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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_3'); })All the books, magazines, and newspapers that exist only within a fictional world, from the Necronomicon to the mysteries of Jessica Fletcher. They are more common in Speculative Fiction, but not restricted to it. They serve two main narrative purposes: verisimilitude and exposition. Jessica is supposed to be an author; it would be bizarre if no trace of the books she writes existed. Reading the Necronomicon may frighten the protagonist half to death, but it also gives the reader an idea of the backstory. Fictional documents are also used to comment on literary tropes, and as aids to characterisation. Characters comparing their own predicament with their favourite book can get very sarcastic about how unrealistic it was, while few things so embarrass the Action Girl as having her little brother read aloud a few choice passages from her favourite romance. Sometimes, however, you may just have to Take Our Word for It. Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_2'); })Sister trope to Show Within a Show. Common types of fictional document include: Apocalyptic Log Big Book of War Encyclopedia Exposita Fictional Sacred Book Great Big Book of Everything In-Game Novel Recursive Canon Tome of Eldritch Lore If your story is made entirely of Fictional Documents, it's a Scrapbook Story (so please list it there rather than here); if the paratext quotes from these, it's quoting the Encyclopedia Exposita. And if the story itself appears in the story, it's Recursive Canon. If it merely claims to have been written by a character within the setting, it probably falls under the Literary Agent Hypothesis. In Video Games, they are almost always used as Flavor Text. Occasionally prone to Defictionalization. |
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About half of each the books in The Pendragon Adventure is journals from Bobby Pendragon himself, detailing his stays and attempts to save the Territories. | |
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Adventure Time has the book Mind Games by Jay T Doggzone, which contains very bad advice for men on relationships and attracting women, and is generally believed to be a parody of Neil Strauss's 'The Game, which describes and discusses the teachings of the real-world Pick-Up Artist subculture. | |
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Extracts from Thursday Next's autobiography are scattered throughout the series. Extracts from others characters' jottings/memoirs also feature prominently. | |
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The Noob novels feature a couple of magazine articles related to Horizon. | |
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The Emigre Document of Shadow Hearts, seemingly based on the untranslatable Voynich Manuscript carries in it all manner of dangerous knowlege including resurrection. That part always fails in the most catastrophic ways possible, usually summoning soulless abominations from your loved ones corpse to devour them and you as well. Except for two recorded times. And in the first example, the corpse couldn't take the stress and dissolved before the process finished. If that is not Lovecraftian enough, also available is the R'lyeh Text, translated as Codex of Lurie, which you find in a nudie mag. |
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In the Homeworld clone O.R.B.: Off-World Resource Base, both factions use the same holy text called Torumin in their state religions. Naturally, a few quotations from it are present in the game (moreso in the manual). In fact, the initial conflict between the factions is directly caused by an incorrect interpretation of the Torumin by one of them. | |
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Its Dragon Age spiritual successors are full of fictional documents - books with notes on the setting, silly poetry, letters between characters, and Varric's schlocky novels (Hawke: "'Hard in Hightown.' 'Siege Harder.' What does that even MEAN? Ohh, Varric must be stopped.") Particularly prevalent is Anders's Manifesto, which the rebel mage appears to have stuffed in every book on Hawke's shelf, left on every table, and dropped in the fireplace. (Some fans have even attempted a Defictionalization of it.) | |
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Destiny's diaries, which contain(ed) many visions of the future. Pyro, her teammate in the Brotherhood/Freedom Force is a best-selling novelist. |
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The Books of Chzo, which includes The Book of The Bridge, the Book of The New Prince, The Book of Victims, and the Book of The Prince. These Books are shown in pieces throughout the Chzo Mythos in order to flesh out most of the back-story and themes of the series. | |
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The villain of Monster bases his identity on a brainwashing children's book. The story, along with several others, is reproduced in the series with full text and illustrations. | |
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The Talos Principle: Dozens of them on the various computer terminals, to help the AI learn who its makers were and what happened to them, as well as possibly inspire it to make something great based on one or more of them. The most prominent one, of course, is the origin of the Talos Principle itself, supposedly posited by a Greek philosopher named Straton of Stageira. | |
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Bones makes frequent reference to the novels that Brennan has written, and one episode includes a series of murders that imitate those in one of her books. (In a playfully meta note, the books have the same title scheme as the Kathy Reichs novels that the series is based on, and "Kathy Reichs" is the name of Brennan's fictional forensic anthropologist.) | |
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Richard Castle's MANY novels in Castle. Well, the Derek Storm novels at least. Heat Wave is Defictionalized. And even then there are real comic book adaptations of the (still-fictional) Derek Storm novels. |
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In Empowered mention is made of a lot of slash fan-fiction especially involving the male Superhomeys. Some of the latter was written by Emp herself using a pseudonym. | |
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Some that specifically deserve to be called out from The Belgariad: The Mrin Codex and the Darine Codex are the collected ravings of two madmen inspired by the prophesy of light. The Ashabine Oracles are writings by Torak under the influence of the prophecy of dark. | |
