Shout-Out/Literature: Difference between revisions

* "Macavity, the Mystery Cat" in [[TS Eliot]]'s ''[[Old Possums Book of Practical Cats (Literature)|Old Possums Book of Practical Cats]]'' is an extended [[Shout Out]] to [[Sherlock Holmes|Professor Moriarty]].

* 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]]''.

* 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: