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Es: Enciclopedia Exposita

In many of the more relaxed civilizations on the Outer Eastern Rim of the Galaxy, the Hitch-Hiker's Guide has already supplanted the great Encyclopaedia Galactica as the standard repository of all knowledge and wisdom, for though it has many omissions and contains much that is apocryphal, or at least wildly inaccurate, it scores over the older, more pedestrian work in two important respects. First, it is slightly cheaper; and secondly it has the words DON'T PANIC inscribed in large friendly letters on its cover.

— The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Se trata de citas de otros [1] que se usan como parte de un Epígrafe o como parte del Framing Device de la historia. No son parte de la historia propiamente tal.

Estas citas son siempre pertinentes y proveen de exposicion indolora e integrada en vez de tener que caer en conversaciones del estilo del Como Ya Sabes. En la Ficcion Especulativa, se usan las enciclopedias ficticias como por ejemplo la Encyclopedia Galactica de Asimov, que se puede arguir le da el nombre a este tropo. Los diarios y biografías también pueden ser usados. Pueden ser parte de un Scrap Book Story. En los Videojuegos tienden a tomar la forma de entradas de texto algo aleatorias y no inmediatamente relevantes a la trama.

Ejemplos

TOBEDONE: Por Traducir

Cine

In the film 2012, Jackson Curtis's unsuccessful sci-fi novel Farewell Atlantis is symbolically important and is brought up throughout the film. Parts of it are read aloud on two or three occasions.

Comics

The tracts of text ending each issue of Watchmen are usually presented as excerpts from books, reports, etc.
"Old jungle sayings" in the classic newspaper comic The Phantom.
A quote from The Herodotus Complex by P'oilgof Livy starts every Buck Godot trade paperback, as well as each issue of the story arc "The Gallimaufry."
- Relevant excerpts from Fleeztrow's Guide to the Gallimaufry are also part of "The Gallimaufry."

Fan Fiction

At the start of each chapter of Kyon: Big Damn Hero there are extracts of self-help books on being a hero, some poetry, or texts that are implied to be from future documents/books, usually relevant to the chapter.
Tiberium Wars likes to begin each chapter with a quote from one of the characters involved, and often ends with a hefty excerpt from military intelligence reports or research papers, making it clear that the author's done his work and knows his way around the Tiberium 'verse.
By the same author, Renegade features Codex entries in line with those from Mass Effect, to better explain how the addition of Tiberium to the setting has made things very different.