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9	* ''Literature/AbrahamLincolnVampireHunter''. [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin That's all you need to know]].
10	* The story [[https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/277106 Adam the Office Ninja]] by Mike White is a combination of Office Space and ninjas.
11	* Jaspike from ''Literature/AlmostNight'' is a ghost that got turned into a vampire. Nobody is quite sure how this happened or that it even could happen.
12	* ''Literature/AnitaBlakeVampireHunter'', itself a blend of the literary genres of paranormal, detective, psychological thriller and romance.
13	** The series' protagonist, Anita Blake is described as an [[BlatantLies abstinent]], five-foot-nothing, gunslinging, racially conflicted tomboy. By profession, she animates corpses. An obscene pattern of scars reminds the reader of her additionally exciting work, as a federally recognized vampire executioner. She carries a B.A. emphasising supernatural studies, and often notes its worthlessness. This learned individual maintains a side job, on retainer for the Regional Preternatural Investigation Team (RPIT) as their freelance investigator. As an expert in cryptozoology, she was deputized by said local authorities; she serves as analyst for crime scenes. Finally, she's a necromancer, one fearful of acknowledging relevant Vudun involvement.
14	** To appease a vampiric curse and status of leadership (over various "were" communities), she relents to gratuitous love affairs, and a generally polyamouric relationship status. Eventually, after enough bespelling and political obligation, she claims the title of "were" everything (wolf, leopard, tiger, lion, hyena, and pard queen); she also grants additional clans protection.
15	** Anita is trapped in a romantic triumvirate, between a werewolf and an obnoxious centuries-old vampire. With the others, she assumes the role of "succubus," due to mystical sexual consequence.
16	** In ''Narcissus in Chains'', the tenth installment, details protagonist Anita's encounter with Orlando King, former lycanthrope hunter. After Anita contracts various strains of "were" (wolf, hyena, snake, lion, and leopard), Orlando lusts over her, wishing to consort, attracted to comparable chimeria-ism. As persistent shifting resulted in the development of unmanageable Dissociative Identity Disorder, Orlando turns torturous.
17	* By the end of the trilogy of ''TabletopGame/BloodBowl'' novels, one of the antagonists is a Black Orc reanimated as a vampire and then possessed by Khorne.
18	* ''[[Literature/CaptainUnderpants The Adventures of Ook and Gluk, Kung-Fu Cavemen From The Future]]''. ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin.
19	* ''Clash of the Geeks'' is a short-story collection (and fundraiser for the Lupus Foundation of America) themed around a picture of Creator/WilWheaton wielding a lance, riding a unicorn pegasus kitten, and wearing a clown sweater, while attacking an orcish version of Creator/JohnScalzi.
20	* The ''Literature/CodexAlera'' series by the same author is full of this too. From the page description: "Magical Roman Legionnaires straight out of ''Avatar The Last Airbender'' versus the Zerg. And wolfmen with Blood Magic. And telepathic yetis. And white-haired neanderthal-elves. Riding ground sloths and terror birds..." And, later: "The political dealings of Dune meets a Greco-Roman Society powered by Pokémon." That leaves out the parts where some of the wolfmen get possessed by body-snatching aliens, the Zerg learn magic, and a ChromeChampion swordfights.
21	** The aforementioned wolfmen have morals and values at least partially influenced by feudal Japan -- which means that not only do we get wolfman samurai-analogues, but we also get ''wolfman ninjas.''
22	* ''Literature/CompleteWorldKnowledge''. Hoboes, presidents, mole-men, cane swords, ferrets, giant iguanas, druids, masturbation out a window, Music/JonathanCoulton, zeppelins, Time Lords, a sequel to ''Literature/TheCatcherInTheRye'', samurai, thunderbirds... apparently the only thing that doesn't exist in John Hodgman's mind is [[spoiler: Chicago.]]
23	* Creator/TobiasBuckell started writing ''Literature/CrystalRain'' by listing all the cool things he could think of. Mongoose men fight Aztecs with zeppelins, while the pirate hero (at least he has a hook and likes to sail) battles amnesia on a steampunk quest to the frozen north to recover the secrets of their offworld ancestors. And ''Sly Mongoose'' has sky cities and space zombies.
24	* Creator/SandraHill's "Deadly Angels" series is about Vampire Viking Angels who work kinda like a Navy SEAL team under the orders of Archangel Michael. They are called vangles in-universe.
