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* [[The War Gods]] has the novella Sword Brother where a Wencit, in summoning help, ends up getting a gunnery sergeant and a corporal driving a Striker. |
* [[The War Gods]] has the novella Sword Brother where a Wencit, in summoning help, ends up getting a gunnery sergeant and a corporal driving a Striker. |
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* Played with in the [[Magic Kingdom of Landover]] series where the everyman hero is summoned by the [[Genre Blind]] villain with the expectation of being useless as a hero, complete with a job interview designed to ensure uselessness. The hero is just the latest in a long line of summoned everymen who were until then as useless as expected. |
* Played with in the [[Magic Kingdom of Landover]] series where the everyman hero is summoned by the [[Genre Blind]] villain with the expectation of being useless as a hero, complete with a job interview designed to ensure uselessness. The hero is just the latest in a long line of summoned everymen who were until then as useless as expected. |
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* Somewhat subverted in two books of the [[Darkover]] series. The summoned characters are both [[ |
* Somewhat subverted in two books of the [[Darkover]] series. The summoned characters are both [[doppelganger]]s of two members of the main cast. One of them [[Ascended Extra|eventually becomes a second protagonist of the book]], while the other just serves for a [[Twin Switch]] or something like that. |
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* In a duology within the ''[[Saga of Recluce]]'', a spaceship suffers from a [[Hyperspace]] malfunction which lands them in a universe where magic is real. In the second book the main character ends up aiding a [[The Lost Woods|magic forest]] against [[The Empire]], which wants to seal the forest away. The main character's companion speculates that the magic forest might have summoned them by causing the [[Hyperspace]] malfunction in the first place. |
* In a duology within the ''[[Saga of Recluce]]'', a spaceship suffers from a [[Hyperspace]] malfunction which lands them in a universe where magic is real. In the second book the main character ends up aiding a [[The Lost Woods|magic forest]] against [[The Empire]], which wants to seal the forest away. The main character's companion speculates that the magic forest might have summoned them by causing the [[Hyperspace]] malfunction in the first place. |
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* ''Enchantment'', a lesser-known novel of [[Orson Scott Card]]: Ivan Smetski, college decathlete but otherwise normal grad student, saves a sleeping princess from a giant bear, and next thing he knows, he's in ninth-century Ukraine. Naked. It's never revealed who exactly summoned him. |
* ''Enchantment'', a lesser-known novel of [[Orson Scott Card]]: Ivan Smetski, college decathlete but otherwise normal grad student, saves a sleeping princess from a giant bear, and next thing he knows, he's in ninth-century Ukraine. Naked. It's never revealed who exactly summoned him. |
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