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* In Umberto Eco's ''[[The Name of the Rose]]'', [[Amateur Sleuth|William of Baskerville]] talks about his good friend William of Ockham.
** 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 [[S.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.
* Malik's admission that he's a fan of both Sherlock Holmes and Spider-Man in [[Wandering Djinn]]
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