25	* T.C Rypel's ''Deathwind Trilogy'' has the main protagonist Gonji Sabatake who is a Samurai Viking, born when a shipwrecked Norse woman ends up in medieval Japan.
26	* ''Literature/{{Dinotopia}}'' gives us robot dinosaurs, a half-human half-ceratopsian god, and in one of its most popular spinoff novels, samurai ''Troödon''.
27	* Certain ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' stories.
28	** ''Literature/MonstrousRegiment'' in which a SweetPollyOliver joins a military regiment along with a troll, a vampire, two women who happen to be in love -- one of them is a pyromaniac and the other is perpetually angry, a religious fanatic [[spoiler:who bears a strong resemblance to Joan of Arc]], a [[SergeantRock sergeant]] and [[TheIgor an Igor]] and they all fight in a war in the name of a god [[spoiler:who is dead, and a dead mortal who is in the process of ascending to godhood]]. And it turns out the entire regiment is an [[spoiler:AmazonBrigade]] and didn't know it.
29	** ''Literature/CarpeJugulum'' is a book about witches fighting vampires, with the help of ViolentGlaswegian [[WesternAnimation/TheSmurfs Smurfs]], a phoenix, and [[ChurchMilitant a fighting priest]]. Also, TheVirus [[spoiler: is inverted: "I ain't been vampired. You've been Weatherwaxed."]]
30	** ''Literature/{{Jingo}}'' is a book where a CowboyCop, a [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent werewolf]], a man who's [[KingIncognito secretly a king]], a [[OurTrollsAreDifferent troll]], and a [[EverythingsDeaderWithZombies zombie]] team up with Bedouin to stop a war in a plot borrowed from ''Film/LawrenceOfArabia'', but with more [[UsefulNotes/AssociationFootball football]]. Meanwhile, two TooDumbToFool other cops, a MagnificentBastard tyrant and an expy of Creator/LeonardoDaVinci are on a secret mission in a submarine. Oh, and there's [[Literature/TheCallOfCthulhu a city built by squid.]]
31	* The awesome RuleOfCool nature of ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles'' cannot be overemphasized. A polka-powered zombie ''Tyrannosaurus''! A cult of porn-star sorceresses! Ninja ghouls! Paladins with Kalashnikovs! Secret agent demon werewolves! A wizard with a vampire hairstylist brother! And so on and so forth.
32	** And because this warrants reiteration: A BadassLongcoat-wearing, [[FirstPersonSmartass joke-cracking]] PrivateDetective wizard '''riding a [[RaisingTheSteaks zombie]] ''UsefulNotes/TyrannosaurusRex'' [[ThePowerOfRock powered by polka]] into battle''' [[CoolVersusAwesome against]] a legion of ghosts and super-[[EverythingsDeaderWithZombies zombies]] controlled by {{Necromancer}} {{Evil Sorcerer}}s. Thank you and good night.
33	** In-universe, Harry describes [[OurGoblinsAreDifferent goblins]] as being "mutant Terminator serial killer psycho ninjas." He's also said that they're like Terminators ''from Krypton''.
34	** In ''Literature/SkinGame'', Waldo Butters [[spoiler: becomes a Batman Jedi Knight of the Cross.]]
35	* In ''Franchise/{{Dune}}'', there are a few different characters with special abilities. There are the Navigators, who can see in four dimensions. There are Mentats, essentially human computers. There are also the Bene Gesserits, magical witches that have the commanding Voice. And then there's Paul Atreides, the Kwisatz Haderach. This Troper's nickname for him is Paul "multiclasses-in-everything" Atreides, because he is essentially ALL OF THESE! The only person worse than him is his son, who even jumps species to get the extra skills he didn't already inherit from his father.
36	* Creator/ElizabethBear's ''Edda of Burdens'' series: as of book one, ''All The Windwracked Stars'', we have a post-apocalyptic steampunk valkyrie historian, a two-headed immortal flying cyborg warhorse, magico-genetically spliced catgirl police officers with the souls of dead angels, reincarnated rentboys with superstrength, and a few completely casual mentions of '''battle [[Creator/HPLovecraft shoggoths]]'''
37	* Andrey Valentinov's adventure series ''The Eye of Power'' (''Око Силы'') has scary recurring villain Vseslav Volkov, who looks like a tall handsome man with an [[RedRightHand unnaturally reddish skin]]. Really he is [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld seven hundred years old]] Russian [[AristocratsAreEvil prince]]. And a necromancer. And a vampire. ''And'' a werewolf. ''And'' a member of an AncientConspiracy. ''And'' a [[DirtyCommunists Communist]]. ''And'' a [[BadassArmy Spetznaz]] officer. With a [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Name to Run Away from Really Fast]]. And yes, Volkov is awesome..
