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6	SpiritualSuccessor in {{Literature}}.
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8	* Creator/GeorgeOrwell intended ''Literature/NineteenEightyFour'' to be this to ''Literature/{{We}}''.
9	** ''Nineteen Eighty-Four'' is arguably this to Sinclair Lewis' ''Literature/ItCantHappenHere'', published fifteen years earlier. Both novels depict a formerly democratic western nation that succumbed to totalitarianism. The protagonists of both novels chafe under totalitarian rule and rebel through the written word. Both men find solace in secret romantic relationships with women who are both their soulmates and co-conspirators; Winston falls in love with Julia while Doremus has a secret affair with Lorinda. Finally, both protagonists find themselves incarcerated and tortured for their rebellion against the state.
10	* Mary Schmich's essay [[http://plodplod.blogspot.com/2006/07/advice-like-youth-probably-just-wasted.html "Advice, like youth, probably just wasted on the young"]] [[CoveredUp (better known from Baz Lurhmann's "Everybody's Free To Wear Sunscreen")]] is considered by many to be a spiritual successor to Max Ehrmann's 1927 poem [[Literature/{{Desiderata}} "Desiderata".]]
11	* ''Literature/AngelInTheWhirlwind'' by Creator/ChristopherGNuttall draws obvious influence from Creator/DavidWeber's ''Literature/HonorHarrington'' series. The first book is essentially a WhatCouldHaveBeen of ''On Basilisk Station'' [[spoiler:where Manticore ''loses'']], and one character even refers to a missile salvo as "a decent Weber of missiles" in the second book.
12	* The improbable death scenes of ''Literature/{{Another}}'' make it awfully like a Japanese ''Film/FinalDestination''.
13	* Creator/JaneGaskell's ''Literature/{{Atlan}}'' series simultaneously marks the last incarnation of "elder Earth" fantasies of the Creator/ClarkAshtonSmith / Creator/HPLovecraft variety ''and'' looks back to the fantasy genre's roots in Theosophy and the jungle adventure fiction of Creator/HRiderHaggard and Creator/EdgarRiceBurroughs.
14	* The first book of ''Literature/{{Bravelands}}'' is this to ''WesternAnimation/TheLionKing1994''. Both include a young male lion cub being driven out of his pride (and leaving behind a close female cub) after his father is murdered by another male. The cub is saved by prey animals and is adopted by them, before he eventually ventures off on his own.
15	* A case can be made that Lew Wallace's popular and acclaimed novel ''Literature/BenHur'' serves as this to Alexandre Dumas' ''Literature/TheCountOfMonteCristo''. Wallace had cited it as one of his favorite stories and as an influence on his own work. It is visible in the parallels between the stories of Edmond Dantes and Judah Ben-Hur. Both are good well to do men who are eventually betrayed and wrongfully have their lives stripped away from them and are imprisoned in one way or another. Both however manage to eventually "rise from the ashes" so to speak an attain their freedom and go on a mission for justice/revenge.
16	* It's easy to read the ''Literature/CaptainUnderpants'' series as being a G-rated novelization of ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark''. On the surface, the two appear to mainly revolve around juvenile ToiletHumour, but underneath it, the immature jokes masquerade the two's sense of layered, insightful social commentary that appeals to [[ParentalBonus older demographics]].
17	* Thanks in large part to how the whole series was originally conceived as "LostRomanLegion [[JustForFun/XMeetsY meets]] ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}''," ''Literature/CodexAlera'' can be seen as basically the ancient Roman equivalent to ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'', particularly in how in-depth the series is in examining how ElementalPowers has impacted the everyday society of [[HumansByAnyOtherName the Alerans]].
18	* ''Literature/TheColdMoons'' is the badger equivalent of ''Literature/WatershipDown''. Both novels involve British wildlife attempting to flee a genocide brought on by humans. The difference is that ''The Cold Moons'' is about badgers while ''Watership Down'' is about rabbits.