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The Dover Boys at Pimento University: Dan Backslide (coward, bully, cad, and thief!) consults the Handbook of Useful Information for help in kidnapping dainty Dora Standpipe, and the narrator makes reference to another installment in the series, The Dover Boys in the Everglades. | |
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The Simpsons has lots of these, including Shall There Ever Be Another Rainbow?, C. Montgomery Burns' touching autobiography. Bob Woodward's book about Jebediah Springfield. Marge Simpson's bodice-ripper novel of Nantucket whaling. Various stage works, most notably the musicals Streetcar! and Stop the Planet of the Apes. Periodicals like The Springfield Shopper and Junior Sceptic Magazine. Lisa's unfinished novel: They promised me ponies. Kang and Kodos' recipe book How To Cook For Forty Humans. |
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Many of the techs and secret projects in Sid Meier’s Alpha Centauri use quotes from fictional books ostensibly written by the various faction leaders, although a few quotes are from Real Life works. They are also used to introduce each faction when first selecting them. This is continued in the Alien Crossfire Expansion Pack with the 5 new human and 2 alien factions (yes, aliens write and read books too). | |
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In Walter Moers's The 13 ½ Lives of Captain Bluebear there is The Encyclopedia of Marvels, Life Forms and Other Phenomena of Zamonia and its Environs. There are also many imaginary books and plays including The Voltigork's Vibrobass, an experimental drama which lasted 240 hours and had a literal cast of thousands by Wilfred the Wordsmith and the bestseller How Dank Was My Valley by Psittachus Rumplestilt. | |
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The great Depression Era novel O Brother Where Art Thou, by Sinclair Beckstein, is cited by director John Sullivan in the 1941 ''Sullivan's Travels'.' No real details about the book are ever given, but the Coen brothers' 2000 film of the same name fits the supposed saga nicely in plot and details. |
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Airplane II: The Sequel features a musical variant: moon-base commander Murdock is shown shuttle-pilot Ted Striker's record, which is a vinyl LP titled "Ted Striker's 400 Polka Favorites". | |
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Bookcases throughout the series, if checked, are mentioned have various books, magazines and so on on their shelves, some of which are named. In Pokémon Diamond and Pearl, as well as Platinum, you can even read extracts of the mythology books in Canalave Library. | |
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MirrorMask has "The Really Useful Book" and "A Complete History of Everything" | |
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In the Fullmetal Alchemist fan fiction The Game of Three Generals, after it's announced that his wife is pregnant, Roy Mustang is gifted with an expectant father's advice book called Look What You Did to Me. | |
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RWBY features Ninjas of love'' implied to be a doujinshi. | |
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The Others from the Night Watch series have The Great Treaty between Light and Darkness, whichrestricted the century-old bloodshed between the Light Ones and the Dark Ones, regularized the relations between the two factions and stipulated formation and functioning of the Watches. | |
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Harry Potter has stacks of these, from trading cards to school textbooks to government pamphlets to wizarding comic books. As time has gone on, Rowling has taken to turning some of them into published works (Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, Quidditch Through the Ages, The Tales of Beedle the Bard). | |
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In an episode of Corner Gas, at the end Brent does an "if you want to find out more, visit your local Library!" segment with the books featured in the episode. One of them he says is just something the prop guy made for the episode, but is still a surprisingly good read. | |
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In particular, the film The Navidson Record from House of Leaves doesn't actually exist, and the protagonist tells you this in the book's introduction. Meanwhile, the meat of House of Leaves is an academic analysis/summary of said film. A few of the people and books referred to in the analysis's footnotes are real; the vast, vast majority of them are completely made up. | |
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Much of Princess Tutu's plot revolves around the fictional fairytale The Prince and the Raven. | |
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Calvin and Hobbes has Hamster Huey and the Gooey Kablooey, as well as Chewing, a hobby magazine about chewing gum. (Commander Coriander Salamander And 'Er Singlehander Bellyander, the sequel to Hamster Huey, is mentioned once.) | |
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Italo Calvino's If on a winter's night a traveler has excerpts from ten wildly different fictional novels, though the Reader can never get past the first chapter of each. | |
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Everything published by Whateley Press in the Whateley Universe, including "Introduction to the Modern Theory of Mutant Powers, a Whateley Press textbook" by Filbert R. Z. Quintain, M.S., Ph.D., F.A.A.S. | |
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King of the Hill has A Dinner of Onions which Peggy is tasked to read for a book club in "Full Metal Dust Jacket". The book is seen in future episodes being read by various characters and also has a film adaption. In the same episode, Bobby discovers a series of fantasy books titled The Elves of Evermore. | |
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Pratchett is very fond of this trope; other examples from Discworld include The Necrotelicomnicon aka Liber Paginarum Fulvarum (a Tome of Eldritch Lore), The Joy of Tantric Sex with Illustrations for the Advanced Student, by A. Lady, The Book of Going Forth Around Elevenish, The Little Folks' Book of Flower Fairies, The Bumper Fun Grimoire, How to Dynamically Manage People for Dynamic Results in a Caring Empowering Way in Quite a Short Time Dynamically, Wellcome to Ankh-Morporke, Citie of One Thousand Surprises, and many more, usually parody versions of real books. The Discworld Companion includes a full list. Several have been Defictionalised for merchandising purposes, including Where's My Cow? (a children's book) and Nanny Ogg's Cookbook (a follow-up to her in-universe book The Joye of Snackes). |