38	* Paul from ''Literature/FairyTaleNovels'' is a flute-playing ninja clown.
39	* ''Literature/FortunatelyTheMilk'' features a Time Traveling Mad Scientist Dinosaur Balloonist, who assists the protagonist as he fights aliens, pirates, and wumpires.
40	* The prose of writer [[Literature/WeetzieBat Francesca Lia Block]] often comes off like a "girly" version of this trope. For example:
41	--> "A kiss about apple pie a la mode with the vanilla creaminess melting in the pie heat. A kiss about chocolate when you haven’t eaten chocolate in a year. A kiss about palm trees speeding by, trailing pink clouds when you drive down the strip sizzling with champagne. A kiss about spotlights fanning the sky and the swollen sea spilling like tears all over your legs."
42	-->-Weetzie Bat
43	* Though only an example from a modern perspective the original novel ''Literature/{{Frankenstein}}'' passingly mentioned the creature to have had [[MoreDakka a large number of firearms on his person]].
44	* In the ''Literature/FrannyKStein'' book ''The Frandidate'', Franny's first attempt at convincing her class into electing her for class president has her bring over a monster combining her peers' interests. The creation is a cat/clown hybrid with soccer balls for eyes who coughs up puppies and has cake leaking out of its ears.
45	* ''Literature/TheGoneAwayWorld'' by Nick Harkaway. How to describe it? An AfterTheEnd ''Catch-22'' cowritten by Thomas Pynchon and Douglas Adams by way of ''Literature/FightClub'' with heroic Hazmat troubleshooters vs the evil megacorp. And oh yeah, [[spoiler: ninjas vs kung fu mimes]]
46	* In ''Literature/GoodOmens'' Adam describes [[ShowWithinAShow a story he once wrote]]:
47	-->'It was about this pirate who was a famous detective (...) 'Specially the bit in the spaceship where the dinosaur comes out and fights with the cowboys'
48	* The first book of ''Literature/TheGrimnoirChronicles'' ends with a ninja/pirate/zombie battle (also with knights, wizards, zeppelins, Tesla superweapons and hints of an EldritchAbomination). The next book immediately introduces robots [[ShoutOut from]] [[Theatre/{{RUR}} Ceska Robotica]]. Almost as if the author read this trope page.
49	* Sean Cullen's ''Hamish X'' series is about a [[RidiculouslyHumanRobot robot]] [[ParentalAbandonment orphan]] with gold eyes who wants to BecomeARealBoy and [[TurnedAgainstTheirMasters Turn Against His Masters]]. It contains a [[ZeppelinsFromAnotherWorld zeppelin]], [[InherentlyFunnyWords cheese]], cheese pirates, a LostWorld that is BeneathTheEarth in Switzerland and populated entirely by orphans, ninja orphans, a HiveMind of robot raccoons named George, [[BedouinRescueService Bedouins]], a mammoth, giant snow monkeys, and an evil [[TheVirus assimilating]] robot [[TheMenInBlack MIB]] with [[FluffyTheTerrible candy-related names]]. And yet, when a minor character is seen reading a comic called ''Vampire Cat Robot'', the narrator makes fun of him for it.
50	* Gemma Files's ''Literature/TheHexslingerSeries'': An AlternateHistory, WeirdWest adventure with a gang of outlaws and robbers led by a Hard Gay couple, one of whom is a former corrupt preacher turned dark sorcerer, the other of whom is an expert sharpshooter [[spoiler: and potential sorcerer who becomes the vessel of an an Aztec god]], who aid in the resurrection of a power-hungry Mayan goddess. The series also features a Navajo medicine woman, real-life historical figure Allan Pinkerton leading a secret group that scientifically studies the workings of magic and sends spies to monitor the sorcerous outlaws, and an evil Chinese albino sorceress who is also a child prostitute. And [[spoiler: the genuinely pious minister who is implied to have been resurrected by an angel in order to fight the evil sorcerers]]. All of this is just from the first book.