19	* Austin Grossman's ''Crooked'', a horror AlternateHistory of the Cold War, features Henry Kissinger as an AntiVillain HumanoidAbomination with necromancer powers and monstrous pacts. In that sense, the novel works as a prequel to ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBros'', where Kissinger fills the same role.
20	* ''The Divine Invasion'' by Creator/PhilipKDick is a Spiritual Successor to his earlier novel ''Literature/{{VALIS}}'': Valis appears in both books, the [[ShowWithinAShow fictional film]] "Valis" exists in both, and they have similar Gnostic themes, but ''The Divine Invasion'' is not, strictly speaking, a sequel. A third novel ''The Owl in Daylight'' was going to be written by PKD as another Spiritual Successor to round out the "Valis trilogy", but [[DiedDuringProduction he died before writing it]].
21	** The relationship between ''VALIS'' and its earlier version ''Radio Free Albemuth'' is actually a much more typical example of the trope, as they heavily overlap in themes but are emphatically ''not'' part of the same [[TheVerse Verse]]. Or they would have been if PKD hadn't left ''Radio Free Albemuth'' unpublished during his lifetime, so that it came out about five years after ''VALIS''.
22	* Simon R. Green's ''Literature/{{Deathstalker}}'' series will be immediately familiar and fun territory to any ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'' player.
23	* ''Literature/DiaryOfAWimpyKid'' is often seen as a children’s novel version of ''Series/MalcolmInTheMiddle''.
24	* In the extras to the DVD of ''Dreamcatcher'', Stephen King notes that the book (and subsequent film) can be seen as a Spiritual Successor to The Body/Stand By Me.
25	* ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles'' is probably the closest thing people will ever get to a novel series adaptation of ''TabletopGame/OldWorldOfDarkness''. Alternatively, it works as a pretty damn good book series adaptation of ''Series/{{Angel}}'' (albeit being made even DarkerAndEdgier than ''Angel'' already was, along with having a less adversarial perspective on religion).
26	* Creator/DavidEddings' various works were ''made'' of this, being all HighFantasy epics told from a slightly different slant. ''Literature/TheBelgariad'' was a basic coming-of-age story; ''Literature/TheElenium'' followed a loosely similar plot but was DarkerAndEdgier with a world-weary adult hero; ''Literature/TheRedemptionOfAlthalus'' was largely the story of that universe's [[EccentricMentor Belgarath-equivalent]]; and ''Literature/TheDreamers'' was the most out-there, being told from the perspective of [[PhysicalGod the gods]].
27	* ''Fables From the Fountain'' by multiple authors is openly intended as a spiritual successor to ''Literature/TalesFromTheWhiteHart'', being a series of {{Tall Tale}}s about unlikely inventions, told in a pub full of scientists.
28	* Creator/IsaacAsimov's ''Fantastic Voyage II: Destination Brain'' is a... complicated example. The name indicates that it is an actual sequel (which would disqualify it), but as it turns out it is essentially a ''remake'': taking the basic concept of Film/FantasticVoyage (miniaturization technology as a potentially crucial part in the Cold War and an attempt to use it to save the life or knowledge of someone who has made a critical breakthrough but failed to communicate it before falling into a coma), and then writing his own story around it, free of the constraints he was acting under when he wrote the novelization to the movie and able to update the science to 1980s standards.
29	* ''Literature/FifteenRabbits'', by Felix Salten of ''Literature/{{Bambi}}'' fame, is one of the earliest serious {{xenofiction}} novels about rabbits. Years later, ''Literature/WatershipDown'' retreaded and expanded upon the concept.
30	* [[Creator/JoeHaldeman Joe Haldeman's]] ''Literature/ForeverPeace'' is, as the name implies, a SpiritualSuccessor to ''Literature/TheForeverWar'' despite taking place in a very different setting and, indeed, having very different basic assumptions about the setting. It reads as a more "mature" attempt to understand war by probing questions about the inevitable results of technological advances in warfare in the future that ''The Forever War'' glossed over so that its sci-fi war could be a clearer parallel to Vietnam.
