Things'' also has some shout outs to [[
* The ''[[Ciaphas Cain]]'' ([[Fake Ultimate Hero|HERO OF THE IMPERIUM!]]) novels are ''packed'' with references to other media. See that page for specific details.
* In ''Forests of the Night'' by S. Andrew Swann, the [[Private Detective|protagonist]] visits a bar owned by a biologically-uplifted rabbit. The name of the bar? ''[[Watership Down]]''. The bar also contains a framed picture of what are obviously [[Looney Tunes|Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd]].
* 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
* The ''[[Eisenhorn]] Trilogy'' ([[Warhammer
* [[Kim Newman]] loves them even more than Pratchett. The ''[[Anno Dracula]]'' series is an extended [[Shout
▲* [[Terry Pratchett]] loves these. For example, in ''[[Discworld|The Fifth Elephant]]'', Vimes encounters Three Sisters who are straight out of a [[Chekhov's Gun|Chekhov]] play of the same name. One of them want to tear down their Cherry Orchard (another famous Chekhov play). They give him the gloomy and purposeless trousers of ''[[Uncle Vanya]]'' (yet a third famous Chekhov play -- and "gloomy and purposeless" tends to be Chekhov's style).
** Newman really does love these. His [[Warhammer Fantasy]] and [[Dark Future (
▲** ''[[Discworld]]'' has the Ramtop mountain range, named after the system variable RAMTOP from the Sinclair [[ZX Spectrum]] computer.
▲** In ''[[Discworld (Literature)/Hogfather|Hogfather]]'', the conversation between HEX and [[Talkative Loon|The Bursar]] is very reminicent of the various 'chat bots' found all over the internet.
▲*** More specifically, it resembles the mindlessly-chatty "ELIZA" program, which ''predates'' the internet by a few years.
▲** There exist [http://wiki.affordable-prawns.co.uk/wiki/Annotations a separate wiki] and a [http://www.lspace.org/books/apf more organized website] dedicated to cataloging Pratchett's shout-outs.
▲** In ''Lords and Ladies'', there's one to the song "Lucky Ball and Chain" by [[They Might Be Giants]] when Granny Weatherwax and Mustrum Ridcully are discussing how to get away from the unicorn.
▲{{quote| "I was young and foolish then."<br />
▲"Well? You're old and foolish now." }}
▲* [[Kim Newman]] loves them even more than Pratchett. The ''[[Anno Dracula]]'' series is an extended [[Shout Out]] to every work of fiction involving vampires, ever, and any other work of fiction he likes as well.
▲** Newman really does love these. His [[Warhammer Fantasy]] and [[Dark Future (Literature)|Dark Future]] novels are [[Reference Overdosed|crammed full of them.]]. Who else would make [[Iain Banks]] mayor of the Isle of Skye?
* The ''[[Mass Effect]]'' novel ''Ascension'' is one ''long'' shout out. Specifically, it involves a [[Firefly|mentally-ill girl with incredible mental powers being rescued from an Academy by a loving family member after being experimented on by a shadowy organization devoted to "improving" mankind, and takes refuge on a ship whose captain's nickname is Mal.]]
* 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
* David Weber sometimes does these in a fairly explicit fashion.
** At one point, [[
** At one point while explaining her skill with firearms (which are considered antiques by her time) she she names the SCA and her uncle who was a member as an inspiration.
** The protagonist of the ''Safehold'' series is named Nimue. When she has to get a sex change in order to fit into the patriarchal society of Safehold, she takes the name Merlin. Later, Merlin gives Prince Cayleb a sword that is made of advanced materials, which he names "Excalibur".
* In ''[[The Bell Jar]]'' by Sylvia Plath, Esther Greenwood says that she has to read ''Finnegan's Wake'' by James Joyce for one of her classes in her senior year of college.
