Ward/Parahumans two. It's rabbit hole all the way down. (unspoilerd spoilers)

[halfeye]

The story we are reading just showed up in the story we are reading. I can't believe nobody ever did it before, but I can't think of who did do it and in what.

I can't wait to see what happens when Victoria reads it, and gets to the end and sees it's still writing (supposing that's what happens, but why would a writer do anything else?).

[Eldan]

The Neverending Story had itself in it, on two levels. That's the only other example I can think of.

[Kitten Champion]

It's something Samuel R. Daleny did in Dhalgren, it was all very 70's post-modern and trippy.

Also, albeit inverted, but PkD's The Man in the High Castle plays with similar ideas only with alternative universe fiction mirroring itself darkly.

[halfeye]

Hm, lots of angst, no action, didn't even find out if it's still writing.

[JoshL]

Ya'll need to read Italo Calvino's "If on a winter's night a traveler" and get back to me.

Less snarky answer, postmodernist literature is chock full of the work being included in the work. It's a thing, it's fun. For a little more pop-culture example, Spaceballs featuring the villains watching Spaceballs to figure out where the heroes went is a good one!

[Rynjin]

Hm, lots of angst, no action, didn't even find out if it's still writing.

Good. It means he might take his time planning this arc and move it a bit slower, and not bog it down with too many incomprehensible action scenes.

[halfeye]

Ya'll need to read Italo Calvino's "If on a winter's night a traveler" and get back to me.

If Wikipedia's telling the truth about that one, it's nothing like.

Then again, in this case it may be that it's nothing like too, so far the diary hasn't apparently been updated beyond where it was when in was first found, and if it was keeping up with the story, which definitely has, then it should have. So maybe we'll avoid that whole recursive spiral into infinity, would have been an interesting one to explore, but it would have been difficult to make a coherent story of it.

[halfeye]

This is not going to work.