In Literature
- For works which use the phrase as their title, see Let there be light (disambiguation)#In literature and Fiat lux (disambiguation)
- "Fiat Lux" is also a term that is used in the novel Die Insel des Zweiten Gesichts (1982) by German writer Albert Vigoleis Thelen.
- The English phrase concludes Isaac Asimov's science fiction short story "The Last Question", symbolizing the godlike growth in power of an extremely advanced computer as it creates a new universe from the ashes of a dead one, drawing comparisons and suggesting an explanation for the biblical Book of Genesis.
- Alexander Pope's couplet "Nature and nature's laws lay hid in Night./God said, 'Let Newton be!' and all was light" is a reference to "Let There Be Light".
- In Les Misérables, Victor Hugo speaks about the importance of daring and writes "That cry, 'Audace,' is a Fiat Lux!"
- One of the three main divisions of the Walter M. Miller, Jr. book A Canticle for Leibowitz is titled "Fiat Lux".
- "Fiat Lux!" is the activating phrase in the setting of a Ward Major in the Chronicles of the Deryni by Katherine Kurtz.
- The Fiat Lux Agency is the name of Nestor Burma's private detective agency, in the novels written by Léo Malet.
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