* In John Barnes's ''[[One for
** Also, the Riddling Beast's [[Riddle of the Sphinx]] ends "[[The Hobbit (
* ''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]], "[[
* In Dean Koontz's ''[[Odd Thomas]]'' novels, Odd says of his abilities, "[[I See Dead People
* Zee Rose's ''The [[Princess]] 99'' makes several shout outs, usually through Skye who is {{spoiler|probably from our world}} though Professeur Sweet does make a ''Harry Potter'' shout out: "Unlike in the Non stories, besoms are not for riding. I repeat: do not try to ride a besom. I cannot tell you how many students have wound up with broken legs and arms because of this mistake."
* 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 ''[[
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* [[Peter David]]'s ''[[Sir Apropos of Nothing]]'' contains a shout-out to ''[[The Last Unicorn (
* ''[[The Dresden Files]]'' have a lot of shout-outs, from Thomas being a ''[[Buffy]]'' fan to a short exchange between two characters about the medical uses of superglue, which one of them saw in [[Dog Soldiers|"a movie about werewolves"]]. A long but far from exhaustive listing can be found on the main page for the series.
* [[Welkin Weasels]] runs entirely on Shouting Out to various famous literature, movies, and historical events, often with an [[Incredibly Lame Pun]] or two mixed in. (See the reference to ''Treasure of the Sierra Madre'' and/or ''Blazing Saddles'' as the [[Talking Animal]] marmot sheriff faces off with an outlaw: "Badgers? We don't need no stinkin' badgers!")
* In Henry Fieldings' ''[[
* ''[[The
* [[John Ringo]] tends to throw tons of [[Shout
** In ''When The Devil Dances'' and ''Hell's Faire'', from his [[Posleen War Series]], there's not only "Bun-Bun", the name for a massive mobile artillery piece, from [[Sluggy Freelance]]'s [[Killer Rabbit]], but one of those sent to repair some battle damage is the spitting image of [[Mad Scientist|Riff]], not only in outfits ([[Badass Longcoat|long coat]] and [[Cool Shades]]), but in some of Riff's signature traits, including [[Catch Phrase|"Let me check my notes"]]... and getting [[Groin Attack|kicked in the crotch]] when saying something stupid to an attractive woman.
** Bun-Bun also makes an appearance in the [[Council Wars]] series, as one of the few remaining AIs after a long-ago global-scale civil war.
** ''[[
* ''[[Lord Darcy
** On the other hand, while he's as smart as his cousin, Lord Darcy, he's a government official, not a detective, who when faced with a murder gets his cousin involved. This suggests another influence was Wolfe's alleged uncle, Mycroft Holmes, fitting in with Darcy's similarities to [[Sherlock Holmes|Sherlock]].
** 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
** ''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
** The same book has this exchange, which is nearly identical to the "dog in the night-time" one from the [[Sherlock Holmes]] story ''Silver Blaze'':
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Master Sean frowned. "But... there was nothing peculiar about the condition of that knife."
"Precisely. That was the peculiar condition. }}
** 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 [[
** A couple of others feature a secret agent named Sir James le Lien (Lien = contract = [[James Bond|Bond]]).
* [[Older Than Feudalism]]: ''[[
* [[Mercedes Lackey]] pulls off a clever one in her book ''The Fairy Godmother.'' Her protagonist Elena goes to a Hiring Faire, and is the second-to-last person hired. The last person in the square, when she leaves? [[Discworld|Mort.]]
* [[Alastair Reynolds]] throws a pair of enormous shout-outs to ''[[The Book of the New Sun]]'' in ''House of Suns'', though it would be a spoiler to explain exactly what they are.
* [[Gordon Korman]]'s ''Son of the Mob'' and it's sequel, ''Hollywood Hustle'', contain several references to [[Monty Python]]:
** In the first book, when Vince's date opens the trunk of his car and finds Jimmy the Rat unconscious and bleeding (Vince is, after all, the titular mob prince), the only response the horrified Vince can think of is "a line from that old parrot sketch from Monty Python": "He's not dead, he's resting."