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The Pandora Hearts fanfic Beyond The Winding Road discusses has these in a bonus chapter that reads like a history podcast, covering the events of the manga from the eyes of future historians. The extended version of the podcast in Advance IV notes that much of the information historians have about the Dukedoms before and after the Revolution of 1901 comes from newspapers, journals, letters, and diary entries. A photographic version of this trope is the Lamontre Fils Photograph (the tea party photograph from the manga), which contains the last known images of many of Sable's aristocracy before their mysterious deaths and includes the unexplained image of the late Oz Vessalius, someone who'd been declared dead ten years before the photograph was taken. Naturally these documents are a source of great mystery to historians and conspiracy theorists. | |
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The hugely popular novel (and later play) LOVELESS is frequently quoted by Genesis in Final Fantasy VII Crisis Core, It's apparently very moving, but we never find out what the novel is actually about. | |
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Magic: The Gathering has numerous fictional documents that are quoted in cards' flavor text and in some of the novels and comics. Some of the notable ones include The Antiquities War, an epic poem about the Brothers' War that the comics and novel are supposedly based on; Sarpadian Empires, whose first six volumes are quoted in Fallen Empires flavor text and whose seventh volume was printed as a card in Time Spiral; and The Underworld Cookbook, which is only quoted on three cards (one of which is from the self-parody expansion Unhinged), but whose author's name, Asmoranomardicadaistinaculdacar, is the longest word ever to appear on a Magic card. The Love Song of Night and Day actually exists and was written as part of the world-building for the Mirage expansion, and can be read here. The end of the Rise Of The Eldrazi block had quotes from a book called the War Diaries as flavour for some cards. It seems like an account of the terrible fighting against the Cthulhu-sytle horrors of the Eldrazi, and contains sentences about crucial turning points. |
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Blush, the fashion magazine whose offices are the setting for Just Shoot Me!. | |
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In Finding Forrester, Sean Connery's eponymous character's reputation is entirely based on his only novel, Flying to Avalon. | |
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In A Growing Affection, Naruto's maternal grandfather was a prolific writer, and implied to be the reason Naruto was able to ghost write for Jiraiya. Hinata is a fan of his fantasy trilogy The Kunoichi and the Priest. | |
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Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge has an entire library of fictional documents, mostly comprised of various jokes, in-jokes, and parodies. | |
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The Fault in Our Stars features An Imperial Affliction as well as The Price of Dawn and its sequels. The epigraph is from An Imperial Affliction, as a reference to The Great Gatsby, whose epigraph is also from another fictional book. | |
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The titular handbook in The Cartographers Handbook is an actual document that all Cartographers carry with them. | |
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The first book, The Way of Kings, is named after an in-universe book written by an ancient king teaching what it means to rule. The Knights Radiant used it as the basis of their Orders. It is considered borderline heretical in modern Alethkar, since it teaches such ridiculous things as "nobles should act responsibly" and "fighting isn't always the best solution." | |
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Come Skyrim, a sequel to the Lusty Argonian Maid has been written. One of its DLC expansions adds The Sulty Argonian Bard, a Gender Flipped version for the ladies. | |
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In the vein of plot-important fake books is In-Laqetti, of Persona 2 fame. A composition of patchwork conspiracy including aliens, Mayans, and Master-D himself, which would apparently cause the world to go bye-de-bye. Thanks to a bit of kotodama and extreme Wikiality, things start coming true. | |
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Code Geass Colorless Memories Most of the Fanon Wiki pages are written as documents and messages found In-Universe by characters of different groups and also concerning different matters that each page touches upon. | |
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The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries of Schlock Mercenary (originally Seven Habits of Highly Successful Pirates), a Big Book of War and spoof of a well-known book on business-managements self-empowerment type stuff. | |
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This trope appears as a central theme in the book The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson. In it, the protagonist girl is given a very high tech teaching book by the name of "The Young Ladies' Illustrated Primer," which also appears as a subtitle of the book. It's not so much a fictional document as a fictional nanotechnological superweapon, but most of the time it looks and acts like a book. | |
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The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism, in George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four. | |
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The Space Corps Directive of Red Dwarf, dedicated to listing every possible rule of the Space Corps in extreme detail. Rimmer frequently attempts to justify himself by quoting random rule numbers from it, only for Kryten to recite the (entirely irrelevant) actual rule. Shortly after the above quote, Holly beams a holographic copy of the Space Corp Directives into Rimmer's hands, proving it does exist. It's much thinner than you might think; the rules are apparently in small type. | |
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Exalted has a lot of these, some of which have been Defictionalized. Notable examples include The Broken-Winged Crane, The Thousand Correct Actions of the Upright Soldier, The Book of Three Circles, The White Treatise, The Black Treatise, The Book of Bone and Ebony, and Oadenol's Codex. White Wolf hasn't left their Worlds of Darkness out either, with examples such as The Book of Nod, The Ericyes Fragments, The Prince's Primer, Revelations of the Dark Mother, The Silver Record, Chronicles of the Black Labyrinth, Rites of the Dragon, and The Testament of Longinus. |
