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* 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|house}} and the House of Change from [[Michael Ende]]'s ''[[The Neverending Story (novel)|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
* [[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).
** ''[[Discworld]]'' has the Ramtop mountain range, named after the system variable RAMTOP from the Sinclair [[ZX Spectrum]] computer.
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* ''[[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]], 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]]''.
* 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
* In the very first chapter of ''McClendon's Syndrome'' by Robert Frezza, there are bars called [[The Lord of the Rings|the Prancing Pony]] and [[Callahan's Crosstime Saloon|Callahan's]].
* In [[John C. Wright]]'s ''[[The Golden Oecumene|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]]'s [[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]] [[Virgin New Adventures|New Adventures]] novel ''The Also People'', in addition to being one long homage to [[The Culture]], also references [[Discworld/Men At Arms|a cocktail called a Double Entendre]], [[Discworld/Reaper Man|a suspicious yellow dip that always appears at parties]], [[Discworld/The Colour of Magic|Time Lords having octagons in their eyes to see into the timestream]], and [[Discworld/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 (novel)|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 [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]].
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* In [[John C. Wright]]'s ''[[Chronicles of Chaos|Fugitives of Chaos]]'', when Quentin shows Amelia a book, Amelia says, "[[The Lord of the Rings|I can not read the faerie letters]]."
* 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
* 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
* ''[[Beastly]]'' (a modern-day retelling of "[[Beauty and The Beast]]") has shout outs to lots of stories inspired by the fairytale, like ''[[The Phantom of the Opera]]'', ''[[Jane Eyre]]'' and ''[[The Hunchback of Notre Dame (novel)|The Hunchback of Notre Dame]]''.
* [[The Spymaster|Simon Illyan]] from [[Lois McMaster Bujold]]'s [[Vorkosigan Saga]] got his name from [[The Man from U.N.C.L.E.|Illya Kuryakin]].
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* 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 ''[[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
* [[Robert A. Heinlein]]'s ''[[Glory Road (novel)|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 R. R. 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.
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