** 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
* Eric Flint wrote the novella ''Carthago Delenda Est'' as a sequel to [[David Drake]]'s ''Ranks of Bronze'', but the space battle scene invokes [[Uchuu Senkan Yamato]]:
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* [[
** [[
** 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 ''[[
*** Don't forget all of LOTR's shout outs to ''[[
* Tom Holt's ''Only Human'' features something of a [[Terry Pratchett]] [[Shout
* In ''[[Sharpe]]'s Tiger'', Sharpe briefly sees (and is warned not to steal) the Moonstone from, well, ''[[The Moonstone]]''.
* In ''[[Young Wizards|High Wizardry]]'', a man apparently fitting the description of the fifth [[Doctor Who
* The ''[[Captain Underpants]]'' series of books is set at Jerome Horowitz Elementary School, who was Curly of the [[Three Stooges]].
* 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 ''[[
** A screen in a ''Next Generation'' episode showing a woman's descendants included the names of all the first seven actors to play the Doctor.
* 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]]''.
** Later, he gives a more thorough one to Jewel Staite by putting a "Catalina City" on a moon of Saturn.
* A very subtle [[Shout
* In Umberto Eco's ''[[
** Whereas the "of Baskerville" suggests a connection to another [[Sherlock Holmes|asexual detective of analytical mind]].
* A trilogy of ''Warhammer40000'' novels are entitled ''Ravenor'', ''Ravenor Returned'' and ''Ravenor Rogue''; a rather highbrow nod to John Updike's equally [[
* The [[
* Malik's admission that he's a fan of both Sherlock Holmes and Spider-Man in [[Wandering Djinn]]
* The [[Emberverse|Novels of the Change]] are full of these, encompassing subjects as diverse as ''[[Monty Python]]'' and ''[[Dirty Harry]]''. ''[[
* In ''[[Duel of Sorcery|Changer's Moon]]'': What does this [[Dragonriders of Pern|bring to mind]]?
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* ''[[
** Chapter I part I mentions [[
* 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
* In the very first chapter of ''McClendon's Syndrome'' by Robert Frezza, there are bars called [[The Lord of the Rings
* In [[John C. Wright]]'s ''[[The Golden Oecumene
** 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
* The ''[[
** The [[Virgin New Adventures]] [[Sherlock Holmes]] crossover ''All-Consuming Fire'', as well as multiple Holmesian references, features an appearance by ''[[The Lost World (
* 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
** A flock of [[Dragonriders of Pern|genetically engineered dragons who enjoy going ''between'']]--though in this case, "between" refers to their delight in gliding between upright objects, slalom-style, and accidentally unseating their riders due to their poor spatial-reasoning skills.
** A final showdown in [[The Lord of the Rings
** Several items that end up being disposed of in said volcano, including [[The Naked Gun
** A [[Isaac Asimov|seemingly-human robot]], [["Three Laws
** Said robot's dying words: [[The
* In [[John C. Wright]]'s ''[[Chronicles of Chaos
* In John Barnes's ''[[One for
* '[[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
* Surprisingly for such a [[Grimdark]] setting and situation, the 40k ''Horus Heresy'' books are not immune. ''Nemesis'' has a [[Kill
* The [[Warhammer
* ''[[Beastly]]'' (a modern-day retelling of "[[
* [[The Spymaster|Simon Illyan]] from [[Lois McMaster Bujold]]'s [[Vorkosigan Saga]] got his name from [[The Man
* Shaun Tam referenced a few artists in his illustrations for ''[[The Lost Thing]]''
* ''[[Name of the Wind]]'' has a brief, blink-and-you'll-miss-it reference to ''[[Firefly]]'' when the main character travels to the "Eavesdown Docks". Patrick Rothfuss, the author of NOTW, is an acknowledged fan of Joss Whedon.