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No real details about the book are ever given, but the Coen brothers' 2000 film of the same name fits the supposed saga nicely in plot and details. | |
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Sun & Moon is presented as a history written by Twilight Sparkle, and references other documents at the start of chapters. | |
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Several are mentioned in passing in The Mansion of E. | |
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There are several examples of this throughout Skyhold Academy Yearbook, seeing as how Varric is a published author who teaches writing classes. Both he and a couple of his students occasionally disrupt the plot by sharing in-universe stories they've written. | |
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The X-Files episode "Jose Chung's From Outer Space" has the book From Outer Space being written by Jose Chung. It's supposed to be a non-fiction science fiction about an alien abduction case. | |
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In A Brother's Price, Jerin goes through his and his brothers' birth certificates, which are a bit different from birth certificates in our world. He also receives a letter at some point in the narrative, which is quoted in the book. | |
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Marvel Comics in the Marve Universe are more or less accurate re-tellings of character's adventures with names changed to protect secret identities. In She-Hulk, it is explained that the comics code is in charge of making sure they are factually accurate and "approving" comics that can be used as legal accounts of events. | |
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Unwinder's Tall Comics are loaded with fictional books. Unwinder is a fan of the After Dark series, a romance novels involving zombies who are actually super-attractive athletes who can also fly, as well as the remarkably dull sci-fi doorstoppers of Gary P. Rastov. Excerpts from all of these are provided, of course. The author even parodies his use of this trope, by having Unwinder write his own webcomic, with said webcomic featuring its own, uniquely dull, fictional novel: The Gun and the Grapes, which cranks Narrative Filigree up to eleven. Back in the main comic, a reader is unimpressed by Unwinder's metafiction. | |
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The Stormlight Archive: The first book, The Way of Kings, is named after an in-universe book written by an ancient king teaching what it means to rule. The Knights Radiant used it as the basis of their Orders. It is considered borderline heretical in modern Alethkar, since it teaches such ridiculous things as "nobles should act responsibly" and "fighting isn't always the best solution." The second book, Words of Radiance, is named after an in-universe book chronicling the history of the Knights Radiant, their abilities, and their ethics. It was written a few centuries after the Orders had already fallen, though, so it's not perfectly reliable. The third book, Oathbringer, is named after an in-universe book written by Dalinar (after Navani taught him to read) chronicling the events of his life up to that point. The book in turn is named after the Shardblade Oathbringer, which once belonged to the first man to unite Alethkar. |
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The second book, Words of Radiance, is named after an in-universe book chronicling the history of the Knights Radiant, their abilities, and their ethics. It was written a few centuries after the Orders had already fallen, though, so it's not perfectly reliable. | |
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As does Lois Lane, who also had a novel published. | |
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In The Sandman, Dream's castle includes a library of books that were never written. | |
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The Princess Bride is a real novel written as if it were the annotated 'just the good bits' version of an even longer novel about the history and culture of the fictional nation Florin. | |
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In Beyond Good & Evil, Jade's sidekick Double H quotes passages frequently from the the 'Carlson & Peeters' military manual, a Big Book of War. While the player eventually does see a section of the book in digital form, most of what we know about the book is from Double H offering advice from the book as quoted passages: "If you can't go through a door, go around it!". Perhaps one of the few fictional documents which also serves as inspiration for someone's Battlecry. | |
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Jake Sisko's novel Anslem in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. Particularly important to the frame story of "The Visitor." Also, the Ferengi "Rules of Acquisition", which is considered to be the most important book in the entire Ferengi culture. There's also the Federation Charter, their version of the Constitution. And several texts at Starfleet Academy. |
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Forgotten Realms uses it via its Literary Agent Hypothesis: at least Aurora's Whole Realms Catalogue and every Volo's Guide to [blank] are supposed to be "actual" books printed on Toril, and some others, like Elminster's Ecologies mostly consists of various in-'verse exposition texts. | |
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Superman of course features the great metropolitan newspaper The Daily Planet. As does Lois Lane, who also had a novel published. |
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King does it again in The Regulators (under pen name Richard Bachman), interspersing narrative with newspaper clippings, letters, diary excerpts, etc. The Dark Half features excerpts from novels written by the characters Thad Beaumont and George Stark |
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Chapter 7 of '"Muv Luv Comet'' opens with several articles discussing the future acquisition plans of the US Space Force. | |
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The Book of Night with Moon from Diane Duane's Young Wizards series. | |
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Gunnerkrigg Court: While researching the minotaur, Antimony was unimpressed with Gainsbury World Mythology and Mythology 4 Kidz! as sources. Later, she's seen reading Tannhäuser Gate, and Kat borrows Important Stuff (Like Science) from the library. | |
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Near the end of the Chrono Crusade manga, there's quotations from both Mary Magdalene's prophecies, and Azmaria's memoir. It's implied that at least some of the manga is "based on" the book Azmaria wrote. | |