31	* ''Literature/FrostDancers'' is similar to ''Literature/WatershipDown'', but with hares instead of rabbits. They're similar {{xenofiction}} works from the POV of lagomorphs.
32	* ''Literature/TheGardenOfEveningMists'' by Creator/TanTwanEng is a spiritual successor to Tan's first novel, ''Literature/TheGiftOfRain''. They have a similar structure (narrator looking back in old age and recounting their life), setting (Malaya during World War 2), and focus on memory. ''Garden'' also has a blink-and-you'll-miss-it mention of the Huttons (the protagonist's family in ''Rain''), suggesting they're set in the same universe.
33	* Lois Lowry's book ''Gathering Blue'' is a "companion novel" to ''Literature/TheGiver''; it's another postapocalyptic novel which may be in the same universe, but shows a society that has gone the opposite direction.
34	* ''Literature/TheGirlWithAllTheGifts'' may as well be the novelization of ''VideoGame/TheLastOfUs'', only with the setting transplanted to England. Both are stories about a ZombieApocalypse caused by [[TheVirus a fungus]] in the ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cordyceps cordyceps]]'' genus jumping to humans, in which a young girl who is [[TheImmune immune to the fungus]] and lives in a symbiotic relationship with it is being transported across a post-apocalyptic wasteland filled with zombies and human bandits to a safe zone [[spoiler:where scientists will likely slice her brain open to study her immunity]]. Two of Melanie's protectors in ''The Girl With All the Gifts'', Miss Justineau and Sergeant Parks, each correspond to different aspects of the protagonist Joel's personality in ''The Last of Us'', with Justineau being the loving, adoptive parental figure and Parks being the badass killer who develops a grudging respect for Melanie. [[spoiler:And both end with the protagonist destroying humanity's hope for a cure for the infection, while implying that the search for a cure was a lost cause to start with.]]
35	* ''Literature/{{Glamorama}}'' is a SpiritualSuccessor in many ways to ''Literature/AmericanPsycho''. While Creator/BretEastonEllis has often been accused of writing about the same subjects repeatedly (shallow, drug-addled rich people in stories full of over-the-top violence that satirize mindless consumerism), ''Glamorama'' has a very similar surreal style comparable to ''American Psycho'' that his other books don't have since they're more grounded in reality.
36	* Creator/FrankHerbert wrote four short stories, published later as "The Godmakers", that shared theme and concepts with his masterpiece ''Literature/{{Dune}}''.
37	* Creator/JohnVarley's ''[[Literature/EightWorlds The Golden Globe]]'' is a combination homage and spiritual successor to Robert A. Heinlein's ''Literature/DoubleStar''. The protagonist in both is a highly skilled and intelligent but down-on-his-luck actor who used to be famous, and now lives partly on the wrong side of the law while still being obsessed with his craft (something drilled into him by his father). The characterizations and habits are essentially the same, and they also deliberately share a similar first-person narrative style, from the perspective of the character writing out his experiences after the fact.
38	* Creator/RLStine said that ''Literature/{{Goosebumps}}'' was inspired by reading ''[[Creator/ECComics Tales from the Crypt]]'' comics and watching ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'' when he was young. Various books in the series also draw influence from older works, in many cases with just [[PunnyName punny titles]] but also going into plot elements in some.
39	** ''Literature/MonsterBlood'', about a novelty slime toy that can move around and eat anything it can envelop, is the series' take on ''Film/TheBlob1958'', albeit with the twist that anything that consumes the titular monster blood will [[AttackOfThe50FootWhatever grow in size]]. A later book, ''The Blob That Ate Everyone'', was a more straightforward homage.
40	** ''Literature/SayCheeseAndDie'', about a MagicalCamera whose photographs show the future (including the fates of people and objects photographed with it), draws its inspiration from the ''[[Series/TheTwilightZone1959 Twilight Zone]]'' episode "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S2E10AMostUnusualCamera A Most Unusual Camera]]".
