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** Also: "And this is WRONG, because..."
* [[Philip Pullman]]'s ''[[His Dark Materials]]'' series. After [[Subtext|bubbling under the surface]] for the first two-thirds of the trilogy, the final volume explodes into a massive [[Take That]] against Christianity. Pullman's admitted intention with his series was to set up an atheist response to the fantasy novels of Christian writer/philosopher C.S. Lewis.
* Lewis, on the other hand, kept it under control until ''[[The Last Battle]]'', wherein [[Religion of Evil|Satan-worshipping]] [[Fantasy Counterpart Culture|Arabs]] take over the world and the subtext rather becomes the text. Though it's rather more nuanced than that in practice (and certainly more nuanced than Pullman's attempt). {{spoiler|Yes, the actual Tash is essentially Satan... but the fantasy-Arabs don't know that, they're not worshiping him out of a deliberate attempt to be evil. Aslan himself specifically says that a good man who worships Tash is actually offering praise to Aslan, while an evil man who worships Aslan is actually in service to Tash. It's a fairly tolerant idea, [[Values Dissonance|for when the book was written]].}}
* [[Anthony Burgess]]' famous English novel, ''[[A Clockwork Orange (novel)|A Clockwork Orange]]'', is so generally believed to suffer from Writer on Board in its last chapter that until 1986 its US editions left out the offending chapter- and even now, come with a preface explaining the cut. The classic movie version also changed the ending, as did a 1990 play written for the Royal Shakespeare Company.
** The inspiration of the wanton violence (especially with one chapter in particular) was Burgess's wife being assaulted and robbed by deserters in World War II. The book's "ultraviolence" was so much based on Burgess' painful memories, he admitted he found it necessary to be [[Creator Breakdown|drunk while writing]] much of it.
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* In an apologetic example of this trope, Glen Gook's ''[[Garrett P.I.|Gilded Latten Bones]]'' contains a scene where playwright Jon Salvation admits it was unkind of him to snub Crash, a young fan of his work, and explains what it's like for a writer to keep hearing the same questions over and over. Salvation eventually makes amends by inviting her to attend one of his play rehearsals. Been getting a bit tetchy at conventions and book-signings, Glen?
* [[Harlan Ellison]]'s hatred of computers crops up quite a bit in his later work.
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