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* ''[[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 [[the Dresden Files]]:

* ''[[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]].

* In one of the ''[[Star Wars]]'' [[Expanded Universe]] novels, Han Solo points out "It's not the years, it's the parsecs." Not quite an [[Actor Allusion]] to [[Indiana Jones]], because it's a book and [[Harrison Ford]] can't say the line himself, but close.

** 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.

** In ''Lords and Ladies'', there's one to the song "Lucky Ball and Chain" by [[They Might Be Giants]] when Granny Weatherwax and Mustrum Ridcully are discussing how to get away from the unicorn.

"Well? You're old and foolish now." }}

* [[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.

* 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:

* [[Peter David]]'s ''[[Sir Apropos of Nothing]]'' contains a shout-out to ''[[The Last Unicorn (novel)|The Last Unicorn]]'' by [[Peter S. Beagle]]. When Apropos and Princess Entipy encounter a herd of unicorns, Entipy cautions Apropos, "You must never run from anything immortal, it attracts their attention." This is word for word what the Unicorn told Schmendrick to discourage him from running from a harpy.

* ''[[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.

** ''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 from U.N.C.L.E.|Napoleon Solo]], while MacDavid's name is a simple rearrangement of David McCallum.

** 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'':

"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 [[Agatha Christie]] used), while Darcy comes up with the real solution undercover as an unassuming priest named [[G. K. Chesterton|Father Brun]].

** In the second book, Vince mentions that a girl named Willow could "turn on a guy in a [[My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels|hovercraft full of eels]] and can recite [[Monty Python and The Holy Grail]] in its entirety from memory.

* 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]]:

* [[J. R. R. Tolkien|JRR Tolkien]]'s unfinished novel ''The Notion Club Papers'' contains several shout-outs to ''[[The Space Trilogy]]'' by his friend, [[C. S. Lewis|CS Lewis]].

** [[C. S. Lewis|CS Lewis]] himself used various names which are alike or very similar to some Middle-earth names. The Space Trilogy main character, Ransom, is also a philologist and the Martian languages bear a certain similarity to Elvish.

* 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|Lord of the Rings]]'' gets so many shout-outs, even the toilet-humor National Lampoon parody figures heavily into the plot. And even though nobody in the novels has heard of ''[[Harry Potter]]'' (as only the first book came out before [[After the End|everything went to hell]]), the resident Wiccans still manage to get in a good laugh about the Sorting Hat.

* In ''[[Duel of Sorcery|Changer's Moon]]'': What does this [[Dragonriders of Pern|bring to mind]]?

* ''[[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 ''[[Peter Pan]]'' Captain Hook says he's "the only man whom Barbecue feared, and Flint himself feared Barbecue". Flint and Barbecue (better known as Long John Silver) are the leaders of the pirates in ''[[Treasure Island]]''.

* 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:

* 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 the Galaxy/Life, The Universe And Everything|life, the universe and everything]] are mentioned a few times in that exact phrasing.

* 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|giant eagles]].