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In The Life of Nob T. Mouse and All Over The House, The Blobland Gang is a set of books, TV & radio shows, and even a film. They are all based on Hubert Schlongson's visits to Blobland to learn about the adventures of Nob Mouse and Company. | |
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The various popular Heterodyne Boys pulp novels in Girl Genius. And less popular, the Trelawney Thorpe: Spark of the Realm books, which are from British publishers. And of course the classic tome Using Found Objects as Weapons. Everybody Wants to Talk by Gilgamesh Wulfenbach's spymaster, published by Extremis Press. The author describes it 'a vanity project from my youth'. It has since been added to Forbidden Stacks of the Immortal Library, and simply realising that they are face-to-face with the author makes one suspect confess immediately. |
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The Books of Pellinor are all written as if they are histories of the fictional land the books are based in. The back of the book even includes annotations, a bibliography, family trees and various other fictitious documents. | |
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In the Star Trek: Voyager Relaunch, the Royal Protocol document, bane of Starfleet Officers everywhere. A complete list of dos and don'ts for interacting with alien royals, it's a necessity if diplomatic incidents are to be avoided. It's mind-numbing in its detail, full of little rules along the lines of "when greeting the King, touch your head to the ground three times and then wave your left hand. Oh, and under no circumstances wear purple". An important plot point arises when it's realized "Royal Protocol" has a very different meaning to the Borg. | |
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Every chapter of The Mobius Chronicles starts off with a passage from somebody's future memoirs or a history book written after the war. | |
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On Lost, Sawyer reads a fictional manuscript for a novel called "Bad Twin" that was later Defictionalized. Between season 5 and 6, a fictional documentary TV episode on the DHARMA Initiative has been released. |
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Agent McGee's novels in NCIS. In one episode, characters from his book are being killed—a book that hasn't even been published. | |
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A Series of Unfortunate Events: Snicket's letters at the end of each book, leading his editor to the manuscript of the following book and several props borrowed from it; also, numerous diaries and newspapers are quoted within the narrative, while the supplementary books are each a full-blown Scrapbook Story. | |
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Tobin's Spirit Guide was referenced often by Egon on The Real Ghostbusters. | |
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The Exoria Files. | |
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The Junior Woodchucks' Guidebook, the most stupendous and comprehensive guide to everything. | |
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One episode of Kim Possible features the "classic novella" Lo The Plow Shall Till The Soil Of Redemption. One critic (i.e. Ron) describes it thus: "snobby, pompous, overwritten, and the pictures [are] in black and white!" | |
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Much of Karel Čapek's War with the Newts consists of fictional newspaper excerpts commenting on the situation with the Newts (and, eventually, the eponymous war). | |
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The Grasshopper Lies Heavy from The Man in the High Castle, a popular Alternate History novel within the story that becomes very important to the plot. Given that The Man In The High Castle is an alternate history itself, this means that The Grasshopper depicts a world similar to our own (though not the same). | |
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Sex Is My Adventure, Josella Playton's undeservedly-infamous novel in The Day of the Triffids. | |
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Most of the books on the pig-related shelf in the library of Blandings Castle, including most notably Lord Emsworth's favourite, Whiffles On the Care of the Pig. (The title is given with variations in different novels, in Galahad at Blandings the author is called Augustus Whipple). Other P. G. Wodehouse examples: the inter-class romance novels of Rosie M. Banks (examples include A Red, Red Summer Rose, Only a Factory Girl, The Woman Who Braved All, The Courtship of Lord Strathmorlick, Madcap Myrtle, and Mervyn Keen, Clubman) and various detective novels read by the protagonists (which generally have overblown titles like A Trail of Blood). |
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The Elder Scrolls The series in general offers hundreds per game, dating back to Daggerfall. These documents range from full blown In-Game Novels like the 2920: The Last Year of the First Era series, The Real Barenziah, King Edward, A Dance in the Fire, and The Wolf Queen to religious texts such as For My Gods and Emperor and 36 Lessons of Vivec, to numerous historical works which help fill in the thousands of years of backstory, to simple notes handwritten by the world's inhabitants to make the world feel more alive (you can literally find the grocery lists of NPCs). Many of the histories presented within the game are contradictory and at odds with each other, leaving it up to the reader to piece together the history of Tamriel for him/herself. For tropes relating to these works, see The Elder Scrolls In-Universe Books page. Morrowind: Morrowind has the lightly pornographic play The Lusty Argonian Maid, written by the Camp Gay (though technically bisexual) Crassius Curio. It centers around a character named Crantus Colto and his...interest...in his, well, Argonian maid. A quest in the game has you attempting to find actors willing to be in it. There is also Boethiah's Pillow Book, named after the Daedric Prince Boethiah, master Manipulative Bastard. It needs to be stolen from a respectable Dunmeri noble family so they can be blackmailed with it. This heavily implies it's obscene nature, but it can only imply. When you try to read it, all you get is: "No words can describe what you see. Or what you think you see." Come Skyrim, a sequel to the Lusty Argonian Maid has been written. One of its DLC expansions adds The Sulty Argonian Bard, a Gender Flipped version for the ladies. |
