List of fictional guidebooks

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Some fictional universes feature useful guidebooks which assist the hero and friends through difficult situations.

Features of a great fictional guidebook: Such books are ideally compact enough to carry on even the most strenuous adventures, yet detailed enough to contain exactly the information the reader needs at that particular point in the plot.

Many guidebooks are electronic in nature; some can access relevant information through a wireless connection.

1 List of fictional guidebooks
2 Real fictional guidebooks
3 See also
4 Notes

[edit] List of fictional guidebooks

Fictional guidebook	Universe
Encyclopedia Galactica	The Foundation Series by Isaac Asimov
The Philosophy of Time Travel	Donnie Darko
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Encyclopedia Galactica	Hitchhiker Trilogy (in five parts) by Douglas Adams
The Junior Woodchucks Guidebook	Donald Duck comics by Carl Barks and DuckTales
Encyclopedia Frobozzica	Zork
The Book of Origin	Stargate Universe - priors of the Ori
The Book of Rules	The Dancing Gods series by Jack L. Chalker
A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer	Neal Stephenson's novel, The Diamond Age
Planetary Guides (annual)	Planetary by Warren Ellis
Pokédex	Pokémon games and animation
Highly Unpleasant Things It Is Sometimes Necessary to Know, Things That Are Not Good to Know at All	John Barnes's novel, One for the Morning Glory
The Mrin and Darine Codices	David Eddings' Belgariad and Malloreon
Ferengi Rules of Acquisition	Star Trek
Marcoh's Notes (AKA: Tim Marcoh's Guide on Baking Desserts - A guide written by the alchemist Tim Marcoh on the Philosophers' Stone, it is thought of as a cookbook, but is actually an alchemy reference written in code.)	Fullmetal Alchemist
Roylance Guide, Tobin's Spirit Guide, Spates Catalog	Ghostbusters
The Spells of Astoroth	Bedknobs and Broomsticks
Handbook for the Recently Deceased	Beetlejuice
The Code of Masked Wrestling	¡Mucha Lucha!
The Slayer Handbook	Buffy the Vampire Slayer
The Messiah's Handbook and Reminders for the Advanced Soul	Richard Bach's novel, Illusions
The Necronomicon	The Hound by H. P. Lovecraft. See 'Other Appearances' under Necronomicon for more.
A Really Useful Book	MirrorMask
Da Rules	Fairly Odd Parents
The Guide	Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide
Orange Catholic Bible	Frank Herbert's Dune series
The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch	Good Omens, by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
Krusty Krab Employee Manual	SpongeBob SquarePants
Thievus Racoonus	Sly Cooper and the Thievius Raccoonus

[edit] Real fictional guidebooks

A few guides to fictional places have also been published. The 1996 book Paris out of hand, by Karen Elizabeth Gordon, Barbara Hodgson, and Nick Bantock, is a guide to a fictionalized version of Paris. There are guidebooks to the fictional countries of Molvanîa: The Land that Dentistry Forgot (2003), Phaic Tăn: Sunstroke on a Shoestring (2004) and San Sombrèro: A Land of Carnivals, Cocktails and Coups (2006), written by Tom Gleisner, Santo Cilauro, and Rob Sitch.