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The 1998 film ''[[Six-String Samurai]]'', a surreal romp through an alternate-timeline post-apocalyptic America (Russia bombed and then invaded the United States in 1957), features a rock-and-rolling martial arts hero named "Buddy" who sports familiar black horn-rimmed glasses and a tuxedo. The film follows Buddy's journey to "Lost Vegas," the last outpost of freedom in the world, to claim the crown of the recently-deceased King Elvis.
The [[science fiction]] novel [[''Buddy Holly Is Alive and Well on Ganymede'']], by [[Bradley Denton]] (ISBN 0-688-10822-9 and ISBN 0-380-71876-6), begins when television sets throughout the world suddenly begin broadcasting a concert by an apparently living Buddy Holly, who says he is on [[Ganymede (moon)|Ganymede]].
In [[Soul Music]], part of [[Terry Pratchett]]'s ''[[Discworld]]'', a character by the name of [[Discworld characters#Imp Y Celyn| Imp y Celyn]] appeared as a bard-cum-guitar-playing-rocker from the fictional [[Cymric]] country of [[Llamedos]]. He became the Disc's greatest musician under the name Buddy in the Band with Rocks In, before dying in a cart crash (a reference to Buddy Holly as Imp's name translates as "bud of the holly").
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