51	* ''Literature/HisDarkMaterials'' has the Panserbjørne, the Guardians of the Svalbard archipelago, a race of armor-clad warrior polar bears (in fact, "panserbjørne" is Danish for "armored bears"). As a matter of fact, the author gleefully tells us that This Is The Coolest Thing Ever.
52	* Jonathan Moeller's ''Literature/HyperspaceDemons'' includes evil robotic spiders with zombified human heads.
53	* Creator/IsaacAsimov's novel ''I Robot'' features a telepathic robot.
54	* S.M. Sterling's ''Literature/IslandInTheSeaOfTime'' has a black lesbian Coast Guard samurai with a katana-wielding teenage girlfriend from Bronze-Age England.
55	* ''Jasper Jones.''
56	** Jeffrey Lu, upon learning that his friend Charlie had a nightmare about the Wizard of Oz: "Really? But there are so many cooler things to have nightmares about. Like sharks. Communist sharks, with razor-sharp fins that can walk on land."
57	** An obviously best-selling novel that Jeffrey and Charlie wrote together was about an ex-cop turned archaeologist called Truth [=McJustice=] who, among too many other awesome exploits to mention, discovers the Holy Grail and does martial-arts battle with an imposter Pope.
58	* ''Literature/TheKingdomKeepers'': The first battle in the first book is against Audio-Animatronic Ride/PiratesOfTheCaribbean riding space cars that shoot [[EnergyWeapon Frickin' Laser Beams]].
59	* Grete Ravenhallow from ''Literature/TheKindnessOfDevils'' is a regular werewolf, [[spoiler:until it's revealed that Hardestadt is her father, thus making her ''part demon and angel'' as well]], and a TwoferTokenMinority to boot.
60	* ''Literature/KnavesOnWaves'' has Captain Carnage. He's a giant, crimson-skinned SuperSoldier, who also happens to be a pirate.
61	* In the German e-novel "Magicalogen" the main characters are wizards, scientists and [[UpliftedAnimal Uplifted Animals]]. (The last one is except for the one who is a dragon.) [[spoiler: Except that he isn't actually a dragon but some kind of lizard man in disguise. And a spy.]] Over the course of the novel they invent a time machine, a space ship and a magical computer.
62	** There's also Kräik. He's a gardener and a hitman but likes to appear as a pirate. He's also a [[ImAHumanitarian cannibal]].
63	** In his next book "Wettstreit der Schwarzen Schreiber" the same author gives us a wizardry student who happens to be a vampire, a wannabe-goth and a unicorn. Or, fort short, [[FanFic/MyImmortal Ebony]] as a unicorn.
64	* The T'lan Imass of the ''Literature/MalazanBookOfTheFallen'' are [[DemBones undead]] [[AllCavemenWereNeanderthals Neanderthals]], basically. And the T'lan Imass Bonecasters[[note]]shamans[[/note]] are [[DemBones undead]] [[AllCavemenWereNeanderthals Neanderthal]] [[{{Animorphism}} shapeshifters]].
65	* ''Literature/TheMartian'': Mark Watney -- Astronaut/Mechanical Engineer/Greatest Botanist On This Planet[=/=]Series/{{MacGyver\|1985}}[=/=]Space Pirate/[[ComicBook/IronMan Iron Man]].
66	* In Thomas Pynchon's ''Mason & Dixon'', a French chef named Armand Allegre is pursued by an [[ImplacableMan Implacable]], {{Invisible}}, [[ClingyJealousGirl Clingy, Jealous]], [[KillerRabbit Killer]] [[PunkPunk ClockPunk]] robot duck [[WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes with a speech impediment]] [[RoadApples and a fully functional digestive system]] [[DoAndroidsDream who wants him to find her]] [[OppositeSexClone Currently Genderless Beta-Copy]] or else she will take {{Revenge}} for all the ducks he has cooked.
67	** There's also the overarching story about a depressed widower astronomer and a womanizing, land-surveying Quaker studying the orbit of Venus while snarking all over Dutch people and then measuring borders [[WebVideo/YuGiOhTheAbridgedSeries IN AMERICA]] while discussing dragons. And that bit is true. Less true are the [[FunnyAnimal talking dog]] who knows everything, the Chinese fung shui master who is afraid of turning into a Spaniard, the [[ChurchMilitant rabbi secret agents]] trying to track down rogue golems, golems built by Jesus, the Swedish conspiracy, the Spanish Inquisition's involvement, the ghost, and some witches. And it's all written in AntiquatedLinguistics.
