Aviation Trophies, aren’t they?
A guy named Lucas had go-his-own-way Solo defeat greedy Greedo before helping — after the death of porky Porkins — the heroic Luke S.
Yes, from the age of air racing in the '20s and '30s.
One of the Jurassic Park movies has characters named Roland and Van Owen; named for characters in a Warren Zevon song.
Did you already know that, or figure it out from a Google search?
Jurassic Park (the book and film) also has Lewis Dodgson, the guy from the rival company who meets with Nedry about stealing the dinosaur embryos, which combines an author and his pseudonym.
I already knew that. I’ve been a passionate fan of aviation and aviation history ever since I was a kid.
In Halloween, the character of Dr. Loomis is apparently named after the stage name of one of the actresses…Nancy Loomis.
Nancy Kyes - IMDb
Dr. Loomis also has the same first and last names as Marion Crane’s boyfriend in Psycho. I’ve always wondered whether that was on purpose.
I don’t remember which Russian novel it was, but say for posting purposes it was The Brothers Karamazov; Dorothy Parker once wrote in a review that as long as [So-and-so] was going to the trouble of translating it, couldn’t he have translated Pavel Fyodorovich, Ivan Fyodorovich, and Katerina Ivanova, to Paul, Jack and Kate?
BTW: “Tovarishch” [comrade] was supposed to replace the patronym system, but it never caught on.
I vaguely remember either Bradbury or Asimov (I was heavily into both authors at the time) admitting that he had a knack for remembering the bullies of his childhood, mixing up their names a bit or just changing the names and keeping descriptions, and applying them to the villains and victims in his stories. He was quite proud to have killed his childhood antagonists dozens of times over as part of his delayed catharsis/revenge.
I did that a couple times in some of my novels, as well. It feels good!
I happened to meet Raymond Feist at a very early ComiCon in San Diego one year (okay, yeah, I sought him out so I could ask him questions) and he admitted his Magician series started out as a novelization of the D&D campaign he was in with his friends.
I did a similar thing: I started a tale with people playing D&D with me and they told me their characters’ names and so I just later kept the names and character/personality traits consistent when I started writing down the adventure and improving back-stories and anciliary details.
Most of my protagonists (like my pseudonym here), though, tend to tell me their names at some point, though I have found myself in a bind once in a while and just glanced around the room and scrambled the letters of a word I’ve seen. Sometimes it works well, sometimes not.
–G!