41	** ''Literature/NightOfTheLivingDummy'', about a CreepyDoll that terrorizes children while driving others to believe that they are acting out, is the ''Goosebumps'' version of ''Franchise/ChildsPlay''. Stine also said that it was inspired by ''Literature/TheAdventuresOfPinocchio''.
42	** ''Literature/WelcomeToCampNightmare'' shares its twist, that the protagonists [[spoiler:are actually aliens who will be heading off to Earth on a mission]], with the ''[[Series/TheTwilightZone1959 Twilight Zone]]'' episode "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S1E14ThirdFromTheSun Third from the Sun]]".
43	** Stine has said that ''Literature/PianoLessonsCanBeMurder'', about a piano teacher who enslaves children (or, in this case, their disembodied hands) to play the piano forever, was inspired by ''Film/The5000FingersOfDrT''.
44	** ''Literature/WhyImAfraidOfBees'' was inspired by the Creator/RobertSheckley novel ''Mindswap''.
45	** ''Literature/PhantomOfTheAuditorium'' is a straightforward parody of ''Literature/ThePhantomOfTheOpera''.
46	** ''Literature/CallingAllCreeps'' is rather like a [[LighterAndSofter kid-friendly]] version of ''Literature/{{Carrie}}''.
47	** ''Literature/TheHauntedCar'' is about, well, a SinisterCar that tries to kill people, and is furthermore identified as female (it's possessed by the ghost of a girl who died when she took it on a joyride), while the protagonist is a boy who is obsessed with cars. In other words, it's a kid-friendly version of ''Literature/{{Christine}}'', though unlike Arnie Cunningham, Mitchell Moinian doesn't become a co-villain himself.
48	* ''Literature/TheGreatDivorce'':
49	** The story is a modern(ish), less unsubtle counterpart to John Bunyan's classic ''Literature/ThePilgrimsProgress''. Both works are allegories for the Christian faith where almost every character represents an ideology or a personal vice, and they both [[spoiler:turn out to be dreams at the end]]. Lewis also wrote ''The Pilgrim's Regress'', which was more blatantly inspired by Bunyan's work right down to the title.
50	** This one is also a fairly obvious spiritual successor to ''Literature/TheDivineComedy''. It's a dream-vision of a journey from Hell to Heaven via something not unlike Purgatory; Lewis appears as the everyman narrator of his own book; and he has a SpiritAdvisor: Creator/GeorgeMacDonald represents a combination of both Virgil in Inferno and Purgatorio, and Beatrice in Paradiso (when Lewis first meets Creator/GeorgeMacDonald, he claims that reading Creator/GeorgeMacDonald's books as a teenager was for him 'like Dante's first sight of Beatrice'). Sarah Smith is always portrayed in very Beatrice-like terms, and her failed reunion with her husband is a portrayal of how Beatrice's reunion with Dante could have gone horribly wrong if Dante hadn't had the humility to accept her rebukes, and accept happiness without needing to be right.
51	* Creator/JimButcher's ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles'' [[FollowTheLeader has generated a number of spiritual successors]], following the formula of a reasonably powerful FirstPersonSmartass hero and DestructiveSavior in a world of BlackAndGreyMorality who tends to cause as much trouble as he prevents, examples being: ''Literature/TheHellequinChronicles'' and ''Literature/IronDruidChronicles.''
52	* Creator/IsaacAsimov and Creator/MartinHGreenberg's ''Literature/TheGreatSFStories'': In this case, the series is intended as a spiritual antecedent to the ''Literature/WorldsBestScienceFiction'' series that began in 1965. Greenberg and Dr Asimov planned on ending the series by anthologizing up until 1963, but Creator/RobertSilverberg worked with Creator/MartinHGreenberg to produce one more volume.
53	* ''Literature/HarryPotter'' is this to ''Literature/TheWorstWitch'' of two decades earlier. A bumbling protagonist as a student in a school for magic, with two best friends, a well-connected goody-goody enemy, a nasty potions teacher and a kindly head of the school.