68	* [[Literature/FairytaleNovels The Midnight Dancers]] has Paul Fester, a juggling, flute-playing ninja clown.
69	* Literature/MiyaBlackPiratePrincess is both pirate ''and'' princess.
70	* [[Literature/MortalEngines Zombie cyborg soldiers]] with blades hidden in their fingers would qualify for this trope alone, but later books introduce Stalkers that are based on animals, making such lovely things as zombie cyborg soldier giant spiders and zombie cyborg soldier crows.
71	* Peter F. Hamilton's ''Night's Dawn'' trilogy is the story of humans fighting back against an invasion by dead souls possessing the living to escape a horrible living death afterlife and gaining superpowers in the process unleashed when an alien made of pure energy interrupts a satanic ritual and nearly winning until Al Capone comes back and takes over whole star systems then the dead take some planets to over universes except one is a horrific nightmare realm with an enemy made up of a squillion different species liquefied and mashed together into a blob of pure scary and then the guy who started it all summons the scary blob to our universe and everybody nearly dies but someone else saves the day by piloting a living starship to where a god hangs out and talks it into helping. The impressive part is this is actually done in such a way that every premise is plausible and the impacts they have on the world are realistic.
72	** Hamilton does this. ''Literature/FallenDragon'' is about mercenaries in [[OrganicTechnology organic]] PowerArmor sent to colonies by [[CorruptCorporateExecutive the corporations]] that set them up. One planet refuses to bow and using unknown artifacts called [[LostTechnology Dragon Pearls]] are able to mount LaResistance. They find that the Dragon is the remains of an engineered race of living starships/recorders built by SufficientlyAdvancedAlien NeglectfulPrecursors that are able to rejuvenate the hero and send him [[TimeTravel back through time]] so he can get his girlfriend back.
73	** ''Pandora's Star'' is about an empire of far-flung planets connected by ''[[CoolTrain trains]]'' that has been infiltrated by [[HiveMind aliens]] that escaped from a DysonSphere before its completion by {{Sufficiently Advanced Alien}}s that moved on to bigger things. One hero's quest is guided by [[OurElvesAreDifferent elves]] who triggered the Earth tales of TheFairFolk, who seem to be [[ScrewYouElves unconcerned with the fate of man]] and who travel between planets by ''walking''. There's also a lot of [[SmokingHotSex sex.]]
74	* In the FictionalVideoGame in which ''Literature/{{Noob}}'' is set, undergoing a BioAugmentation process basically means becoming a super-MagicallyIneptFighter in a world where everyone is born with a potential to do magic. In the fourth novel, it turns out that someone with a natural magical MasterOfAll ability got BioAugmentation. Instead of getting completely cut off from the magic system, he got demoted to a magical JackOfAllTrades while getting the perks from the procedure.
75	* In Creator/TimPowers' ''Literature/OnStrangerTides'', historical pirate Blackbeard is a voodoo sorcerer with zombie minions, and a rival sorcerer raises a shipfull of pirates [[spoiler: and another ship from the Spanish navy, although that was by accident]] as animated skeletons.
76	* ''OrionFirstEncounter'': This book gives us Miniature Spider Attack Santas
77	* ''Literature/PavlovsDogs'' is based around the premise of [[CoolVersusAwesome genetically engineered werewolf commandos designed to hunt zombies]].
78	* OlderThanTelevision: ''Literature/PeterPan'' is an early version of this: flying immortal juvenile delinquents fight {{pirate}}s, Indians, and demonic crocodiles in a bizarre fantasy land inhabited by mermaids and fairies.
79	* In Asimov's ''Prelude to Foundation'' we find that Hari Seldon is not only a Mathematician but also a fist fighter.
80	* ''Literature/PrideAndPrejudiceAndZombies,'' the classic Jane Austen romance retold with the addition of, well, not to put too fine a point on it, [[ZombieApocalypse ultra-violent zombie mayhem]]. And ninjas.
81	** Followed by ''Literature/SenseAndSensibilityAndSeaMonsters'', which features mutant lobsters, rampaging octopi, and pirates. And apparently [[Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribbean Davy Jones]].
