Fiction than inspired real life bands/movies/shows/products etc?

[Chessic_Sense]

@runner pat

Bubba Gump Shrimp Co.

And Gary Sinese’s Lt. Dan Band.

[Justin_Bailey]

@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?

[CalMeacham]

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

Science Fiction Prophecy

[Maggie_the_Ocelot]

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.

[Suburban_Plankton]

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…

[robert_columbia]

“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.

[kenobi_65]

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.

[Lemur866]

@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”.

[RealityChuck]

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.

[CalMeacham]

*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. **