54	* ''Heartlight'' by T.A. Barron is similar in both style and themes to ''Literature/AWrinkleInTime''. Madeleine L'Engle herself has given the novel praise.
55	* There are some readers (mostly detractors) who have noted ''Literature/TheHouseOfNight'' series almost seems like an unofficial adaptation of ''Fanfic/MyImmortal'' reworked into an original piece, due to the strange similarities between the plot, setting and characterization in both stories (e.g. the main character is a teenage vampire attending a school of magic secretly run by an evil teacher; she also befriends a group of outcasts, frequently rages against the popular kids, is juggling numerous love interests, is TheChosenOne with all kinds of rare abilities etc).
56	* ''Literature/TheHungerGames'':
57	** To Creator/JackLondon's ''Literature/TheIronHeel''. In that book, Ernest Everhard speculates that the Oligarchy will eventually generate so much wealth from the exploitation of the labour classes that they will have nothing to do with it but engage in vast feats of engineering such as building enormous, spectacular cities. In the former the Capitol has, every year for the past seventy-five, built a forcefield enclosed arena packed with so much technology that everything is on camera, the weather can be changed, rivers can be turned off, huge parts of the arena can be made to [[SpectacularSpinning spin]], or earthquakes and avalanches can be triggered.
58	** A particularly [[FandomEnragingMisconception contentious]] assertion is that it's this to Koushun Takami's ''Literature/BattleRoyale'', a Japanese dystopian novel (better known for its film adaptation) about a group of teenagers who are forced to fight to the death by the government as a form of social control. Both novels, and their adaptations, were controversial in their respective countries for their depictions of violence against children and teenagers, and both were enormously influential on the BattleRoyaleGame genre of video games due to the superficially similar rulesets that they employed for their titular {{Deadly Game}}s. Creator/SuzanneCollins, however, has strenuously denied taking any influence from ''Battle Royale'', and says that she never heard of it when she set out to write her own story.
59	** It's also been described as a modern, YA take on a pair of Creator/StephenKing stories written under the PenName Richard Bachman, ''Literature/TheRunningMan'' and ''Literature/TheLongWalk''. With the former, it shares the premise of a [[ImmoralRealityShow televised deathmatch]] that's used as BreadAndCircuses, and with its [[Film/TheRunningMan film adaptation]], it shares the flamboyant depiction of its dystopian future's decadent elite, albeit with the '80s {{yuppie}} influences swapped out for RealityTV. With the latter, it shares the idea of the death of teenagers specifically being used as entertainment.
60	* Creator/LewisCarroll's epic nonsense poem "The Hunting of the Snark" is a SpiritualSuccessor to the ''Alice'' stories, and includes a number of references to "Jabberwocky."
61	* ''Literature/InfinityRing'' is a SpiritualSuccessor to ''Literature/The39Clues'' as both are historical fiction books and web games for kids.
62	* Creator/StephenKing's ''Literature/{{It}}'' can easily be read as a literary adaptation of ''Franchise/ANightmareOnElmStreet'', albeit on a slightly more [[{{Doorstopper}} epic]] scale, with both IT (in the form of Pennywise) and Freddy Krueger being [[DeadpanSnarker quick-witted]], FauxAffablyEvil monsters that prey on children by using supernatural powers to exploit their worst fears. IT's stomping grounds of choice are the sewers beneath the town of Derry, not unlike how Freddy's go-to dreamscape is an underground boiler room reminiscent of where he killed children in life. The 1994 film ''Film/WesCravensNewNightmare'' takes the influence full-circle by having Freddy turn out to be an ancient demonic entity that latched onto the ''Nightmare'' series and took the form of its iconic villain, reminiscent of how IT is something more akin to an EldritchAbomination. Creator/AndresMuschietti even [[https://nerdist.com/freddy-krueger-almost-made-a-cameo-appearance-in-stephen-kings-it/ considered]] having IT [[ShoutOut take the form of Freddy]] at one point in the [[Film/{{It 2017}} 2017 adaptation]] of ''It'' (both that film and the ''Nightmare'' series were made by Creator/NewLineCinema), though he decided that it would be too distracting.
