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** Dr. Clawbonnie used a lens made of ice to start a fire in ''Captain Hatteras''.
** Cyrus Smith McGuyvered a water-filled lens from two watch glasses in ''[[The Mysterious Island]]'', as the castaways initially had no other means of starting the fire.
* In ''[[Discworld/Small Gods|Small Gods]]'', the Omnian fleet that attacks Ephebe is set ablaze by the rays from a massive mirror in a tower in the harbor. This is a direct reference to the ancient legend of Archimedes's "heat ray" in the siege of Syracuse.
* Alice, being a specialist in light magic, uses a spell to this effect in ''[[The Magicians]]''. It's not very practical, however—shehowever — she was using it not long before sunset, and, after nothing the "lens" was a mile long, it still took her quite a long time just to burn through a door.
 
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