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In the A Song of Ice and Fire story Wearing Robert's Crown, both Robert Baratheon and Tyrion Lannister are published authors (helped by Robert's invention of the printing press). Tyrion writes books based on his exploits as a gentleman-adventurer. Robert's known publication was a bit controversial since it was a sex manual - he may have also written an agricultural advice book. Also, Varys publishes a newspaper. |
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Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch contained both The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch (obviously) and that book's sequel | |
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The tourist guide Syldavia, Land of the Black Pelican, a few pages of which are reprinted in King Ottokar's Sceptre. And by extension the 14th and 15th-century manuscripts from which some of its illustrations were taken. The manuscript "Journal of Sir Francis Haddocke, Captain in the King's Navy, Commander of the vessel Vnicorn" from The Secret of the Unicorn. |
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A Futurama episode features the Becktionary and the Rhyming Becktionary. | |
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Used from time to time in Sword of Truth, mostly in the form of books of prophecy. Being prophesies, they are then promptly ignored. | |
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The King in Yellow, a fictional play script from the book of short stories of the same name. The version written by Thom Ryng is actually quite good, though it fails to drive its readers or players insane. |
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Walter Moers's The City of Dreaming Books is chock full of fictional documents from Thanks But No Thanks by Goliath Ghork to Silence of the Sirens by Count Klanthu of Kinomaz. | |
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Metal Gear Solid has a few books mentioned in the game. Most notably one called "In the Darkness of Shadow Moses", a novelization of the events of the first game which is available to read on the main menu of MGS2. | |
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The Ravenloft campaign setting features the Tome of Strahd, an exceedingly rare manifesto written by Strahd von Zarovich which serves as the foreword of the Ravenloft sourcebook. Also, and more popularly, there are the Van Richten's Guides, written by famed doctor and monster hunter Ruldolph van Richten. Copies of these books are published and distributed by the doctor's office and serve as guides on proper hunting techniques. Often, Dr. van Richten complains in his books that there are so many other inferior and incorrect works on monster hunting in existence that he sees it as his duty to put out properly researched guides that won't get novice hunters killed. Out of universe, the Guides exist and are written in the author's voice for the fluff sections, though it is assumed that any crunchy statistics and in-game information is ghosted out of the in-universe versions. | |
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Chobits features a picture book which corresponds to the main character so completely that it becomes of little wonder when it's revealed that it was written specifically for her. | |
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A few of the chapters in the main volumes of Twice Upon An Age are comprised of letters or reports written by various Dragon Age: Inquisition characters during the course of the adventure. | |
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One of the many details of the final draft script of Star Wars that didn't make it into the finished cut of the movie note Along with the scene where Luke's friend Biggs (who was killed in the Death Star attack) was introduced and a large amount of George Lucas's legendarily awful dialogue that was script-doctored out of existence but preserved in Alan Dean Foster's novelization was the Journal of the Whills, which seems to have been intended as a history of the Empire and its collapse. This does get a few sly references in the movies, especially the prequels; it's amazing how awesome R2-D2 (who supposedly told the story to the Willis) gets when nobody's looking... | |
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The book The Hive Queen and the Hegemon is one of the most influential in the society of the Ender's Game Series. | |
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D.N.Angel has a plotline focused around the fictional fairytale Ice and Snow—which turns out to be the edited, abridged version of the original tale, Ice and Dark. | |
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The horror novels of Garth Marenghi. Garth reads out passages at the start of episodes and has Dagless read one of them to keep his mind occupied. | |
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Peanuts made reference to a whole series of books starring The Six Bunny-Wunnies on various adventures, authored by one Helen Sweetstory. Over a dozen titles were given, each usually mentioned only once, but The Six Bunny-Wunnies Freak Out is the most widely remembered for having been banned by the local school board and subsequently championed by Linus. | |
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The New York-based daily newspaper, The Daily Bugle. J. Jonah Jameson also used to publish Now and Woman magazine. The latter was edited for a time by Carol Danvers aka Ms. Marvel. | |
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Footnotes in Loyal Enemies seem to be written from an in-universe perspective, sometimes referring the more curious reader to in-universe documents on subjects such as the biology of werewolves or the witch rings of Beloria. | |
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Morrowind: Morrowind has the lightly pornographic play The Lusty Argonian Maid, written by the Camp Gay (though technically bisexual) Crassius Curio. It centers around a character named Crantus Colto and his...interest...in his, well, Argonian maid. A quest in the game has you attempting to find actors willing to be in it. There is also Boethiah's Pillow Book, named after the Daedric Prince Boethiah, master Manipulative Bastard. It needs to be stolen from a respectable Dunmeri noble family so they can be blackmailed with it. This heavily implies it's obscene nature, but it can only imply. When you try to read it, all you get is: "No words can describe what you see. Or what you think you see." |
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A large percentage of Carrie is excerpts from books, magazine articles, or investigative reports relating to various characters and events. | |