63	* ''Literature/KillingPablo'' is a rare nonfiction example. Written by Mark Bowden and featuring the exploits of General Bill Garrison, it reads much as a sequel to ''Literature/BlackHawkDown.''
64	* Some have pointed out that ''Literature/LostSouls1992'' - with its coming-of-age themes, displaced youth protagonists and attractive, trendy punk / goth vampires who spend their days engaged in violence and debauchery - can feel like a DarkerAndEdgier take on ''Film/TheLostBoys'', only set in the early 90s rather than the late 80s and with all the HoYay being explicitly canonical. The plot revolving around a group of drifter vampires who engage in gory mayhem is also reminiscent of ''Film/NearDark'', which was released the same year as ''The Lost Boys'', though ''Lost Souls'' is set primarily in the American South rather than the West.
65	* ''Literature/MeAndEarlAndTheDyingGirl'' to ''Literature/TheFaultInOurStars'', although the two books were published only two months apart. Both are SliceOfLife novels about teenagers, at least one of whom has cancer. Both are narrated in FirstPersonPerspective by the teenage protagonist, both combine humor and drama, and both revolve around the protagonist bonding with a teen of the opposite gender [[spoiler: who dies in the end.]] Although in ''The Fault In Our Stars'' the boy and girl fall in love, while in ''Me and Earl...'' it's a platonic friendship, and in the former book, the girl is the protagonist [[spoiler: and the boy dies]], while in the latter, the boy is the protagonist [[spoiler: and as the title indicates, the girl dies.]] The film versions of both books, which were released a year apart, are sometimes considered DuelingMovies too.
66	%%* ''Messenger'' is similar. It has a number of the same characters (Mattie, Kira, Jonas, [[spoiler:Kira's father]], etc) and Jonas at one point alludes to his previous village and how the people there made peace with him after he left, but most of the plot focuses on the corruption of the new society that Jonas has built.
67	* It's been pointed out that ''Literature/TheMister'' bears some surprising similarities to ''Series/{{Poldark}}'', to the point some have speculated that ''The Mister'' is yet another work of Creator/ELJames' that started out as a HotterAndSexier [[AlternateUniverseFic AU]] fanfiction with the SerialNumbersFiledOff (her previous work, ''Literature/FiftyShadesOfGrey'', is well-known for starting out as a ''[[Literature/TheTwilightSaga Twilight]]'' fanfic).
68	* In a rather broad sense, ''Literature/{{Mogworld}}'' is a pretty good novelization of [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/StarOceanTillTheEndOfTime'' in terms of both works being based around video game characters in a fantasy world NoticingTheFourthWall]].
69	* ''Literature/MonsterHunterInternational'' is a series of ActionHorror novels in which the protagonists are wisecracking roughnecks who [[HunterOfMonsters hunt monsters]] with an assortment of [[GunPorn the biggest guns and explosives they can get their hands on]]. Barring the fact that they battle explicitly supernatural enemies, it may just be the closest translation of ''Film/{{Tremors}}'' to the page as one can get.
70	* The ''Nina Wilde'' series by [=Andy McDermott=], about a semi-reluctant AdventurerArchaeologist, obviously takes more than a few cues from (and frequently references) Indiana Jones and Lara Croft. However, the number of pitched gun battles in exotic locations and rare vehicles which inevitably explode makes it far more akin to the written form of ''VideoGame/{{Uncharted}}''.
71	* Daniel Allen Butler's ''The Other Side of the Night'' follows on from Walter Lord's seminal ''A Night to Remember'' and ''The Night Lives On''. Lord's books focus on, firstly, the events of the sinking of the RMS ''[[UsefulNotes/RMSTitanic Titanic]]''; and secondly, the wider impact of the sinking with a greater focus on the events taking place on board the ''Carpathia'' and the ''Californian'', the other two ships most closely involved in the disaster. Butler, whom Lord had mentored for his first book on the ''Titanic'' (called ''Unsinkable''), asked Lord if he'd ever considered writing a book focusing mostly on the ''Carpathia'' and ''Californian''. Lord hadn't, but gave Butler his blessing; the title, ''The Other Side of the Night'', is a clear homage to the previous two books.