82	** Followed by ''Literature/MansfieldPark and Mummies'', which features spirits of ancient Egyptian pharaohs, vampires, collections of ancient Egyptian artifacts, and mummies.
83	** Followed by ''Literature/{{Emma}} and the Werewolves''. Stand by for the next two -- no doubt it will be a short wait...
84	* ''Literature/ThePrincess99'' has an alien punk rocker from the future fighting zombies, elves, and wizards in a mixed up ClockPunk fantasy setting that's based on 1920s New Orleans...but with wizards!
85	* ''Literature/QuantumGravity''
86	** Zal is [[spoiler:both types of]] [[OurElvesAreDifferent elvish]], [[OurDemonsAreDifferent demonic (not entirely by birth)]], and [[ElvishPresley a rock star]]. Also, that spoiler at the beginning means he's [[spoiler:got some failed experiment with the void going on in his background]].
87	** Lila is a {{Cyborg}}, who is also a spy and a bodyguard [[spoiler:and has a dead elf necromancer in her chest for a while]]. Ah, the power of being around someone with harmonizing powers...
88	** Tath is an elvish necromancer, which is already weird, though he is not the only one. Then the story progresses, and he also becomes [[spoiler:part fey, and dies and is reborn. Twice]].
89	** Theoretical here: It appears to be possible to be a demonic, elven, fey necromancer who is/was part machine and then become a ghost while technically keeping all of the former (rock star or other training also applicable), just so long as one doesn't start out human. [[HumansAreFlawed Because humans are passive with magic.]]
90	* ''Literature/SaintessSummonsSkeletons'': Sofia is part Saint, part Necromancer, [[spoiler:partly converted into a demonic apostle after she performed the ritual inside her trial, can absorb light like a plant, and has been moved to the draconic area of the System. She's also a baroness with a black belt.]]
91	* ''Literature/TheSecretsOfTheImmortalNicholasFlamel''. It's not a FantasyKitchenSink so much as a Fantasy Home Depot Plumbing Department. With an ActionGirl FriendlyNeighborhoodVampire, {{Historical Domain Character}}s aplenty (the villains include Elizabethan CourtMage John Dee, Billy the Kid, and Creator/NiccoloMachiavelli, while the heroes include UsefulNotes/JoanOfArc and Creator/WilliamShakespeare) and AllMythsAreTrue.
92	* In the ''Literature/ShadowOps'' novels ''Gemini Cell'' and ''Javelin Rain'', the protagonist Jim Schweitzer is a Navy SEAL who got killed after an odd mission -- and then returned from the dead in his own now-superhuman magically and technologically semi-preserved corpse. Thus he is now a cyborg zombie supersoldier.
93	* In ''[[http://www.rogermwilcox.com/ADnD/SickKids1.html The Sick Kids]]'', the sequel to ''Literature/TheIntercontinentalUnionOfDisgustingCharacters'', the character Ridiculous Sword has a weapon described as a "+6 holy vorpal defender frost-brand flame-tongue sun luckblade of wounding, dancing, life stealing, disruption, slaying everything (as in the arrows of the same name), throwing, thunderbolts, red blue green black white brass & copper dragon slaying, speed, final word, and 9 lives stealing with maximum intelligence, 8 special purposes, and enough artifact powers to leave her set for life".
94	* Rattle from ''Literature/SkateTheThief'' is a creation BornOfMagic, a disembodied apple-sized eyeball with the wings of a bat and legs of spider, making it an eyeball bat spider.
95	* Neal Stephenson's novel ''Literature/SnowCrash'' features as it's main character Hiro Protagonist, a ninja computer-hacker pizza delivery boy, who invented the Matrix.
96	* The Ironborn in ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'' are essentially [[EldritchAbomination Cthulhu]]-[[ReligionOfEvil worshipping]] Vikings.
97	* Clive Barker's "Son of Celluloid" stacks real-life BodyHorror on fantasy horror, in that [[spoiler: the villain of the story is a sentient, mind-manipulating, reality-warping undead ''cancer tumor''.]]
98	* In the 11th book of ''Literature/TheSookieStackhouseMysteries'', Sookie and Eric visit a [[VampiresOwnNightClubs vampire-owned]] night club that was bondage/Elvis/whore-house themed.