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Much of the rich background information for Warhammer 40,000 is conveyed through quotes, after-action reports, or excerpts from fictional investigations, histories, or journals. In an example of Defictionalization, one such book, The Imperial Infantryman's Uplifting Primer, has actually been published. | |
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El Goonish Shive has a copy of the journal of the wizard who enchanted the Dewitchery Diamond. | |
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Countless reference works in Twilight Sparkle's library. Of particular note is the one that contains the backstory of Nightmare Moon and apparently some other major Equestrian threats, such as The Dazzlings. | |
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Judge Dredd has the Book of the Law, which is about the only volume that Dredd reads. There's also The Comportment, a handbook written by Dredd himself, which is required reading for all judges. | |
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The Way of the Metagamer's sequel, The Way Of The Metagamer 2: In Name Only, exists only within the comic. | |
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Julian works on the theory that Julian The Apostate, in the last months of his life, partially dictated his memoirs while campaigning in Persia. | |
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The two playwrights Mossop and Kindrick in the third season of Blackadder are writing and rehearsing a play titled The Bloody Murder Of Prince Romero And His Enormously-Bosomed Wife. Blackadder has himself written his own novel: Edmund: A Butler's Tale. "A sizzling depiction of domestic servitude in the eighteenth-century, with some hot gypsies thrown in". |
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My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic: The Daring Do series. Countless reference works in Twilight Sparkle's library. Of particular note is the one that contains the backstory of Nightmare Moon and apparently some other major Equestrian threats, such as The Dazzlings. The Foal Free Press, the newspaper at the school the Cutie Mark Crusaders attend. |
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Criminal Minds has several: David Rossi is the author of several books on criminal psychology; an UnSub quotes from them in an interrogation scene in "Masterpiece." A new book on the Keystone Killer induces the unsub to resume his murderous ways in "Unfinished Business." A reporter who wrote a book on the Boston Reaper is a character in "Omnivore." Professor Ursula Kent's SF novel in "Empty Planet." Johnny McHale's comic book Blue in "True Night." |
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The Book of All Hours in Hal Duncan's duology of the same name. | |
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In Chrysalis Visits The Hague, the second chapter is a life-sized but completely fictional BBC online article detailing Chrysalis' arrival in the city, fake comments and adverts included. | |
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Although not many appear in the game itself, information about a few characters from League of Legends is taken as extracts from in-universe documents, such as Cecil B. Heimerdinger's daily journals or a Zaunite field report of an attempt to track down Twitch (it doesn't go well). The player can also build an item called the Morellomnicon, a book literally crackling with magical energy. | |
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Codename: Kids Next Door has the "Yipper" franchise, which is shown to have comic books, a TV series, and (most prominently) trading cards. Apparently it's about cartoon dogs who fly airplanes. | |
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy in all of its incarnations. | |
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Quest for Glory uses the correspondence courses from Famous Adventurer's Correspondence School as supplements to the manual for each game until the 5th game, which features Famous Adventurer himself as an NPC who helps the player with some of the Rites of Rulership. | |
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In Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged, one of the so-called intelligentsia writes an article titled "The Octopus" which slams Henry Rearden. Then there's "Why Do You Think You Think?", "The Heart is a Milkman", "The Vulture is Molting", and even a "The Future" magazine. Then there's the laws and regulations and plans, including the "Anti-Dog Eat Dog Rule" to the "Equalization of Opportunity" bill to the "Railroad Unification Plan" to the "Steel Unification Plan". There are even audio versions, with Richard Halley's works and its bastardizations. | |
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The third book, Oathbringer, is named after an in-universe book written by Dalinar (after Navani taught him to read) chronicling the events of his life up to that point. The book in turn is named after the Shardblade Oathbringer, which once belonged to the first man to unite Alethkar. | |
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Under the Hood, Hollis Mason's autobiography, and a Tales From the Black Freighter comic in Watchmen. Also parts of Dr. Manhattan's back story. Hell, pretty much all of the 11 backup features in Watchmen count: |
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Robert Sobel's For Want of a Nail is a counterfactual history of the North American continent following a failed American Revolution which includes a frequently referenced bibliography with dozens of fictional academic books. | |
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In the Ciaphas Cain novels, Amberley Vail uses extracts from other sources to fill in the blanks left by Cain's self-centered account. These include the Purple Prose-filled memoirs of a future general in his unit, histories of varying accuracy, travel guides, and even a children's book about promethium. | |
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The Pokéumans Fan Verse has produced several, including Spiritus' memoirs and an untitled play by Amy the Jigglypuff about her own story. | |
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A major chunk of the plot of Whisper of the Heart revolves around the main character struggling to write her first novel - which was later Defictionalized. | |