72	* ''The Planiverse: Computer Contact With a Two-Dimensional World'' by A.K. Dewdney acts as a successor to Edwin Albott Albott's ''{{Literature/Flatland}}''.
73	* ''Literature/ThePowerOfFive'' is this to Anthony Horowitz's unfinished ''Pentagram'' series from the 1980s.
74	* ''Literature/PrideAndPrejudice'' can almost be read as a loose retelling of ''Theatre/MuchAdoAboutNothing.'' Elizabeth corresponds to Beatrice, Darcy is like a CompositeCharacter of Benedick and Don Pedro, Jane and Lydia [[DecompositeCharacter both]] correspond to Hero (Jane as Elizabeth/Beatrice's sweet female relative whose briefly loses her love because of a misunderstanding, Lydia as the one whose [[DefiledForever damaged sexual reputation]] threatens to disgrace her family), Bingley is like an AdaptationalNiceGuy take on Claudio, the villainous Wickham [[CompositeCharacter combines]] aspects of Don John with the worse side of Claudio, and Caroline Bingley fills out the rest of Don John's role.
75	* Creator/DonaldKingsbury's ''Literature/PsychohistoricalCrisis'' takes Creator/IsaacAsimov's ''Literature/FoundationSeries'' to create a plot where a character has IdentityAmnesia. Aside from the term psychohistory, many indirect references are made to ''Foundation'' elements.
76	* Creator/JudyBlume's ''[[Literature/{{Fudge}} Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing]]'' is a bit like a loose GenderFlip of Creator/BeverlyCleary's ''[[Literature/RamonaQuimby Beezus and Ramona]]'', which was published 17 years earlier. Both books are episodic [[SliceOfLife Slices of Life]] about an average 9-year-old protagonist dealing with the crazy antics of their AnnoyingYoungerSibling, whom they describe as their "biggest problem," and the climax of both involves the younger sibling destroying something that meant a lot to the protagonist (Ramona ruins Beezus's birthday cake, Fudge eats Peter's pet turtle.) Both books also spawned a series of sequels named after the younger sibling, although the ''Fudge'' books [[SecondaryCharacterTitle keep big brother Peter as the protagonist]], whereas the later ''Ramona'' books switch the viewpoint from Beezus's to Ramona's.
77	* Morgan Ray Hess's [[TheEpic epic]] ScienceFantasy novel ''Literature/{{Rainbow}}'' is this to ''Literature/AWrinkleInTime''.
78	* The ''Literature/RainbowMagic'' series is receiving one in the ''Magical Animal Friends'' series, written by the same author. This series revolves around Jess and Lily, who enter the mysterious Friendship Forest and rescue animals from the wicked witch Grizelda and her Boggit servants.
79	* Similarly to the ''Whirlwind'' series above, Creator/DavidDrake's ''Literature/{{RCN}}'' series is essentially a SerialNumbersFiledOff version of the Honorverse in origin, with ''With the Lightnings'' (the first book) having grown out of an Honorverse short story Drake wrote for an anthology.
80	** Per WordOfGod [[http://david-drake.com/1998/with-the-lightnings/ here]], the Leary-Mundy books are "a SF version of the Literature/AubreyMaturin series" (which, like the Honor Harrington series, is a spiritual successor to Literature/HoratioHornblower).
81	* ''Literature/ReadyPlayerOne'' by Ernest Cline could be considered one to Conor Kostick's 2004 novel ''[[Literature/TheAvatarChronicles Epic]]'', as both follow a very similar plot and themes: in a post-apocalyptic CrapsackWorld where the entire world plays a virtual reality MMO and your station in life is most likely dependent upon your in-game prowess, a poor boy and his friends pursue the game's ultimate quest, become rich and famous along the way by noticing things others don't, and end up as enemies of a powerful CorruptCorporateExecutive who will stop at nothing to get what he wants.
