Non Sequitur Causality: Difference between revisions

* In ''The Science of [[Discworld]] II'' the mages' meddling with time (trying to make sure [[Shakespeare]] is born and becomes the great poet he is supposed to be) accidentally results in the first potato being brought to Europe.

* ''[[Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency]]'' has a perfectly lampshaded use of the trope. Early in the book, it turns out that in bringing the coelacanth from prehistory to the early 20th century to be rediscovered, the dodo went extinct, and that was the end of a short chain of similar changes. At the end of the book, after {{spoiler|the main characters go back to the dawn of life on earth}}, Dirk finds out that {{spoiler|his secretary was still working for him, and a cat that he'd spent the last eleven years searching for had never gotten lost in the first place}}.

* [[Dragonlance]]'s ''The War of Souls'' trilogy.

* In ''[[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy]]'' using the Infinite Improbability Drive on the starship ''Heart of Gold'' tended to cause this throughout the universe. That being one reason why it was replaced with the Bistromathic drive.