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[[caption-width-right:350:Taking it literally...]]

* The ''Literature/{{Animorphs}}'' book ''The Hork-Bajir Chronicles'' is not dissimilar to ''{{Pocahontas}}'', with a GenderFlip, IN SPACE.
* LarryNiven, after writing his famous science fiction novel ''{{Ringworld}}'', later realized that he had ended up writing ''Literature/TheWonderfulWizardOfOz'' [-IN SPACE-]!, with the plot and characters mirroring those in the story.
* Science-fiction grandmaster Creator/IsaacAsimov was open about the fact that his classic ''{{Foundation}}'' trilogy was ''TheDeclineAndFallOfTheRomanEmpire'' [-IN SPACE-]! This is heavily lampshaded in its SerialNumbersFiledOff sequel by Donald Kingsbury, ''Psychohistorical Crisis''. The protagonist finds a copy of ''The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'' in an antique shop; he's excited to discover a genuine Earth document, while his mentor glances through it and declares it a clumsy fake that's based on the much more recent history covered by Asimov's novels.
** Incidentally, ''TheTriganEmpire'' is ''The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'' [-ON ANOTHER PLANET-]!
* Creator/RobertAHeinlein makes a lot of use of this trope:
** ''Literature/DoubleStar'' is ''ThePrisonerOfZenda'' [-IN SPACE-]!
** "Literature/CitizenOfTheGalaxy" is Rudyard Kipling's "Kim" [-IN SPACE-]!
** Between ''Literature/TheMoonIsAHarshMistress'', ''Literature/RedPlanet'', and ''Literature/BetweenPlanets'', it's obvious the American Revolution [-IN SPACE-]! was a big thing with Heinlein.
** ''Literature/RocketShipGalileo'' is Nazis [-IN SPACE-]!
** ''Literature/StarmanJones'' is Horatio Alger [-IN SPACE-]!
** Etc. You get the picture. To his credit, Heinlein never pretended to make stuff up out of whole cloth, as he had several characters in several books explain at length. (e.g., Hazel Meade Stone explaining that she was going to do an episode of her radio serial as Shakespeare [-IN SPACE-].)
* LoisMcMasterBujold's ''A Civil Campaign'' is GeorgetteHeyer [-IN SPACE-]!, as confirmed by WordOfGod.
** Barrayar is {{Ruritania}} [-IN SPACE-]!
* ''Literature/HonorHarrington'' is ''HoratioHornblower''... [-IN SPACE-]!
** At least until it made a major [[OffTheRails hard turn away]] from this. "Echoes of Honor" was ''TheGreatEscape'' [-IN SPACE-].
* ''Godspeed'' by Charles Sheffield is ''TreasureIsland'' [-IN SPACE-]!
* Creator/StephenKing's novel ''Literature/WolvesOfTheCalla: Franchise/TheDarkTower V'' is ''TheMagnificentSeven'' [-WITH ROBOTS-]! And [[LampshadeHanging openly admits to this]], as the characters begin to realize that [[MediumAwareness they're characters in a Stephen King novel!]]
* StephenBaxter and ArthurCClarke's ''Time Odyssey'' trilogy is ''GurrenLagann'' [-WITH SCIENCE-]!
* S. M Stirling's ThePeshawarLancers is Rudyard Kipling [-AFTER THE END-]!
* DavidDrake 's Literature/{{RCN}} series is, according to WordOfGod, ''Literature/AubreyMaturin'' literally [-IN SPACE-]!
* RayBradbury's ''Leviathan '99'' is ''Literature/MobyDick'' [-IN SPACE-]!
* BenBova's ''Mercury'' is ''Literature/TheCountOfMonteCristo'' [-IN SPACE-]! to the point that he's lucky that work is in the public domain.