** He included another blink-and-you'll-miss-it ''Firefly'' Reference in ''[[The Wise
* ''[[Vorkosigan Saga|Cryoburn]]'' has two: Miles thinks to himself "Imperial Auditor Vorkosigan; Threat or Menace" (in Spider-Man, J.J.J.'s paper, ''The Daily Bugle'' often ran headlines "Spider-Man: Threat or Menace?"). And Armsman Roic quips to a local "Don't worry, I have a license to stun." The local responds "I thought that has a license to kill?" Both, of course refer to ''[[James Bond]]'''s 00 "License to Kill".
* "Macavity, the Mystery Cat" in [[
* 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 [
* In ''[[Peter Pan]]'' Captain Hook says he's "the only man whom Barbecue feared, and Flint himself feared Barbecue". Flint and Barbecue (better known as Long John Silver) are the leaders of the pirates in ''[[Treasure Island]]''.
* In the novel ''The Fires of Paratime'' by L. E. Modesitt, Jr. (published in 1982), the Immortals can travel nearly instantaneously in space and time, but they have no native technology and are forced to pilfer it from various technologically-advanced cultures throughout galactic history:
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* In the book ''Jeremy Fink And The Meaning Of Life'' by Wendy Mass, there seems to be either an accidental [[Shout
* 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
* In George Zebrowski's 1998 novel ''Brute Orbits'', there's a description of life on an asteroid-borne penal colony: "You were [[A Christmas Story|either a bully, a toady, or one of the nameless rabble of victims]]."
* 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 [[
* The main character of ''[[American Psycho]]'' is named Patrick Bateman; a poke at Norman Bates, the antagonist of ''[[Psycho]]''.
* ''[[Percy Jackson and The Olympians]]'' has a character called Will. He's from Apollo, the god of archery. [[
** Actually, Will's namesake isn't a shout out Rangers Apprentice, but a certain [[William Shakespeare|play write and poet]] who, in universe, was said to also be a son of Apollo.
* In John DeChancie's ''Castle Murders'', one of [[Those Two Guys]], Peter Thaxton, solves a magical murder mystery among the castle nobles. In appreciation, the king of the castle grants him a title, which entitles him to be known as [[Lord Peter Wimsey|Lord Peter]].
* In the ''[[
* ''[[
* In the ''[[Star Trek]]'' novel ''The Romulan War: To Brave The Storm'', the character of Trip at one point calls himself "Michael Kenmore" which is a Shout-Out to Stargate Atlantis, where the actor for Trip, Connor Trineer, played Michael Kenmore, the rogue Wraith turned human.
* In Richard Peck's novel ''Secrets at Sea'', one character mentions an ancestor in passing named Katinka Van Tassel, which is the name of the young woman Ichabod Crane loves in ''[[The Legend of Sleepy Hollow]]'' by Washington Irving.
* There's a nice shout out to ''[[The Dresden Files]]'' in the opening chapter of Benedict Jacka's ''Fated''. "I've even heard of some guy in Chicago who advertises in the phone book under 'Wizard', though that's probably an urban legend."
* The authors of ''[[
* [[Robert A. Heinlein]]'s ''[[Glory Road (
* [[George
** There is also a House [[Tad Williams|Willum]] with two brothers [[Memory,
* [[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
* Dozens in [[Michael Flynn]]'s ''[[Spiral Arm
* In ''[[Who Cut the Cheese?]]'' by Mason Brown:
** Duck compares the situation he's in to that of ''[[Waiting for Godot]]''.
** When Cover leaves the cheeseless depot to find more cheese, Duck jokingly [[Survivor|votes him off the island]].
* Does it count as a Shout Out, or something more, that the backstory of Dudley Pope's character Lord Ramage includes having been a shipmate of [[Horatio Hornblower]] when they were both lieutenants? There's mention of each helping the other with weak areas in his studies for promotion.
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