82	* The ''Literature/RedDwarf'' novelizations were once considered to be this to Literature/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy. Both series of books were second drafts of their stories, and thus many preferred them to the original (in the case of Hitchhiker's the radio serials, in the case of the ''Red Dwarf'' the TV show). However due to the advent of digital media the TV show is much more well known than the books, whereas the Hitchhiker's books are still considered the definitive version of its story.
83	* "The Red One", a short story from ''Literature/FromACertainPointOfView'' about R5-D4, the astromech that was almost purchased in place of R2-D2, can be considered a serious version of "Skippy the Jedi Droid" from ''Comicbook/StarWarsTales''.
84	* A Japanese publisher licensed the ''basic premise'' of a CutShort {{shoujo}} mystery LightNovel called ''KZ Shonen Shoujo Seminar'' for a series of MiddleGradeLiterature. The result, ''Literature/TanteiTeamKZJikenNote'', is [[SequelDisplacement far more commercially successful]], to the point that ''Seminar'' author wrote one of the latter work's {{spinoff}}s.
85	* In many ways, "Literature/SixthOfTheDusk" is Brandon Sanderson's version of ''Film/AfterEarth'' (a film which his friend Howard Taylor notably disliked for plotholes). The idea of an environment completely dedicated to killing everything is the same, though the predators are telepathic rather than having the ability to smell fear (which was one of Taylor's suggestions for improving the movie).
86	* ''Literature/SpinningSilver'' isn't a sequel to Creator/NaomiNovik's previous book ''Literature/{{Uprooted}}'', but it is very much in the same vein. Like ''Uprooted'', it takes a fairy tale for the base of its story, in this case Rumplestiltzkin. It also takes place in a FantasyCounterpartCulture of Eastern Europe (Lithuania, instead of Poland) in which the heroine has to deal with an implacable but misunderstood immortal force on the borders of her home in order to save it.
87	* Solea Razvan's ''Literature/ASymphonyOfEternity'' series is a mashup of ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' and ''Literature/{{Flashman}}'' set in a universe akin to ''Literature/LegendOfTheGalacticHeroes'' only where magic instead of technology is used in this epic Galactic War.
88	* Creator/JohnChristopher's ''Literature/TheTripods'' trilogy is, as the name suggests, a SpiritualSuccessor to H.G. Wells' ''Literature/TheWarOfTheWorlds''.
89	* ''Literature/WarriorCats'':
90	** The series has many similarities to ''Literature/TheBookOfTheNamed'' - so much that people were claiming that the ''Ratha'' series copied ''Warriors'', until it was pointed out to them that ''Ratha's Creature'' was written in the 1980s and ''Into the Wild'' came out in 2003. They both start PartiallyCivilizedAnimal felines and have similar levels of FamilyUnfriendlyViolence.
91	** People were also drawing similarities to ''Literature/{{Felidae}}''. They're both violent series about cats, though ''Felidae'' is not aimed at children.
92	** The first arc in ''Warriors'' is very similar to the 1980s novel ''Literature/TailchasersSong''. Both are xenofiction works about feral cats in Britain (or, ''Warriors'' was [[WhereTheHellIsSpringfield at first]]) who live in colonies referred to as "[[TheClan clans]]". They both start off with an orange tabby tomcat kitten -- Tailchaser and Rusty/Firepaw -- who goes to become a legendary hero. Even the portmanteau AnimalNamingConventions of the series are similar to one another.
93	* Creator/JackLondon's ''Literature/WhiteFang'' is the spiritual successor to his ''Literature/TheCallOfTheWild''. Both are {{xenofiction}}al stories about dogs on the edge of civilization, one about a wild dog being tamed and the other about a domestic dog going feral. They're generally even published together in a single volume, as if the former were an ''actual'' sequel.
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