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Simon Fraser appears twice in fiction, but each time in an unflattering light. He is a character in the novel Catriona written in 1893 by Robert Louis Stevenson. (Events and characters in the novel relate to the Appin Murder). He and his father, Simon "The Old Fox", appear as characters in Diana Gabaldon's 1992 novel "Dragonfly in Amber", the second novel in her "Outlander" series. In it, "The Old Fox" is the grandsire of Jamie Fraser and Lovat is his half-uncle, an indecisive young man, easily manipulated. Lovat is played by James Parris in Season 2 of the television series "Outlander".