* The ''Franchise/StarWarsExpandedUniverse'' gives us plenty of examples:
** ''TheGloveOfDarthVader'' is ''CaptainPlanet'' [-IN SPACE-]!
** The ''ComicBook/XWingSeries'' is [[AcePilot fighter pilots]] [-IN SPACE-]!
*** One of the comics' long-running subplots is ''Theatre/RomeoAndJuliet'' [-IN SPACE-]!, and [-WITH ALIENS THAT TRADITIONALLY HATE EACH OTHER-]! Another of them is the Anastasia mythos with a BoisterousBruiser [[BadassPrincess Princess]] [-IN SPACE-]!
** The ''Literature/JediAcademyTrilogy'' (at least the dynamic between Luke and Kyp) is ''Franchise/{{X-Men}}'' [-IN SPACE-]!
** ''[[Literature/JediAcademyTrilogy I, Jedi]]'' is FilmNoir [-IN SPACE-]!
** The ''HandOfThrawn'' Duology is a FixFic [-[[ArmedWithCanon IN CANON]]-]! (And also in space.)
** ''Literature/NewJediOrder'' is an alien invasion movie [-IN SPACE-]! and DarkerAndEdgier.
** ''Literature/FateOfTheJedi'' is the Franchise/CthulhuMythos [-IN SPACE-]!
** ''DeathTroopers'' is a ZombieApocalypse [-IN SPACE-]!
*** Specifically, it's ''VideoGame/Left4Dead'' [-IN SPACE-]!
** ''Literature/{{Shatterpoint}}'' is ''Film/ApocalypseNow'' [-WITH JEDI-], ''according to [[Creator/MattStover the author]]''.
** ''Literature/GalaxyOfFear'' is {{Goosebumps}} [-IN SPACE-] and with multi-book plots!
*** ''Spore'' is ''Film/TheThing1982'' PG-rated and [-IN SPACE-]!
** The ''[=MedStar=]'' duology is ''[[{{Series/Mash}} M*A*S*H]]'' [-IN SPACE!-]
** ''Darth Maul Shadow Hunter'' is TheTerminator [-IN SPACE-]
** The Hand of Judgment duology (''StarWars/{{Allegiance}}'' and ''StarWars/ChoicesOfOne'') are ''Series/TheATeam'' [-IN SPACE!-]
** ''Scoundrels'' is OceansEleven [-IN SPACE!-]
** ''Agent Of The Empire'' is James Bond [-IN SPACE!-]
* Pat Murphy's ''Literature/ThereAndBackAgain'' is, unabashedly and transparently, ''Literature/TheHobbit'' [-IN SPACE-]! SpacePirates, good and bad tend to fill in many of the groups in the novels (i.e. the Bilbo equivalent journeys with an all-female group of adventurers, and standing in for Orcs are the Resurrectionists, a [[{{Firefly}} Reaver]]-like bunch who capture people and harvest their organs.
* FredSaberhagen's novel ''[[Literature/{{Berserker}} Berserker Fury]]'' is the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Midway Battle of Midway]] [-IN SPACE-]! The "island" planet was called 50/50 (halfway or "midway" between two points), spaceships involved were named after the U.S. ships (Stinger for USS ''Hornet'', Venture for USS ''Enterprise'', etc.), and the battle used almost the exact same tactics, among other similarities.
* ''Literature/TheStarsMyDestination'' is ''Literature/TheCountOfMonteCristo'' [-IN SPACE-]!
* The novel ''Billion Dollar Boy'' is ''Captains Couragous'' [-IN SPACE-]!
* Nick O'Donohoe's ''Too, Too Solid Flesh'' is literally ''{{Hamlet}}'' [-WITH ROBOTS-].
* ''Conan and the Treasure of Python'' by John Maddox Roberts is ''Literature/KingSolomonsMines'' [-WITH [[Franchise/ConanTheBarbarian CONAN]]-]!
* ''The Game of Empire'' by PoulAnderson is ''Literature/{{Kim}}'' [-IN THE {{TECHNIC HISTORY}} UNIVERSE-]! [-WITH THE [[GenderFlip DAUGHTER]] OF DOMINIC FLANDRY-]!
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