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* ''[[Artemis Fowl/Shout Out|Artemis Fowl]]''

* ''[[Ciaphas Cain/Shout Out|Ciaphas Cain]]''

* ''[[Stuck/Shout Out|Stuck]]''

 

* 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 [[J. 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 (film)|a green city that can only be entered if you have red shoes]].

*** 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 ''[[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).

** 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 ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]''.

* 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 A 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.

* ''[[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 40,000]]) 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.

* [[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 (novel)|Dark Future]] novels are [[Reference Overdosed|crammed full of them.]]. Who else would make [[Iain Banks]] mayor of the Isle of Skye?

** 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]]'', 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]]'', 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 [[William 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.

* 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|Doctor]] saves Dairine from the servants of the Lone Power chasing her.

* 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 [[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 [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]].