Several TV documentaries, as well as some contemporary fictional references to the year 2012, refer to 21 December as the day of a cataclysmic event.

Also see the Boy Sherlock Holmes series for fictional references to the Egyptian Hall.

In "Upon This Rock", Hiro teleports to Japan where he stops a purse snatcher, but uses various fictional references in regards to himself and everyone around him.

Here are some of the best-known fictional references and crossings.

An early fictional reference to ball lightning appears in a children's book set in the 19th century by Laura Ingalls Wilder.

The earliest fictional references appear to be to interplanetary, not interstellar war (e.g. H. G. Wells' The War of the Worlds).

The New Grove entry on Baldini was supported by a fictional reference in the form of an article supposedly in the Archiv fur Freiburger Diozesan geschichte.

The most common representations today of the five elements, outside of martial arts and fictional references, are found in Buddhist architecture.

It also makes fictional reference to fellow novelists Jack London, Clark Ashton Smith and H.P. Lovecraft and others.

Originally such works described the Empire because it was a contemporary part of life; nowadays fictional references are also frequently made in a steampunk context.