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The series in general offers hundreds per game, dating back to Daggerfall. These documents range from full blown In-Game Novels like the 2920: The Last Year of the First Era series, The Real Barenziah, King Edward, A Dance in the Fire, and The Wolf Queen to religious texts such as For My Gods and Emperor and 36 Lessons of Vivec, to numerous historical works which help fill in the thousands of years of backstory, to simple notes handwritten by the world's inhabitants to make the world feel more alive (you can literally find the grocery lists of NPCs). Many of the histories presented within the game are contradictory and at odds with each other, leaving it up to the reader to piece together the history of Tamriel for him/herself. For tropes relating to these works, see The Elder Scrolls In-Universe Books page. | |
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Baldur's Gate is full of these. Some provide plot-relevant information ("The History of the Dead Three") other just notes on the setting. One is a recipe for cookies. Its Dragon Age spiritual successors are full of fictional documents - books with notes on the setting, silly poetry, letters between characters, and Varric's schlocky novels (Hawke: "'Hard in Hightown.' 'Siege Harder.' What does that even MEAN? Ohh, Varric must be stopped.") Particularly prevalent is Anders's Manifesto, which the rebel mage appears to have stuffed in every book on Hawke's shelf, left on every table, and dropped in the fireplace. (Some fans have even attempted a Defictionalization of it.) |
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Garth Nix's Keys to the Kingdom has The Compleat Atlas, which is a magic book that will tell you anything about the House. | |
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There's also the Dune Encyclopedia which is both written as in-universe and references other fictional documents. | |
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"Being a Reprint from the Reminiscences of John H. Watson, M.D. , Late of the Army Medical Department" Holmes himself was the author of numerous monographs regarding the science of detection, including ones on the analysis of typewritten documents, on the dating of handwriting, on the tracing of footprints, on cryptoanalysis, and of course on the different types of cigar(ette) ash. Professor James Moriarty's work, On the Dynamics of An Asteroid, has been suppressed by the scientific community since its initial publication, and as Isaac Asimov 's Black Widowers deduce, it's a good thing too. The Baker Street Museum in London has a number of books lying about that were purportedly written by Holmes, Watson, and Moriarty. One of Holmes's texts is a book about bees. |
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The Bro Code, which Barney quotes on various occasions in one episode of How I Met Your Mother. Barney claims it was written by his ancestor Barnabas Stinson on the back of the U.S. Constitution. It is heavily implied that Barney just made it all up, making this a fictional fictional document. Subverted now since the Bro Code is now an official book. Also, "quotes" from the Bro Code appear in the closing credits of each episode, not all of which appeared in actual dialogue. |
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The Pridelands novels from Housepets!, an epic Game of Thrones-esque series with various big cat species, written specifically to appeal to cats (in a universe where all animals are anthropomorphised and sentient). It turns out that this is partly because it was written by a cat. Grape and Maxwell are stated fans of the series, and given their discussions of it it appears to have a very complicated mythos. Peanut takes an interest as well, and several of the other dogs admit to have found 'only a couple of bits of it' interesting. | |
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The Dark Half features excerpts from novels written by the characters Thad Beaumont and George Stark | |
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The Navy Lark: Sub-Lieutenant Phillips, a classic Cloud Cuckoolander who is supposed to be The Navigator despite him having No Sense of Direction, repeatedly refers to "Sinbad the Sailor's Big Book of the Sea" as his navigation manual. | |
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Kyon: Big Damn Hero opens every chapter with an excerpt from one of these, whether a guide to being a hero, poetry, or some sort of diary. | |
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Shauntel of the Unova Elite Four is shown to be a writer - however, none of her books have so far been named. A Fairy Girl in Pokémon X and Y is said to have enjoyed her new novel, though. | |
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The fic Equestria: A History Revealed is full of them and serves as one itself, being an In-Universe historical essay on the history of Equestria, written with an insane conspiracy theorist's edge. As it possesses its own bibliography and cites these "sources", the fic is filled with all sorts of referenced books, the most notable of which include: What are Fingers? Anthro Puberty and You, On Heroism: The Glory of Celestia and the Equestrian Civil War, and How the Sea-Pony Wished Upon a Star and Unknowingly Started Racial Prosecution Under An Emergent Fascist Regime: A Collection of Filly’s Tales and Legends That Start Off Whimsical But End in Destruction and Death. | |
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The Village Tales series is stuffing with these. Including historical documents attributed to Wordsworth, Pope, Addison, Johnson, and Grey (and the Duke of Taunton's late In-Universe godfather, Sir John Betjeman), and parliamentary speeches printed in Hansard. All of them excellent Shown Their Work pastiches. The MacGuffin in the Village Tales novel Evensong is one, as well: Lord Crispin's Compromising Memoirs. Similarly, there are plenty of fictional paintings and valuables in the ducal collections by Real Life Old Masters, often with hilarious In-Joke titles... |
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The Transformers follow the Covenant of Primus, a book of prophetic texts delivered by their creator-god, in many continuities, most notably Beast Wars and the "Aligned" continuity branch that includes the Transformers Prime TV series and a series of novels. | |
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Captain Carrot and His Amazing Zoo Crew! features fictional Earth-C versions of some DC Comics characters. Captain Carrot in his alter ego works as a writer/artist for his world's DC Comics, writing stories about "Super-Squirrel", "Wonder Wabbit", "the Batmouse", and the "Just'a Lotta Animals" (though the Zoo Crew later discovered that their "fictional" comics characters were actually real, on the parallel world of Earth-C-Minus). | |
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Marvel Comics, which in the Marvel Universe for the most part are licensed by the heroes depicted in them. For a time, Steve Rogers was put in charge of drawing the Captain America comicbook. | |
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