99	* ''SurfingSamuraiRobots'' is about an Alien that has a [[Theatre/CyranoDeBergerac big nose]] and has come to [[EarthIsTheCenterOfTheUniverse Earth]] in order to be a [[PrivateDetective detective]]. Also, there are some [[SurferDude Surfing]] {{Samurai}} WesternAnimation/{{Robots}}, and [[spoiler:it turns out that the whole thing was set up by the FemmeFatale's dad, who is a lizard.]] Once again...
100	* Richard from ''Literature/TheSwordOfTruth'' is a war wizard. That is, he has talents of every other type of wizard (including prophecy and crafting). Plus ImplausibleFencingPowers and ImprobableAimingSkills.
101	* Jasper Fforde's ''Literature/ThursdayNext'' series (and the related Nursery Crimes series) focus on the titular protagonist's adventures in BookWorld, where all characters in fiction are the roles played by BookWorld actors. Gully Foyle of ''Literature/TheStarsMyDestination'' polices Science Fiction. The Racy Novels genre is in a border dispute with Feminist. Her uncle Mycroft, a mad inventor, is sought by a multinational corporation for his latest invention, the Book Portal (which started the whole mess), so he hides in the backstory of the ''Sherlock Holmes'' series -- as Sherlock's elder brother. If a reference sounds vaguely literary, it is. In the "real world", things are even stranger -- cloned Neanderthals, dodos, and thylacines exist, as do time travel, werewolves, and the radical Bacon Society, which claims Francis Bacon wrote Shakespeare's plays, and is willing to start riots in the streets to prove their point. If you plan to visit, bring a clear jar filled with lentils and rice, and shake it every once in a while. If the mix starts clumping as if something was sorting it, watch out, entropy's going backward.
102	* The main character of ''[[Literature/UndaVosari Unda Vosari: Legends]]'', Captain Vincent Lorimar, had training by ninjas in his younger years, took to the seas and became a pirate to fight his arch-enemy, Baron Calavera.
103	* Among the other contents of ''Literature/UnLunDun'''s HurricaneOfPuns are trash bin ninjas called "Binja."
104	* ''Literature/{{Vampirates}}'', a book series about [[Administrivia/NotSelfExplanatory you-guessed-it]].
105	* Creator/JulesVerne:
106	** ''Literature/TwentyThousandLeaguesUnderTheSea'': Pirates, a nuclear SteamPunk submarine, giant underwater monsters, and a mad scientist.
107	*** The submarine was electrical, real-life submarines are actually much more steam-based than Verne's speculative version (still electrical, but nuclear reactors use steam turbines to create electrical current). Trope still applies, though, since he piled every naval/exploration fiction trope on top of speculative biology (sea monsters) with some mad science for good measure.
108	** ''Literature/RoburTheConqueror'': The CoolPlane ''Albatross'', [[http://aerostories.free.fr/dossiers/ADAV/robur.JPG as this miniature model shows,]] is a sort of giant helicopter with a ship-like hull, built from a SteamPunk analogue of modern laminate/composite materials.
109	* Another Pynchon novel, ''Vineland'', involves hippies, TheMafia, TheMenInBlack, ninjas, and a possible ''{{kaiju}}'' attack.
110	* Obligatory Literature/WhateleyUniverse example: Nex, a student at [[SuperheroSchool Whateley Academy]] who is a mutant psychic ninja assassin. Who is self-aware enough to realize he has a monologuing problem.
111	* The seemingly typical MedievalEuropeanFantasy ''Literature/TheWheelOfTime'' is quick (as in, they show up in the second book with only an inkling of foreshadowing in the first) to introduce the Seanchan, a civilization of WesternSamurai invaders with a unique Euro-Asian (''mostly'' Chinese and Japanese) cultural aesthetic and caste system from the survivors of a Westlands expeditionary force intermixing with the native population of [[NatureIsNotNice the extremely hostile continent]] they found on the other side of the ocean they were sent across. They also ride around on dinosaurs, fight alongside LizardFolk, and have an army of enslaved mages at their command.
112	** [[ProudWarriorRaceGuy The Aiel]] from the same series are a mixture of Celts, Native Americans, and Middle Eastern nomadic tribes. Like the Seanchan, they have their own unique cultural and societal practices to distinguish themselves from their influences.
113	* In the fourth book of the ''Wizard of Oz'' series, ''Dorothy and The Wizard in Oz'', on the way to the surface of Oz, they encounter a village where everyone is invisible. Why are they invisible? To avoid being seen by the ''invisible bears''!
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