# Fictional companies in Sci fi-related areas **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 21, 2006, 9:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-companies-in-sci-fi-related-areas/353594 "2006-04-21T09:15:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2006, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-companies-in-sci-fi-related-areas/353594/61 "2006-04-23T20:40:28Z")
And still no mention of [Yoyodyne](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoyodyne) in Thomas Pynchon’s novels. Well, somebody had to do it. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2006, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-companies-in-sci-fi-related-areas/353594/62 "2006-04-23T20:49:52Z")
> [@ElvisL1ves](#): > > And still no mention of [Yoyodyne](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoyodyne) in Thomas Pynchon’s novels. Well, somebody had to do it. [url=http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=7319986&postcount=11] Missed it by _that_ much… ---
**Author:** ![BMalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@BMalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMalion)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2006, 11:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-companies-in-sci-fi-related-areas/353594/63 "2006-04-24T11:15:02Z")
> [@Bosda Di'Chi of Tricor](#): > > \Can you identify **both** of the firms I listed?\ :dubious: Without preview and without googling, **WHIZ** was were a certain Billy Batson worked, and **APEX** … wasn’t. I don’t know APEX, ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2006, 12:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-companies-in-sci-fi-related-areas/353594/64 "2006-04-24T12:33:41Z")
> [@BMalion](#): > > Without preview and without googling, **WHIZ** was were a certain Billy Batson worked, and **APEX** … wasn’t. > I don’t know APEX, ☹ OK, you got W.H.I.Z. Radio. Anybody wanna try for Apex Broadcasting? Hint–Gotham City. ---
**Author:** ![ArrMatey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/arrmatey/32/3522_2.png) [@ArrMatey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ArrMatey)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2006, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-companies-in-sci-fi-related-areas/353594/65 "2006-04-24T14:30:28Z")
Oh, I’d forgotten **ConHugeCo**! (In many of my conversations, every large corporation mentioned becomes 'A wholy owned subsidiary of ConHugeCo. I think the original reference is from an MST3K, but I could be wrong). CHC, please. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2006, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-companies-in-sci-fi-related-areas/353594/66 "2006-04-24T15:06:47Z")
I am Presteign of Presteign, and I do not know my stock ticker symbol; I have _people_ who know these things for me. 😉 And speaking of Bester, there’s also Monarch Enterprises and the D’Courtney cartel. References are from Alfred Bester’s _The Stars My Destination_ and _The Demolished Man_ respectively. ---
**Author:** ![Raguleader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/258eb7/32.png) [@Raguleader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raguleader)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2006, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-companies-in-sci-fi-related-areas/353594/67 "2006-04-24T17:25:09Z")
From Babylon 5, there is Interplanetary Expeditions (IPX), the rather unscrupelous Terran corporation which has a habit of unleashing various ancient alien mishaps on humanity (with such classics as the Icaran Superweapon, the Shadow Battlecrab on Ganymede, and the Vorlon Thirdspace Gate to their credit). From the Vatta’s War series by Elizabeth Moon, There is also Vatta Transport, and its parent company (Which I belive is the Vatta Trade Syndicate, VTTA perhaps?), along with InterStellar Communications (ISC) and the Mackenzie Military Assistance Corporation (MMAC) ---
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2006, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-companies-in-sci-fi-related-areas/353594/68 "2006-04-24T17:39:22Z")
> [@MrJackboots](#): > > Don’t forget Renraku (RRK), Ares Macrotechnology (AMT), Lone Star (probably a private company), Shiawase (SWA), and Aztechnology (RAZA). And, while you’re at it: Horizon [HRZN] NeoNET [NNET] Evo [EVO] Cross Applied Technologies [CAT] (or [RIP] for SR4 fans… :D) Mitsuhama [MITS] Wuxing [WUXG] ---
**Author:** ![First\_Amongst\_Daves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/4491bb/32.png) [@First\_Amongst\_Daves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/First_Amongst_Daves)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2006, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-companies-in-sci-fi-related-areas/353594/69 "2006-04-25T14:33:42Z")
Neuromancer’s Tessier Ashpool was a private company, like the real life Mars chocolate people. Not listed, so it wouldn’t have a stock exchange code. Similarly, the massive Planetary Organisation is almost certainly private, owned entirely by one man, Elijah Snow. Kord Corporation (under administration, no doubt, following Ted Kord’s death) from DC Comics (KORD). > [@RealityChuck](#): > > [Goliath Corporation](http://www.goliathcorp.com/trough.html) – GOL (from Thursday Next) Hmm. Also the bad oil guys in the current Vertigo Comics series The Losers. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2006, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-companies-in-sci-fi-related-areas/353594/70 "2006-04-25T14:38:26Z")
> [@Bosda Di'Chi of Tricor](#): > > OK, you got W.H.I.Z. Radio. > > Anybody wanna try for Apex Broadcasting? Hint–Gotham City. Apex Broadcasting was the radio network the Golden Age Green Lantern worked for in his secret identity of Alan Scott. Post-Crisis, GAGL was Gotham City’s defender, pre-Batman. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2006, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-companies-in-sci-fi-related-areas/353594/71 "2006-04-25T16:05:38Z")
Just remembered one from a favorite old series, the Chartered Zarathustra Corporation from H. Beam Piper’s _Fuzzy_ novels. Don’t know if there was ever a ticker acronym given. Probably CZAC. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2006, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-companies-in-sci-fi-related-areas/353594/72 "2006-04-25T16:14:03Z")
Muppet Labs (MPTL), Where the future is being made today! ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2006, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-companies-in-sci-fi-related-areas/353594/73 "2006-04-25T17:35:36Z")
IIRC, the only corporation mentioned by name in all of _Star Trek_’s various incarnations was the Dytallix Mining Company (TNG “Conspiracy”). Its ticker name, I presume, would be DMC. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2006, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-companies-in-sci-fi-related-areas/353594/74 "2006-04-25T17:43:11Z")
Not sci-fi related, but am I the only one who remembers _Bob_? Bob tells his family that his comic has been picked up by the American-Canadian Transconitinental Communications Company. Trisha: “You mean AmCanTransConCommCo?” ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2006, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-companies-in-sci-fi-related-areas/353594/75 "2006-04-25T17:47:18Z")
Not sci-fi, but from _The Simpsons_ (exact corporate names somewhat speculative): Burns Nuclear Power Co. (BNP) Mr. Plow Inc. (MPI) Duff Breweries Corp. (DBC) The Leftorium Inc. (TLI) Krusty Entertainment Ltd. (KEL) Lionel Hutz LLP (LHL) Canyonero Motors Corp. (CMC) The Android’s Dungeon Enterprises (ADE) ---
**Author:** ![Cockatiel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/43a26b/32.png) [@Cockatiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cockatiel)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2006, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-companies-in-sci-fi-related-areas/353594/76 "2006-04-25T22:54:38Z")
> [@tengu](#): > > Shin-Ra Corporation - Final Fantasy VII - probably SRC, or SRE (for Shin-Ra Electric Power Coporation, the core company) or SHINRA. [geek] Actually, on Shin-Ra’s [logo](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Shin-ra.png), it’s spelled out as Shin-Ra ElectricPower Company With the letters SEC bolded. Therefore, I’d say SEC. [/geek] Although the Securities and Exchange Comission wouldn’t be happy about it. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-companies-in-sci-fi-related-areas/353594.md?page=3)