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** 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 Out]] to a much-parodied quote from [[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 The 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.
* David Weber sometimes does these in a fairly explicit fashion.
** 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]]''.
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** 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 [[Added Alliterative Appeal|alliterative]] "Rabbit" series (''Rabbit, Run'', ''Rabbit Redux'', ''Rabbit is Rich'', ''Rabbit at Rest'' and ''Rabbit Remembered'').
* The [[SM 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.
* 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]]''. ''[[Lord of the Rings (Literature)|Lord of the Rings]]'' gets so many shout-outs, even the toilet-humor 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 came out before [[After the End|everything went to hell]]), the resident Wiccans still manage to get in a good laugh about the Sorting Hat.
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* In the short story [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 [[Callahans 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
** 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 At 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.
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* In John Barnes's ''[[One for The 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 40000|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
* The [[Warhammer 40000]] 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 the 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 (Literature)|The Hunchback of Notre Dame]]''.
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* 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:
{{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
* 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]].
* 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 [[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).
* The main character of ''[[American Psycho]]'' is named Patrick Bateman; a poke at Norman Bates, the antagonist of ''[[Psycho]]''.
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