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== Works with their own sub-pages: ==
* ''[[Artemis Fowl
* ''[[Ciaphas Cain
* ''[[Darkness Visible/Shout Out|Darkness Visible]]''
* ''[[The Dresden Files
* ''[[Skulduggery Pleasant
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* 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 [[
** Also a Potter reference, in one of the books is a helping robot, called a "house elf", which is named Dobby, IIRC.
** 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.
* ''[[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, the whole thing about [[The Secret Garden|Lily's eyes]].
** In the ''[[Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows|The Deathly Hallows]]'' Harry and Hermione notice the quotation [[The Bible
* 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 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.
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* ''[[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-Out]] to [[Anne Rice]]; her books are actually books one can buy and read in [[The Verse]] the series takes place in, and is why vampires are considered somewhat chic. There's also a shout out to Ann Landers.
** The short story "Bacon" from the anthology ''Strange Brew'' contains one for [[
{{quote| "Actually, a girl can't make a living at full-time sorcery anymore," Kathy [a witch] said with a brave smile. "Not with so many of the supernaturals trying to do things the official, human way. The only sorcerer who's gone public is in Chicago, and I hear he's struggling."}}
* ''[[Pale Fire]]'' by [[Vladimir Nabokov]] has a [[Shout-Out]] for all comers. The eponymous poem's third canto has a [[Shout-Out]] to ''[[The Brothers Karamazov]]''. The commentary to one of the lines mentions how a Hurricane [[Lolita]] has recently passed over New Wye. Charles Kinbote proposes calling the poem Solus Rex, a reference to one of Nabokov's short stories. There's a minor character named Pnin, which is also the name of one of Nabokov's other novels. Various authors and poets are mentioned, discussed, discarded at length by one of the novel's [[Unreliable Narrator|Unreliable Narrators]].
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** 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-Out]] to [[
** ''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-Out]] to Nabokov's synesthesia. There are also an unusual number of similarities between the {{color|blue|house}} and the House of Change from [[
* The ''[[Eisenhorn]] Trilogy'' ([[Warhammer 40000]]) 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.
* [[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.
** In ''[[Discworld
*** 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.
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* [[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 (
* 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, [[
** 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 [[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 ''[[Doctor Who]]'' reference on the ground, with no explanation of any sort given. To make the second one even more ridiculous, Paolini's elves are extremely skeptical atheists, so it's really quite out of character for one of them to spontaneously come up with:
{{quote| ''Adrift upon the sea of time, the lonely god wanders from shore to distant shore, upholding the laws of the stars above''.}}
* [[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-Out|shout outs]] to various things his works, including but not limited to:
** 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-Out]] to [[
** ''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'':
{{quote| "I should like to call your attention to the peculiar condition of that knife."<br />
Master Sean frowned. "But... there was nothing peculiar about the condition of that knife."<br />
"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.
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* 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]]:
{{quote| Again, there was an exotic combination of old and new technology. The three great turrets of the ancient battleship swivelled, just as if it were still sailing the Pacific. But the guidance mechanisms were state-of-the-art Doge technology. And the incredible laser beams which pulsed out of each turret's three retrofitted barrels were something new to the galaxy.... Only a ship as enormous as the old ''Missouri'' could use these lasers. It took an immense hull capacity to hold the magnetic fusion bottles.}}
* [[
** [[
** 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-Out]], in which a man sentenced to [[Ironic Hell]] for complaining to authors that their new stuff wasn't as good as their old stuff...was forced to read the same book over and over again for the rest of eternity. His final line was that he'd just gotten up to the part where "[[Discworld
* 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.
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* 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 ''[[Doctor Who]]'' companions.
** 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-Out]] exists in David Gerrold's ''Blood and Fire''. While one group of characters is preparing to engage on a dangerous mission, the captain tells them "[[Catch Phrase|Let's be careful out there.]]" The protagonist mentally notes that it was a watchword on her previous ship, the ''Michael Conrad''. A shout out to [[Hill Street Blues]] and the actor who spoke the line.
* 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 [[Added Alliterative Appeal|alliterative]] "Rabbit" series (''Rabbit, Run'', ''Rabbit Redux'', ''Rabbit is Rich'', ''Rabbit at Rest'' and ''Rabbit Remembered'').
* 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]]
* The [[Emberverse|Novels of the Change]] are full of these, encompassing subjects as diverse as ''[[Monty Python]]'' and ''[[Dirty Harry]]''. ''[[The Lord of the Rings
* In ''[[Duel of Sorcery|Changer's Moon]]'': What does this [[Dragonriders of Pern|bring to mind]]?
{{quote| When she turned back to the Mirror, there were excited voices coming from it, a great green dragon leaped at them, mouth wide, fire whooshing at them, then the dragon went round the curve of the Mirror and vanished—but not before she saw the dark-clad rider perched between the delicate powerful wings. More of the dragons whipped past, all of them ridden, all of them spouting gouts of fire at something Serroi couldn’t see. They were intensely serious about what they were doing, those riders and the beasts they rode, but Serroi couldn’t make out what it was they fought.}}
* ''[[
** Chapter I part I mentions [[
* 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
* 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-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
** 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 [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-Out|Shout Outs]]. Among them:
** 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 Compliant|programmed to obey and protect humans]], but [[Zeroth Law Rebellion|capable of overriding that programming for the greater good of humanity]].
** 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 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'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 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:
* ''[[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 [[Unda Vosari/Shout Out|short page]] of [[Shout-Out|shout outs]] to various other works.
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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 Hitchhiker's Guide to
* 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
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