# Fiction than inspired real life bands/movies/shows/products etc? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 8, 2011, 6:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fiction-than-inspired-real-life-bands-movies-shows-products-etc/566854 "2011-01-08T06:36:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Chessic\_Sense](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7c8e57/32.png) [@Chessic\_Sense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chessic_Sense)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2011, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fiction-than-inspired-real-life-bands-movies-shows-products-etc/566854/21 "2011-01-10T18:47:08Z")
> [@runner pat](#): > > [Bubba Gump Shrimp Co.](http://www.bubbagump.com/) And Gary Sinese’s _Lt. Dan Band_. ---
**Author:** ![Justin\_Bailey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/justin_bailey/32/8792_2.png) [@Justin\_Bailey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Bailey)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2011, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fiction-than-inspired-real-life-bands-movies-shows-products-etc/566854/22 "2011-01-10T18:52:39Z")
> [@elfkin477](#): > > **Not just as a promotional tie-in to the book/movie/tv show in question** , though, so examples like **True Blood** beverages or the novels from **Castle** being real now don’t really count. Aside from a small ABC sticker on the cover, the Castle novels are as real as can be. Why wouldn’t they count? ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2011, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fiction-than-inspired-real-life-bands-movies-shows-products-etc/566854/23 "2011-01-10T19:02:20Z")
the famous 1949 “future issue” of Astounding Science Fiction: > [@](#): > > Campbell revealed a sly sense of humor in the November 1949 issue. He had always encouraged literary criticism by Astounding’s readership, and in the November 1948 issue he published a letter to the editor by a reader named Richard A. Hoen that contained a detailed ranking of the contents of an issue one year in the future. Campbell went along with the joke and contracted stories from most of the authors mentioned in the letter that would follow the fan’s imaginary story titles. One of the best-known stories from that issue is “Gulf”, by Robert A. Heinlein. Other stories and articles were written by a number of the most famous authors of the time: Isaac Asimov, Theodore Sturgeon, Lester del Rey, A. E. van Vogt, L. Sprague de Camp, and the astronomer R. S. Richardson.[27] > **[Analog Science Fiction and Fact](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analog_Science_Fiction_and_Fact)** > > Analog Science Fiction and Fact is an American science fiction magazine published under various titles since 1930. Originally titled Astounding Stories of Super-Science, the first issue was dated January 1930, published by William Clayton, and edited by Harry Bates. Clayton went bankrupt in 1933 and the magazine was sold to Street & Smith. The new editor was F. Orlin Tremaine, who soon made Astounding the leading magazine in the nascent pulp science fiction field, publishing well-regarded s... > **[Science Fiction Prophecy](https://www.andrew-may.com/asf/prophecy.htm)** > > A listing of all the science fiction stories published in > John W Campbell's Astounding Science Fiction magazine, 1939 to 1960, with a selection of > cover scans and Fortean quotations ---
**Author:** ![Maggie\_the\_Ocelot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/df705f/32.png) [@Maggie\_the\_Ocelot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maggie_the_Ocelot)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2011, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fiction-than-inspired-real-life-bands-movies-shows-products-etc/566854/24 "2011-01-10T19:14:38Z")
The Church of All Worlds, from Heinlein’s _Stranger in a Strange Land,_ inspired an actual Neo-Pagan group with that name and taking their ideas from the novel. They published Green Egg, probably the most influential Pagan magazine of its time. I believe that Objectivism is another case of a philosophical (religious?) system derived from (acknowleged) fiction, though it is different from CAW in that it was actually encouraged by the author thereof, instead of springing up separately. ---
**Author:** ![Suburban\_Plankton](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suburban_plankton/32/219_2.png) [@Suburban\_Plankton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Suburban_Plankton)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2011, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fiction-than-inspired-real-life-bands-movies-shows-products-etc/566854/25 "2011-01-10T19:27:04Z")
What about all of the Star Trek-inspired technology that has since become mainstream? Certainly not everything that the show ‘predicted’ has come into being \*because \*it was featured there, but I’m sure the show inspired at least one or two inventors… ---
**Author:** ![robert\_columbia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e79b87/32.png) [@robert\_columbia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robert_columbia)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2011, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fiction-than-inspired-real-life-bands-movies-shows-products-etc/566854/26 "2011-01-10T19:29:09Z")
“Hampster Huey and the Gooey Kablooie”, Calvin (from Calvin & Hobbes) favorite book was made into a real book later. Everlasting Gobstoppers are (or were) an actual product sold in the US, but they weren’t everlasting, though this was most likely a product tie in, though they lasted for many many years after the movie was just another time filler, and may still be around, though I haven’t checked recenty. The band Idlewild is named after the main character’s playhouse in the book “Anne of Green Gables”. I think there have been some attempts to write the Necronomicon. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2011, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fiction-than-inspired-real-life-bands-movies-shows-products-etc/566854/27 "2011-01-10T20:39:07Z")
Modem manufacturer **U.S. Robotics** took its name from “U.S. Robots and Mechanical Men”, a fictional company in Isaac Asimov’s “Robot” series of stories. ---
**Author:** ![Lemur866](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lemur866/32/434_2.png) [@Lemur866](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lemur866)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2011, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fiction-than-inspired-real-life-bands-movies-shows-products-etc/566854/28 "2011-01-10T20:44:16Z")
> [@RealityChuck](#): > > Similarly, Wolfe wrote a short story, “The Island of Doctor Death and Other Stories.” And that short story was included in his short story collection, “The Island of Doctor Death and Other Stories and Other Stories”. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2011, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fiction-than-inspired-real-life-bands-movies-shows-products-etc/566854/29 "2011-01-10T21:09:49Z")
Yoyodyne was a fake company invented by Thomas Pynchon in his novel **V.** \* He reused it in **The Crying of Lot 49** and **Gravity’s Rainbow.** It’s been referenced in various other films (notably **The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai** A couple of actual companies have used the name. \*No relation to the TV series _at all_. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2011, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fiction-than-inspired-real-life-bands-movies-shows-products-etc/566854/30 "2011-01-10T21:32:55Z")
> [@](#): > > \*No relation to the TV series at all. In The Daily Show’s book _America_ they cite the case where Pychon’s estate sued the miniseries, the landmark case of \*\*V. v. V. \*\* [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fiction-than-inspired-real-life-bands-movies-shows-products-etc/566854.md?page=1)