Science fiction authors are inevitably tempted to name fictional books as literary devices to set scenes or add continuity.
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- Bonforte's Sky Beasts: A Guide to Exotic Zoology - Robert A. Heinlein's 1953 novel Starman Jones, p. 1
- Dr. Samuel Buggerie's The Fluctuation of the Sizes of Left Feet Among the Assyrians during the Ninth Century before Christ - George S. Schuyler's satiric novel Black No More, p. 120
- Dr. Samuel Buggerie's Putting Wasted Energy to Work - George S. Schuyler's satiric novel Black No More, p. 120
- Freiberg and Mahler's Deformation of Subjective Precepts - John Brunner's 1968 novel Stand on Zanzibar, p. 32
- Chad C. Mulligan's The Hipcrime Vocab - John Brunner's 1968 novel Stand on Zanzibar, Pp. 26, 73, 83, 135, 150, 242, 286, 431, 498
- Chad C. Mulligan's You: Beast - John Brunner's 1968 novel Stand on Zanzibar, Pp. 68, 135
- Chad C. Mulligan's Your're an Ignorant Idiot - John Brunner's 1968 novel Stand on Zanzibar, Pp. 27, 160, 170
- Dr. Reinhardt's Halfway to Marx - Max Brooks's novel Devolution, p. 213
- Dr. Reinhardt's Walking with Xu Xing - Max Brooks's novel Devolution, p. 213
- Dr. Reinhardt's Rousseau's Children - Max Brooks's novel Devolution, p. 213
- Ellsworth Smith's A Tour of Earth's Colonies - Robert A. Heinlein's 1950 novel Farmer in the Sky, p. 15
- Arthur Snobbcraft's The Incidence of Psittaacosis among the Hiphopa Indians of the Amazon Valley and it Relation to Life Insurance Rates in the United States - George S. Schuyler's satiric novel Black No More, p. 160
- John Strasheim's 2101 Innesburg and the Fear of Failure - Wil McCarthy's novel Bloom
- unnamed author of The Entropy of Joy - Robert A. Heinlein's novel The Puppet Masters, p. 116.
- Unnamed authors' Highly Unpleasant Things It Is Sometimes Useful to Know and Things It Is Not Good to Know at All - John Barnes's 1996 novel One for the Morning Glory
- unnamed author, The Arcane Science of Judicial Astrology and Key to Solomon's Stone - Robert A. Heinlein's novel Stranger in a Strange Land, p. 102.
- unnamed author, multi-volume The Expansion History - Arkady Martine's novel A Memory Called Empire
- unnamed author, The Secret History of Emperors - Arkady Martine's novel A Memory Called Empire
Other genres[]
- "this man Goddard's" The Rise of the Colored Empires - F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby