Dark Future (novel)/Trivia
Trivia for both the tabletop game and the series of novels currently resides here, but needs to be split into two pages.
- No-Hit Wonder D-Rok, one of Games Workshop's two attempts at music based on 40K and their other creations gave us the song "King Hibited" as a musical interpretation of the Dark Future world. The curious can listen to it here.
- Shout-Out:
- Jason Voorhees, Freddy Kreuger and Michael Myers of are mentioned as inmates at the Secure Institution Dr. Proctor is locked up in in Krokodil Tears.
- The Katz Motel in Spanish Fork, which features in Route 666 and Krokodil Tears? Katz even has a go at murdering Krokodil in the shower while dressed as his mother.
- Colonel Elvis Aron Presley, toughest independent Sanctioned Op in the South. Yes, that Elvis Presley.
- John Lennon is the leader of the Labour Party. Elvis once did a bodyguarding job for Lennon during a U.N conference, and Lennon commented that he might've stayed in music if Presley had.
- Jeffrey Archer is the leader of the Conservative Party.
- The Jibbenainosay, the Eldritch Abomination Seth summons to kill Krokodil in Krokodil Tears is a reference to Nick Of The Woods, an 1839 play by Louise H Medina about a man seeking revenge for his family's murder by Native Americans.
- Sir Oswald Osbourne, greatest operatic voice of the 1990s. Noted for his performance in Pagliacci and of Nessun Dorma.
- Bruce Springsteen appears to be Elvis' building's security guard in Comeback Tour.
- Iain Banks is the Mayor of Skye.
- Neil Gaiman, a long-time friend of Newman's, pops up as the author of Tintin in the Land of the Ragheads; a controversial graphic novel that sees a fatwa declared on him by the Pan-Islamic Congress.
- A slang term for teenage gang members in the NoGos is a 'panzer girl/boy.' Tank Girl did come out in the same year, after all.
- One the people who receive a copy of Jessamyn Bonney's Arrest Report at the beginning of Krokodil Tears is Interzone editor David Pringle, who also worked as series editor for Dark Future, Warhammer Fantasy Battle and Warhammer 40,000.
- Bronson Manolo's high-tech and highly secure tank and mobile command centre is a DeLorean Sand Master.
- Mention is made in Comeback Tour of a small and little-known Op Agency acting as underground railroad for indentess to escape slavery in the Southern States. The Agency's name? Logan's Runners
- After being augmented by Threadneedle, Jessamyn asks him "When do I get to squeeze a lump of coal into a diamond?"
- Leonard Nimoy and Mark Hamill are among the casualties Fonvielle remembers from the American Space Programme.
- One of several United States Road Cavalry members who put in an appearance is one Sergeant Quincannon. And yes, he's stationed at Fort Apache.
- Dark Future's Doctor Who is played by Barry Humphries of Dame Edna Everage fame.
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