Dark Future (novel)/Trivia

Trivia for both the tabletop game and the series of novels goes here.


 * 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 and Warhammer 40000.
 * 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.