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Since 2009, the names of planets…

November 23, 2022Weirdo

Since 2009, the names of planets from the Dune novels have been adopted for the real-world nomenclature of plains and other features on Saturn’s moon Titan, like Arrakis Planitia.

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Mark Twain wrote the very…

May 23, 2020May 23, 2020Weirdo

Mark Twain wrote the very first novel that was ever written with a typewriter. That novel was Tom Sawyer.

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In 1998, President Bill Clinton read…

April 4, 2020April 4, 2020Weirdo

In 1998, President Bill Clinton read a novel about a mad scientist who spread a virus in NYC. Concerned about this risk, he established the Strategic National Stockpile, which contains billions of dollars in medical supplies (many being used now).

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The Russian novel We (1920-21)…

February 12, 2020February 12, 2020Weirdo

The Russian novel We (1920-21) by Yevgeny Zamyatin is considered one of the grandfathers of the dystopian genre and influenced George Orwell’s 1984. “Zamyatin’s influence on Orwell is beyond dispute…1984 shares so many features with We that there can be no doubt about its general debt to it.”

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Ian Fleming named his character…

July 18, 2019Weirdo

Ian Fleming named his character “Goldfinger” after the stern architect Ernő Goldfinger, whom he despised. When Ernő filed a suit over the name, Fleming threatened to rename the character “Goldprick”. Ernő dropped the suit in exchange for legal fees and six copies of the book.

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Jules Verne’s shelved 1863 novel…

February 27, 2019Weirdo

Jules Verne’s shelved 1863 novel “Paris in the Twentieth Century” predicted gas-powered cars, fax machines, electric street lighting, maglev trains, the record industry, the internet. His publisher deemed it pessimistic and lackluster. It was discovered in 1989 and published 5 years later.

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From the late 18th to mid-19th century, it was…

October 28, 2016October 28, 2016Weirdo

From the late 18th to mid-19th century, it was considered bad for women to read novels based on the belief that women were not “able to differentiate between fiction and life.”

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Starting in 1910, a series of books were published featuring a…

July 28, 2016Weirdo

Starting in 1910, a series of books were published featuring a fictional boy-inventor by the name of Tom Swift. One of these books was titled “Tom Swift and His Electric Rifle.” Many years later, this led to the naming of the TASER that police now carry: “Tom A. Swift Electric Rifle”.

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Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein published a best-selling romance…

December 14, 2015Weirdo

Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein published a best-selling romance novel that spawned a twenty-episode TV series and a stage musical.

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The alternative history novel “The Man in the High Castle”…

December 13, 2015Weirdo

The alternative history novel “The Man in the High Castle” features a “novel within a novel”. While the actual book is about Nazis winning WWII, the in-book novel is about an alternate universe in which the Nazis lose the war.

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